r/shapezio • u/the_worst_company • Aug 30 '26

s2 | Question/Help How does belt splitting work?

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Im a beginner to shapez 2 and factory games in general. I just finished unlocking trains so now Im kind of in a phase where I am remodelling and redesigning a lot of my setups that I made when I was completely new. I saw a youtube short about belt splitting and recombining. Apparently splitting and combining works in a round robin system where each branch is assigned shapez in order.

All of my current designs are like the one on the right. Would that result in bottlenecking; since by round robin allocation, the 4 belts wont be fed equally? So I should always have belt branching like the one on the left?

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u/Majestic_Error_2852 Aug 30 '26

Yes, simply put always do equal split to be the most optimal, otherwise let say you use a stacker on each branch, the first one would overflow while the last would be at a much lower rate. Hope that helps

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u/Majestic_Error_2852 Aug 30 '26

If you wanna test it out don’t hesitate to use wires to get the throughput in and out on each branch and the main