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So, is there planned to implement conveyers or minecarts or railed cargo transport?

Is it planned to implement cargo-lift (I meant lift with builded-in container) or movable shiping containers, which can be placed into lifts/cars ?

Is there exist or planned early machine era digging machines (like coal-powered drilling machines for faster mining) available on teer2 factories ?

Is there planned water transport (cargo ships, barges, fishing trawl and etc)?

Maybe someone can advice more or less stable mod which provide such functionality?

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almost 3 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Conveyor belts are planned long-term, but only with a very limited scope. They will likely only work over a short distance in a factory. No plans for minecarts yet, would likely be part of trains, which is unlikely before end of EA at least.

A cargo lift is not specifically planned, but one way to provide a replacement for when item teleporting is fixed.

We do not have plans for an early machine era digging machine at this point.

Water transport vehicles were announced a month back and are coming soon.

almost 3 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by jorn86

By "item teleporting", do you mean when you use carts to bunny hop materials out of a mine? That was always a weird feature IMO, so having it fixed sounds nice. Not sure how you'd replace that, though.

Both carts and stockpiles, yes.

almost 3 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by Kromatick

I think he means stockpiles auto transferring materials to machines

No, that I don't mean :)

almost 3 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by LankeNet

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "fixing item teleporting?"

The current use of carts and stockpiles to fast-transfer items from the bottom of a mine to the top or to replace usage of carts by teleporting over the world is not intended and considered an exploit. Insofar this will be fixed and severely restricted to only be what it is intended to be, a small range tool for resorting your stockpiles.

Newer and more specialized storage options also will work differently in a way I can't yet elaborate on.