Convey Belt Connections

[Song.Bird]

So someone may have an answer here for me
i seem to have trouble connecting belts to one another belt without using either a sorter or a lift thing.
i have seen people connect belt to other belt before but for some reason I cant get mine to do it
any ideas?

[Bovine]

a screenshot of what isn't connecting would help, but assuming both belts are going the same direction for sure, have a look at the grid and see if the curvature of the planet is causing an issue perhaps. Connect the little white ends of the belts too, not the grey belt part

[josmith7]

Also while you can combine/merge belts without a splitter, simply by 'T'ing them into each other you can't split belts that way -- so if you were trying to split a belt by dragging a new branch off of it that'd disconnect the old path of the belt. Splitting belts does require using a splitter (or you could use sorters to steal items from one belt to another)

Also, for combining/merging belts the 'T' intersection doesn't have to be a perfect 90 degrees, but if you're using free placement of belts you can end up in a situation where the belts meet at too narrow an angle for the game to connect them.

[eternalreturn]

despite the number of hours that show I've played... I often just let it run without being about. I play n a laptop, and I've fallen asleep numerous times... worst was when I had 30 minutes to get to the next star system, and I minded I was making that journey about 16 hours later lol! so...

What I have discovered helps when working in tight quarters, is to put down one, single conveyor belt close to the exit port, before I connect any sorter.

>>>the issue of level ground can really complicate things, so check that, and if you have the technology, defo level out the ground if you notice the grid and where you are allowed to put down the belt seem wonky in any way.

Then I will do the same, lay down a single conveyor belt, just outside the entry port to the storage, or whatever the final spot is, before putting a sorter.

Then I click the single exit belt I put down and connect that to the single entrance belt I put down on the destination end. It really cut a lot of bluster and bother.

Then I connect the sorter from the exit port to the conveyor belt and the sorter from the conveyor belt to the storage (or whatever other intermediary or final destination I have going on).

I consider myself quite a n00b, so, I'm currently at a point where I really like it when I can actually manage to space things closely enough that I don't even need conveyor belts. That was a massive epiphany for me about 6 hours into real, actual game play time. One always must have 2 conveyor belts to get ore and such out of the mining machine, and likewise conveyor belts are absolutely necessary for the liquid storage, in and outward bound, but from storage to an assembler, and loads of other things, you don't even need a conveyor belt. You know, until you do.

I haven't watched any vids of other folk playing, and I don't know how to use blueprints, at all. I plan to sort my lack of blueprint knowledge sometime this month or next month, and I expect that will have a huge impact on my present infrastructure, but for the moment I'm happy playing with what I do know.

Hope anything I wrote helps anyone.

[Song.Bird]

Thanks guy
seem like some places connect just fine and others dont, i guess im just no smart enough to get it figured out
i was really thinking maybe a had a bug? but i dont seem to have any other issues

[eternalreturn]

It really may be 1.) un-level ground (needs foundation) 2.) conflicting directions (really gotta be careful that you put tiles down in the order they are meant to move, that gave me a headache the first few hours of play) 3.) then, that bloody bible I typed up there about tile placement
My top 3 conveyor belt challenges
:)