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• Place down two Underground belt connectors of the desired belt speed, one at the entrance and one at the exit. Connectors are researched at the same time as the normal underground belts of the same speed and use the same recipe. You can use any rotation for these connectors.
• Change the connectors between input and output mode with the rotation key (normally R).
  
  
• As the description for the connector indicates, press CONTROL+B (rebindable) to show the editor interface. You will see the underground endpoints of the two connectors you placed. The editor interface carries over all passive belt entities (belts and normal underground belts; no splitters or loaders) that were in your inventory.
  
  
• Place belts in the glorious freedom of the underground between the two connectors, using the belt mechanics you are already familiar with.
  
  
• Press CONTROL + B again to return to your character in the overworld.
• Profit!
  
  

• Items are mixed randomly in the left and right lanes of output belts. This makes Beltlayer only usable with belts carrying the same item in both lanes, or "sushi belt" designs that don't have any item placement requirements. This is a limitation of Factorio's loader entities. This may be possible to change in 0.17 if these feature requests are implemented:
  • viewtopic.php?t=61865
  • viewtopic.php?t=61442
• If your belts are not full, you will clearly be able to see the bursts when items are transferred from one surface to the other, with a 50% saturated belt becoming alternately fully saturated and empty.
• Connectors buffer quite a lot of items to allow multiple stacks to be transferred at once. When running with saturated belts, you will notice some strange gaps in belt flow when these buffers are being filled, but after a few update cycles the flow will stabilize.
• Mining connectors, or mining belts from the editor interface, puts mined items into your character's inventory. If there is insufficient room, they will be spilled on the ground at your character's feet.
• Connectors can only be placed on the main overworld map. No, you can't use these in space, Factorissimo buildings, or any other custom surfaces that may be added by other mods.
• Blueprinting and deconstruction is implemented with Black Magic. There are almost certainly bugs. There are also a huge variety of possible scenarios in which you might encounter problems. Please report [cur]exactly[/cur] what you did leading up to a bug, including:
  • a screenshot showing the precise area selected with the blueprint or deconstruction tool,
  • a screenshot of the below ground editor matching the above ground screenshot,
  • the filter settings of the deconstruction tool, if applicable,
  • a screenshot of the blueprint setup window, if applicable, and
  • a description of what you expected to happen, and what happened instead.

• Beltlayer belts can turn corners.
• Beltlayer belts are blueprintable and can be built with construction robots.

• Subterra allows players and fluids to be transferred through the ground, as well as items.
• Subterra allows splitters, assemblers, and complete subterranean bases.
• Subterra preserves lane-identity for belts.
• Beltlayer is substantially more UPS-efficient.
• Beltlayer belts are blueprintable and can be built with construction robots.

db48x wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 3:02 pmI haven't actually played a game with this mod yet, but I'm curious about your decision not to allow splitters on the underground level. Why not? it seems like a logical thing to do.

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:22 am I've been trying to use Beltlayer for a few weeks now, but I keep getting an error:

Failed to load mods:
__beltlayer__/data-updates.lua:4:
__beltlayer__/prototypes/recipes.lua:46: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

When I look at the code, I don't see root.ingredients being defined anywhere.
Can you please check this?

Therax wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:17 am

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:22 am I've been trying to use Beltlayer for a few weeks now, but I keep getting an error:

Failed to load mods:
__beltlayer__/data-updates.lua:4:
__beltlayer__/prototypes/recipes.lua:46: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

When I look at the code, I don't see root.ingredients being defined anywhere.
Can you please check this?

root is the different root parts of the recipe, including "normal" and "expensive" variants for recipes that include those. What other mods are you using, because it sounds like one of your other mods contains an invalid recipe (i.e. one without any ingredients).

