So where to put the sorter?

[The Furred Cheese]

So I'm confused as to where you would actually put the conveyor sorter, because based on the description of separating dirt&paydirt from everything else, it makes sense it would go first in the conveyor line from the hopper to split the blasted rock from the dirt, where the dirt could then be sent to the washplant and then through a trommel to separate the dirt from the ores, but I keep seeing people saying they have their plants set up to run the sorter after the washplants

[l|l|l Tom Engel]

If you put the sorter after the washplant you sort out all of the dirt. Then you just dump that into a sell point and keep your gold, diamond, ruby and silicon. Otherwise you would have to sort it again to keep the valuables.
As far as i know there is no penalty for washing other ores.

[The Furred Cheese]

Originally posted by l|l|l Tom Engel:

If you put the sorter after the washplant you sort out all of the dirt. Then you just dump that into a sell point and keep your gold, diamond, ruby and silicon. Otherwise you would have to sort it again to keep the valuables.
As far as i know there is no penalty for washing other ores.

That's essentially how I worded it, only people are I guess using the sorter instead of the trommel?

I use the sorter to split the rock and dirt/paydirt, rock gets sent off to crushers>fractioner>trommel etc, while the dirt is sent off to the washplant. After washing, the plant sends out dirt, plus the ores which is sent through a regular trommel that splits out the high grade ore while the dirt is split off for waste.