[The rest of the video script is below.] This here is a perfectly-balanced manifold. We have exactly 120 ores/min coming in from the miner and going through these smelters and coming out as ingots. How does this work? Let's start from here, the first machine. Notice that this splitter here divides input into 2 halves: one half goes into machine 1, the other half goes to splitter 2. Now at splitter 2, half of the remaining goes into machine 2 and 1/4 of initial goes into splitter 3, and so on. But in reality, the machine only has so much of a buffer it can hold. If we let this run for while, let's fast-forward a little, you'll notice that the first machine's buffer of exactly one stack of iron ore is full, which means now, the splitter 1 outputs almost all of its content into splitter 2 not just half. After a while, same thing happens with machine 2's buffer. Once full, the ore now starts filling up machine 3, and so on. Regardless of how long this chain is, as long as you're supplying the right amount of input for the right amount of machines, everything will "balance" itself given some time. And here it is, after a while, you notice that all the machines are functional and the system works perfectly as expected. Note that the %age efficiency will take a while to reach 100%. Remember, that the input rate and the ouput rate are all that matter, besides the belts also being able to handle the throughput, regardless of the number of machines. Here you can see an array of a lot more smelters with ore coming in at a lot higher throughput and everything is peachy. As long as the mined resources have throughput equal to the machines' consumption, everything's golden. This is a very modular design, as it allows us to say, add 4 more machines to the row of 4 smelters and just extend the array, while adding more throughput to our input side as well, thus bringing our system to a throughput of 240 ores/min smelted into 240 ingots/min. Cool! So you see, this manifold design can be used for feeding any machine. Here are some assemblers being fed resources in a similar manner. Take a good look at how the belts cross, so one of the lines is at a higher level to avoid unrealistic criss-crossing, but it is the same design pattern. Moreover, this design can work for pipes as well, afterall pipes are like conveyors in a way. We have this main pipe being split into multiple junctions that divide the fluid, in this case gas, with the "All fluids are gasses" mod I picked up. Then these machines consume the fluid and produce the output, which is again collected together into the output pipe. Neat! There is also another method of doing this and it's called load-balancing, but that set up involves a lot more belt-work and is not modular, as in, cannot be expanded very easily. Starting out, it's best to just go for manifolds as they are effective, modular and easy to understand and trouble-shoot. And that's it for this video! I hope you guys found it useful. I'll see you guys in the next video. For now, if you're interested in more of my Satisfactory content, check out this beginner as well as veteran-friendly tips video or some of my crazy projects on my channel. Like, comment and subscribe if I deserve it. Pioneers, stay efficient!
[The rest of the video script is below.]
This here is a perfectly-balanced manifold. We have exactly 120 ores/min coming in from the miner and going through these smelters and coming out as ingots. How does this work? Let's start from here, the first machine. Notice that this splitter here divides input into 2 halves: one half goes into machine 1, the other half goes to splitter 2. Now at splitter 2, half of the remaining goes into machine 2 and 1/4 of initial goes into splitter 3, and so on. But in reality, the machine only has so much of a buffer it can hold. If we let this run for while, let's fast-forward a little, you'll notice that the first machine's buffer of exactly one stack of iron ore is full, which means now, the splitter 1 outputs almost all of its content into splitter 2 not just half. After a while, same thing happens with machine 2's buffer. Once full, the ore now starts filling up machine 3, and so on. Regardless of how long this chain is, as long as you're supplying the right amount of input for the right amount of machines, everything will "balance" itself given some time.
And here it is, after a while, you notice that all the machines are functional and the system works perfectly as expected. Note that the %age efficiency will take a while to reach 100%. Remember, that the input rate and the ouput rate are all that matter, besides the belts also being able to handle the throughput, regardless of the number of machines. Here you can see an array of a lot more smelters with ore coming in at a lot higher throughput and everything is peachy. As long as the mined resources have throughput equal to the machines' consumption, everything's golden.
This is a very modular design, as it allows us to say, add 4 more machines to the row of 4 smelters and just extend the array, while adding more throughput to our input side as well, thus bringing our system to a throughput of 240 ores/min smelted into 240 ingots/min. Cool!
So you see, this manifold design can be used for feeding any machine. Here are some assemblers being fed resources in a similar manner. Take a good look at how the belts cross, so one of the lines is at a higher level to avoid unrealistic criss-crossing, but it is the same design pattern.
Moreover, this design can work for pipes as well, afterall pipes are like conveyors in a way. We have this main pipe being split into multiple junctions that divide the fluid, in this case gas, with the "All fluids are gasses" mod I picked up. Then these machines consume the fluid and produce the output, which is again collected together into the output pipe. Neat!
There is also another method of doing this and it's called load-balancing, but that set up involves a lot more belt-work and is not modular, as in, cannot be expanded very easily. Starting out, it's best to just go for manifolds as they are effective, modular and easy to understand and trouble-shoot.
And that's it for this video! I hope you guys found it useful. I'll see you guys in the next video. For now, if you're interested in more of my Satisfactory content, check out this beginner as well as veteran-friendly tips video or some of my crazy projects on my channel. Like, comment and subscribe if I deserve it. Pioneers, stay efficient!