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Suggestion: Additional hopper types. #4

Open Karmacopper opened 1 year ago

Karmacopper commented 1 year ago

Blast furnace hopper: Dual output that snaps to the inputs on the blast furnace and automatically filters coal and not coal appropriately. Allowing a single chest to be placed above, holding both fuel and ore. I suggest it as coal and not coal to allow compatibility with Tasty Chicken Legs https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/TastyChickenLegs/BlastFurnaceTakesAll/

Large hopper: A 2x1m hopper to make chicken egg farm egg collection more straight forward.

Dual output hopper: Dual outputs on opposite sides, with round-robin output to allow evenly distributed routing to multiple destinations.

Hope these make sense. :)

MSchmoecker commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestions but it's rather unlikely there will be many other hopper types. The current models where made by Bento, a fellow modder who is no longer active in the Valheim scene. Also, from a game design perspective I don't necessarily want to add over complicated hoppers as I think a lot of the solutions can already be build with a bit of creativity.

Nevertheless, the next update will also feature hopper pipes and a better distribution system of items. This will hopefully be achieved with with the combination of behavior difference between hopper/pipes and perhaps a round-robin distribution by normal hoppers, if it works good.

We can keep this feature request open, maybe there are more arguments for additional hopper types that I don't see at the moment. But it will not be a priority at the moment.

eviltek2099 commented 1 year ago

Simple suggestion for pipes: A square 4 meter pipe that would allow vertical or horizontal movement of things. Could have one horizontal pipe and 2 vertical pipes (one up and one down).

Good luck on making the pipes. Time for factory Valheim!

MSchmoecker commented 1 year ago

To give a small update here: Update 1.0.0 introduced basic pipes along with an updated distribution system, though it does not include round-robin distribution.

I'm currently working with an artist on new pipe models, as well as implementing the round-robin distribution and filtering for pipes.