Do you think assemblers are for suckers? Do you want to pack everything into one assembler because that’s just efficient? Well say no more fam I’ve got your back! The Chesterizer is the all in one solution for all your chest needs. Just set some values conveniently split across multiple locations and away it goes. It’s like magic!
I wonder how much circuitry and use input would be required to make everything you need to launch a rocket from minimal buildings/chests/user input.
I feel like you could bring in the 6 resources (water oil iron copper coal and stone) and have a series of if/then’s changing the productions of assemblers, chemical labs and smelters (maybe science labs?) all the way past rocket
I have built something very like this and fluids are a huge pain.
Thankfully they can be filtered now, but its a mess.
Mine relies on the network, the design needs 2 roboports to get requests and contents without them intermingling. I have a Quality buffer chest and conditions to do the same thing shown here. It’s input and output, so things like gears and cables are available as soon as they’re crafted.
I then have a second buffer chest requesting all the different fluid things that are produced the more traditional way, sulfur, electric engines, and the like, and its input-only.
There’s other details, but the space is tight enough that pumping in 1000 sulfuric acid (since I’d be getting it via underground pipes) for a few blue chips isn’t worth it.
I’m sure there’s a better implementation than mine though.
Could you use the steel drums of liquid instead? I’ve always wondered how those could be used in a set up
You can but only if you set it up so that it uses all the liquid, or accept waste.
For instance, processing units require 5 sulfuric acid. In an automated setup, you could set up your logic to only craft processing units in batches of 10, so that you use up the whole 50 units of sulfuric acid you’ll get from 1 barrel.
You could also accept the loss of up to 45 sulfuric acid per craft, if the automated system only needs the 1 processing unit, but that isn’t complication-free. When an assembler changes its recipe, if a connected pipe can take the fluid, it will. So crafting 1 of these blue circuits can get 45 sulfuric acid pushed into a pipe that should’ve been empty.
I’m not actually sure if it gets pushed back like that if you connect a barrel-emptying assembler directly to another assembler. The emptying assembler might also take that fluid back if it’s compatible, or might not, and void it. If its voided, then you could accept the waste of fluids by sacrificing a whole side of your crafter to a fluid unloader, and then also configure that fluid assembler to unload only exactly the fluid needed, and change that recipe via circuit as well, destroying the unwanted fluid.
Worth testing, although I hate the thought of deleting that fluid. As soon as you save fluid for later though, you have nearly all the same issues as having all the fluids piped in though.
I love the complexity haha I might take a stab at it when I’m done with space age (though that could be a while)
AutoMalls get most of the way there. So I’d guess its mostly combinators of various kinds.
Search DocJade on YouTube. He made a one-assembler run before the update and I think has uploaded the schematic he would use if he wanted to do the same run again now