T-Junction like this:

[onyx gorge]

You can just use a conveyor ledge to have the same effect

[tidal tartan]

Sure, but it's not as elegant and requires additional space.

[onyx gorge]

you got a point, plus the ledges dont work well with corner conveyors

[signal lava]

You can ledge on a jonction : #screenshots message

[tidal tartan]

#1412678588616151040 message

[signal lava]

I was more responding to the corner part of the message

[tidal tartan]

No-one is arguing that it can't be done otherwise. It would just be a welcome addition; far prettier then the mismatched mess in your pic.

[chrome jetty]

I agree these would be useful, but I'm on the fence about them. We even considered maybe removing the existing T-Merger

I think these mergers go against the core idea of the game, that everything is 100% physics based https://x.com/gvarados/status/1706009174599995685

gvarados (@gvarados)

prototyping a small physics-based factory game

X · Sep 24, 2023, 6:14 PM

These merger belts don't really use much physics. It's basically the same as every other factory game, where the objects don't use physics, and are just perfect lines on the belts

But this is a singleplayer sandbox game, so I don't really see why we should force you to play a specific way. I think it's nice to have a lot of options for how you can build stuff

Maybe the merger belts could get unlocked later in the tech tree, so you're encouraged to try dropping things with ledges?