Contraptions issues with setting up proper conveyor belts, rollers, hoppers etc.

[Makeithappen]

what really sucks about these conveyor belts is that they only connect one way. So if you have sorter you want to connect and your settlement is built a certain way, you won't be able to fit the sorter there since it faces the wrong way. It won't snap the other way. I understand the conveyors on it move only one direction. Also the angle conveyor belts only snap one direction. The Rollers -curves do NOT move items on it like lead or copper or fertilizer (making .308 ammo.) They simply hit the curve and stop moving. Also the hopper pulls resources from your workshop or a container, BUT if you put in a stack of 100 copper, fertilizer, and lead in the container, the hopper will only pull the one stack out first. Not 1 of each to make ammo at a steady rate. Your better off putting the resources in the making machine yourself. I would love to find a way to solve these issues with the components the DLC gives if anyone has a solution. Thanks!

[arnzod]

My solution is that I only build one manufacturing "hub" for my settlements. I try to use straight lines, instead of curves and rollers, and I put the materials in myself. My most complicated machine is a general press that makes lunchboxes to feed into an explosive press to turn them into bottlecap mines. To save materials I only build one conveyor storage unit and I move it to the line I am actually using. I have a separate switch after the terminal for each press so I can shut a line off without erasing my preferences on the terminal.

About the snapping issue, I have only run into it when I don't build a flat surface to put my presses on before building them. All settlements have curved landscapes. You need to build a foundation that levels the ground to get the belts and rollers to snap properly.

[Makeithappen]

Originally posted by arnzod:

My solution is that I only build one manufacturing "hub" for my settlements. I try to use straight lines, instead of curves and rollers, and I put the materials in myself. My most complicated machine is a general press that makes lunchboxes to feed into an explosive press to turn them into bottlecap mines. To save materials I only build one conveyor storage unit and I move it to the line I am actually using. I have a separate switch after the terminal for each press so I can shut a line off without erasing my preferences on the terminal.

About the snapping issue, I have only run into it when I don't build a flat surface to put my presses on before building them. All settlements have curved landscapes. You need to build a foundation that levels the ground to get the belts and rollers to snap properly.

Looks like I'll be building a foundation! :) Thanks.

I'll give it a go. So the only interchangeable part you're using is the storage for each line?

[arnzod]

Yeah, when contraptions first came out I built something completely over-engineered with elevators and chutes and it never quite lined up right because I didn't build a foundation, so I was losing a lot of product in the "guts" of my factory. So I scrapped it all, and started from scratch. And having to rebuild everything taught me to just build one storage unit, and snap it to the line I was going to be using.

I never run out of food at the same time I run out of shotgun shells, so why would I run two presses at the same time.