Auto Sorter (loot room by category)

Dump a full inventory into one box and let filtered conveyors deal each category into its own container.

The shape

                      ┌──▶ conveyor (weapons)    ──▶ weapons box
intake box ──▶ split ─┼──▶ conveyor (resources)  ──▶ resources box
                      └──▶ conveyor (components) ──▶ components box

The splitter opens three paths off the same intake. Each conveyor takes only what its filter allows and ignores the rest.

Filters

A filter slot holds either one item or a whole category. “Weapons” costs one slot; listing fifteen guns costs fifteen. Use categories where one exists, and individual items only where you need to be precise — the resources conveyor here lists stone, wood and metal fragments rather than taking the whole category.

We don’t know the slot limit yet, so assume it’s tight.

Anything unmatched stays in the intake

That doubles as your leftovers pile, but a permanently full intake usually means a filter is missing rather than the system being broken.

What you need

3 conveyors, 1 splitter, 4 storage adaptors, and power for three conveyors.

Watch out

• Overlapping filters are unpredictable. The conveyors don’t run in order, so if two accept the same item, whichever fires first takes it. Keep filters separate.
• One splitter is three outputs. Chain another off one output for a fourth category.
• One adaptor per box, including the intake.

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Not built and measured by us yet, and the filter slot limit is still unknown.