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Underground belts are very useful for keeping things out of your way, however one issue is the limit on underground length...
Problems:
If you make undergrounds longer, they need to require more materials per length to retain balance
If you use just one recipe per speed of belt: either you make the undergrounds cheaper, or really expensive for short runs.
If you use several recipes: you clutter up the recipe view and the player inventory
Solution:
Give the underground entities an inventory that you can place transport belt into, the number of correct belts in the inventory= available distance for underground
-belt must be the same speed as underground to be correct
-belt must be in inlet entity or inlet and outlet entity inventory add together
-belt still has a maximum length that preserves balance, or have diminishing returns on inserted belt (over a certain threshold, each additional length requires multiple belts to go one more block further)


thanks,
Tom T.
P.S. is it possible that the API could currently support a mod that could accomplish this?

What if I say, that this clutter is wanted?

I think clutter could be obtained in much better ways.......

Maybe what he wanted to say is that underground transport belts aren't that long because devs don't want people to build everything underground. Imho thats totally okay. You should use underground transport belts only to cross intersections.

Maybe I should be more clear. Sometimes.

I see the practice of modular underground belts allow you to go under your mines or a huge line of your machines in the same length as the underground pipes. The basic of everything must be perfect.

Perhaps I should be really clear: It will not come because of that.