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Freight Elevator

Allows for transference of items, energy, and the player between levels.

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Unlocking[]

The Freight Elevator is unlocked after using the M.O.L.E. to dig through a hard wall on Level 1 - PT Lima.

Usage[]

The player may use the elevator to transfer between excavated levels.

The pink terminal on the right and left of the elevator may be used to insert Excavation Bits in order to dig up to further levels. Progress is tracked on the HUD in the top-left of the screen.

Power is automatically transferred between the 3x3 Calycite Platforms that provide a foundation at each level of the freight elevator. Once the platforms of any level are connected to power, the platforms at all levels will be powered. This can be used to create a single power grid across the multiple levels of your factory. Note: There is a disconnect between level 11 - Freight and level 12 - PT Sierra. The power grids below and above this disconnect are independent.

Items are transferred into and out of the freight elevator through the flex ports on 3 of the 4 sides. These ports do not each have independent storage, but rather each level as a whole of the freight elevator has an independent storage. For example, if you send 5 conveyor belts into 5 different flex ports, all designated to transfer items to level 4 - Hydro, then the elevator storage of level 4 - Hydro will fill with all 5 of those items, and an inserter pulling items from any port on level 4 - Hydro will pull all 5 of those different items. It doesn't matter which port the inserter is pulling from. Note that though there are only 3 slots of storage visible when viewing the freight elevator externally, it has many more slots within when inspected. So there's no need to worry that only 3 different kinds of items can be extracted at the same time from a given level. In fact, while inspecting the freight elevator you can also load the storage of a level directly from your inventory.

Since extracting from any port connects to the same storage, there are 2 options for extracting different items from the freight elevator into filtered belts: either unload everything into a single belt or container and filter it from there, or use filter inserters directly attached to the elevator (again, it doesn't matter which port) to load belts with the predetermined item.

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