Problem with Hand Sorter

[DiscoHeavy]

There is a little Problem with the Hand Sorter, if they get automatic feeded with a Conveyor. Sometime there are "falling" ores or gem under the black "mesh" and didnt get sortet, so there will lay down there.
Sometime they get so mucn, the Hand Sorter get a big Pile of items and overflow.
Maybe make the hitbox bigger or something?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2963001020

[grandmaMax]

Try using the conveyor splitters, they work a lot better for large amounts of items!

[Needaname]

That's not a answer, wtf. Your game was has a bad bug. F**king fix it. That is unless you have drop the price of the sorter. Which isn't sorting even when items are. Placed directly into it. The manual sorter is the early game solution to micromanaging.
So how about a real answer to this issue I bought?

[TheEvilPenguin]

You could look at it as a bug, especially as it mainly seems to happen when there's a lot of physics lag, but I look at it as a consequence of trying to push a lot of volume through a cheaper alternative meant for smaller amounts of manual sorting.

I assume that it's not an easy or quick bug to fix - the game will have to make a lot of assumptions about when it can stop running physics for any given item or the game performance would be measured in seconds per frame once you had any sort of automation running. The dev has given you the only practical workaround you can use for at least time time being.

Now excuse me while I clean up the ore explosion that happened when I used a magnet to try to clean up the ore stuck in my hand sorter.

[ItchyBeard]

Originally posted by Needaname:

That's not a answer, wtf. Your game was has a bad bug. F**king fix it. That is unless you have drop the price of the sorter. Which isn't sorting even when items are. Placed directly into it. The manual sorter is the early game solution to micromanaging.
So how about a real answer to this issue I bought?

Firstly, have some respect - there's literally no need for that.

This post was from a year ago, almost to the day. There have been numerous tweaks and fixes to the Hand Sorter - but given the name it's for sorting items by hand, not hundreds / thousands of resources being dropped in at once. (Edit for clarity.. It should also not be used in automation / with conveyors - "hand" sorter.)

By the time you're able to fill a pan with so many resources, it's time to upgrade to belts and in turn conveyor splitters. This is the natural progression of the game.