Once you make it past the early game in Satisfactory, your production lines will skyrocket in complexity. As the number of items you’re producing goes from a dozen to dozens, so will the number of conveyor belts carting all of that around. Mastering Smart Splitters will be a crucial part of advancing in Satisfactory, keeping your production lines navigable and easy to understand.
What is a Smart Splitter?
The function of a regular splitter is fairly obvious–it splits a single conveyor belt into as many as three belts. That’s great for a smelter cranking out more ingots than any single production line needs, such as having one smelter sending ingots to make plates, rods, and screws. There’s no configuration needed here, either. It’s just plug-and-play.
So what makes a Smart Splitter smart? Smart Splitters are programmable, allowing you to determine which items on a belt go where. There are programmable splitters, too, that do the same thing but at a higher level, allowing you to sort more than three different outputs.
