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Splitters can be used to split or join belts, but have many other not so obvious usages.
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== Items ==
''Splitter'' may refer to:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" | belt-type
! scope="col" | factor speed
! scope="col" | speed ([[Tile|tiles]]/[[Game-second|sec]])
|-
| {{imagelink|basic-splitter|Basic splitter}} || 1 || 1.875
|-
| {{imagelink|fast-splitter|Fast splitter}}  || 2 || 3.75
|-
| {{imagelink|express-splitter|Express splitter}} || 3 || 5.625
|}
Related: [[Transport belts]], [[Underground belts]] Nearby: [[Inserters]], [[Storages]], [[Transport belts/Physics]] to dig deeper.


== Basic ==
* {{imagelink|Splitter}}
'''Task''': Make a branch in the middle of a longer belt to deliver other parts of your factory.
* {{imagelink|Fast splitter}}
 
* {{imagelink|Express splitter}}
* remove a belt-segment in this long belt
* select a splitter, rotate it into the right direction and place it into the gap
* the items continue to flow on the old belt, but you can now begin to built another belt from the second output of the splitter
* when you finished that and the belts are not jammed, then you can watch that every second incoming item is outputted on the new belt.
 
== Advanced ==
 
'''For a more founded introduction into the belt mechanics see [[Belt transport system]].'''
 
The behavior of splitters looks simple at first glance. But they are not that simple. Splitters have an astonishing amount of uses.
 
* splitters have two input-belt-sides and two output-belt-sides on which you can connect any [[Transport belts|belt]] or [[Underground belts|underground belt]]
* splitters '''don't shuffle the lanes on the belts'''; items on the left input [[Transport belts/Belt lane|belt lane]] don't change the side to the right lane (and vice versa).
* '''Splitting'''
** if two output-belts are connected, then every input-item is put alternated on one of the two output-belts. Or in other words: it is guaranteed, that the inputed items are output in a ratio of 50% on each belt.
** if one of the output [[Transport belts/Belt lane|belt lanes]] are full, then it tries to output on the other output belt. This is useful to fill belts.
* '''Joining''' [[File:T&T Belt04.jpg|thumb|200px|Feeding from side is only a good use, if you want to make a queue - e. g. for mines, some output-buffer]] [[File:T&T Belt03.jpg|thumb|200px|Better: The capacity of the output belt is fully used.]]
** splitters can be used to join two belts into one. This has a much higher throughput than only side-inserting.
** as with splitting, the belt lanes aren't mixed up.
** Use faster splitter if you want to feed into a faster belt, because otherwise your splitter is the bottleneck!
 
== Expert ==
=== Special behavior ===
 
* [[Splitters/Priority]]: right input is only taken to fill gaps in the left input.
* [[Splitters/When is a faster splitter needed?]]: a basic splitter can keep up with the input of one fast belt, if the two output belts are connected and empty.
 
=== Other Usages ===
 
* [[Splitters/Ratios]]: Use splitter to achive special ratios on the outputs
** [[Splitters/Cascading]]: Use Cascading to fill storages only, when not needed otherwise
* [[Splitters/Lane contributor]]: use the two lanes of a belt.
* [[Splitters/Joining]]: more explained
* [[Splitters/Wormhole Trick]]: an empty splitter transports items faster, they disappears on input side and dive up on output side, "jumping" over about half a [[Tile|tile]]. It is questionable, how this behavior could be used. A good usage is to make something like a "micro-buffer", or a "spread-buffer" with that, because a line of 10 splitters can store about 60 items - a half stack - and the first items are delivered very fast, but the last items have the normal belt speed to move through the splitters; so the items are spread on the belts.
* [[Splitters/Constructions]]: Examples of using.
 
== See also ==
* [[Transport network]]
** [[Transport belts]]
** [[Underground belts]]
* [[Crafting network]]
 
[[Category: Items]] [[Category: Transport network]] [[Category: Moving ground]]

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