Uranium, Aluminum and Iridium Logistics on Humble?

[ClayburnGriffin]

I can't get these working right with my logistics systems. I'm trying to automate production and have plenty of drones, including T2 drones. However, it just seems like the T3 ore crushers get backed up or are just taking way too long. I have 3 on Uranite and 3 on Bauxite. I've got a shredder to dispose of extra ores and dolemite.

But it seems like production is so slow. I check my factory storage and it's almost always empty of iridium and uranium.

Suggestions?

[Elf On A Hook]

Originally posted by ClayburnGriffin:

I can't get these working right with my logistics systems. I'm trying to automate production and have plenty of drones, including T2 drones. However, it just seems like the T3 ore crushers get backed up or are just taking way too long. I have 3 on Uranite and 3 on Bauxite. I've got a shredder to dispose of extra ores and dolemite.

But it seems like production is so slow. I check my factory storage and it's almost always empty of iridium and uranium.

Suggestions?

might need start using more then one shredder to eliminate excesss ores (if using only one or two + some more ) also when able asap swap to mining machines that only mine specfic ores ie iridium, urininite, bauxite. i never did doleminite much had way to much colbalt always (ik some dont some do seems a weird ratio how that works differently ) also i had 2 t3 crushers for each type ore being crushed . it seemed to hepl sine thier crushtime feels bit slow early game at least tilll make few more

[ClayburnGriffin]

I have two, plus I have a few junk lockers I pull from for construction. I think part of the problem is that it's just so much junk ore and non-stop that my drones spend all their time taking stuff to shredders and there just isn't enough iridium and uranium getting produced.

[Luhai]

From my experience, 1 Bauxite T3 crusher seems to be enough, but I have about a dozen uraninite crushers by now. I also have 1 T1 crusher for dolomite, just in case I need generic ore.
You'd have to figure out the exact ratio over time, based on what you want to build in general.
I have 3 trade rockets asking for auto-crafted PQ on Humble, so that's where my priorities for resource production are.

All the stuff that might clutter up the output is requested by the shredder with priority 0.
I don't know how many T2 drones you are using. I have about 60 of them, but quite a lot of them are idling most of the time.


I couldn't quite figure out where exactly your bottleneck is. Are the rock crushers too slow in processing the uraninites, which indicates you need more crushers, or aren't they getting enough uraninite, which means you need more T3 extractors or machine optimisers?

[Oragepoilu]

Just build more ? Drone are cheap and can automate everything, so I just build more of it until I feel like it's not an issue. And the more you have the faster it is to place more stuff.

It's not like it's hard to place a few more.

I think I ended humble with something like 25 crusher and probably 40 miner for everything with an handful of booster for them, but only because I tried to automate producing quartz to sell. But I have 3 or 4 rocket going out all the time, with reduced timer at this point.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Solution to slow is usually build moar! And also depends on what stuff you're running short of, or looking to export for trade tokens. The way I look at it isn't necessarily what gives the most tokens, but what can be produced fast and not clog up the machines.
That may also mean tweaking the priorities and looking at your drones to see where bottlenecks might be.

[trevorkrause]

Originally posted by ClayburnGriffin:

I can't get these working right with my logistics systems. I'm trying to automate production and have plenty of drones, including T2 drones. However, it just seems like the T3 ore crushers get backed up or are just taking way too long. I have 3 on Uranite and 3 on Bauxite. I've got a shredder to dispose of extra ores and dolemite.

But it seems like production is so slow. I check my factory storage and it's almost always empty of iridium and uranium.

Suggestions?

Mine also was really slow, checked my drone depot and storage was full of ores lol cleared that and then all my storage filled straight to full every one lol. Seems i had a blockage which i never spotted at first.

[ClayburnGriffin]

I have 3 T3 extractors for Uranite and 1 T3 for Bauxite plus a T1 that's leftover.

I have three T3 crushers for each Uranite and Bauxite.

I think the bottleneck is usually the output. When I check the chests there are lots of ores inside waiting to be picked up. The input isn't always full but there is usually plenty.

[Luhai]

Make sure the excess output is requested by the shredder with priority 0. 1 shredder is enough, as long as you set it to auto shredding once it's full.
Check your drone station for idle drones. It sounds like you might need more drones to get rid of excess output.
If your Iridium/Uranium storage is still empty after that, you should work on expanding
your extractors or crushers , depending on where the required input is missing.

If the crushers hardly have any uraninite to process, you need more extractors or T2 machine optimisers,
If the input of your uraninite crushers is almost full, you obviously need more crushers, since you can't decrease the processing time per crusher.

[Tallowate]

Originally posted by ClayburnGriffin:

I have 3 T3 extractors for Uranite and 1 T3 for Bauxite plus a T1 that's leftover.

I have three T3 crushers for each Uranite and Bauxite.

I think the bottleneck is usually the output. When I check the chests there are lots of ores inside waiting to be picked up. The input isn't always full but there is usually plenty.

Think I'm running 6 T3 crushers for Uranite and sometimes still feels like I don't get enough of the rare ores I want. LOL.

[trevorkrause]

Originally posted by Tallowate:

Originally posted by ClayburnGriffin:

I have 3 T3 extractors for Uranite and 1 T3 for Bauxite plus a T1 that's leftover.

I have three T3 crushers for each Uranite and Bauxite.

I think the bottleneck is usually the output. When I check the chests there are lots of ores inside waiting to be picked up. The input isn't always full but there is usually plenty.

Think I'm running 6 T3 crushers for Uranite and sometimes still feels like I don't get enough of the rare ores I want. LOL.

Never needed more than 1.

[ClayburnGriffin]

I checked on my ore crushers and the biggest problem right now seems to be Dolemite. I have Dolemite set to be accepted in the same shredder for all the junk ore, but also they're accepted into their own ore crushers to produce cobalt. I'm not sure why the Dolemite isn't moving fast enough compared to other things.