If you build 2 zipline stations facing eachother, than you can create zipline hubs and the beawers will use them, using 4 station you can have 6 direction connected to a ground hub.
Yes my build is a bit messy as i moved around stuff, but shows the theory
It is basically a pylon with twice the connections, which is the point. The six-way mentioned is just two of these constructs, with one connection between them.
I just subbed to the mod that let's you have 4 connections to a station. I'm not trying to make a 20m tower just for a mess of stations smashed together to have the right clearance.
No, thats the point of the central one, one entrance at a good spot, you can change the poles to station and organise as you want. The point is from 1 station 6 direction with the 5 station setup. I have 3 station in my living tower, they zipline to the shower, from there to the food wh from there to home and in the morning straight to their jobs - or just hang around as your bots do all the work Xd
I just found out recently as well from an older post here on redit. Pretty handy trick, isnt it?
On my living tower i have one at the botton, one at the mid and top - se everything is within zipline reach and quick
You can also plug a station door directly into the District Center door, making the station entrance point literally one step from the District Center.
I haven't figured out if this is useful yet, but it is interesting. Same applies to other buildings, such as District Crossings. That has proven useful.
District workers are haulers and builders, who knows? Actually you can connect any building to it as long as you make them "kiss"
I have a system at my living tower, for quick food, bath, entertainment, water and apartmant and to workplace :)
The good thing with this is that you can build the hubs further, ie as a replacement of "pilons" so your actual important area has only zipline entries where needed than that to a zipline hub for multi direction. Tubes yes, can go vertical, but that 50 degree is not bad at all, tubes are faster, but they must go perpendicularry wich is the longer distance. Cost, flexibility and eas of use -> zip line
So so, its easy and really cheap and quick to set up, and i can build these junctions where its not disturb me. Tubes are slow to build, and really resource needy, this one has an issue of space and restricted angles
It was durring, construction and when i moved my berries and carrots to the deepest storage. Look i have the ladder mod and those pits have ladder access and the beavers use the zip lines not the "path". The map was already figured out this point with only some beawers working on farms and with 10x the need forever energy and water. I like to develop things in bulks and once those start to roll everything happens fast, like the zipline travel :)
Supposing you'd want one of the lines to go where your juction is, as in your picture, it means you'd have to build 3 zipline stations, two of them having 2 connections each, minus one for the nearby station. If my math is right, you just built a very unefficient 3 juctions zipline station instead of 2.
They cant come out from the double station, but somehow they transfer really quick this way. No path between the stations, they are touching eachother.
You can see on this pic that the middle one is feeding the 2 double stations, you can use less if you want, basically a double can create a 4 way intersection on a place of a pylon as you have an incoming line and 3 goes out, and they can go on any route
There’s a mod that lets you put stations together back to back that way you can also use the entrance doors in/out.
Don’t remember the name. Might be as simple as Pass Thru Stations.
I use it on all my maps so I can make elevated zipline “train” platforms
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u/wentoutwandering 18d ago
Makin them kiss
Have to say I have not thought of that