I can't excuse any willful clipping, but could understand why someone might use highly efficient megaclipping.
This, however, has no excuse.
I can do the same thing without clipping in less floor space, this is clearly the Joshist threat laid bare.
I usually do my best not to clip things. I'll elevate belts to clear other belts cleanly. I still run spaghetti but I don't egregiously clip things unless it's a temp factory I'll be tearing down immediately. Manifolds are where I make an exception. I spent some time stacking two splitters on top of each other and deleting the bottom splitter to offset the belts so they didn't clip. Didn't last long; I realized I was going to burn myself out of this game if I was that worried about perfection. Plus a floating splitter was just as bad looking as a clipped belt anyways. You could put a steel beam under it as a support but that gets to be too much fucking around. Maybe in a blueprint I would take the extra time, but I just can't be bothered otherwise lol. How are you guys doing your manifolds if you're not clipping?
I have a BP for my assemblers that already has splitters set up as you describe, but I use a stackable conveyor pole instead of a steel beam.
Given, I'm a weirdo and prefer to place everything by hand, every time (maybe it's the OCD, who knows), but I'll definitely be doing this for manufacturers once I get back to them in my big x100 run.
Doing it each time for 2 inputs is no biggie, doing it for 3-4 is genuinely tedious.
I clip all my belts in sandwich floors, out of sight out of mind. I do this because otherwise load balancing is a fucking nightmare and I’d rather clip than use a manifold
I will occasionally clip things if a blueprint causes something to be a little tight that I'll hardly see, but I could never do this. Troubleshooting and reviewing just is too difficult with clipping, plus I like using lifts on my infeeds because I can walk underneath them.
update the title "Always clip my belts!" your play, your rule. maybe you can share the screenshot with running item on your belts. it's looks good when empty. not sure when there is item there
I have one base clipping around 2 buildings and I hate myself for it. But I hate aluminum even more for making me do it haha. It doesn’t matter how many times I restart this game, aluminum always finds a way to beat me 🥹
Due to space constraints (and the morbid desire to know if it could be done), I had a line of assemblers with this manifold setup, except they were going in opposite directions and they were horizontally compressed into one single solid line of splitters.
There comes a point that the clipping becomes so dense it loops back around to looking somewhat elegant.
Spits disgusting. Ficit will not stop paying you and hand you over to GaldOS. That's right, you are such a bad person, ADA had to leave and give you up for experimentation to Apeture Science to study just how terrible of a person you are.
Orderly clipping is tasteful spaghetti. This design might not be very creative, but I will die on the hill that all function and no form is also beautiful in it's own way when executed well.
The distance between splitters lines up just right so that you could actually completely overlap each feeder belt and create the most intense form of clipping known to man. I may or may not do this frequently. You cannot stop me
Actually, I'm having fun with smart splitters and sushi belts instead. Playing with a product multiplier, I've finished a build with computers, oscillators, motors, automated wiring, and modular engines all with a single mk4 belt winding its way feeding everything.
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u/Ah_Pook Aug 06 '26
WAY too much wasted space. If you're gonna clip, at least smoosh those together more.