Self regulating factory - low tech
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:41 pm
Because it is far easier to make factory when You have factory.
At the beginning we all do simple belt-bus-factory and it works.
We get electricity and get some science packs.
Many of us stick to it until logistics arrives.
Many of us experiment with circular factories to get factory-build-essentials.
But what if You could get some of logistic luxuries without logistics and with easy migration?
What You need:
- circuit network unlocked as well as underground belts and filter inserters.
- some circuit wire (i'm using green - red one for request system - but this in another thread maybe later) integrated with Your electric system.
- one extra belt in bus - thing of it "essentials" or "misc".
- some space on end of bus to do a loop with chests and filter inserters to collect essentials in one place, preferable where Your character spend most time for easy of pick up.
So let start with pickup zone:
So we need assemblers, lots of assembler. We need make ammo, turrets, boilers and splitters, and it should be assembled asap... so we need lots of asaping assemblers 
We use constant combinator to set expected value as a negative number. Chest sends to network it content. If result is negative, factory knows it needs assemble it.
Now lets see how system is integrated on assember side:
Inserters are on output. It allows chaining of assemblers but also means there will be resources inside.
Basicaly if balance is negative, items will be ejected into "misc" bus and sorted&collected in pickup zone.
But we need more than assemblers! From lights to walls. From turrets to furnaces. Megafactory awaits.
And this design get You covered in Your building-factory-stuff:
And who sad You can't have multiple constant combinators?
Bootstrap factory looks like this:
Non-logistic trash slots/chest
- in progress
Science labs integration
- in progress - idea is to get as low science packs on belt as possible without staling research - research pack on belt is resource that is not working.
Request bus:
- in progress - will be handy to make electric engines or modules
Reffinery integration:
- in progress
Soooo what do You think?
Constructive criticism also welcome.
At the beginning we all do simple belt-bus-factory and it works.
We get electricity and get some science packs.
Many of us stick to it until logistics arrives.
Many of us experiment with circular factories to get factory-build-essentials.
- At the beginning there was belts
- 427520_20160709114856_1.png (4.79 MiB) Viewed 1588 times
What You need:
- circuit network unlocked as well as underground belts and filter inserters.
- some circuit wire (i'm using green - red one for request system - but this in another thread maybe later) integrated with Your electric system.
- one extra belt in bus - thing of it "essentials" or "misc".
- some space on end of bus to do a loop with chests and filter inserters to collect essentials in one place, preferable where Your character spend most time for easy of pick up.
So let start with pickup zone:
- Pickup zone
- 427520_20160709115325_1.png (894.93 KiB) Viewed 1588 times
We use constant combinator to set expected value as a negative number. Chest sends to network it content. If result is negative, factory knows it needs assemble it.
Now lets see how system is integrated on assember side:
- Assembler side
- 427520_20160709115342_1.png (1.53 MiB) Viewed 1588 times
Basicaly if balance is negative, items will be ejected into "misc" bus and sorted&collected in pickup zone.
But we need more than assemblers! From lights to walls. From turrets to furnaces. Megafactory awaits.
And this design get You covered in Your building-factory-stuff:
- everything covered
- 427520_20160709162959_1.png (3.1 MiB) Viewed 1588 times
Bootstrap factory looks like this:
- done factory
- 427520_20160709162949_1.png (3.9 MiB) Viewed 1588 times
- in progress
Science labs integration
- in progress - idea is to get as low science packs on belt as possible without staling research - research pack on belt is resource that is not working.
Request bus:
- in progress - will be handy to make electric engines or modules
Reffinery integration:
- in progress
Soooo what do You think?
Constructive criticism also welcome.