Super Sucker (9× Conveyor Throughput)

A single conveyor moves loot at a fixed rate. You cannot make one faster. What you can do is run several side by side off the same source and merge them back into the same destination.

Nine conveyors move loot nine times faster than one.

Before you start: why 3, 9 and 27

Splitters and combiners are both 3:1, and that number decides the whole shape of this build.

One splitter turns one path into three. A second layer turns those three into nine. A third would give twenty-seven, if you can power it. Combiners do the same in reverse, merging three paths back into one.

So the counts that fill every output exactly are 1, 3, 9 and 27. Anything in between works fine and costs nothing extra to run — it just leaves some outputs unused, which is why you rarely see it built that way.

A splitter is only a junction. No logic, no filter, no power cost. It spreads items across its outputs roughly evenly. Nothing moves because of a splitter; it moves because a conveyor in the run is powered and switched on.

The shape

                    ┌── conveyor ──┐
   source ── split ──┼── conveyor ──┼── combine ── destination
                    └── conveyor ──┘
                      (×9 total)

Source box → adaptor → splitter → splitter → nine conveyors → three combiners → one combiner → adaptor → destination.

Step 1 — source and destination

A box at each end, Storage Adaptor on both.

Step 2 — the splitter tree

Pipe the source adaptor into the first splitter. Pipe each of its three outputs into another splitter. You now have nine paths from one box.

Step 3 — the conveyor bank

One conveyor on each path: splitter output into Industrial In.

Wire the whole bank the same way round. A conveyor only pulls from its input side and pushes to its output side, so one turned around quietly does nothing and is genuinely hard to spot in a row of nine.

No filters. This system moves everything — filtering is the sorter's job, and a filter here only narrows what the bank can carry.

Step 4 — the combiner tree

Three conveyor outputs into each of three combiners, then those three combiners into one, then into the destination adaptor. It is the splitter tree mirrored.

Step 5 — power

Nine conveyors is 9rW, and all nine have to be switched on. Power is the real limit on this system, not pipe length — the pipe depth here is 3 out of a possible 32, nowhere near the cap.

Match it to your source

This is the part worth thinking about before you build it. Nine conveyors only moves nine times faster if the source can actually supply that fast. If whatever fills the source box cannot keep up with three conveyors, the other six cost power and move nothing.

Three is the right answer more often than nine.

Watch out

• Conveyors only go one way. Wire the bank consistently.
• Nine conveyors is nine times the draw. Check your supply before you check your pipework.
• A splitter is not a filter. If you want sorting, that is a different system entirely — and it goes after this one, not inside it.