is there a way to auto craft things when in construction mode?

[Goose]

so say i want to play a box. I go to place it and it tells me i dont have one and i have to craft one in my replicator thing. Is there a way to automatically do this? Just to cut out the opening the replicator step?

[Nekogod]

Originally posted by Goose:

so say i want to play a box. I go to place it and it tells me i dont have one and i have to craft one in my replicator thing. Is there a way to automatically do this? Just to cut out the opening the replicator step?

There is not. At least not in the vanilla game, there might be a mod that does it.

[josmith7]

Though what you can do is (once you research them) use logistics distributors and logistic bots to automatically restock Icarus' inventory - so you hopefully don't run out of the items in the first place.

There are some limits through:
* You've got to be within range (which starts off pretty short and you have to research up to covering the entire planet -- but still won't help if you've building on a different world)
* You've got to set up Icarus' logistics sidebar for which items you want the bots to handle and how many to (try to) keep in inventory
* You have to set up a lot of infrastructure to make this work; assemblers building the items have to delivery them to a storage box; you need the logistics distributor atop it, it needs to have bots assigned; and the bots can only move a single item type from each distributor.

[Nekogod]

You've got to be within range (which starts off pretty short and you have to research up to covering the entire planet -- but still won't help if you've building on a different world)

This limit only applies east and west, there is no limit to the north and south (to the poles at least) which makes them annoying to use for a mall as you almost always want to build east to west or west to east and it's usually long enough that one end can't reach the other!

The exact opposite of the Dyson Sphere building limits.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Goose:

so say i want to play a box. I go to place it and it tells me i dont have one and i have to craft one in my replicator thing. Is there a way to automatically do this? Just to cut out the opening the replicator step?

nope you need to craft them manuelly or pick up your box

also normally it is your factory crafting your stuff, not you, it is too complicate to ask your robot to do that, better to let your factory managing that

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Nekogod:

You've got to be within range (which starts off pretty short and you have to research up to covering the entire planet -- but still won't help if you've building on a different world)

This limit only applies east and west, there is no limit to the north and south (to the poles at least) which makes them annoying to use for a mall as you almost always want to build east to west or west to east and it's usually long enough that one end can't reach the other!

The exact opposite of the Dyson Sphere building limits.

Huh - I hadn't tested; but I'd assumed that the (IRRC) starting 40 limit described a range circle centered around the logistics distribution base -- so if you went far enough north or south you'd exceed that circle.

[Goose]

Originally posted by vkobe:

Originally posted by Goose:

so say i want to play a box. I go to place it and it tells me i dont have one and i have to craft one in my replicator thing. Is there a way to automatically do this? Just to cut out the opening the replicator step?

nope you need to craft them manuelly or pick up your box

also normally it is your factory crafting your stuff, not you, it is too complicate to ask your robot to do that, better to let your factory managing that

Are you saying i should have machines making all of the building pieces and i just go fill my inventory with them? Im still learning how i should be playing this game. Im currently trying to make it efficient and pretty but i dont think thats the way to go

[NocheLuz]

Originally posted by Goose:

Are you saying i should have machines making all of the building pieces and i just go fill my inventory with them? Im still learning how i should be playing this game. Im currently trying to make it efficient and pretty but i dont think thats the way to go

For new players, that is good enough. But for experience player, they make factories that make the building itself, have the Bot delivered it to you, and you will have a building ready to be place right away without replicating anything.

[Nekogod]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by vkobe:

nope you need to craft them manuelly or pick up your box

also normally it is your factory crafting your stuff, not you, it is too complicate to ask your robot to do that, better to let your factory managing that

Are you saying i should have machines making all of the building pieces and i just go fill my inventory with them? Im still learning how i should be playing this game. Im currently trying to make it efficient and pretty but i dont think thats the way to go

That's pretty much it. If you want anything to happen quickly (or don't want to wait 2000 hours for your dyson sphere to build) you ultimately need hundreds if not thousands of many of the building and 10x that in belts.

Hand crafting all that would take years.

