[REQUEST] 1.5m conveyor blocks

Echo Mande shared this feedback ago

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Currently we, for large (1.5m) conveyors, have a straight, corner, T junction, cross junction, node junction (cube), and cargo container along with a number of shorter or adaptor conveyor sections. All of those blocks are or seem to be designed for use in a 2.5m grid, which is useful for bases but not for smaller grids like rovers, fliers or cargo containers.

On the other hand, the connector, sorter and the smaller cargo container are built for a 1.5m grid.

Could we please receive a full set of 1.5m cube sections of (large) conveyors? A 1.5m node junction would go a long way. Adding the 1.5m conveyor junction from SE1, with 4 large conveyor ports and 2 faces with small ports, would be an enormous help.

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Louis A. ●

Perhaps I'm missing something here. The 2.5m conveyors are 2.5m long, not wide. the 1.5m Cargo Container connect to the 2.5 converyors and the 0.5 conveyors connect to the 0.5 converyor ports on many blocks.

To help with the spacing of distances (the smallest grid measurement being 0.25m) we have Conveyor Slices. So it's more efficient to have 2.5m Conveyors and where the distances don't line up to drop in some of the 1.5m (wide) Converor Slices.

There isn't a throughput efficiency between the two sizes, small and large conveyors, and there are only two conveyor port sizes. So I don't think a 1.5 grid conveyor really makes sense as you can make a single 1.5m (long) with three of the larger slices.

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Echo Mande ●

The issue is compactness. A conveyor node is a full 2.5m cube. the corners are 2x2m. Having both available as 1.5m cubes would be so enormously handy, especially in smaller builds. I can add slices as needed if I need to extend a 1.5m node's ports to 2 or 2.5m but not the other way around.

I have been working on a container along the lines of the ones seen in the 2.3 teaser, but with an underside connector and real cargo space. The current (large) conveyors don't work out, especially with the large connector. Using conveyor convertors doesn't help.

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