Best solution to boost pressure on long belts?

[Regicide]

What's your guys strategy to keep up the pressure on long belts?

Since you can't hook conveyor belts on Booster Pipes, you somehow have to handle a gap in your belt, our you built an "U" pointing outward of the line, with 4 Corner, one straight and one booster pipe. But this looks stupid and feels like a waste, because you allready lose 9% of pressure again before you hit the new belt.

I'm open for Ideas and suggestions.

[aerinyes]

Use a T-section to branch out, and on the outside branch curve> pressure > Curve > curve
On the inside branch, just stick a straight or a curve with a plug in it. DO NOT rejoin the branches. Pressure should be somewhere around 174 (iron + enhancers) when you jump back into the conveyor system, or ~325 with cloutium + enhancers

[Regicide]

I think I get it somehow but not 100%, do you think you can share Screenshot? That would be nice

[TyranntX]

Idea 1, upgrade to Cloutium. The tier 2 intake pipe has a pressure value of 250% (which is already better by more than double than Iron), and straight pipes decrease pressure by less. Not to mention you really don't need to make belts that stupidly long unless it was where everything is being dug up and is moving to where valuables get sorted.

Idea 2. Pressure boosters. To go along with idea 1 adding boosters to the pipe will increase the pressure of the pipe. 4 Cloutium boosters on a Cloutium intake pipe will increase it from 250% to 330% (making it more than 3 times better than Iron.)

Idea 3, use a pressure booster on the pipe BEFORE the conveyor belt. Pressure boosters, contrary to their name, do NOT increase pressure... They reset it to the pressure value of the intake pipe. So if you were to attack a pressure booster to pipe just before the start of the conveyor belt, you could in theory go further.

Idea 4. A second Conveyor line. I don't know what you are doing that would justify such a length for a conveyor belt, but maybe instead of just having one enormous line, just have one line be the length of what you need it to be to mine up and grind materials, and lead it to a second belt powered by a separate intake pipe to sort them out, or what ever you plan to do after.

Idea 5, keep your mining equipment powered on a separate pipe. Drills, harvesters, and compressors all need water too, water that could also be used to keep your belts moving. So if they had their own water source then that's a few more blocks farther you get out of your builds.

Idea 6. Do what Aerinyes said. Belts can be put on ANY pipe now, and the belt will go in the same direction REGARDLESS of which way the water is flowing in the pipes attached to them.meaning a forward belts can stand on an elbow pipe. Just attack a pressure booster to the side of that elbow pipe and bend your pipe system back into the conveyor line.

Idea 7. don't make such enormous contraptions until you understand the system better. You don't really need machines to be THAT big, just 10 drills and one harvester is enough to get you cooking with gas and churning out money to buy larger plots of land. Heck i was able to make over 2200 Hydros in under an hour. Patience is just as much key to this game as intelligence and perseverance.

[Yinan]

In another thread some people pointed out that any pressure above 100% seems to have no effect on speed or anything of belts and machines. Which means that if you have as close to maximum pressure right before your conveyor line starts, you can go a long way before you get below the 100% mark and actually see any performance drop with your machines.

So with Cloutium + enhancers, you start with ~325% or so and with a 3% drop every pipe, you can have a length of 75 pipes before you actually start losing any performance. And just one booster somewhere in there and you reset to the max again.

So if that is true (that anything above 100% is ignored in terms of machine performance), then you don't really have to think about keeping it at max all the time.

[Regicide]

Well okay, didn't think about Clothium by now, because at the moment I'm using Iron and thus belt started to become pretty slow.

The reason why I have such a long belt is, because I don't use any Drills. I dig myself with a shovel all the dirt on a conveyor belt. And after digging for a while, I'm obviously out of range to do this without moving my mouse a lot. So I add another conveyor belt and keep digging.

But it's right, by switching to Clothium this should allready do it for now. Thanks for that reminder and all the help