Perfect half-lane split

[wobbycarly]

I'm sure I've not seen these elsewhere, but surely someone else has worked it out before! You can use the side-load-onto-underground-trick to achieve a perfect split of 1 belt onto 2 half-belts.

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[dog80]

this should be removed because it is unintuitive - just my oppinion

[Tallywort]

And it can also be used when you have different items on the two lanes of the input belt, to separate them again. With the difference over just using a filter splitter being the lanes it outputs to. Could be useful in niche situations.

[Tertius]

The concept of lane splitting with sideloading, with or without blocking one lane with an underground belt, isn't new.
Some variations:

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The first one is special: it's a lane balancer. To see how it works, you need to block/stall a single input and/or output lane.
The second one is yours.
The other ones split/combine input to output for different use cases. They don't use sideloading with underground pieces, but process lanes in a similar way.

[FuryoftheStars]

Side loading to undergrounds trigger me because now there are materials sitting on the belt that’ll never be used….