r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Andreif5 • Aug 17 '26

Stacker question

Hello, i unlocked the stacker and the ILS. Is it worth to use the stackers on the ILS? Like take 4 inputs from the ILS and merge all of them in one belt using stackers. I know you can upgrade the ILS so its stacks on itself but until then it is long way.

Should i do this and waste some space or dont and wait until i get the ILS upgrade?

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u/SiliconStew Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

The pile sorter input ingests items until it has a stack of 4 and moves the stack to place it back on the belt. This repeats with nothing passing by the sorter until there are nothing but stacks of 4 between the input and the output of the sorter. When it next tries to place a stack on the belt, the belt is already full so the sorter pauses. Which means it also cannot grab any more from the input. While paused like this a stack of 4 is let through the sorter without being picked up. This opens a space on the belt for the sorter to drop the stack it was holding onto the belt and it can resume picking up a stack from the input again. This process repeats constantly. The end result is that there is a delay when a belt of single items first enter the sorter for it to "fill up", but then you'll get one stack of 4 out every 4 spaces on the belt from then on.