What are your color scheme hex codes? I LOVE that pallette!!

I am going to pick up a Palimino Mustang I found for dirt cheap ($300 CAD) and everything is still functional and Mechanically sound. It has slight leaks in the corners of the roof and I assume Canopy. So fingers crossed I don't have to go as far as you did on my restore lol but let the cards fall where the may, the rims and tires are worth $300. Great rebuild man and some good tips here for me. Appreciate you posting this content 🤟🇨🇦

The overflow of your first smart splitter does not just overflow the item you filtered to go into storage it will overflow everything regardless.

I personally think making each of these storage facilities at every major location like 5-10 locations around the map and have them all have the same setup and have your train basically carry the extra from all of them to all the others to make sure all of them are at Max capacity and then set up a final depot with the awesome sync basically taking care of all of the overflow all at once

Thank you so much for this! Especially the part about signal loop errors. Turns out i also had a non-functional switch, was going crazy trying to figure out why it wouldn't work when the exact same configuration worked on every other station i built.

I came here looking for a solution to my current sorting station. It covers what's being brought in to the factory by train: Iron ingots, copper ingots, bauxite, raw quartz, caterium, and sulfur. I have a dual layer Mk 5 system through smart splitters heading in to the respective storage containers, with a Mk 5 belt taking the items from storage in to the factory. I also have the 1,560 item per minute sort speed, but I have the issue of multiple items types causing a massive slowdown on item transfer through the splitters and mergers. Unloading a mixed load of Iron ingots, copper ingots, and caterium ingots can take several minutes. So long, in fact, that I often have to wait to unload when I come in with another load after it. My system is just as fast, but I was hoping I could find a system that would increase the sorting speed of multiple item types. I'll head back to the drawing board and see what I can come up with to split the sorting tasks up and increase speed.

at 2:55 it is not about not being sorted fast enough at all, its just that after setting one output to any and another to a specific product, from the point of view of the splitter it will behave just like a normal splitter , splitting in half the input of that specific product ( assuming 2 exits ) , that is why the any undefined work, it is not about speed, it is about blocking the flow of that product so it doesn't get split.

One suggestion.. when you start down the sorting line of smart splitters you have every single one go out to the overflow mergers. This is a LOT of extra work. Simply have all items continue on to the final smart splitter and then overflow at that point, saving yourself from having to build so many extra belts and mergers. This will also help with lag since you are streamlining the path of items in your build.

Auto sorting is absolute proof that you built your entire base wrong. I wrote a long rant then deleted it. Simply put, you never need an auto sorting system because it mean you will never come close to fully utilizing the rather slow speed of the max tier belt. That's why you don't see them in other peoples builds. Its not that they are difficult to do, they are simply never going to be more efficient than proper resource management and distribution.

Very similar to an idea I came up with. The biggest difference is mine has a way to individually process large quantities of single items into there storage containers by having a merger after the main belt sorting going into the storage. This keeps the main belt clear of any items that could potentially take large amounts of time to sort.

Thank you so much for the detailed explantion of the "path looping onto itself" error that is the exact issue I have been trying to solve by watching videos for the past several hours

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This is awesome videos like this motivates me to create still new but I love your videos

With the release of update 8 into the experimental branch, and thus the utility of liquid biofuel for jetpacks, this adds high utility for an "inventory stripper" in such designs. You just dump in your inventory after getting back from a big project, and the chain of smart and programmable splitters pulls out any unused construction materials and other useful things and sorts them accordingly, while returning everything else. This also lets you just go out, go ham with the chainsaw, and dump your inventory when you get back to process it all into liquid biofuel for your jetpack.

I made this in minecraft with hoppers and water conveyorbelts and stuff

How should i get rid of my Overflow?

Finally someone who understands this. You are the first I encounter, we think alike.

Now if there only was a burning ball of fire in the sky.

Jesus Christ this is the exact kind of video I’ve been looking forever for. Thank you

Why all this hoarding? in my game, If it is not going into another production line, or the productions further down the line is backed up or having other issues. Then it is going into the sink :-)

such a moronic system for such a basic idea, amazing ..

