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Thread: New to Factories Need Assitance
I've read several guides and read several posts, but it seems that everyone writes about it in paragraph form. Could someone go over the process in shorthand for me?
i.e
Making a crate of 50 Stim Bs
1600 organic 1300 inorganic 300 water
make schematics for BECs
at factory, insert componants in order.....
can anyone help me out with this kinda direction? thanks
I will give it a shot
1) gather your resources for your components
2) you need to make a schematic for the component you wish to manufacture, do this by crafting as you normally would and when you have a good experimentation round, select "create schematic" instead of create a prototype. Another window will open up asking for how many of the component you want to manufacture, it defaults to the maximum number...adjust as required for your needs and resource availability.
3) run to your factory, click and from the radial menu select insert schematic, highlight the schematic you just made from the window that poped up and click the add button at the bottom of the window
4) click on the factory again and select the "access ingredient hopper", a window will open again showing resources in the hopper that the factory can pull from. Open your inventory and move the resources you used to make the schematic to the ingredient bin. Close all your windows
5) click on the factory again and select the "start manufacturing" from the radial menu options tab, you may also want to check your power and maintenance fees while you're there as well.
6) follow the above steps untill you have all your components made that are used in the stim B (bio effect contoller, Liquid suspension, chemical release duration mech)
7) after making your component runs, open the output hopper on the factory ( click and hold on the factory, select "access output hopper" from the options tab) grab 1 crate of each component and put it in your inventory, throw any other crates into the "ingredient hopper" of the factory
8) grab 1 of each component from the crates and find a crafting station close by, Make a stim B using the components from the crates and your resources you wish to use. When you have a good expermentation run select the "create schematic" instead of create prototype.
9) run back to your factory and insert your stim B schematic (if there were any runs left on the schematic already in the factory, it will be placed in your datapad automaticly)
10) throw the resources you used into the factory ingredient hopper, including the remainingcrated factory components you used to make the stim schematic
11) select start manufacturing from the radial menu
If the factory is yours, you will receive an e-mail every time the factory runs out of resources or the number of units listed on the schematic is manufactured. the schematic can only make the number of units listed when you made it..so if you made a schematic for 100 liquid suspensions, when the factory makes the 100th liquid suspension the schematic will auto delete.
Resources can not be substituted. the resources used to make the schematic must be used to make the components / final product. sorry no mix and matching.
Another couple of related questions though - forgive my ignorance:
1 - If you remove just one component from a crate, can you still use that crate (now minus 1 item) for another factory run or does the crate disappear or something...i.e. does the crate have to be full?
2 - what happens if your schematic is for an amount not divisible by the amount of items in the crate?
3 - what if you don't put in enough resources, will it run partially?
noreenf wrote:
Sweet, I'm glad someone else asked this, because I was curious too.
Another couple of related questions though - forgive my ignorance:
1 - If you remove just one component from a crate, can you still use that crate (now minus 1 item) for another factory run or does the crate disappear or something...i.e. does the crate have to be full?
Yes, the crate is still useable. It doesn't have to be a full crate of 50 components in order for you to use it in a factory run.
2 - what happens if your schematic is for an amount not divisible by the amount of items in the crate?
If you have a schematic for, say, 30 b-stims and you place in a crate of 50 each of the BEC, CRDM and LS you would end up with a crate of 30 B-Stims and 20 BEC, 20 CRDM, and 20 LS.
3 - what if you don't put in enough resources, will it run partially?
Yes.
To make stims, you have to have factory crates of all the sub-components. Take the subs and make a schematic for the stim, then dump it all in the ingredient hopper and turn it on.
thanks for the clarification vortexala . I was under the impression I could make all the items at once if I have the schematics for all 4. I pulled off a crate of stim b's last night that turned out ahhhh decent I guess. I didn't use the greatest of supplies but I will next time.
Great Post... Just a the point where I am starting to do factory stuff.
One additional question, what is the output rate of a factory. I would assume that it would be connected to the complexity but I am not sure. The reason I ask is if I need to make the subcomponets first it could be a bit before I can make actual stims. I know it also depends on quantity.
What are people's experiences with starting with one factory like? Run 100 of each at a time or more? What's a good number, reasonable (time vs profit)? Hopefully I could get 1 or two more factories to help me in the future but unless someone is giving them away on shadowfire I have to start with one so I can get some credits
Thx in advance!
Poff Marko on Shadowfire
The compexity times 8 seconds determines the time to create each unit.
As far as determining the best run size, it all depends on you patience and what you want to accomplish. If you'd like to mass produce Stims, best to use the full 1000 unit schematic and wait the one to two days (my CRDMs take about 48 hours) to get a full run. If you're just doing one offs, make a crate of 50 or 100 and you'll be set for some time. One reminder - Always make enough subcomponents to allow you to build your final Stim. If you run 100 each of BECs, LSs, and CRDMs, you'll only be able to make at most 99 Stim-Bs. Better to make 104 or so to give you room to experiment and make your schematic the way you want.