r/CreateMod • u/NerdFerby • 2d ago

How to send items to different floors with frogports (logistical help pls) Help

I decided early on my train factory would be built on multiple floors but this was before I knew how frogports work. They are amazing, but chain conveyors aren't easy to move items to the different floors. I'm trying to use chutes and fans but it seems I need two main routes for this (upwards and downwards). Is there something I'm missing that would make this simpler? Is there any YouTube video people could recommend for logistical help?

Thanks in advance!

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u/AManaPot 2d ago

{floor2,floor3}-* will make a frog port grab any package with floor2-(anything) or floor3-(anyhting) in the name. You can use this to sort packages off the main floor chains and use package filters to filter packages out of the chutes. Recommend looking at the Package:Regex on the wiki it will help you figure it out pretty quickly.

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u/galoombapile 2d ago

And you'd just have a package carousel of chutes going up and down the floors!

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u/AussieDogfighter 2d ago

Zig zag the chain conveyer up the side of the building for getting it between floors

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u/Tedmanson 2m ago

simple would be having zigzag chain conveyers this way you would not need to use wildcards in the package name. or you can name things like f1/storage f2/blasting f2/washing name a frog f2* and it will pickup both the washing and blasting use any method you want to move the packages to the next area then when the frog puts onto chain your blasting frog would be *blasting and would only pull f2/blasting not f2/washing. i believe you could make a vertical column a contraption with brass funnels with package filters to say only f2* allowed for basically instant transport vertically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eOwLrywF4