Conveyor only transporst small parts, despite big doors connected.

[Greg the Mad]

I build a small construction ship. It has a big container in the middle, and two conveyers to each side. The conveyors extend on both sides to welders with 1 pipe, and on the other side (the back) each has a connector and a collector.
So basically is the whole thing connected, and all connections are through big doors, and aligned.

[Welder]_________________[Welder]
[Pipe]_____________________[Pipe]
[Conveyor][Larg Container][Conveyor]
[Collector]______________[Conveyor with upwards connector]

The problem is the portside side conveyor system, the one with the collector. I can transport stuff from the collector to the welder, and back, but the collector/welder doesn't transport big parts (metal plates, etc) to the container the conveyor is connected to.
It behaves like the conveyor and container are connected through small doors, but I checked and rebuild it serveral times. It's connected with big doors.

I think I don't have to elaborate why not having the collector fully connected with the container sucks. :]

[OncaLupe]

I had the same issue on a Small Hull grinder/welder ship. I intially had the Large Cargo with the small door to the top where I had a Large Reactor, but then rebuilt with a Conveyor Block and Collector/Connector up there after rotating the Large Cargo so the 3x3 door was on top. I didn't test moving items around as it was on my ship storage save I use to design in creative mode before actually building in whatever Survival game I'm playing. I just went to test that ship for another thread and found I couldn't move large items like Steel Plates from the collector/connector to the cargo container, though small items worked.

After messing around with it for a while, I figure that the game is still seeing the cargo container in it's original rotation with the small door to the top, even if I remove and replace the cargo container and the collector/connector system on top. I rebuilt the ship from scratch with the cargo container rotated the correct way to start and it works perfectly fine. Seems like something on that specific ship is not updating the rotation of the cargo container, even after a copy/paste.

[Greg the Mad]

Well, that is by design. They said that only big conveyors can carry all parts. Small can only carry ingots, ores, and ammo.

[Mike]

He REALLY needs to add some kind of confermation when connecting so that you know what is going to happen.. like GREEN to GREEN is everything.. YELLOW to YELLOW for small.. and flipping RED for "you've got that connected wrong"

He basically already has the code from the pipe lights.. I don't know why he can't put that kind of thing on all the items that need connected.