You don't need much 1 mark 1 assembler for each building outputting to a storage limited to a handful of slots is enough for almost every building.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by vkobe:

nope you need to craft them manuelly or pick up your box

also normally it is your factory crafting your stuff, not you, it is too complicate to ask your robot to do that, better to let your factory managing that

Are you saying i should have machines making all of the building pieces and i just go fill my inventory with them? Im still learning how i should be playing this game. Im currently trying to make it efficient and pretty but i dont think thats the way to go

yes in my box i have thousands level 4 assembler and level 3 smelter

it is easier than asking your robot to craft stuff and it is also faster, so with that you can spam factories

[Goose]

Originally posted by vkobe:

Originally posted by Goose:

Are you saying i should have machines making all of the building pieces and i just go fill my inventory with them? Im still learning how i should be playing this game. Im currently trying to make it efficient and pretty but i dont think thats the way to go

yes in my box i have thousands level 4 assembler and level 3 smelter

it is easier than asking your robot to craft stuff and it is also faster, so with that you can spam factories

but then dont you constantly have to go get stuff from the box?

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by vkobe:

yes in my box i have thousands level 4 assembler and level 3 smelter

it is easier than asking your robot to craft stuff and it is also faster, so with that you can spam factories

but then dont you constantly have to go get stuff from the box?

you can export your factories to another interstellar logistic

or try to cheat the system and bring your box and drop the content on the ground o in another box

i think a box can contain 3000 assembler

it also working with interstellar logistic, just pick up and drop it on the ground when you reach the planet you want to build new industry

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by vkobe:

yes in my box i have thousands level 4 assembler and level 3 smelter

it is easier than asking your robot to craft stuff and it is also faster, so with that you can spam factories

but then dont you constantly have to go get stuff from the box?

If it's just a basic box then yes, you'd have to walk (or fly) over and grab things when you ran out. (Though since you can grab dozens or hundreds at once it's still faster than replicating them within Icarus.

However there are a couple of workaround that minimize that time.

First, certain objects can be accessed and items in them picked up or dropped off from anywhere on the planet; no need to walk over. Those are:
* Logistics Distributors (sit atop a storage box)
* Planetary Logistics Stations
* Interstellar Logistics Stations
So if you store output of the assembler(s) in one of those the no need to go over there; simply scroll over, select the building, and grab as much of the stored items as you want.

Second, the game has an Distribution Logistics System[dsp-wiki.com] - which combines the aforementioned Logistic Distributors with Logistics Bots and a logistics sidebar within Icarus' inventory screen. Through those you can have the game automatically fly replacement items out to Icarus.

Want to always have 2000 belts, 200 sorters, 50 assemblers, 50 smelters, and 50 tesla towers in your inventory? No problem - it can do that*. As soon as you drop below the threshold you configured logistic bots will take off from their distributor carrying replacement buildings right to you. Automate production and delivery and never think about it again [G]

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* Offer only valid on the planet with the logistics distributor, and while within bot range of said distributor.

[Goose]

Originally posted by josmith7:

Originally posted by Goose:

but then dont you constantly have to go get stuff from the box?

If it's just a basic box then yes, you'd have to walk (or fly) over and grab things when you ran out. (Though since you can grab dozens or hundreds at once it's still faster than replicating them within Icarus.

However there are a couple of workaround that minimize that time.

First, certain objects can be accessed and items in them picked up or dropped off from anywhere on the planet; no need to walk over. Those are:
* Logistics Distributors (sit atop a storage box)
* Planetary Logistics Stations
* Interstellar Logistics Stations
So if you store output of the assembler(s) in one of those the no need to go over there; simply scroll over, select the building, and grab as much of the stored items as you want.

Second, the game has an Distribution Logistics System[dsp-wiki.com] - which combines the aforementioned Logistic Distributors with Logistics Bots and a logistics sidebar within Icarus' inventory screen. Through those you can have the game automatically fly replacement items out to Icarus.

Want to always have 2000 belts, 200 sorters, 50 assemblers, 50 smelters, and 50 tesla towers in your inventory? No problem - it can do that*. As soon as you drop below the threshold you configured logistic bots will take off from their distributor carrying replacement buildings right to you. Automate production and delivery and never think about it again [G]

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* Offer only valid on the planet with the logistics distributor, and while within bot range of said distributor.

man... i have a lot to discover in this game

[Dashiell]

Welcome to factory games, forget all minecraft habits, every second spend crafting by hand is wasted because here you don't build a few dozen things, you build millions of them in dozen thousands per minute per item.

[Goose]

Originally posted by Dashiell:

Welcome to factory games, forget all minecraft habits, every second spend crafting by hand is wasted because here you don't build a few dozen things, you build millions of them in dozen thousands per minute per item.

This is not my first rodeo with factory games