Screw tubes use all their lanes: grains spread sideways inside a tube

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-24 00:00:05 -04:00
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 - **The silo has pixel art in the pixel look**, drawn grain by grain like the rest of the world;
  the smooth look keeps the illustrated silo. The owner noticed it looked the same in both.

+- **Screw tubes use all their lanes.** Grains in an up or down tube shift sideways toward the
+  emptier lanes of the block, and grains taken in from the side go to the far lanes first. A
+  block-wide lift fed by a belt from the side now carries about 90% of what the belt brings
+  (before, only the edge lane filled: the owner saw one line on either side). Belts keep their
+  speed.
+
 ## Ideas not built yet

 - **Concrete**, as a stronger wall material from rubble.