Need help. Conveyor belts.

[Grisu]

Hello everyone,

I have built some first automated drills and long conveyor belts to my base.

What I have found out many hours later. These transport all kinds of enemies to my base. Which isn't that great and disturbing.

Is there an easy way to prevent this and only transport materials and ores?
I don't want to build fences around these all the way.

Any hints would be helpful.
Grisu

[Seraphita]

Going the long way like this is complicated. You could use traps or things that can damage the enemy. What I did on my side was auto chest what I drilled and built railroads to those locations. A well planned conveyor system is probably best, though.

Traps at arrival point could work, to kill everything that your conveyor brought that is not supposed to be there. It would not destroy your items. It's what I can think of, anyway. We all had this issue of monsters loving to ride the belts like it's their own.

[Grisu]

Thanks for your input.

I don't have the red material for the automated arms yet.

Cavelings even go to sleep on these!

Would be great, if we could upgrade these with a spiked shell or something.

Or create a laser light barrier over then. So they get burned.

[happygiggi]

Make robot hand on sideway of the conveyor that still pick up passing items. And make a closed dead end of conveyor with damaging traps. Maybe surrounded by other robot hand to pick up drops.

I think the ultimate way if you don't want at all to bring monsters is making a hole in the conveyor line near your base. Place a robot arm that pick items to the next conveyor that go to base. This way the monsters stay at the hole (maybe trapped too for clearing)

[Grisu]

Nice idea. The whole is great so the monsters can't escape. Just need to find a way to get the robot arm for testing.

Thanks!