... a stop above furnaces. Maybe with an attachment you could make like a hopper or you could make it a type of track that could use your current colored belt as a base for item transfer speed.

Why:
the concept of raised trains going over furnace lines to load ore seems cool to me

... I have no doubt you will!

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As mentioned, the Hopper/Funnel unloader and corresponding Silo loader would be exciting to see ... is missing now is elevated foot/traffic bridges. Also elevated conveyor belts! ;)

Electric poles with supports above water would be awesome if ...

... come down from the elevated line to a station on the ground. Having a hopper or silo would work for loose loads like coal and ores, gear wheels, wire ... term would be "bulk materials". Larger items like inserters, conveyor belt segments, entire locomotives and train cars, assemblers, etcetera are not ...

... re running parallel tracks anyway, and it would let you run a continuous belt (or pavement) under the train, instead of having to weave around supports ... come down from the elevated line to a station on the ground. Having a hopper or silo would work for loose loads like coal and ores, gear wheels, wire ...

... got a copper assembler producing copper capped beams. On the left is a belt containing wooden beams and copper plate. On the right is a belt ... At the same time, the inserter on the right grabs coal. But the fuel hopper contains wooden beams and can't accept the coal. So now that inserter on ...

... got a copper assembler producing copper capped beams. On the left is a belt containing wooden beams and copper plate. On the right is a belt ... At the same time, the inserter on the right grabs coal. But the fuel hopper contains wooden beams and can't accept the coal. So now that inserter on ...

... got a copper assembler producing copper capped beams. On the left is a belt containing wooden beams and copper plate. On the right is a belt ... At the same time, the inserter on the right grabs coal. But the fuel hopper contains wooden beams and can't accept the coal. So now that inserter on ...

... all that remains is:
Inserting / retrieving at full (stack) inserter / belt throughput rate
Picking items from a belt individually, inline, is a ... behavior is missing.

For inserting, that boils down to the old "belt hopper" / "funnel" design idea.
For retrieving it boils down to a (slightly ...

... block for carts that will automatically unload them. For example a hopper, built-in tracks which interacts with the belts. Carts stops on this stretch of the railway and its cargo is unloaded automatically and gets on the belt.

... specifically for train wagons (like in Real Life) that can only use Belt Loader/Unloader to get stuff in or out of wagons and disable the ability ... make two classes of inventory entities, but also two new structures (hopper and belt-loader).
If they won't do that, the cargo wagons will make belt ...

... specifically for train wagons (like in Real Life) that can only use Belt Loader/Unloader to get stuff in or out of wagons and disable the ability ... make two classes of inventory entities, but also two new structures (hopper and belt-loader).
If they won't do that, the cargo wagons will make belt ...

... you can't just plonk them down where an inserter was, because a loader's belt end has to be merged into / split from belts to get the full benefit, so ... You don't chuck an expensive, delicate microprocessor down a rusty hopper or put them in a rattling old screw elevator. If they'd followed through ...

We hope, we are waiting. Stack-belt
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Hi WIZ4
Nice solution but i thing this one can be used only for plates (exclude steel), gears or ... and final products (modules, weapons, armours ...)
Bulk transporter + Hopper - Transport all ores, coal, stone, sulphur ...
Fluid pipe + Pump ...

... there is a lot of fun complexity to be gained by adding an other tier to belts.. literally. I am aware that the devs are holding off from making a ... similar to the stacked belt, as described in this fff. It would be a 'hopper belt', or 'bulk belt', which is raised above the ground. It would have ...

... problem, it might be a recipe problem, it's definitely a (lack of) belts problem.

So yeah. BUFF BELTS.

BUFF BELTS.

HAVE I MENTIONED BUFF BELTS ... it has some walls to stop all the junk from spilling out. It's kind of hopper-like in appearance, if hoppers were belts at least. :P

Mechanically ...

... capacity, over a distance of 50 tiles, this is as much as 4 yellow belts at no robot speed research . And robot speed research makes the capacity ... up to a bot network.

One idea I had is some sort of high-throughput hopper/chute system. Each chute would accept only one item, but it would have ...

re "stacked belts"

I would love to see this. Give me a whole new category of belt where each individual "item" moving along the belt can actually be a ... into an assembler. but if the assembler doesn't need that many items per second it would be required to regulate it with a circuit network or a hopper.

... to think that a fun game needs to be a complex game, i paraphrase: "Belts are the skilled way too play, bots are too "easy" ".

Let me preface my ... a rail-yard, which would load and unload trains.

There could even be hoppers to load ores straight into a new wagon. In real life trains don't have ...

... to think that a fun game needs to be a complex game, i paraphrase: "Belts are the skilled way too play, bots are too "easy" ".

Let me preface my ... a rail-yard, which would load and unload trains.

There could even be hoppers to load ores straight into a new wagon. In real life trains don't have ...

... since I have been thinking about this while reading other replies...

belts are 1 dimensional. they are either lines or dotted lines on the plane ... circuitry magic and the other with some new dedicated technology like a hopper. with this it would be possible to hack together something that worked ...