Ore into chest > Chest drops ore onto conveyor > Conveyor into crusher > Crusher drops onto another conveyor > Conveyor to washing > Storage
Uhh...I think I can visualize it.
The issue with the washing step was that either the items moved out of the way because conveyor, or if we placed a depot in front of the fan, we had no way to pick up the items only once they were washed.
Place a funnel, set a filter, the item will stay there until it's washed. Also, depots are mostly used to have an item(s) go onto another belt above it so you can separate items from a line in case one items needs to be smelted while another items needs to be washed.
Brass funnel with a filter set to whitelist the washed ore.
To be more specific, there's a slot on top of the funnel which you place an item to filter, place the desired item there and then only that item will go into the funnel. There's also the item called the
filter that goes into the filter slot so you can allow multiple types of items (in this case the washed ore products) to go into a funnel.
>Make filter
>Set items in the filter item
>Put filter in filter slot of funnel
>Items will only go in funnel when washed
We tried setting up a mechanical arm with filters on the output side (I don't recall what the block was called) like the in game tutorial explains but it just didn't give a fuck about the filter and brought unwashed ore anyway.
Doesn't work like that:
You can use it to put items into filtered funnels on opposite side belts, among other things like auto-feeding burners. Emphasis on the "feeding." Adorable little fuckers.
Anyway, the bigger issue is connecting all the mechanical shit to the generator. Conveyors, fan, the crusher and stuff. Weird contraptions have been made so the conveyors could run up to the crusher. It could very well be that we are literally playing it wrong or are just dumb, but it was tedious to figure out how to connect something in a decent way.
Can you describe your setup more? What generator are you using and is it producing enough power? Are you using gearboxes (which are a Godsend)? You can use the depot like I mentioned to move items up and down belts easily. Ejectors are also fun, they launch the items. Later you can just use trains to quickly do tons of work that would take usual setups much longer, plus they're far less laggy...fuck me it really is like Factorio, no wonder I understand the mod so easily compared to even mods like Refined Storage. Like any mod, it takes time to learn, you're not going to instantly do everything perfectly. I recommend when you have free time fucking around in a creative world and learning what does what.
