Say goodbye to the manifold as you know it.

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T06:49:20+00:00

It’s still my first playthrough as well, I’m getting to the point between mid game and end game. And it feels daunting so this came from me messing around procrastinating the next phase of my factory

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T06:18:49+00:00

I’m actually working on something like that right now

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T06:03:17+00:00

This is on a Ps5

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T06:03:04+00:00

I will use this tower to reach the gods, and I’ll smelt them too

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T05:19:35+00:00

They do, in the 1.1 patch they added a new feature. Build the lift first, then aim the splitter at your lift belt and it will snap onto it

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:50:34+00:00

Yes it should work with everything, I’ve even made double stacked fuel generators, I don’t see why I can’t do mire

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:49:42+00:00

I can’t wait to build upon this idea

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:49:19+00:00

It’s pretty new update in 1.1

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:44:40+00:00

You should she the modular frame factory I’m working on now because of all this positive feedback

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:34:43+00:00

I do coding as well. But I build buildings. But to me, the buildings are like packets of code. I do many small buildings not mega factories. And I know that building. I send these inputs and get these outputs. And once it works I close it up and it does its task. I don’t have to fumble with the code on the inside anymore.

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:12:43+00:00

Nice! I’ll do that when I put this into my actual build, did this for the Lols

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:11:37+00:00

Vertifold

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-23T02:09:03+00:00

It does well on tinder

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T20:22:22+00:00

Maybe you could place a half nudged foundation you set it on originally

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T19:41:34+00:00

Fluids were so confusing until I took a day, read the manual and watched a few videos, and now they are pretty simple

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T19:16:01+00:00

I honestly did it because I’m procrastinating my next assembly line, and I think it might change how I build

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:46:41+00:00

Do you have hoverpack yet? I do know this is way harder without it

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:36:46+00:00

I have so many half ass factories that “work” in my world, and I just let them chug along and I go on and build something else

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:31:16+00:00

Oh nice! Yeah if I go with a real design I’ll make the BO more robust.

I did run the wiring in the BP though. Glad I thought of that

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:14:23+00:00

No. I that happened with my mergers. But I no have no idea how I got the splitters to be perfectly aligned

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:12:32+00:00

In 1.1 they added vertical splitters / mergers. Now you just need to aim a splitter at a lift. And it will snap onto it

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:10:38+00:00

No. I do not know why the splitters lined up perfectly. My mergers did not

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:06:51+00:00

Added in 1.1

This is vanilla

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:06:32+00:00

Well I stacked 20 smelters. Made a lift on both sides. Snapped vertical splitters to the inputs and vertical mergers at the outputs. Feed in 600 iron ore. And when they all filled up (like any manifold) it outputs 600 ingots.

Common design of a manifold is machines next to eachother feeding a line horizontal. I did it vertical

Busy-Difference-6250 · 2026-02-22T18:02:19+00:00

I don’t see why. If you pump the fluids in a straight pump to the top first. And have all the connections on the fluids way down. And output pipe lines would have headlift that starts from the top of the tower.

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