Blockade for dupe carried stuff

[Azunai333]

It would be great if you had something like a door that would let dupes through it, but block some chosen materials carried by dupes.

For example if you have hot iron/gold from the surfice or a gold volcano you could use this to deny the transport in one (or both) directions so your storage compactors won't receive that hot stuff.

This would mean you could send a dupe in without the fear that he/she could pick up something incredebly hot and bring it back to your base. It could be even used for denying your dupes to pick something out of your big automated storage while keeping the maintainability of it.

[yoakenashi]

I've been thinking of the same thing, and was able to come up with a reasonable solution via automation.

General Concept

Normally the duplicants come to the checkpoint (coming back from the blistering surface) and wait at the duplicant checkpoint. A simple pulse generator (above the tiles) causes the doors around the checkpoint to close, and after a short delay (in/below the tiles) the floor opens up. Since the duplicants can't move anywhere, they drop their items which fall to an unreachable area where an auto-sweeper moves the dropped material to a cooling area. They can then access that cooled material normally.

Duplicants return from the surface from the right, like wounded Ren. Stop at the checkpoint, drop their items, and then continue on.

Spoiler

The biggest downside is when a duplicant becomes Incapacitated behind this checkpoint. The duplicant is picked up and then dropped when the doors close. And NEVER gets moved to the med bay; so use caution with this solution.

I'll let you know if I come up with a better solution; or if anyone else has a solution please post it. Thanks!