The self-feeding foundry
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:46 pm
My plan for Gleba is a small base, essentially a kitchen to cook agri-science in, so I wanted just one foundry so that the ore from stromatolites could be used as efficiently as possible without having to feed half my rocket fuel to the heating tower. So I came up with this little design, first one I thought might be worth sharing.
The fluid output is sorted by two filtered pumps into separate holding tanks. Pipes from these tanks wrap around to the fluid input so that it can seamlessly switch to casting items of either metal, which go into a passive provider chest, or the chest used by my LDS/Ammo assembler. Two input chests, one requesting Calcite and the other a dump box for ore, are used whenever it melts metal. The pipes open on the side of the beacon so that I can place an EM plant next to the foundry for direct cable insertion whenever I need more green circuits. Once I have more logistics bots I can replace the dump box with a requester chest and use personal logistics to put it there whenever I return to the base, but at this early stage it doesn't seem worth the bot energy.
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The fluid output is sorted by two filtered pumps into separate holding tanks. Pipes from these tanks wrap around to the fluid input so that it can seamlessly switch to casting items of either metal, which go into a passive provider chest, or the chest used by my LDS/Ammo assembler. Two input chests, one requesting Calcite and the other a dump box for ore, are used whenever it melts metal. The pipes open on the side of the beacon so that I can place an EM plant next to the foundry for direct cable insertion whenever I need more green circuits. Once I have more logistics bots I can replace the dump box with a requester chest and use personal logistics to put it there whenever I return to the base, but at this early stage it doesn't seem worth the bot energy.