Conveyor Belts

Wooden belts that move your items and your creatures for you. Build a small factory and let automation do the hauling.

Boars fall from their pen onto a belt. The grinder kills them. The loot rides on. The filter sends the leather to one chest, and the link puts the meat into another.

What is new in 0.6.0

• Kitchen link. A greydwarf chef runs a cooking station, iron cooking station, oven or fermenter beside the belt. It puts raw food on, keeps the fire fed, and sends the food on cooked before it burns.
• Chest portal. A small portal on a chest, link or kitchen link. Portals with the same id share items, up to 80 m apart. Your kitchen takes its meat and wood from your chests.
• Cookbook. Pick up to 8 meals and how many of each to keep, for example 10 cooked boar meat. Every kitchen link on the power network cooks until you have them.
• Narrow and short belts. Belts 1 m wide and 0.5 m long, for a kitchen in a small house.
• Belts are rebuilt. A test base with 2,000 items on 1,500 belts ran at under 2 frames a second in 0.5.0. Now it runs at 17, and with two players on a server neither game slows down.
• Every player and the server need 0.6.0.

The pieces

Build them all with the hammer, in the Misc tab.

	Piece	What it does
	Belt	Carries items and creatures. Comes 0.5 m, 1 m, 2 m and 4 m long, as a left or right corner, and as a ramp up or down, with or without pillars.
	Drop floor	A floor that lets only grown creatures fall through (or only young ones).
	Grinder	Kills every creature that rides in. The loot rides on. Do not stand in it!
	Item filter	Sends the items and creatures on its list to the side. Everything else goes straight on. Press E to pick items, families of items and creatures. You can edit the families and make your own.
	Link	Puts items into a smelter, kiln, windmill, spinning wheel or chest. It can also take items out of a chest. Press E to set its mode, how many items it moves, and a filter.
	Merger	Snaps across a belt. Items of one kind wait under it until the ones behind them join, so they ride on as stacks.
	Kitchen link	A link with a greydwarf chef. Build a cooking station, iron cooking station, oven or fermenter beside it: it snaps into place. The chef cooks the raw food that rides in and keeps the fire fed. Needs a greydwarf trophy.
	Chest portal	Snaps onto a chest, a link or a kitchen link. Portals with the same id share items, up to 60 m apart (set 5 to 80 m). Press E to set the id, the range and what it takes.
	Cookbook	Touch it to a power network. Press E to pick the meals and a stock number for each. Every kitchen link on the network cooks them.
	Narrow pieces	Belts 1 m wide, 0.5 m, 1 m or 2 m long, a corner, a link and a kitchen link. Wood and other items over 1 m across do not fit, so give a narrow kitchen link its wood through a chest portal.
	Trash box	Snaps onto a link. Deletes what the chests and machines cannot take.
	Trash bin	Put it at the end of a belt. Items that fall in are gone.
	Power mill	A small windmill that makes power for the other pieces.
	Rope-drive post	Carries power over a gap, with a rope to another post.
	Upgrader	Makes the 45 nearest pieces of its power network work faster. Level 1 (bronze) 1.5 times, level 2 (ember) 2.5 times, level 3 (blue) 4 times.

Settings windows

Press E on a link, an item filter, a chest portal or a cookbook to open its settings. In the item filter window you can also edit a family, or make your own.

Power

Every belt, filter, grinder and link needs power from a power mill. Pieces that touch share the power. If there is not enough, they stop. Look at a piece to see why it stopped.

An upgrader, a merger, a cookbook and a chest portal take no power. A chest portal on a link works only while the link has power. An upgrader makes the pieces near it work faster, power mills too. One piece takes the boost of one upgrader only.

Playing with friends

Everyone must have the mod: every player and the server.

Install

Use a mod manager (r2modman, Gale or Thunderstore Mod Manager). It installs BepInEx and Jotunn for you.

Settings

The costs, the power numbers, the rope length and the upgraders can be changed in the config file. Mergers can be turned off there too ([Belts] MergeItems), and the chest portal's top range lowered ([Chest portal] ChestPortalMaxRange). On a server, only an admin can change them.

Each player can also turn off [Building] SnapToLinks. Then chests and machines no longer snap to links. [Building] SnapToKitchenLinks does the same for food stations at kitchen links.

Each player can also turn on [Pickup] AutoPickupFromBelts. Then auto-pickup takes items off belts again.

Costs and power

Piece	Cost	Power
Belt 0.5 m / 1 m / 2 m / 4 m	Wood 2/3/6/12, Resin 1/1/2/4	0.25 / 0.5 / 1 / 2
Narrow belt 0.5 m / 1 m / 2 m	Wood 2/2/4, Resin 1	0.25 / 0.5 / 1
Narrow corner	Wood 3, Resin 1	1
Corner, ramp	Wood 6, Resin 2	1
Drop floor	Wood 6, Resin 2	1 for all tiles that touch
Item filter	Wood 8, Resin 2	2
Grinder	Wood 10, Stone 10, Resin 2	8
Link	Wood 8, Stone 12, Resin 2	3
Narrow link	Wood 4, Stone 6, Resin 1	3
Kitchen link	Wood 8, Stone 12, Resin 2, Greydwarf trophy 1	3
Kitchen link (narrow)	Wood 4, Stone 6, Resin 1, Greydwarf trophy 1	3
Chest portal	Wood 4, Greydwarf eye 2, Surtling core 1	0
Cookbook	Stone 8, Wood 4, Leather scraps 2, Resin 1	0
Merger	Wood 4, Resin 1	0
Trash box	Wood 4, Resin 1	0
Trash bin	Wood 8, Resin 2	0
Power mill	Wood 20, Resin 2, Leather scraps 2	gives 20
Rope-drive post	Wood 8, Resin 1	0 (rope up to 16 m)
Upgrader level 1	Wood 4, Resin 2, Bronze 1	0
Upgrader level 2	Wood 4, Resin 2, Iron 2, Surtling core 1	0
Upgrader level 3	Wood 4, Resin 2, Black metal 2, Surtling core 2, Crystal 1	0

Made with AI

This mod was written with the help of an AI (Claude).