any thoughts to making a version that works for belts too or would that be too hard to keep them from linking where you dont want them to?

it would certainly be possible to pull something similar off with belts, but it'd be really janky and rendering the items would be quite a nightmare, as would deciding how to input/output items into one.

it would certainly be possible to pull something similar off with belts, but it'd be really janky and rendering the items would be quite a nightmare, as would deciding how to input/output items into one.

Solution is to take the prototype mechanics for undergorund belts, change the graphics to look like a fully covered overhead belt tunnel (you do not see inside it...no need to render items) and allow for placement on oil oceans and lava.

and how would interactions with the tower work?

Basically, you would have a belt ending at A. Then build the Belt Tower at A and drag it the same way you drag undergrounds to point B.

ah, 1 connection instead of 4, not sure if it'll actually feel enjoyable since its so much like a normal underground

Yeah at that point it would just be an underground belt, My idea for elevated belts was to make a system where you can stack multiple belts onto the same tile, kind of like you can do in Satisfactory, But it would be very difficult to play with due to the amount of visual clutter and it would be very annoying to implement.

Why not stack multiple pipes then too?

i came to this mods page solely to ask if elevated belts could be possible and i find this full of things that sound great elevated belts pipe stacking while seeing the items on the belt travel would be great a covered elevated belt can be used as a stepping stone to get the mod working and if i can run another line of belts under the elevated belts including underground belts to go under the towers it can double bus compacity with out taking up any extra space as for the stacked pipes that would do wonders for my steam plant design its 12 tiles wider for the extra pipelines alone and theres bobs mods so many fluids to manage if you make elevated belts let me know

Why not stack multiple pipes then too?

Because that increases the complexity tenfold, and I honestly dont really want to make all the sprite variations for that.
Not to mention the visual clutter would be insane, that much verticality just doesnt work well in factorios perspective