Station Integrated Logistics

Station Integrated Logistics is a late-game logistics technology that makes items carried out from logistics stations by conveyor come out in stacked form. In practice, it lets a logistics station inherit the stacking function of an Automatic Piler, and it also applies to Advanced Mining Machines.

This technology increases the throughput of items leaving a logistics station onto belts, which in turn allows more buildings to be connected to a single conveyor line. Because the items themselves are stacked, it is especially useful for high-volume production chains where belt congestion would otherwise become a bottleneck. To stack the output products, however, the output side must use a Pile Sorter.

Station Integrated Logistics is unlocked very late, and its research cost is heavier than that of Mission Complete, so players who end the game at Mission Complete may never use it. For players who continue after that point to upload matrices and expand Dyson Sphere construction, it is a powerful logistics upgrade.

• The technology upgrades the stack size of cargo output from logistics stations by 1 per level.
• It has three levels, raising the total stack size from the base value to 2, 3, and 4.
• Research requirements are tied to Logistics Carrier Capacity at levels 8, 11, and 13.
• Research costs are 8.0k, 16.0k, and 24.0k for levels 1, 2, and 3 respectively.