Sounds like you're looking for this: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:Prime_splitter_arrays
Obviously these aren't single-unit configurable splitters, (which would be nice, I agree) but with blueprints they come fairly close.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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Yeah, I've stumbled on those, and it's nice that folks did the work (I've even seen tools to calculate arbitrary n:m splitter/balancers). It's just be nice if programmable splitters could do it in addition to everything else.
This is why I like the manifold method, but you can get creative by combining splitters.
Remember that things are equally split. Need 1/3 here and 2/3 there? One output goes here, Merge two outputs of a splitter to go there. Need more complicated fractions? Expand the math to allow more
I guess I could fiddle with something like
-S\
| |
M/
|
-S
For especially long manifolds.
And I know manifolds are equivalent to tree like perfect balancers given time, but I like to see factories at 100% efficiency before I leave em and it's annoying to wait lol. Plus with "batch" like setups balancers are better than manifolds since you don't have a steady stream.
I'm gonna do some more math on this. I think for every manifold it's always better to do it like this. And it doesn't take up as much space as a real balancer tree would while still getting better ratios than a normal manifold.