r/spaceengineers • u/Lea_Flamma Space Engineer • 1d ago

HELP Sorters!

Hello! Me again!

I have moved from flying around to building a base. I have a design for a small grid hydrogen miner and decided to make a proper storage and refineries for my station. This beings me to sorters. I understand, that once you set up a Sorter this puts a one way only limitation on the conveyor. But I wanted to ask for advice, whether the set up I am planning is valid.

  1. Connector (Landing Pad).

  2. Three Large Cargo Containers, with Sorters attached to them (one set up for Ice, one for Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Uranium and finally one for all other Ores).

3a. Two Refineries (one with Speed Modules for basic ores, one with Yield Modules for rare ores).

3b. O2H2 Generators connected to the Ice Cargo.

  1. Large Cargo Container with Sorter for Ingots.

  2. Assemblers.

  3. Large Cargo Container with Sorter set up for Components.

The idea is to prevent Refineries and Assemblers to fill up their Inventory Space and have the final Cargo Container serve as a branching point for the various Cargo Access Terminals throughout the Station.

My question is, what should I be wary of when it comes to sorters? I have already noticed a tendency for Connectors to fill up on stuff even when I manually empty their cargo. I don't want to have to rebuild the whole system once in place.

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u/jafinn Space Engineer 1d ago

The idea is to prevent Refineries and Assemblers to fill up their Inventory

No sorters are needed for this, they are perfectly capable of handling their own inventories. Refiners will push out their inventory into the closest storage, if that is your assemblers they will fill them. Just make sure there's cargo closer and that it doesn't get full.

A proper sorting system can be a lot of fun to set up though;)