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 0.7.0

The kitchen got bigger. "How a kitchen works" below shows it in three GIFs.

• More kitchen stations. A kitchen link now also runs a cauldron, a mead ketill and a food preparation table. Build one beside it and it snaps into place. The chef makes their recipes from what rides in on the belt.
• Meals of two steps. Pick kale crisps in the cookbook. A cauldron makes them raw, and an oven down the belt bakes them.
• The cookbook counts your chests. Food that links put into chests counts toward the stock number. So the kitchen stops at your number.
• Take or Give. A chest portal on a chest is set to Take or Give. Its hover text shows which.
• Wood for the kitchen. A log rides on narrow belts too. A kitchen link asks for wood through your chest portals when its fire runs low.
• A chest portal on a link now brings only the wood that kitchen links ask for. It no longer feeds a smelter or a kiln.
• Every player and the server need 0.7.0.

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, fermenter, cauldron, mead ketill or food preparation table beside it: it snaps into place. The chef cooks the raw food that rides in on the belt and keeps the fire fed. Needs a greydwarf trophy.
	Chest portal	Snaps onto a chest or a link. Portals with the same id share items, up to 80 m apart (set 5 to 80 m). On a chest it is set to Take or Give. Press E to set the id, the range, Take or Give, and a list.
	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, also meals that need two stations.
	Narrow pieces	Belts 1 m wide, 0.5 m, 1 m or 2 m long, a corner, a link and a kitchen link. Items over 1 m across do not fit, but a log of wood does, so a narrow kitchen link gets its wood on the belt too.
	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.

How a kitchen works

Everything a kitchen link cooks comes on its belt.

Raw meat from a far chest

Two portals with the same id are linked. The one set to Give sends raw meat to the one set to Take. The link under it puts the meat on the belt. The cooked meat rides into your food chest.

Wood when the fire runs low

When the fire runs low, the kitchen link asks for wood. A portal on a link up the belt brings it, if the linked chest has wood. This needs a cookbook.

Meals of two steps

Kale crisps take two stations. Put them one after the other on the belt, in the right order. The cauldron makes the crisps, then the oven bakes them. One cookbook card runs both.

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).