December 3rd, 2024 Livestream Q&A: Is it possible to change direction of Belts?

December 3rd, 2024 Livestream

Q&A: Is it possible to change direction of Belts?

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change direction of belt is it even possible to implement I think it is I think it is and I think we should do it, but it's it's one of those things that they always been like yeah that sounds like a good idea and then it gets like pushed in the list of things I would it be an edit currently exist building buildable I mean I mean it would be similar to like the you know how like we have when you place lifts you can flip the direction yeah I wish you could do that when you build conveyor belts Oh you mean like that so like whenever you build a conveyor Bel it will always be going from like the first point will always be the direction it goes right and sometimes if you go backwards and build and I've done this many times where you you start from like where it's supposed to end up and you go backwards if you build conveyor belts from that point to the first one then the belt is in the wrong direction yeah no I thought- I read this as, change the direction of an existing belt at the moment that is already built and like churning, no in that case you're you're screwed you're screwed yeah this is a hologram that's one thing I would be cool I also think it would be nice if, when you're building conveyor belts and- I somebody told me about this and I didn't and I've like I don't maybe this was something we thought about in the early days we never did but I also think it would be nice if there was a mode where when you're building conveyor belts that it just keeps having the next convey belt segment like immediately after you built it cuz right now it's like you place a conveyor belt and then you first point and then you place the second point and once you place the second point it like it stops the thing it would have been nice if there was a mode where you automatically would have built like connection with a hologram to the the last point because there are so many times when you're building conveyor belts where you save a Click by just not having to like click Place click connect place where instead it would have been like click Place click to place click to place click to place and you just keep going and going and going I think that would have been nice to have, and I don't think we've ever I don't think anyone's asked for that or not that I can remember at least until my friend told me that like hey this would be nice because that's how it works in factorio, and maybe we had that at some point and it didn't flow that well or something and then we've just like rejected that idea since then, or then might be what might have been some other ux issue with it that I don't remember but I think that would have been nice, now that I thought about it I also would have want this just turned into like snits wish list right now I also wish there was a way to when you dismantle a merger that it would dismantle like all the connected belts to it at the same time because it feels so unnecessary when you dismantle merger you have to remove all the belts anyways yeah yeah, because like only only if you've built a long segment and you place a merger on top of that segment that's the only case where you don't need to do that, but I never do that so like I constantly have to like remove the merger and then remove all the belts connected to it I wish it was just like one Z yeah an inverted Zoop and that could also be a setting like that maybe not everyone wants that setting especially if you do that often but yeah, snot I heard there's a keyway site for all your suggest question you know what I'm the QA right now he making the ticket guys oh no yeah and just be like I need to log in sending it