Architect Archive
Thread: Any way to make factories use crates?
-Loserwan Ka'newbie
I can confirm that this does NOT work. Its only for certain items however. People have been getting stims to pull items out of crates since well BEFORE this patch and previous ones (I was told it was hit or miss but it was doable). But I have been waiting for the structure factories to make wall modules out of structure module crates and its STILL NOT WORKING. It eats 1 set of your raw resources and your crate count stays the same. You get a message that you are out of components. Component needed : structure module. I also read a dev (dont recall who) posting that you MAY have to redeed and place again your factory before it takes effect. So to make sure I build a SECOND brand new Structure factory and tried again. Failed with the same results. I also tried making a new wall module schematic for laughs... no change.
Also a sidenote... I may have read the patch notes wrong but I got the impression that any energy resource with a potential energy statistic of over 500 would be worth double power. I put in one cycle of power into my brand new factory (50 units) and it went to 0:1... I put in 100 units after that (150 total) and it went to 0:3... same old same old. I havnt tested this out on a harvester yet but this is not working as intended either it would seem 
The potential energy thing is working fine as far as I can tell. I had 52k radioactive on me (PE 879) and when I opened the power menu on a harvesterit showed I had 90k power.
My factory just finished a run of 95 Micro Sensor Suites.
I put into the factory: (in this order)
Steel
Metal
Ore
Copper
Inert Gas
25 Crate of Electronic GP
25 Crate of Electronic GP
25 Crate of Electronic GP
24 Crate of Electronic GP
25 Crate of Control Units
25 Crate of Control Units
25 Crate of Control Units
24 Crate of Control Units
25 Crate of Energy Distributors
25 Crate of Energy Distributors
25 Crate of Energy Distributors
24 Crate of Energy Distributors
I used the same order that is in the datapad for Micro Sensor Suite. I used the Schemtic that gets put in your datapad when you get the skill box that lets you make the object, not the schematic thatI created on my station to do this particular run (those resources get alphabetized as does the list you get from the factory when you choose "List Ingredients Needed").