Use case for soft filters:

Multiple parallel sushi belts, with one exit for red circuits.

At present, you need separate filtered splitters for each sushi lane, merging the red filtered outputs after the exit.

With soft filters, each lane can send red circuits towards the exit without blocking other ...

If I understood right, it could easily be achieved with combinations of splitters.
It's general rule of thumb not to add such things, to keep core idea that anything from basic ones and zeroes, even if you had to come up with some 'trick' that has become basic themselves. That's why they don't add ...

... a design that used a deconstruction planner as the NO EXIT THIS LANE marker, the big red square is a nice visual indicator that that lane of the splitter output is blocked. I do agree that it would be nice if that was a setting rather than a workaround, especially if it was configurable via circuits.

... If you relabel a quality part, and merge it into your normal-quality production chain, your job is done. It can make its way through any filter splitters, filter inserters, logistic bot systems, trains, space platforms, circuit conditions, AND assemblers/chemplants/EM plants, exactly as a normal ...

Maybe it could be additional Mode parameter like that you need to pass to splitter rather than adding this to each signal

TL;DR
Add circuit control to lane splitter and fast/express/turbo lane splitter

What?
Recently splitter have gotten circuit control logic. This feature was not added to the lane splitter at the same time.
The base game also only defines lane splitters for yellow belts. The other belt speeds are ...

... each potential output require a dedicated slot whereas for items it can be the same inserter that output them on a belt filtered later with splitter, for fluid if you have static setup where the recycler will have always the same input it's not so complicated, but as soon as you try to have a ...

... each potential output require a dedicated slot whereas for items it can be the same inserter that output them on a belt filtered later with splitter, for fluid if you have static setup where the recycler will have always the same input it's not so complicated, but as soon as you try to have a ...

TL;DR
Allow the quality range setting seen on inserter and splitter filters to be used in circuit control GUIs, like decider and arithmetic combinators, enable/disable circuit settings, etc.


What?
I would like to use the :any-quality:, >, <, =, >=, <=, ~= quality evaluators inside of signal ...

... change the recepy to something wrong (aka accident/rush/human error) and the inserters already filled it in?

Did you ever added a filter to a splitter but the items when through it already?

The ideea is simple, IF this tick box is on (if it's off it's what we have now, nothing changed), there ...

I think this "No item" virtual object should be selectable as a filter for splitters from the filter menu (as well as for other logistics options that may benefit from such a filter, for whatever reason):

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It's a small thing, and it isn't necessary to have this ...

Special Splitter Shenanigans Survey
TL,DR; Which of the behaviors pictured below makes sense to you? How far down the rows do things make sense?

Some spec details
1. Running directly into a curved belt will fail with "curved belt in the way"
- Justification: in absence of failures, smart belt ...

TL;DR
Add the ability to connect splitters to the circuit network.

Why
Currently, splitters are powerful, but they’re “dumb” – While inserters and belts can be wired to the circuit network, splitters remain outside that system, which creates a limitation in advanced factory design.

If splitters ...

... but might be messier to find a good UI.) Alternatively, a new separate option.
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Realistically though it would be a splitter option, like sorting out the bad apples as they pass some optical inspection equipment. Then you'd have to constantly keep the produce flowing to ...

... mod and they have giant nest that have millions of HP and that waste a lot ammo. Be able to ignore some target playing some mod with artillery turret would be a big plus. For normal play I guess... kill nest only and leave worms alive saving ammo ? Kill Splitter nest in priority cause :twisted:

... the smart belt to try and make the undergound at the max lengh, possibly removing the yellow belts in the process, but it should stop at the splitter and not jump over nor remove it. Continuing to drag should place a underground entrance right after the splitter and resume mentionned behavior ...

Imagine many more existing belts _before_ the splitter. do you attempt to underground over those too? (This also means not attempting to upgrade them)

Don't know the best answer, hence why I'm now asking

... for limited resources. I've also thought of using it to set high-priority inputs - eg. outputs of core mining from Space Exploration - but I use splitter priority for that task for now.

However, monitoring the status of these priorities in a large base is challenging, especially when leveraging the ...

Asking for feedback on dealing with splitters
Here's some cases with splitters, where it might be ambiguous if want to underground over them.

- In the first row, it's reasonable to want to underground over the first bit
- In the second row, from feedback reasonable to _not_ underground over the ...

... 0..5 for quality level (0=any)
* -1,0,1 for lt,eq,gt
* input and output priorities - 1=right,0=none,-1=left, for example

This introduces no new behaviour modes to the splitter, other than allowing it to be disabled. But it would enable dynamic item routing, ideal for sushi and quality builds.