Issue with the Operation of the Granular Material Distributor

Issue description

In the save file, two enterprises have been created for glass production and simultaneous processing of broken glass. In the case of the enterprise on the left, the industrial mixer is connected to the blast furnace via a sorter and elevators without the use of chutes. In the enterprise on the right, the elevators are separated from the sorter by chutes. The sorter priorities are set to favor the passage of broken glass in order to avoid overfilling the outputs of the glass-forming machine. On the left enterprise, the sorter is not functioning correctly, while on the right enterprise, it is working properly.

Reproduction steps

1. Load save file diggin on a beachc leads to nightmares.
2. Check the operation of the granular material sorter at the enterprise on the left and at the enterprise on the right.

Game version and build number

v0.7.7 b470

Operating system

Windows

Attachments

94.save

Your molten glass output is full. The glass maker doesn't accept molten glass because the output of the broken glass is full. It's a vicious circle. You need to free the conveyors from the broken glass to start the process.

You plugged the balancer directly into the lift. Lift's throughput scales with the input it gets, meaning glass mix will always get in. The other setup is working fine because there are belts in between. This is working as expected. Although I understand it can be confusing, but the only way to make this work better would be to have lifts with fixed throughput, which then requires having a lift for each belt tier, which would be convoluted. So we decided on this trade-off. So closing this as working as expected.