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A Box unloader is a contraption used to take items out of a box. They are used to move  items somewhere else like a chest. They are also used in storage inputs to send items around a storage. There’s lots of different types of unloaders such as: FITs (First I...

In most cases, a simple line of hoppers is both the slowest and most expensive option for item distribution, so how do you optimize moving items for speed and cost? Ice & Water Streams The most common method of distributing items across a set of filters is t...

A box splitter splits the items in the box into non-stackables and the other items are loaded into boxes. The loaders replace the box whenever the item changes, so you end up with lots of boxes with a single item type. And the non-stackables are sent down a se...

A box merger takes in 2 boxes of the same item type and combines them into one or more boxes. It will place the most full box out of the two and unload the least full. What it’s doing is unloading a box into a loader. The loader box will ether get loaded as no...

Box sorting is very powerful especially when used in the correct way but first what is a box sorter? box sorting works by seeing what is in the first slot of a box and taking one item out. It will then send that item and the box into two separate item transpo...

Loose Item Input: The simplest form of input, loose item input is when items are placed directly into the system as-is, either by throwing them into a water stream or into a chest/barrel. Loose items inputs sometimes automatically sort out unstackables (such ...