How the hell do you use the transmuter?

[magicscreenman]

I've found one that says "Gear => Electronics" so I keep putting gears into it and all it is doing is spitting them back out at me. There's some kind of blue pie chart looking icon on the screen as well, divided into five pieces. I have no idea what that represents. I have also heard that you have to a put a certain quantity of a the requested item into the transmuter, but I cannot see any number anywhere on the screen requesting said quantity. It just wants gears. Doesn't say how many.

What am I doing wrong/not seeing?

[magicscreenman]

So you literally just have to guess at how many items you need? That's honestly absurd. I'm not gonna just use up all of the scrap I have making gears in the hopes that I hit that magical unknown number.

[cosmifrog]

Transmuters have a small display panel on the front showing the input and output materials, and one or more "pie charts". The number of pie segments indicates how many of the input material you need to make the second material. I've seen these range from as little as 2, to as high as 7, but I assume the true upper limit is 10 (just based on how much room there is in the display)

[magicscreenman]

Originally posted by cosmifrog:

Transmuters have a small display panel on the front showing the input and output materials, and one or more "pie charts". The number of pie segments indicates how many of the input material you need to make the second material. I've seen these range from as little as 2, to as high as 7, but I assume the true upper limit is 10 (just based on how much room there is in the display)

This is absolutely not how it works lol. The transmuter in question had a pie chart showing 5 pieces, but when I put in 5 gears, it just spits them right back out at me.

Several people are having problems getting transmuters to work but every thread I look into here, people are just regurgitating the same answers that have already been disproven. It seems like no one actually knows how these things work and the people who are getting items out of them are just speculating on how they are doing it lol.

[cosmifrog]

Originally posted by magicscreenman:

Originally posted by cosmifrog:

Transmuters have a small display panel on the front showing the input and output materials, and one or more "pie charts". The number of pie segments indicates how many of the input material you need to make the second material. I've seen these range from as little as 2, to as high as 7, but I assume the true upper limit is 10 (just based on how much room there is in the display)

This is absolutely not how it works lol. The transmuter in question had a pie chart showing 5 pieces, but when I put in 5 gears, it just spits them right back out at me.

Several people are having problems getting transmuters to work but every thread I look into here, people are just regurgitating the same answers that have already been disproven. It seems like no one actually knows how these things work and the people who are getting items out of them are just speculating on how they are doing it lol.

It looks like I just got super lucky that the pies happened to match up with the input material count several times. The transmuter I just used definitely did not, instead the pies appear to be tracking the output limit.
This transmute was Plastic to Chemical and it was a 10:1 ratio.

[ATSMABBO]

Ya, those things are fairly confusing with no real explanation.

[Theblues]

Originally posted by magicscreenman:

Originally posted by cosmifrog:

Transmuters have a small display panel on the front showing the input and output materials, and one or more "pie charts". The number of pie segments indicates how many of the input material you need to make the second material. I've seen these range from as little as 2, to as high as 7, but I assume the true upper limit is 10 (just based on how much room there is in the display)

This is absolutely not how it works lol. The transmuter in question had a pie chart showing 5 pieces, but when I put in 5 gears, it just spits them right back out at me.

Several people are having problems getting transmuters to work but every thread I look into here, people are just regurgitating the same answers that have already been disproven. It seems like no one actually knows how these things work and the people who are getting items out of them are just speculating on how they are doing it lol.

So the pie is the number of items you can create.
For the amount needed to transmute, from what I can see in different post, some give you the amount required some doesn't.
I got Gear => Gas Cylinder, I tried with 5 gears got rejected so tried with 10 and got the item + 4 gears back so I needed 6 gears per gas cylinder.

[PerfectLife]

Just plop in what you got, if you get a swap cool. I never use them cause it takes more time than it's worth but if I saw anything with those crystals for the turbo engine I'd be swapping.

[Tommy W]

Originally posted by cosmifrog:

The number of pie segments indicates how many of the input material you need to make the second material. I've seen these range from as little as 2, to as high as 7, but I assume the true upper limit is 10 (just based on how much room there is in the display)

Blue "Pie" segments are energy. Each time You use transmutter, one piece disappears. If all are gone, transmuter is inactive and wont do a thing.

And yes, you need to guess the right amount of stuff You put in, but if You do, recipes are constant, f.e. 2 prybars for 1 lead.

[Radza]

i just give 10 gears, i got one gas cylinder and 4 gears back, so its just guessing. And pie, its how many times you can change

[Corp. Hunter2042]

I found a gears to chemicals Transmuter, and I just threw as many gears at it as it could hold and it spat out chemicals at me and what gears it didn't use until it dried up. No guessing involved. Not sure if it's changed since this post was made or not but... yep.

[Sir T]

Thanks to this thread I just learned the ancient art of throwing every bit of the resource I have into a transmuter and seeing how much comes out. Thanks guys!

[Nikas Zekeval]

Originally posted by Sir T:

Thanks to this thread I just learned the ancient art of throwing every bit of the resource I have into a transmuter and seeing how much comes out. Thanks guys!

I personally do sets of 10 or 20 depending on what is asked for. Makes it easier to figure between what I get and what of the original resource is left over the ratio.

[Sir T]

Originally posted by Nikas Zekeval:

I personally do sets of 10 or 20 depending on what is asked for. Makes it easier to figure between what I get and what of the original resource is left over the ratio.

That's a good idea, thanks.

[Pfif]

I think you use it by putting in a stack of that resource and it randomly gives you back a combination of the output and input. The pie charts is just how much of the outputted resource is left.

[Strainj1]

ok, after being extremely frustrated why my glass shards kept on being spat out at me.... then reading the contents of this thread...... I fed 10 glass shards into it. I suddenly got back 1 electronics back and one glass shard.

The blue pie graph at the bottom of the transmuter console shows two pie graphs - one has 4 segments, one has 5 segments...

so clearly that area shows you how many, designated by segments..... at least that's my take for now.