Factorio – 4 to 3 belt balancer

This tutorial covers how to reduce 4 belts to 3 belts in Factorio while maintaining a balanced load.

A useful design for reducing lanes when you need to save space or reconfigure your load to fit your factory. This design will take items from 4 incoming belts and reduce it to an evenly balanced load on 3 outgoing belts. This design, like our others posted so far, does not neglect incoming belts so you don’t have to worry about backups slowing your production.

Factorio – 3 to 6 belt balancer

This Factorio tutorial shows the design for a 3 belt to 6 belt splitter with balanced loads.

This design is very useful for train depots. A train car can only be accessed by 6 inserters per side, so you often need to split your items into 6 different belts to minimize the amount of time your trains wait at the depot. This design will take an even or uneven load from 3 belts and evenly distribute the items onto 6 belts.

Factorio – 3 to 4 belt splitter

A 3 belt to 4 belt splitter for Factorio that results in an evenly distributed outgoing load.

If you have 3 belts of items that you need to split into 4, but you don’t want to just half the contents of a single belt, this 3 to 4 belt balancer will give you an even distribution of items in 4 outgoing belts. If you happen to have different items in the left and right lanes of the 3 incoming belts, this design (and all our other balancers, as well) will maintain that left-to-right segregation of items for you.

Factorio – 3 belt balancer

In this Factorio tutorial we show how to evenly balance the load on 3 belts.

Quite often you’ll have multiple belts of the same item, but it’s not evenly distributed among the belts they’re on. The design in this YouTube tutorial shows how to balance a load on 3 belts so that the outgoing 3 belts all have the same amount. This is useful when you need to load an even amount of items into multiple chests or train cars, or if you’re trying to optimize the operation of your factory.