Conveyer Belts

[Chief Smackahoe]

How to use them? Also, how do i automatically make ammo go from my ammo makers into my auto loaders?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

you go turn on the advanced ammo maker and it poops out ammo every ~45s. if theres conveyor belts under it the ammo will fall onto it and be carted around.

you need an advanced autoloader to automatically pick up ammo though, using blueprint and resources in City Ruins. when you place it there'll be a yellow zone on one side, it'll automatically pick up ammo crates in that yellow zone if its not full.

[sintri]

They unlocked conveyor belts way too early, though I suppose you could also say adv loaders/makers get unlocked way too late.

[Murasaki]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3233857054

You can build an entire ring of these and have ammo everywhere everytime.

However i agree with sintri here you unlock them way to early.

[kknd]

Originally posted by Murasaki:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3233857054

You can build an entire ring of these and have ammo everywhere everytime.

However i agree with sintri here you unlock them way to early.

Thirding the idea that belts unlock before they have a use.

I've tried an ammo belt setup and oh boy I need a LOT of Xenium ore for that. It is definitely the endgame automation to have Advanced Ammo makers (and the new shell makers) with belts to keep the entire outpost supplied during a siege without the need for you to go back and adjust much. Thus freeing you to mech around in a cataphract or wreck bots on foot.

[Hyrinth]

farming the ore myself for the conveyors. right now my stop gap measure is to have an adv ammo maker on pillars for adv loaders

[Lumberjack]

the auto loader with the auto pick up is easy mode, the first auto loader is still a manual load, the belt rotates one way or if you rotate it in build mode any other way you want them to go, auto loader number 2 that you get later on has an arrow for where it picks up from you want the tip of the belts rolling the ammo off in the mid of that arrow or on it. but that first ammo loader is a manual load just keep that in mind
a trick with the big one you get as above but build a wall near with a ammo maker or shell maker have 3x belts taking it to auto loader and you are done, then in RTS mode when you have about 6+ auto loaders you cycle each one and press Z to auto make ammo when you start blasting things it doesnt run out of ammo, unless a sneeky you know what gets past

[Losobal]

Its also useful to make little barriers and 'boxes' for the ammo. One, they dont' always stay on the belt so sometimes they fall off and clutter an area, requiring manual loading, Not a huge deal but it may require you to make loops around your base to see if there are boxes/shells sitting around.

two, sometimes you can have so much ammo going the belts drop a big pile in front of your now full autoloader, which can then spill out of the capture area.