Ore Hopper
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:48 pm
The ore hopper would be a storage building for handling large amounts of ore more efficiently than chests:
- 3 x 3 building
- The building is not "smart", so no complex ingredients. Some steel, maybe a a few gears and electronic circuits
- Maximum capacity of 50,000 mined resources
- Has an "outflow" tile, similar to a mine
- Material flows out on both sides of a belt connected to the outflow tile as quickly as the belt can move it away
- Can be filled by a belt connected to the middle of all 3 sides except the outflow side
- Can only contain mined resources - iron ore, copper ore, coal, and stone. If a feed belt contains other items, they will either fall off the belt and pile up in the area around the hopper, or they will simply sit on the belt and back everything up.
- Not openable. Items are not stored in stacks, just as a total quantity visible on mouseover. Cannot put items in or take them out manually.
- Cannot be connected to an inserter
- If a hopper contains multipe types of resources, for instance both iron and copper ore, the resources that come out will be random, weighted by the amount contained. Example: A hopper contains 1000 copper ore and 4000 iron ore. Approximately one in every 5 ore discharged will be copper ore, the remaining 4 will be iron ore.