Conveyor Meter

A Conveyor Meter is a solid conveyor control building that lets an exact amount of material pass through a Conveyor Rail before shutting off. It is used to meter out resources in precise quantities, making it useful for rationing supplies, filling storage in controlled amounts, or splitting a conveyor line into repeatable batches.

The meter can be set to a limit from 0 to 500 units, with a smallest nonzero setting of 0.001 units. For most materials, 1 unit is 1 kg. For items measured by count rather than mass, such as eggs, seeds, Data Banks, or Reed Fiber, 1 unit is one item. When these counted items pass through a Conveyor Meter, it cannot pass less than one whole item: if a counted item enters with less than one unit remaining, the meter still sends one item through and then reaches its limit.

A Conveyor Meter has two automation ports: an output port and a reset port. The output port indicates whether the passing amount has reached the configured limit, and turns green when the limit has been met. The reset port resets the meter’s counter when it receives a green signal, setting the passing amount back to 0. This lets the building be integrated into automated shipping systems that cycle between filling, stopping, and refilling.

Practical uses include:

• limiting delivery of a fixed amount of ore, food, or construction material to a destination;
• batching shipments so a loader or storage area receives only a set quantity before the line closes;
• creating controlled loops where automation resets the meter after a shipment has been processed.

Because the meter blocks solid flow once its threshold is reached, it is especially useful when a Conveyor Rail would otherwise keep feeding an uninterrupted stream. It is also precise enough for very small amounts thanks to the 0.001-unit minimum, which makes it suitable for fine-tuning resource flow rather than only whole-kg transfers.

When used with counted items, remember that the building works in whole items, not fractions. That makes it reliable for shipments of discrete objects, but less flexible than with mass-based materials when an exact fractional remainder is desired.