4_Way_Underground_Pipe_0.0.1.zip
aai-industry_0.2.4.zip
aai-motor-speed-tweak_0.0.2.zip
aai-programmable-structures_0.4.4.zip
aai-programmable-vehicles_0.4.8.zip
aai-signals_0.3.3.zip
aai-vehicles-chaingunner_0.3.1.zip
aai-vehicles-flame-tank_0.2.1.zip
aai-vehicles-flame-tumbler_0.3.1.zip
aai-vehicles-hauler_0.3.1.zip
aai-vehicles-laser-tank_0.3.1.zip
aai-vehicles-miner_0.3.5.zip
aai-vehicles-warden_0.2.1.zip
aai-zones_0.3.4.zip
AfraidOfTheDark_1.0.20.zip
angelsaddons-oresilos_0.4.0.zip
angelsaddons-petrotrain_0.3.3.zip
angelsaddons-pressuretanks_0.3.0.zip
angelsaddons-warehouses_0.3.0.zip
angelsbioprocessing_0.5.9.zip
angelsindustries_0.1.0.zip
angelsinfiniteores_0.7.3.zip
angelspetrochem_0.7.12.zip
angelsrefining_0.9.14.zip
angelssmelting_0.4.6.zip
auto-research_4.3.0.zip
AutoDeconstruct_0.1.11.zip
[beltlayer_0.1.6]
beltlayer_0.1.6.zip
BeltUpgrader_0.9.9.zip
bobangels-pipe-fix_0.16.6.zip
bobassembly_0.16.1.zip
bobclasses_0.16.2.zip
bobelectronics_0.16.0.zip
bobenemies_0.16.0.zip
bobgreenhouse_0.16.0.zip
bobinserters_0.16.8.zip
boblibrary_0.16.6.zip
boblogistics_0.16.23.zip
bobmining_0.16.0.zip
bobmodules_0.16.0.zip
bobores_0.16.2.zip
bobplates_0.16.5.zip
bobpower_0.16.8.zip
bobrevamp_0.16.3.zip
bobtech_0.16.6.zip
bobvehicleequipment_0.16.2.zip
bobwarfare_0.16.7.zip
Bottleneck_0.9.3.zip
cargo-ships_0.0.17.zip
CliffDeconstruct_0.0.5.zip
clock_0.16.0.zip
CraftingPriority_0.2.0.zip
dangOreus_1.5.4.zip
DeleteEmptyChunks_0.3.3.zip
DivOresity_1.0.1.zip
er-quickprint_0.1.3.zip
Factorissimo2_2.2.3.zip
far-reach_0.0.8.zip
FNEI_0.1.9.zip
GDIW_0.16.2.zip
helmod_0.7.11.zip
LB-Modular-Chests_0.16.6.zip
LogisticTrainNetwork_1.9.3.zip
Miner_Planner_0.10.1.zip
miniloader_1.6.4.zip
mod-list.json
mod-settings.dat
Modpack_Yi_Angel_0.16.0.zip
Nanobots_2.0.7.zip
NuclearRobots_0.0.5.zip
only-smelting_0.1.7.zip
OSave_0.0.3.zip
PCP_0.0.9.zip
PrivateBufferChest_0.0.5.zip
railloader_0.5.5.zip
recursive-blueprints_0.16.2.zip
Single-Splitter_0.0.13.zip
Squeak Through_1.2.2.zip
StromTL_0.1.2.zip
Subterranean_0.5.1.zip
Todo-List_16.5.1.zip
UltimateBelts_0.16.4.zip
upgrade-planner2_1.6.1.zip
upgrade-planner_1.5.3.zip
yi_engines_0.6.28.zip
yi_railway_0.6.21.zip
Yuoki_0.6.74.zip
z_yira_american_0.6.8.zip
z_yira_UP_0.6.10.zip
z_yira_yuokirails_0.6.12.zip

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:22 am I've been trying to use Beltlayer for a few weeks now, but I keep getting an error:

Therax wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:40 pm

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:22 am I've been trying to use Beltlayer for a few weeks now, but I keep getting an error:

This should be fixed in 0.1.8. There was a very odd interaction between AAI Industry and Bob's Logistics.

Failed to load mods:
__beltlayer__/data-updates.lua:5:
__beltlayer__/prototypes/technologies.lua:40: syntax error near <eof>

enddd

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:17 am Line 40:

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When the last two extra d's are removed, there are no errors. However, when I load the game, it does not place the undergrounds on the belt-plane.

Therax wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:34 am

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:17 am Line 40:

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When the last two extra d's are removed, there are no errors. However, when I load the game, it does not place the undergrounds on the belt-plane.

No idea how that typo snuck through my testing. I can't reproduce your problem with undergrounds not getting placed on both layers, however.

Master-Guy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:40 am To make sure I disabled all mods, except for beltlayer, and it still does not place the undergrounds on the 2nd plane.
It does show that layer, and the first time I have to load it, it needs to chart the map, but the 2nd plane does load when pressing CTRL+B. It just doesn't show the undergrounds. Will try to do some short testing myself as well

LutraMage wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:11 pm TheRax, I'm uploading the save game as discussed. Many thanks for taking the time to look at this, I think your Beltlayer Mod is awesome, and would very much like to be able to use it again. Thanks.