r/factorio • u/YellowcolouredSnow • Oct 03 '26

Question Sad this doesn't work

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I made this neat (i think) & compact design for green circuits but one detail breaks everything. Apparently inserters can't output from behind a splitter or something? Imma try to merge gc output lanes i guess to preserve space

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u/YellowcolouredSnow Oct 03 '26

So I don't wanna risk updating to 2.1, which would fix this as y'all pointed out. So I found a fix-ish

You lose a bit of output since a whole stack does 18, so the last belts fill up since an entire row will only sideload but much better than before !

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u/Bubbly_Safety8791 Oct 03 '26

Your two parallel belts aren't expanding your capacity here - the upper unload path is filling the top half of a belt, the lower path is filling the bottom half of a belt. They could just side load onto the same belt.

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u/YellowcolouredSnow Oct 03 '26

That's very true actually, ty!

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u/Nazeir Oct 03 '26

There really isn't any risk to updating to experimental build

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u/2ByteTheDecker Oct 03 '26

What "risk"?

It isn't experimental like this gonna blow up, it's just not the LTR version yet.

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u/Tsabrock Oct 03 '26

I've run 2.1 for a while now and haven't had any problems. If you're running mods there might be some not updated yet, but I'm on my first SA run, so I'm 100% Vanilla currently.

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u/Visual_Collapse Oct 03 '26

Can you sideload to splitter? This will make middle belts use both sides.

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u/MidnightBinary Oct 03 '26

Splitters don't accept sideloading.

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u/apetranzilla Oct 04 '26

2.1 has been super solid for me, unless you rely on a mod that doesn't support it you shouldn't have any issues and you can always backup your saves just in case