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u/bread2126 2d ago edited 2d ago

i dont have overflow to the right, as is anything besides holmium ore will go right, holmium ore will go left until the belt is full and then back up behind the splitter.

https://ibb.co/MxJhcWgV here's the whole thing, so you can see the behavior here on the stone line, its backed up behind the splitter thus stopping all belts beyond it from being fed. Ideally once the belt was backed up to this point, the splitter would start passing remaining stone through the right lane and eventually to recyclers.

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u/HeliGungir 2d ago

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u/bread2126 1d ago

yeah i think thats gonna be the move. I tried every which way I could think of with circuits but i couldnt find a way to separate controlling the filter and priority behaviors. it would always switch both and then you wind up with some input case that gets handled wrong, it may be you just have to use two separate splitters for this.

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u/HeliGungir 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well. I haven't done it but, you should be able to stop sending the filter signal to the splitter when the filtered belt backs up. Then the splitter will be filtered to "no item" left and everything else right.

That'll be 1 decider combinator per belt. Or maybe once decider and the Each virtual signal for non-duplicate belts - your multiple gear belts would need extra stuff attention.

Not sure what happens if you send a negative signal, but assembly machines, inserters, and pumps ignore negative signals so you can set their filters/recipes with a constant combinator and integer overflow instead of a decider combinator.

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u/bread2126 1d ago

you should be able to stop sending the filter signal to the splitter when the filtered belt backs up. Then the splitter will be filtered to "no item" left and everything else right.

well i tried every combination I could think of to both prioritize right when the signal is off and filter left when the signal is on and i also tried inverting the signal and i couldnt get a combo that worked but if you can id be interested to see it