Cool, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought packet based belts would be fun to experiment with! If its useful I approached the demultiplexer a bit differently. I designated one material to be used universally on the bus for a fixed size header, then a second material in each packet is the arbit...

A quick experiment shows you can certainly connect more than 1 pump to a boiler in order to get additional fluid flow to your steam engines. However it appears that like pipes, boilers and/or steam engines don't have infinite flow capacity. It would take more targeted experiments to gather evidence ...

inplace_belt_furnace.jpg My contribution to the furnace puzzle. The basic idea to share a belt for input and output wasn't mine but I don't think anyone made a solution that used it. For actual game play I'm not convinced this is better as the mixer isn't accurate enough as-is, but I decided I'd st...