Pile Sorters

[PyroMancer]

What does the last upgrade on it do? It says it can Load and Unload simultaneously?!? You can't put stuff on and remove stuff from the same belt.

[Knottypine]

I just found on Reddit that it removes the penalty that sorters have when they need to travel two or three grids to reach the belt. So it will essentially transport cargo over three grids in the same time that it transports over one. I haven't built one yet, but that seems pretty neat if that's how it works.

[Arthzil]

What they meant is that there's no travel time, it picks up from point a and delivers at point b at 120 items per second so a single one can load and unload a blue belt

[Typhoid Mary]

It also acts as a item stacker. If you have noticed the regular stacker is no longer on the belt tab. It works really well when you are cranking out proliferated items (like ingots) so the belts of finished items won't clog the output sorters from the assemblers/smelters down the line can keep outputting.

[Polaris Mars]

The Automatic Piler IS still on the belt tab, they just moved it's location to the right under Transportation.