Tags:

Automation Chutes

Author:

breadmoirai

Side:

Server

Created:

6 days ago

Last modified:

5 days ago

Downloads:

10

Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.22.7):
norandomchutes_1.1.0.zip  1-click install

• Vanilla's straight-path bias is unchanged
  
  
• Random Output
  
  • Where vanilla would roll a random output (a T-junction or 3-way fed from above, or a blocked straight path): items are sent to each output in round robin order
  • In Vanilla, if an output is selected and its cannot accept the item (chute with item already present or full container), the next open output selected gets up to 2 items. (1 item + 1 backlog max)
    This means, that if a busy output is selected twice in a row or more, the chute essentially stops transferring items and only when we roll the open output, 2 items get transferred. 
    
    • With the mod, a blocked output is never selected twice in a row so throughput is always 1 item per tick.
    • This means in the scenario when one output is full, the mod has a 1.33x speed up.on average
    • In the case where no output is full, the throughput is the same.

• Idle Chutes
  
  • In vanilla, When chutes are idle, they accumulate backlog and so putting in items for the first time will cause a chute to send 2 items one direction and then go to round-robin behavior with 1 item per output.
  • With the mod, backlog is only accumulated when items are actively transported. The first item input into an idle chute will only send 1 item instead of 2 items

• Disable Bounce-Back (default: true)
  • Items entering the side of a 3 way chute with the top or bottom blocked has a 50:50 chance of going back out the way it came in.
  • With Bounce-Back disabled, items will never go out the way they came in on a horizontal bend
  • This is especially relevant if you were trying to build something like this: Simple item sorter - Guides - Vintage Story
    
    • In this layout, each time a item travels one section, it tries to enter the crate below, and if it can't, vanilla behavior has a 50:50 chance of the item traveling backwards or forwards so the time it takes for an item to get to the end is x(x+1) ticks where x is the number of crates.
    • With the bounce-back disabled, the item always travels forward so total travel time becomes linear and a item never takes more than x ticks to reach the end. 

Mod should work fine if you have adjusted the item-flowrate.