Multi Regolith Refinery

[frank trellis]

looking at the visual design of the refinery it would sure make a lot more sense if all 4 oxide outputs were on one side, and it would be super convenient if they were pass throughs like the slag in/out on the basic refinery. heck, i might actually use them if they worked like that.

[maiden skiff]

Would also be nice to set the outputs on the belts and productions from the unit

[graceful basin]

if you use underground belts you can do a setup very similar to what youre lookin to get, here, ill send a screenshot of my setup for ya to see what i ended up doin to set up a smelting block for it

it was expensive, but methinks thats just part of the challenge of the game

[frank trellis]

wasn't looking for tips, i'm hoping to not have to do workarounds, but thanks anyway

[graceful basin]

shrug good luck fren

[full tendon]

how do you do with the regolith do you just combine all miners to one storage?

[graceful basin]

yea, i just kinda have them all join a single conveyor and go into a large bulk storage

i set it up mainly for the giant mobile mining rig so i can just dump and forget

[full tendon]

not made it that far to get a giant mining rig

[graceful basin]

you can still do it with just the extractors, just have them all combine to that one storage

[full tendon]

ah ok

[tepid rampart]

the design is amazing, but incredibly useless. 1 multi regolith can supply properly upgraded 1 maybe 2 of the same type of smelter, and even tho i am exxagerating as the regolith you'll supply will be rich in 1 type of ore, and the rest rarely will occure.... :S nice look tho, but ineffective and useless 😦

[feral egret]

True, he needs to add 3 more MRs next to to first to support that many refineries

[onyx sleet]

The regolith is not rich in one type of ore unless you only source from one location. To properly use a multi ore refinery your regolith should come from several locations with different richness.

[frank trellis]

for something like the setup in the shot you definitely want it fed by more than one refinery, i've been doing something similar but i have 4-5 refineries feeding in, one for each node type plus the fifth later game for processing from the MDR, or to be fair, whenever i figure out how to use it on a run. there are a lot of efficiency researches for the multi-refinery so possible at late game just one can handle a stupid amount of input but we'll see.

i'm in a sandbox start right now and i haven't found an aluminum vein yet, but just one basic multi refinery is easily handling the output of three extractors i have running so far. I'm making a point to try and use them this run, it's kinda nice right now that i'm getting some aluminum while i struggle to locate a vein.

[graceful basin]

Not if you're using the MDR 😁 I actually redid that build with 4 more multis and it works beautifully when I supply it with my MDRs

I'll send a new screencap of what I've got now when I get off work

Only issue I'm running into is the sheer amount of excess slag I have to process

[tepid rampart]

yeah i wanna see that 😄

[graceful basin]

aight, am home now, gonna boot it up rq

until i can zoom out more underground, this is the best I can do

[graceful basin]

gotchu qt 😗

my silicon is a bit backed up tho bc I havent replaced my conkcrete factories yet bc I took apart my whole factory to place these badboys down

and still waiting for my aluminum heavy regolith to show up

[graceful basin]

a better pic

[worthy canopy]

this is.. so satisfying to look at lmao