The sensors work like this: storage sensor set to empty or not empty linked to a count sensor set to 1/2. the count sensor is linked to the next auto arm in the line AND a delay repeater (set to 15) which is ALSO linked to the next arm. When the item is placed on the platform the storage sensor triggers and makes the count repeater (which was 1/2) go 2/2 which triggers the arm/delay repeater on the next platform. The arm is turned off, and once the delay is over the arm turns back on. this gives enough time for the item specific arms to grab the item off the tall platform before it continues down the line. When the item is removed, the storage sensor triggers again but that only triggers the count to go back to 1/2 and nothing else happens. Hope that helps, there’s some extra explanation in the description

@ thank you good sir. If I can try it and have issues I’ll let you know. Really thank you. Always have problems with the sorter like that. Usually put the main line as a whole going on like a high tick delay and the side ones pick up what’s in front of them but it doesn’t always work and the side arms miss the item moving it back to the end of the line causing me to have to sometime send the item back multiple times.

@@AidenCorvas my save file is also linked in my channel under Posts if you want to look at the original yourself. good luck!

its creative mode for the videos so that its easier to see/understand, but the world was made in adventure (survival) mode originally and duplicated just for the video.

honestly i dont really remember, but just this part (not the main sorter) was probably something like 20-30 hours.

go to any of the waygates and use a leveling block nearby, then just keep that smooth surface when expanding

@interslicer Thanks you! I try it soon.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SZMnpox9pVSRy5vlkMlbXAnEaTY37Vkj/view?usp=sharing just uploaded it for you

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz 32gb ddr4 rtx 2080

@@interslicer Thx! 🤗

well to start, theres a bug (or at least there was) with the tall platform where the storage sensor wont see it until you pick up the tall platform and place it again after that (or using other platforms) the sensors work like this: storage sensor set to empty or not empty linked to a count sensor set to 1/2. the count sensor is linked to the next auto arm in the line AND a delay repeater (set to 15) which is ALSO linked to the next arm. When the item is placed on the platform the storage sensor triggers and makes the count repeater (which was 1/2) go 2/2 which triggers the arm/delay repeater on the next platform. The arm is turned off, and once the delay is over the arm turns back on. this gives enough time for the item specific arms to grab the item off the tall platform before it continues down the line. When the item is removed, the storage sensor triggers again but that only triggers the count to go back to 1/2 and nothing else happens. Hope that helps, there’s some extra explanation in the description

drive.google.com/file/d/1SZMnpox9pVSRy5vlkMlbXAnEaTY37Vkj/view?usp=sharing was just uploaded

the station has a delay repeater and count repeater set to 1/2. when the train enters the station, the delay repeater kicks off (15 cycles) and then triggers the count sensor to go to 2/2, which triggers the outbound connection to the station telling the train to leave. on the far side the last rail post has it's pin going allllll the way back to the station (using a button or two in the middle to extend the range of the wires) so when the train reaches the far end, it triggers the station which calls it back. it ALSO triggers the count sensor which is at 0/2 (aka 2/2) from when the train left, so it gets set to 1/2 ready to send the train out again when it gets back thats the cycle. the count sensor is there so you can turn it on and off, without it it would run non stop. with the count sensor i have a separate button set which will make it go 0/2 at the wrong time, making it when the train hits the station it goes to 1/2 and doesnt trigger the departure of the train. hope that helps

@@interslicer that's exactly what I did but during my tests I only put one wagon in addition to the locomotive. So for information it only works from 3 train length

i may make a return with glitchwalkers dlc, but honestly i suck at content creation and im mostly just sharing my builds if i havent seen anything like it appreciate the support though, you never know!

@interslicer honestly you deliver well and this build and your gas sorter has already been integrated into my build! The best of luck to you though!!!

honestly i dont really remember, but just this part (not the main sorter) was probably something like 20-30 hours.

@@interslicer From everything shown in this video, I would have thought at least double that. I really liked this game at first, wanted to keep liking it, but the tedious nature of picking one item up at a time, placing it into your very limited space backpack, then transferring it one at a time into whatever you were placing it in & doing that over & over & over just got to be way too monotonous for me. Even with the prospect of eventual automation, just to even begin to set that all up meant endless picking up of one item, putting here, x 10,000 & that just really killed it for me. Unless I missed some key thing & am misunderstanding it. Anyway good job on the setup & the dedication you gave to accomplish this.

copied from another comment i made: sure, so you know how the arm timing is done with a count repeater (set to 1/2) to turn the next arm in the line off when a new item comes on to the prior storage platform, and then also a delay repeater which turns the next arm back on after the short delay? for the splitter just connect the 2 organic and quartz arms to the count repeater but NOT to the delay repeater (3rd arm that moves to smelter keep the same as others with delay repeater turning it back on). without the delay repeater the quartz/organic arms turn off when an item comes on to the platform but not back on. then for the next item they turn on but not off. so every other item they are on which gives them a 50% chance of smelting or skipping. you can see it working in another view here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jICoXndtipmHgrM

its portable smelters on one side of an extended platform, the smelters sit outside of the auto arm circle, but since its on the same platform it grabs smeltable materials before the arms can move them

maybe, but i dont think that works out to any more units extracted than if you ran both from the start

@@interslicer ahhhh, have you ever tried to remove an entire planet (obviously not the alien structure)

yo this almost made me tear up. c&c general was a game of my childhood. thanks for the memories...

see if this helps kzbin.info/www/bejne/jICoXndtipmHgrM

@@interslicermaaaan thanks I feel so dumb for not checking the rest of your channel. I hope you make more amazing automation builds

@@aresdread2113 dont feel dumb, that video is unlisted :P

the auto arm grabbable area (the two circles) are actually cylinders in 3d space that go from the ground level up to about tall platform height when the arms are placed normally (on a regular platform) by tilting the arms 45%, you also tilt those cylindrical areas so that an arm placed NEXT to the large storages can reach them, when ordinarily the arms would have to be in line with the storages. so it just lets you grab and place items to the side rather than needing arms in the middle

Nvm. figured it out

As far as I can see, 200pcs canister are used j this video. Do you mean it is going to be a bigger one soon?

