How to fill out both sides of a belt

[Flip]

Hi all, trying to figure out something. If I say producing iron and I want to extract the iron ore to both sides of the belt, how do I do it? The extractors only seem to put the ore onto one side of the belt and to increase efficiency I would like both sides of the belt to be used. Any tips? Tried looking online where most screenshots show both sides of the belt being used but cannot see how they accomplish this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Flip]

Unfortunatly I am unable to view that image :(

[Zyro]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634617735

i think the pic tells you enough

[IamNic]

Here is a detailed guide[guide.factorio.com].

[Flip]

Thanks so much everybody!

[Ravor]

Originally posted by Zyro:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634617735

i think the pic tells you enough

How this help? Will have stuffs in both side but will hate a gap of one item in each side (sorry for reviving a old post)

[piccolo255]

Originally posted by Ravor:

Originally posted by Zyro:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634617735

i think the pic tells you enough

How this help? Will have stuffs in both side but will hate a gap of one item in each side (sorry for reviving a old post)

Do the same thing with another line, then merge them together with a splitter. Add more lines and merges as necessary until the output belt is full.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by Ravor:

Originally posted by Zyro:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634617735

i think the pic tells you enough

How this help? Will have stuffs in both side but will hate a gap of one item in each side (sorry for reviving a old post)

That is done to lane balance for the sake of the input side further down, or to simply be able to buffer more on the belt. If you want to insert more items you could just switch sides by the half way point instead.

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by Ravor:

Originally posted by Zyro:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634617735

i think the pic tells you enough

How this help? Will have stuffs in both side but will hate a gap of one item in each side (sorry for reviving a old post)

That particular balancer is a left-lane->2lane balancer.

This is the quick'n'dirty lane balancer:
https://wiki.factorio.com/images/Transport_belts_balance2.gif

There's another version that smooths things out a little bit better, but i find that one to be good enough.