Hatches and Doors

[Glassyfo]

Hatches used to be able to fall through vertical doors, before they changed it. Is there another way to get hatches to fall on their own? I'm trying to reduce dupe tasks.

[whodunit]

If a hatch is inside an open pneumatic door and you close it with automation, the hatch falls below (provided the ground is made up of pneumatic door as well). Hope this helps.

[SamLogan]

11 hours ago, bleeter6 said:

Hatches used to be able to fall through vertical doors, before they changed it. Is there another way to get hatches to fall on their own? I'm trying to reduce dupe tasks.

Here's an example :

Or this one :

 

[Glassyfo]

An update on the new build:

[beowulf2010]

Here's mine. The extra door chambers help keep the hatches from doubling up in the final chamber and the stacked doors are for dupe access. Filters are 5 seconds for the 2 right ones and 15 seconds on the left one. Sometimes Hatches take a while to start dropping. 

I probably should change this to pressure plates... 

[OxCD]

Or you can do that. Hatches will always try to avoid water, so jumping from pressure plate to pressure plate. Just use pressure plate then to open next door and close previous one, and they will move forward. Like I did, you can add another pressure plate after the last door, to avoid the resupplying process when hatches who are already into the stable are suspected to shift into reverse way.

(in case someone wants to try, forget about the NOT gate after the critter sensor. This screenshot has few months already, and at this time we weren't able to use "above" or "below" with it.)