Random Production Jams, most often on west / east splitters

[raw river]

I've got a weird one, I'm not seeing reported anywhere else.

Random Production Jams, most often on west / east splitters

I've got 12 Lane plans that ue West/east spliters, and they work for a while, then appear to jam up and stop outputting. Selecting the platform and clearing, allows them to work again for a while.

It doesn't seem to happen while I watch it, only after I've gone away to do other things, then noticed empty belts on the numbers no longer ticking up.

Problem has been pleaguing me from a couple of days.

I've also exited the program and restarted unit and the game.

I'm running on SteamOS on a Legion Go S unit. I do have some fancy mapping of the buttons etc from a user (Uba I think?) Current versions of everything.

Any suggestions welcome as I'm some 30+ hours into the game and enjoying.

[odd delta]

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[gray dagger]

Can you provide a picture of the splitter area?

[raw river]

I would have, but I saw this too late. I got frustraited and deleted the whole area, and moved on to a different job. Figured I'd return to it later.

Thanks for the offer of help though.