[Zhuhai Fishing Port]

[ancient herald]

I wanted to take the design more in the direction of a fish grading machine while keeping it in the price range of the original design.
Pretty satisfied with how it turned out.
Currently using wash plant casings because aquatic casings are unusably ugly.

Currently composed of:

• 40 glass
• 16 item pipe casing
• 4 grate machine casing
• 18 talonite frame boxes
• 101 casings
• 9 sieve grates

based on this type of system

also I'm happy with how cleanly it stacks

my main goal with this was to keep in line with (or a little lower than) the cost of the zhuhai as it stands, because while there's some really good submissions, they're a good deal more expensive than the zhuhai already is, and would probably fit better as higher tier multis to supercede the zhuhai

[cedar ember]

ooh i really like the stacking

[ancient herald]

also maybe something to consider would be renaming the multi to fish farm or something along those lines? even outside of my design, the multi doesn't really fit the name at all other than that it has something to do with fish

https://discord.com/channels/181078474394566657/1424101860884873337
though it does fit for this one pretty well, maybe it could be changed that the "zhuhai fishing port" is specifically this larger and later game multi? and whatever design wins for the normal zhuhai gets a more fitting/descriptive name

[autumn plank]

the zhuhai is named after a massive fishing port in china, so even though it doesn’t look the same it has the same purpose

[autumn plank]

the stacking is cool but this wallshares so well that i don’t think people are ever gonna use the stacking lol

[ancient herald]

fair enough, though I still think it would be more appropriate on a grander multi

[autumn plank]

fair

[ancient herald]

I'm still not sure if I should nerf the wallshare on it tbh, I'd like it to be reasonable to stack them (and also maybe add a tiny bit of vertical wallshare?) but also I like how the design looks rn

[autumn plank]

i think what would work here is if the stacked versions unlocked more parallels probably?

[ancient herald]

ooh that would be cool

[cedar ember]

easy way to nerf wallsharing would be to implement different blocks for the “filter” on front and back

then they could still go horizontal but you can’t share the entire structure

to prevent horizontal share spam without sacrificing aesthetics you could even make it so like the out bus is only valid on the blocks directly next to the filter maybe? so they can still go horizontally in pairs but cant make an infinite conga line bc otherwise output inaccessible

[ancient herald]

you already can't share the whole structure, the controller is under the filter on the front, the concern is already exclusively with horizontal

[cedar ember]

oh ic i thought there wasnt a nub on the back carry on

[ancient herald]

that would have been too good of wallshare

[ancient herald]

I do like the idea of restricting the i/o like this

[ancient herald]

here's the specifics on the middle layer (and also the allowed output bus locations)

(ofc water not ice, just used ice bc makes it clearer where the sources go)

controller on the end with only 1

[ancient herald]

This could be improved by using the sieve texture from the steam extractinator

[ancient herald]

mockup with the concentrating sieve mesh from the steamgate version