humble obsidian
In the endgame I have 400K units on my cargo dock. This makes it very hard to adjust ore ratios and thus very hard to solve some balancing issues I am having with having too much Iron (20x 400% smelters!) and not enough Titanium ores.
I would like an ore sorter that splits my main pile into different outputs so I can construct bulk storage for each ore type and than either remix to my liking or revert back to single type refineries OR add multiple inputs to the multi rigo.
obsidian isle
Why don’t you use the MRR instead?
They will extract any ore you need and you can just line up mass storages for any oxide you got.
unkempt osprey
@obsidian isle I feel the MRR is very nice. But it has indeed one backdraw: it requires currently constant micro-management to get the right ore mix. If you don't, one of its outputs will backup, which subsequently leads to a complete shutdown of the whole factory - for the only reason that I have too much of a single material. That is IMHO not ideal design and needs a solution (e.g. by an option in the MRR which allows it to drop the output on the ground (or heck, even delte it, or dump it in a specifically-designed and built dumpster, whatever), if it is full and backed up) so that it can continue to supply the factory with the other essentials.
obsidian isle
<@222785539231711233> I feel the MRR is very nice. But it has indeed one backdra...
I see your problem, and understand it - as I just had it the same.
My solution was to build a split of mass storage that I could extend as needed. And if the ore was running short you could just route it back into the production line 🙂
Using the belt from my idea here could also automate it 🙂
https://discord.com/channels/670425270615932951/1274683746892644554
unkempt osprey
Yes-ish. That's what I kinda do, too. I basically chain several bulk storage at each of the MRR outputs Yet still. I don't consider that a nice solution.
It's not long-term sustainable. It's not automated. I want to be able to build a factory which "just works" as long as I can supply input.
I guess I can do that... when I use single-ore refineries instead to provide a backup or minimal supply of the materials even when the MRR jam.
So one can actually argue there does exist a solution already to theis problem 🙂
And I also see that it might be a wanted solution as it otherwise means that the single ore refineries would be completely obsolete in late game
Maybe... I should venture this path and add some to my existing refinery to circumvent this problem
humble obsidian
Why don’t you use the MRR instead?
They will extract any ore you need and you ca...
This is what I am talking about. I have 4 mobile mining rigs each with a different focus area. However in the end it gets dumped in the same Cargo Dock and now there is 400.000 units of mixed ores in that dock.
Now to have my factory running with the 10 level 3 multi refineries I need all 4 ouputs at level 5 speeds or else there is not enough input for 10 refineries. So there is no time to add slow sorting to the curret output of the cargo dock. Also placing 40 bulk storages will be tricky as you cannot build everywhere.
Here you can see the ores inside, givin the high number of ores adjusting the mix will be very hard
Here you see the factory. It is already starved for rigo using 100% of the outputs of the cargo dock. I am already feeding in extra ores from the underground AND redirecting additional flow from other refineries.