That's a good concept indeed, not so different from my own central storage, and a very good video, as any of your work. For me, i have one train station for 8 different storages, and trains feed two MK5 with one programmable splitter to route left or right the product. (ofc i had 8 train station on one side of my big factory, (80x60) 8 on the other side, so in the middle i can produce my stuffs) The downside, as you rightly said, are (for me) in the belts wich take away the overflows, it's very difficult to set the right amount of Sinks and try to use them at full speed anytime. i had also to said honestly, there's a lot of wonderful machines in the game, but the industrial storage, (wich is a fundamental part, probably the most fundamental part) with his dimensions and the double vertical input/output, force the design in any case to not so great solution about deal with input, output. I really like to have instead something with the inputs binded on a kind of cylinder, and when you set down the storage, like for the tower light, with the next click you will be able to choose from vertical layout to horizontal layout of the inputs/outputs. I suppose this will remain a dream :)

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That's super nice, indeed. For the slip one solution, you can't add any other sign on the railroad? even block signs on the intersections?

All the video but expecially (for me) the part from 6.30 is pure gold, indeed, the sign looping on itself is usually a guarantee headache, you really explain in simple words how the block signals works, checking all the ends of the railroad sign blocks and not just what the arrow try to suggest, finally in a very easy way to understand. Really thank you, this is something i will always remember when i'm dealing with block signs. Huge Thanks. 😃

That's a good video, i really need to understand better the way of these signals works, cause even i had a single railroad (wich connect a big part of the map), some stations are on the main line, some others are on dead ends or lateral as you show as advice, so for me the struggling is how to set the direction of the arrow of the train station, wich is really few clear in my opinion as game design.

Nice setup, and original one. On my save, I use no sushi belt for my storage. I did choose to not use one because it replenish quantities slower than having a belts of each item ready to flow in the storage container. The downside is my belts foot print tho, which is far bigger than yours. I use 24 conveyor high each side for a total storage space of 48 items. It can be modified to get more if needed in a far futur (my project always takes lots of time). All my elevator are well organized and looks pretty cool. Right now I use only about 30 lines so i do not see the need to upgrade it yet... Im pretty happy with the result but it might be long to setup doing it this way and the room need to be large and pretty high as well since its 24 conveyor high.

I have a system in my save in which I have 6 belts going through my storage system. These 6 belts then have a similar smart splitter setup to yours, where before they reach their final destination, they're merged back onto 2 belts before going into their industrial storage container. This allows up to 2 full belts of throughput of any particular item (which, due to how my freight platforms unload, it doesn't allow more than that anyway, but up to 6 full belts of total sorting capacity! Since all 6 belts are sorted to the same item for each container, you can easily make additions to the sorting system without worrying about what freight platform it's coming from. It's a hybrid system, getting better space efficiency than having a dedicated line for each item, but also getting better throughput than limiting yourself to 2 belts for sorting.

Wow! Props man

Great blueprint but there is one negative thing: When you have the same item on two or more input lines the input lines will back up, because the sorted line will process the input lines with the same item alternately. Ignoring that its a great and expandable blueprint!

Awesome rebuild! Doing something similar with my 01 Palomino Pony. Just a little aside though, you can do that with a gfi but in my 10 plus years of electrical experience I would recommend completely replacing any and all outlets once they reach a certain age. It will technically still work and be “safe” but spending the $40 tops on new outlets is a much safer option

I will use mainly (except for concrete and stuff like that) the storage idea from Stin Archi, so you have one programmable splitter, where you can set, which items do you want and then they're going into one container, and you can take it.

