blueprint content to container
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:31 am
This, like everything else, has probably been suggested before and/or exists as a mod. A cursory search reveals nothing, but I recall I saw something like it before.
When building oil outposts I generally like to make a standardized layout which I have my Personal Construction network deploy once I am on-site with a single blueprint click, and then add the wells manually inside it.
In my most recent map, however, I'm going with a no-laser-no-solars playthrough which means that the outposts need to be bigger and use more stuff compared to the compact power of laser towers. Thus, the blueprint for it is rather massive in its material demand. Picking out all this stuff manually from my main factory is a complete chore which I feel could be automated.
I've tried a few workarounds to make this work, but sectioning off the base, cutting power and absorbing the raw base with the personal bots takes too long and is a cumbersome waste of space.
So... how about this: When you are holding a blueprint, CTRL-clicking a container (player/car/chest/train wagon) will order the logistics system to "build" the blueprint inside that container, depositing all the stuff needed for it there.
It would also be a useful system for ordering the network to re-arrange content in chests if you're moving your wall-production segment, for example, and don't want to haul the contents of near-full chests to the new location, or wait for the construction bots to empty them one at a time. There are workarounds here as well, of course, but this would be a simpler and more straightforward method of doing it, I feel.
When building oil outposts I generally like to make a standardized layout which I have my Personal Construction network deploy once I am on-site with a single blueprint click, and then add the wells manually inside it.
In my most recent map, however, I'm going with a no-laser-no-solars playthrough which means that the outposts need to be bigger and use more stuff compared to the compact power of laser towers. Thus, the blueprint for it is rather massive in its material demand. Picking out all this stuff manually from my main factory is a complete chore which I feel could be automated.
I've tried a few workarounds to make this work, but sectioning off the base, cutting power and absorbing the raw base with the personal bots takes too long and is a cumbersome waste of space.
So... how about this: When you are holding a blueprint, CTRL-clicking a container (player/car/chest/train wagon) will order the logistics system to "build" the blueprint inside that container, depositing all the stuff needed for it there.
It would also be a useful system for ordering the network to re-arrange content in chests if you're moving your wall-production segment, for example, and don't want to haul the contents of near-full chests to the new location, or wait for the construction bots to empty them one at a time. There are workarounds here as well, of course, but this would be a simpler and more straightforward method of doing it, I feel.