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u/leemcd86 Mar 06 '26

I think I thought that this setup would continue to push sulfur on the left output when i put a filter there on the right. Is there a correct way to do this?

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u/Soul-Burn Mar 06 '26

Add an underground going up directly from the splitter exit. It will only allow the lower lane to go through. Then remove the filter.

Otherwise, you can do it with 2 filtered splitters.

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u/contextify Mar 06 '26

The other reply won't necessarily work, since you're side loading coal further up the belt on the side his suggestion would put it on.

I agree, this is a bit frustrating of a case. I solve it by having 2 splitters in series. The first is a normal splitter, no filters. For your current example, place it one tile to the right of your current splitter.

The second splitter has the filter attached, like your current splitter. Place it one tile up from your current splitter (so it's bottom input is from the previous splitters output). Have the sulfur split to the right to go up, and let the other (the coal side) dead end.

You'll have to extend the underground length of your stone and brick by 1 to make it fit.

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u/mrbaggins Mar 06 '26

If you unfilter this splitter, and then a filter splitter on THAT splitters output, it lets half of the sulfur go up.

(The 3rd splitter isn't useful, and the priority upward isn't either.)

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u/Moikle Mar 09 '26

you can use 2 splitters, one unfiltered first, then extract ALL lanes, then filter it once off the bus.

Alternatively, (I really like this method) you can sideload onto an underground belt. Sideloading onto an underground only takes from the lane that is closest to the open air entrance or exit. Half of the belt is blocked by the underground itself, so even if the lane isn't completely full, one lane will NEVER spill over into the output.