@@crasymuse You mean the 400 capacity Large Resource Canisters? Yes, he uses the large resource canisters, but that's because he made this _before_ the Roadtrip update. This update added the Large Rover Seat B (not related) and the XL Resource Canister, and the latter of the two is _huge!_ The XL Resource Canisters have a capacity of up to 2,000 nuggets of any one resource, the largest storage capacity to date! To get that capacity, you'd need a storage like this one, but now it can be compacted to a single XL Platform A!

@@Game_Blox9999 Unbelievable! Such volumes drive me crazy 😀

With a count repeater set to 2, and with one of two charges primed when the platform is EMPTY (I just use a button to set the count to 1/2), the storage sensor will trigger when an item is put on the platform or taken off, but the count repeater only triggers half of those times. When the item is placed on the platform the storage sensor triggers and makes the count repeater (which was 1/2) go 2/2 which triggers BOTH the arm directly and the delay repeater (which also goes to the arm) on the next platform. Then the item is removed, the storage sensor triggers again but that only triggers the count to go back to 1/2 and nothing else happens. Hope that helps, there’s some extra explanation in the description theres a bug with the platforms where the storage sensor isnt recognized if the platform hasnt been moved in the same game session, so after you load in you have to pick up the platform and put it down before the storage sensor works as expected. if you dont move the platform first it looks attached but is really just floating in mid aid and connected to nothing (and will stay floating there if you move the platform after the sensor is "attached"

@@interslicer thanks, I appreciate the reply. The logic on the count repeater is just escaping me. So I set all my input storage platforms with a storage sensor set to empty / not empty, and laid a delay sensor at 25 ticks on top of each which I then connected directly to the next auto arm in the line. This provides enough of a delay on the unfiltered auto arms in the conveyor system to allow the filtered storage auto arms to collect any resources as applicable. Obviously much slower and seems to work if I have all auto arms on the same sequenced delay, and all starting in the off position. So the initial signal when a resource is placed on the platform triggers the on position on the unfiltered auto arm after the delay and then the empty platform triggers the unfiltered auto arm to turn off. I haven't overloaded this setup as yet, but will put it under some heavy testing soon. I'm sure the repeat counter will come to me eventually.

@@interslicer and by the way, enjoy the design. Having to remove canisters for materials before was annoying. Your mock up is perfect. On my smaller scale set up I put a medium platform at the end that holds 8 resources at the ready. Helps me visualize what I need to grab and from where. Great design.

​@@masterofnone9651 interesting. i had a similar set up during design, but the issue in that configuration is the delay sensor has to wait before the arm even turns on, and then again before it turns off. if you connect your storage sensor directly to the arm AND to the delay repeater, when an item comes in it will hit the arm on instantly, and then the delay will count down and hit it off. thats good but the issue is when the item is removed by the arm the storage sensor sends another pulse which instantly turns the arm off, and the delay then turns it back on again to fix that issue is where the count sensor comes in. with the platform empty, the count sensor should be sitting at 1/2. (you have to prime the count sensors with a button or something so that its half full BEFORE anything is on the platform). the connections go storage sensor to count sensor (1/2), count sensor to BOTH (need to T off the signal wire) the auto arm directly AND the delay repeater (set to 10-15), and the delay repeater also goes to the arm. item comes into platform, storage sensor trips the count repeater to 2/2 (aka 0/2) which triggers the arm to turn on instantly. also starts the delay repeater. arm moves the item, which triggers the storage sensor, which triggers the count sensor again, this time going from 0/2 to 1/2 and importantly NOT sending a signal. delay repeater runs out of time and turns off the arm after it moves the item.

​@interslicer after some play time and figuring out these sensors I think I have it set up properly. I expected the storage sensor to trip whenever an item is taken on or off, but that doesn't seem to be the case when multiple items get on the platform. It's either empty or not empty. The not empty doesn't factor how many are taken off, it's still just not empty. How did you slow down the pace from the tall storage. Maybe I need to play with the delay a little bit. I have mine unloading directly from a rail station. Not sure if the matters.

good question. the reason is that while COLE makes the train move faster, it doesnt change how many resources are extracted from the ground. as long as the train has space for every resource thats been extracted the speed of the train doesnt actually change how fast resources are transported in total. it makes each trip go faster, but they carry fewer per trip. since you can only have one COLE i use him for trains i actually ride on

@@interslicer ah thank you

i made a + shaped section of dirt in the middle of the upside down and right side up platforms for them to sit on

actually this was created in adventure mode and then i duplicated the world and turned on creative to make the video easier to make and understand. glad you like it!