Peterwolf's groundworks conveyor belt

Peterwolf's Groundworks Conveyor Belt

Modular overland conveyor belt system for volumetric granular earthmoving in Minecraft 26.3 Fabric (Wilderness Bound).

🚜 System Overview

The conveyor belt allows continuous bulk transport of Groundworks granular aggregate (Dirt, Sand, Gravel) between excavation sites, processing plants (such as the Gradation Screen), and storage piles or dump trucks.

📐 Two-Element Construction & Auto-Bridging:

1. Conveyor Start (conveyor_belt_start):
   • Heavy skid-mounted steel frame with intake receiving hopper and electric drive motor station.
   • Accepts granular material from excavators, front loaders, dump trucks, or adjacent granular blocks.
2. Conveyor End - Discharge Chute (conveyor_belt_end):
   • Elevated discharge hood with downward deflection chute and head drum pulley.
   • Automatically calculates straight-line trajectory and spans a modular truss conveyor between the two bases.
3. Slope Constraint ($\le 40^\circ$):
   • The discharge chute can be placed higher or lower than the feed hopper.
   • The angle of incline/decline is strictly capped at $40.0^\circ$ to reflect real industrial aggregate transport physics and prevent material rollback.
   • If slope $> 40.0^\circ$, placement is rejected with an informative warning and feedback audio.

⚙️ Visual Quality & Working Animations:

• Modular Truss Frame: High-strength industrial yellow truss stringers with diagonal lattice.
• Continuous Moving Rubber Belt: 3-roll troughing shape with scrolling chevron texture.
• Volumetric Granular Material Bed: Real-time 3D rendered aggregate bed with dynamic vibration waves.
• Discharge Cascade: Dynamic aggregate stream flowing from the head drum into receiving trucks or forming conical ground heaps with natural repose angles via GroundworksApi.depositWithOverflow.
• Rotating Drums & Positional Audio: Tail and head pulleys rotate with belt velocity accompanied by mechanical running audio.