would have liked to see an actual explanation of why this is necessary

It's actually easier to follow these rules: 1. Path Signals start a Path. 2. Block Signals End a Path. 3. Put a Block Signal at every Station Entrance and Exit. 4. Put a Path Signal only at every Junction Entrance (splitting rails). 5. Put a Block Signal at every Junction Exit in the direction that you want trains to go (merging rails). If you don't want trains going right in an intersection, don't put a block signal after the intersection in that direction. 6. The cul-de-sacs at each Branch End simply loop back to the Branch from which it came. I like to lay only 1 track for long distances. I do not do 2-lane highways. I have one central intersection where currently 4 legs branch off. North Branch goes to Bauxite Facility. West Branch goes to Oil Facility. East Branch goes to Black Powder & Compressed Coal Facility. (same recipe, so same building) Compressed Coal goes to the Oil Facility to produce Power (Currently at 2GW Production) and Black Powder goes to Oil Facility to produce Smokeless Powder. South Branch goes to both the Main Hub (Where I have a receiving depot that can only empty the trains on a Sushi Conveyer with 115 smart splitters into 115 Industrial Storages and overflows into a Sink) and the Iron Facility Hub which picks up every item that is produced using Iron (most recipes need iron, it's a busy facility that overflows into a Sink once the train depot is 100% full by using only dumb splitters so I get random items sent to Hub to ensure those storage bins fill). At this intersection, a Path Signal from each Branch at every rail split and a block signal at every rail merge. At the end of each Branch, the facility Train Stations, both a receiving station (with 4 cargo car depots because 1 engine pulls 4 cars, 2 engines can pull 8 cars) and a Shipping station. Each station has block signal at immediate entrance and immediate exit. Each rail intersection (whether merging or splitting) has a path signal at the split and block signal at the merge, from only the directions that the train is allowed (my cul-de-sacs are 1-way only). This method, in my instance, with 2 stations on the North Branch, 2 stations on the East Branch, 2 stations on the West Branch, and 3 stations on the South Branch (Hub + Iron Receiving & Shipping); can harbor a max of 24 trains (because there are 25 viable blocks of track [a couple sections are too short to hold an entire 5 (4 cars + 1 engine) length train]). I currently have only 1 cargo train and 1 engine that I can hop in to ride myself as needed and to prove concept that the signals are functioning. It works very well as I finish my hub to accommodate every Part (leaves, wood, iron ore, steel plate, motor, rotor, stator... you know. I'm being overly descriptive because of whiskey, it's Sunday. Get off my lawn!) I do hope this helps though. I'd make a video about it if my ancient pc could handle it. It can't. I have to play in a 800x600 windowed game on absolute lowest graphics settings because my GPU is a NVIDIA GT 620 and I am happy getting 12fps instead of the usual 7.

I have a similar setup. To solve the input cap, I made a separate auto sorted mass storage that has 2 output belts that leads to a smaller personal auto storage like the one shown here as well as sorted outputs for outgoing trains. For the mass storage, I used the two inputs of the larger storage box, 1input for flowing downstream to next bin (8 bin capacity per item) and one for input from the outside reapeat per storage bin to gain multiple input lines which will equal one line per bin added per item -1. Overflow upstream with smart splitters and mergers, hence the -1.

Good Job I’ve Done a Few 420’s 😀😊😀 I Hate Those Husqvarna K970’s Like That One on The Floor They Have Got to Be The Worst In My Opinion Too Do Piston and Cylinder Replacement On 😩😩

you can always do the center one as the overflow and then put the sinks at the end. that way you only only need two smart splitters and no mergers. also you can use a programmable splitter at the end to filter out items you want to sort but not store in bulk

The only video among many that could ACTUALLY TELL ME HOW PATH SIGNALS WORK IN DETAIL. I spent hours and hours trying to figure out what the heck they do, and how to properly use them. THANK YOU FOR ENDING MY SUFFERING. Thank you for drawing it out, like that was the help I needed.

You could run a dozen mach 5 belts in smart splitters with mergers and have dedicated input for each item with a smart splitter making sure the dedicate line is clean and a dedicated sink for each item. But needs more tons of planning, space and a lot of patience

Two hours of trying to figure out train signals solved by this video. Thanks very much!

Was checking some videos out, to get a clear understanding about signals, but at the end i was super confused. Problem is they talk about things they don't even understand themselfs, lol. Your's is by far the best :) Good job! Great Video! Btw. nice, calming voice.

Just did exactly the same solution a couple days ago before finding your video :)

4:29 I am assuming those signal are all path signal??? If so I am testing this example out and it doesn't work me. It does however work when they all are "block" signals.

Thanks for a very good description on how to solve the T-section. I was trying to do this with just block signals, but allways ended up with getting a deadlock after a few hours. Corrected with your guide and now it works!

Interesting concept. I have a separate train car for each item with a separate belt. Then I move the items into the packer mod so I can get a 10-1 ratio. Never thought about sending the extras into an awesome sink. Good idea. I got to wondering if we're somehow related??? Some tubers as I use their names as part of the name. ;)

I love this design but I need to replace the smart splitters with programmable splitters. When I do that, I can't get the conveyer lifts to align properly the way yours do (without the little extended connector part at the ends of the lifts). How are you able to build it without those? I've researched a bunch and cannot figure it out.

Jesus Christ could they possibly make it more over complicated? Maybe describe it in-game even more poorly? This is tractors all over again. You get excited at first and then find out the whole thing is either broken or a pain in the ass and go back to belts.

this got me excited hoping it was about a auto sort system for trading cards lol.

Thanks, that was really helpfull.