Vortex Feeder

[rigid prism]

Updated blueprint further down below ⬇️

[sage merlin]

Blueprint Infos :

Version : 1095 / 0.0.8, Blueprint type : Platform, Blueprint cost : 0, Platform unit cost : 1,220
Platform count : 640, Platform size : 31x31, Platform tiles : 948
Icons : Platforms, <empty>, <empty>, {RuRuRuRu}

[outer ridge]

Nice Design 👍

[frigid mortar]

Looks great. I'd love to see the Hub itself.

[plucky heath]

very nice!

[unkempt wagon]

Looks nice.. but why unloading the trains when they jump into the vortex anyways? 🤔

[desert moon]

It's extra throughput. If you keep the rail lines that jump into the vortex separate from the ones that are unloaded via belts then you have additional input capacity (there's a limited number of trains that can fit on each rail at once)

You can actually get two separate rail lines jumping into it from each side (8 total), plus unloading 12 space belts worth of shapes from a separate line(s)

One rail line is probably enough throughput to fill all those 12 space belt inputs, but I keep them as 12 separate rail lines on top of the 8 jumping rail lines just so I can keep the shapes being delivered to each separated more easily

[tropic swan]

damn...

[untold current]

i got inspired

[plush forge]

The lines aren't separate in this blueprint though?

Every train that jumps into the vortex also passes an unloading station

[rigid prism]

It's more aesthetics than it is efficiency wasn't really going for min max, as can probably tell from the platform foundations scattered around 😂

But ye all it does is unload 3 wagons for feeding the 12 belt entrances. After that the trains just jump into the the vortex so they can respawn quicker at the pickup stations, if they dropped off a payload then ye they don't add anything to the counter or if the station is full then they will enter the vortex with the load they have on them.

[magic nymph]

my design before this thread

[desert moon]

Ah right, I missed that

[rotund crow]

Nice design but it doesn't include all of the train vortex inputs (there's 8), the train launcher is adjustable.

[rigid prism]

Updated! Added some routing for a white train and moved train lines around a little to line up in the middle.

Red Green Blue trains all go in to their stations, drop off 3 wagons of cargo then launch into the Vortex.
White train will come straight into the line and launch into the Vortex

[sage merlin]

Blueprint Infos :

Version : 1095 / 0.0.8, Blueprint type : Platform, Blueprint cost : 0, Platform unit cost : 804
Platform count : 556, Platform size : 31x31, Platform tiles : 740
Icons : building.Merger2To1Variant, building.MergerTShapeVariant, toolbar.islands.island-toolbar.RailsDecorations, toolbar.buildings.category-building-toolbar.category-Decorations

[unkempt wagon]

now I like it even more 😉

[broken raft]

These are looking like modern art

[rigid prism]

🎨 need more decoration items 😂

[wide walrus]

I'm a simple guy

I'd like to beautify it also

I'm always amazed at the level of imagination you guy can come up with

[mellow trench]

half

[shy gale]

er

[restive flax]

Can you explain why there are 3 unloadings per 1 space belt?

[desert moon]

Only one unloader is needed to saturate a space belt, but I'm assuming their trains all just happen to be 3 wagons long so they put three unloaders so all wagons get unloaded evenly, even though it won't be able to unload them all at full speed

[restive flax]

It's just that for 3 wagons you need to make 3 times more shapes, but why if one is enough. I thought here it is justified by high efficiency. But it's beautiful

[fading anvil]

I jsut put everything on a train, and lauch it into the vortex. My platform is vacant!

[lone spear]

Is it possible for a 3 Floor Variant?

[elder mantle]

I dont understand how if works? all the trains unload only level 1 right? i dont see something that stacks them on the three different levels

[rigid prism]

1 wagon can load 3 levels, there is 3 unload stations so 3 wagons on each train. So there is more than enough to keep the belts full which is why the trains jump into the vortex after stopping as if they didn't they'd then be carrying cargo back and forth with not unloading

[lone spear]

Does it have a decent 3 floor variant or is it modular enough to simply add it

[desert moon]

a train unloader already unloads to all three floors so long as it was loaded from all three floors

you dont need to use belts to move the output to different floors

[rigid prism]

As Lily said, load your trains on 3 floors

[lone spear]

Thanks still learning and didn't fully understand when it said 2floors I thought it only unloaded 2 floors

[worthy geyser]

Is there a blueprint for this?

[tropic hornet]

This very much looks like a case of over complicating things lmao. 😂

[thin quarry]

it's just clean and organized vortex feeder that can save you so much time

[tropic hornet]

Na, doesn’t save any time. My vortex feeding system 1/20 the amount of effort with the same results. It’s just a cool design.

[onyx shale]

you can fit 8 train launchers, like this

[floral wharf]

Oh, you can weave train launchers?

[thin quarry]

oh you can also go under with space belts

[fluid sparrow]

Amazing work 🔥