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I understand the idea to go with belts as they are a core and fun feature of Factorio gameplay, but... conveyor belts really need gravity to work. Perhaps a fu
by gampleman 3y ago
I understand the idea to go with belts as they are a core and fun feature of Factorio gameplay, but... conveyor belts really need gravity to work.
Perhaps a funner way to do this would be to play with inertia in space, where stuff just travels in a straight line, so you could just have launchers and catchers that just hurl material along.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoFair point, lol; for now I'm imagining it's magnets. The other thing they could do is pneumatic pipes. There's the Space Exploration mod, it had special space belts, but they were still just belts.
- lionkor 3y agoyou suspend your disbelief and just say the conveyors have little buckets on them, or are sticky!
- gampleman 3y agoI could suspend my disbelief, or you know, the Factorio team could actually just draw the buckets :D
- cesarb 3y agoKeep in mind that these are the same conveyor belts which somehow work even before you built your first electric power plant. If they're magic enough to transport items without any power source, they can be magic enough to transport items in space. > [...] so you could just have launchers and catchers that just hurl material along. Take a look at this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RenaiTransportation https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RenaiTransportation
- gampleman 3y agoThat is a hilarious mod.
- gene-h 3y agoElectroadhesion could be used to hold objects on belts. Here on earth electroadhesive conveyors are sold as a way to move objects up steeper angles[0] [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJu9hzZA-p0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJu9hzZA-p0
- m463 3y agoAlso to hold the paper down on the HP plotters of old.
- falcor84 3y agoThanks for sharing, that looks really cool! Do you happen to know if that company is still in operation, or if some other company took over their tech? Neither their official site[0], twitter account[1] nor crunchbase[2] have any updates about them since 2018. Oh, just found a press release about some restructuring they went into just before covid hit[3]; I suppose they didn't survive that. Still interesting to see if some other company picked it up. [0] https://grabitinc.com/company/ https://grabitinc.com/company/ [1] https://twitter.com/Grabit_Inc https://twitter.com/Grabit_Inc [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grabit https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grabit [3] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grabit-inc-enters-into-restructuring-support-agreement-300977328.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grabit-inc-enters-i...
- reedf1 3y agoI think I'd go with velcro.
- sebzim4500 3y agoAll they need to do is a graphical update that adds buckets/zip ties/etc. It's probably already planned.