BIE's "Short Stack" Compact Smelter (Borg Tiling Compatible)

First off, go look at Ludus Machinae's belt-bending artistry!  Their recent "Vertical Belts" blueprint lit a fire and I spent quite some feverish time trying to reverse-engineer it.  I wasn't able to make mine quite as elegant (note that Ludum's use full-height steps, not half-heights like mine.  Way more belt efficient and I'm trying to work that one out!) but I'm happy to have reverse-engineered what I did.  Many thanks to you, Ludus!

What we have here is an ultra-compact 180-smelter array that's Borg Tiling compatible--it'll fit in 25 units, so you can put it waaaaaaay up in the polar regions.  Two of them will slide right next to each other easily without ILS interference issues.

Due to the extra belt-space that the vertical belts require,this takes a bit to saturate fully, so don't expect OMGZOOM smelting right off the bat.  But if you're in a high-demand, high-supply situation, it will happily keep all the smelters busy, and the product shows up on the top belts so you can easily keep track of its status from the air.

Also, the second pic in the gallery shows a comparison shot of various smelter arrangements for size comparison, if you're interested.
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Blueprint

  • Author: Ambush_Bug
  • Collection: BIE Tools
  • Game version: 0.8.22.9331
  • Copied: 4 times
  • Created: over 2 years ago
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