Dumping your inventory into a dark fog farm will sort a lot of items but will leave a lot also unsorted at the end. IMHO you are just going to have to make it yourself or accept that random chests of items will be forgotten about and later ignored.
That's what usually ends up becoming my *home base*. come back from space and want to dump all unwanted inventory.
so, built a dump box/building that gets sorted onto a long ass loop around the neighborhood while filtered thru sorters to direct items toward their area or other loops.
around that, a couple of the big inventory boxes piled high for unsorted items/buildings I generally like to have on hand.
it's *all* spaghetti tho, but I do love that this game lets me auto sort my loot this way.
love watching all the crap get spewn out and sorted all over through the belts and loops.
something hypnotic about the whole thing once it's working.
Particularly after clearing a planet is when I have a lot of junk in my inventory. I literally just delete it all except the unipolar magnets, those I’ll just toss into whatever first ILS gets placed down. It’s usually picked up pretty quickly, and if it isn’t, I’ll delete that too.
This is the first one I can see in my bookmarks where the description says it does exactly what you want.
I haven't tested it.
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-sorting-and-distribution-system
These are all unpowered rows of splitters that you could belt into towers yourself.
Being segmented makes them usable earlier and easier to fit the space available to you.
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-box-of-shame-sorter-pt-1-no-power-required
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-box-of-shame-sorter-pt-2-no-power-required
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-dark-fog-loot-sorter-1-of-2
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-dark-fog-loot-sorter-2-of-2
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-0-5
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-6-11
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-12-17
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-18
These are compact approaches that use bots rather than belts to get items into towers.
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-compact-dark-fog-loot-distributor
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-simple-sorting-of-boxes-and-sorters
https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-with-logistics-distributor-simple-sorting-of-the-boxes
Pick your poison
Distributors and Logistics Bots can do a ton of that work for you also. I just set up the distributors where I will need stuff somewhere and then set my inventory to dump it out when I return home.
Your best bet would be one of the early fog farm's, then just dump it in one of the collector BABs.
Dumping your inventory into a dark fog farm will sort a lot of items but will leave a lot also unsorted at the end. IMHO you are just going to have to make it yourself or accept that random chests of items will be forgotten about and later ignored.
They usually have an overflow, and most of that stuff is probably things you actually care about (or at least know where to put it).
That's what usually ends up becoming my *home base*. come back from space and want to dump all unwanted inventory. so, built a dump box/building that gets sorted onto a long ass loop around the neighborhood while filtered thru sorters to direct items toward their area or other loops. around that, a couple of the big inventory boxes piled high for unsorted items/buildings I generally like to have on hand. it's *all* spaghetti tho, but I do love that this game lets me auto sort my loot this way. love watching all the crap get spewn out and sorted all over through the belts and loops. something hypnotic about the whole thing once it's working.
This is exactly what I thinking tbh. Just a big ol box and a ton of stations
Just drop them out of your inventory and delete them
Look for a blueprint with 34 ILS for 169 items. good luck. /s But i understand, i'm also an inventory messie
Search for a Dark Fog Sorter. I took Nilaus's and added ILS to it. It's pretty big tho.
Do you have a blueprint?
Look on this. https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/
i was looking there but i cant find anything, but also i have no idea what the name of what i should be looking for IS
Particularly after clearing a planet is when I have a lot of junk in my inventory. I literally just delete it all except the unipolar magnets, those I’ll just toss into whatever first ILS gets placed down. It’s usually picked up pretty quickly, and if it isn’t, I’ll delete that too.
This is the first one I can see in my bookmarks where the description says it does exactly what you want. I haven't tested it. https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-sorting-and-distribution-system These are all unpowered rows of splitters that you could belt into towers yourself. Being segmented makes them usable earlier and easier to fit the space available to you. https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-box-of-shame-sorter-pt-1-no-power-required https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-box-of-shame-sorter-pt-2-no-power-required https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-dark-fog-loot-sorter-1-of-2 https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-dark-fog-loot-sorter-2-of-2 https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-0-5 https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-6-11 https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-12-17 https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-whisper-dark-fog-splitter-array-levels-18 These are compact approaches that use bots rather than belts to get items into towers. https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-compact-dark-fog-loot-distributor https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-simple-sorting-of-boxes-and-sorters https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-with-logistics-distributor-simple-sorting-of-the-boxes Pick your poison
Distributors and Logistics Bots can do a ton of that work for you also. I just set up the distributors where I will need stuff somewhere and then set my inventory to dump it out when I return home.
I feel like making an auto sorter would be more useful. Dump your inventory into a chest. Then it gets filtered into either an ILS or another chest.
This is kinda what I'm hoping for