Conveyor Belts

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