Industrial: Toggleable on/off splitters and combiners.

[Besieged]

Create splitters and combiners that are able to be toggled on and off.  Allowing for more dynamic industrial setups with less conveyors.  Being able to switch on/off feeder or destination splitters/combiners allowing one conveyor group to handle all the input or output that would have taken multiple conveyor groups.

[RedBarrelBaron]

Hear hear!

[Theodore Baggins]

Interesting idea, but I want to be sure I understand it correctly. Could this be done simply by turning off excess conveyors after a split or combiner and turning them on when needed for faster throughput? Could you give an example?

[Besieged]

attached a flowchart the current way you need to do 15 conveyors 3 times with toggleable combiners splitters you only need one set of the conveyors. 15 is just a number it could be 3, 9 whatever.

It basically would make it so that the adaptors would only be visible to the conveyors when the combiners are toggled on since there is a limit i believe of 32 adaptors that a conveyor can interact with. A switchable combiner would be even nicer but a lot more complex I would think.

Edited November 14, 2025 by Besieged
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