Material Ropeways

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🚡 Material Ropeways

Send your loose bulk through the air: buckets on a cable carry coal, ore, gravel and more in a straight line over buildings, rivers and valleys, and up and down mountains.

Build a loading station and an unloading station anywhere. They connect on their own in a straight line, at any distance and any height. Pylons stand only where the terrain needs them. The buckets slow down round the stations' wheels, fill up under the chute, tip over the hopper and pour out the real product. Three tiers, each with its own look: from 3.3 / s on timber trestles to 15 / s on modern tubular pylons.

Features

• 🚡 Ropeway stations: a loading station takes bulk from a U-shape conveyor, an unloading station puts it back on one (8 x 5 tiles each).
• 📏 Any distance, any height: an unloading station straight ahead connects on its own, or pick any station in the window, in any direction.
• 🏔️ Over everything: the cable spans buildings, roads, rivers and valleys and climbs mountains. Pylons only stand where the cable would come close to the ground.
• 🪵 Tier I, timber and stone: 3.3 / s, cable at 4 m/s, wooden trestles and riveted iron buckets.
• 🔵 Tier II, classic steel: 7.5 / s, cable at 5 m/s, blue steel and lattice pylons.
• 🟠 Tier III, modern: 15 / s, cable at 6 m/s, tubular pylons, galvanised buckets and a control cabin.
• ⬆️ Upgrades in place: stations upgrade like belts, and the cable is restrung for the new tier as soon as your storages have the difference.
• 🪨 Real loading and dumping: the bulk pours from the chute into the buckets, they tip over the hopper and the product heaps up, in its own look (coal, iron ore, sand...).
• 💰 Cable cost by length: the cable and the pylons cost per 100 tiles, taken from your storages when two stations connect and given back when one is torn down.
• 📋 Ropeways being built: one list of every station still under construction and every ropeway still to be strung, with what it needs, with product icons.
• ⏸️ Smart cable: it only runs while both stations work, and the window tells you why it stopped (for example a full unloading station).
• 🌍 21 languages.

How to start

1. Research Material ropeway (after the research of the U-shape conveyor II).
2. Build a loading station where your bulk comes in and connect a U-shape conveyor to its port.
3. Build an unloading station straight ahead of it, facing the same way, at any distance and height. Or press Connect to an unloading station in the window and click any one.
4. As soon as your storages have the cable cost, the cable is strung and the buckets start running.
5. Tier II comes with Conveyor belts III. Tier III has its own research, Material ropeway III (after Conveyor belts III and CP4 packing).

Good to know

• Can be added to an existing game. Don't remove it from a save that has ropeways.
• A ropeway carries at the lower tier of its two stations.
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original. No game files included.