#1x2 Universal North West "Quarterizer" (Quarter Shape Maker)

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I tend to find that it is really useful to divide some shapes into quarters so I can put them back together exactly as I want them, but all the blueprints I used before were large and kinda uggo. So I endeavored to make as small as possible a blueprint which could cut shapes into quarters no matter what the shape was.

I call it a "Universal" quarterizer (yes I like that term) because it is input agnostic. you can put any shape into the input and it will output quarter shapes with each quarter getting their own belt (no belt mixing). The outputted shapes will always be north western quarters. (that made it a pain to fit into a 1x2 platform but I felt it was a necessary component.) 1 belt total of input results in 4 belts total of output (depending on the input shape).

Oh and I haven't reached crystals yet but I don't think it's compatible with them.

*video to demonstrate it working

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white swift
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interesting... looks like your own design for something similar to an omni-miner

inner folio
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ooh omni miner?

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oh shoot nice, yeah I built this without looking at other builds

white swift
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omni-miner:

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inner folio
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I suppose two differences of my design are that my design does not require swappers and doesn't output full shapes so you can build whatever shape you need from the output

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that is of course a drawback when you want full shapes.

white swift
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4 belts full shapes would become 16 belts of quarters

inner folio
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does it? It's technically a 1 belt input design I suppose.

white swift
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with an omni-miner, 4 belts of shapes becomes 4 belts of pure shapes

inner folio
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My design philosophy with the quarterizer was that it effectively has only 1 input belt. The 4 input belts are simply to make it easy to hook up to a miner, so you don't have to configure each one.

white swift
inner folio
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Yes, this is basically how I envisioned it always being used you see.

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One miner going to 4 quarterizers

white swift
inner folio
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true, which is why an Omni miner probably fits most people's needs better

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but I wanted quarter shapes

white swift
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you can always omni-mine and then use a single 1x2 quarter cutter

inner folio
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yes, but this was fun to make and looks cool

white swift
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true

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my philosophy is to never cut shapes into quarters - just swapper everything

inner folio
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That's a fair philosophy, efficient. I just like the ease of use of quarters when it comes to putting odd shapes together

white swift
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I just use a swapper for that XD

inner folio
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Like this:

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white swift
inner folio
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ok first: Yeah that totally is more efficient.
Second: What are those on the left???

white swift
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cheat mode shape producers - I am in my testing world

inner folio
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oooh, you see I have designed everything in my main save. I did not know cheat mode existed

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Useful console commands (open with F1) :

  • help : display a list of all commands
  • cheats.enable : enable cheats, required for some commands
  • research.unlock-all (cheat) : unlock all milestones, side tasks and shop items
  • god (cheat) : same as above but also maxes out all upgrades and gives research and blueprint points
  • research.list : list all research node IDs to use in :
  • research.set [id] 1 (cheat) : unlock a specific research node, use with RNSandboxTools to unlock item and fluid producers
  • debug.show-charts 1 : Display stats in real time, including FPS (disable with debug.show-charts 0)
  • calc : Shows the result of a mathematical expression
  • player-level-goals.set [id] [level] (cheat) : Set the operator level goal line specified by id to level
    Note : as said in the console, using any cheat commands will permanently tag your savegame and will restrict access to some features like operator level ranking
inner folio
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oooh cool