Gyne cocoon help

[Chlooobo]

needing some help with a couple of things

first my ants will not enter the cocoon unless i force them too currently have a loop of ants that will not enter
not sure if i broke this as when manuallly forcing the ants in i have sent too many of the same type in and it let me possibly a bug idk

secondly i have wayyy to many princess ants they r being constantly made and i cant seem to work out a way to only make one or two unless i manually disconnect the lines once one is made

if anyone has a cocoon set up they wanna share plz do cause my brain can not work out how to make this work efficiently

thanks!!!

[Alleas]

check out my guide on the gybe cocoon setup, should help out

[Alleas]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Alleas:

check out my guide on the gybe cocoon setup, should help out

its called princess , inveting and recycling

[webmaster]

the same thing happened to me. it turns out that the cocoon was not set to create a lesser gyne, so had to put stuff in manually

[D I Z Z Y Y]

skill issue

[MessengerOfRage]

I described one way to automate lesser gyne production in another thread.
I'm not claiming it's the best way but it works for me and I have screenshots.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2750000/discussions/0/552359350148063793/#c594018407677970741

[MessengerOfRage]

Oprindeligt skrevet af D I Z Z Y Y:

skill issue

your ability to mention the obvious is glaring.
everyone in here knows, Chlooobo even mentioned it in her first sentence!
everyone else realized it and helped (or like me at least tried to help).

did it at least work out for you? did you feel better after posting?

[EmberStar]

The way I found to limit princes production is to use a counter gate and a timer get on the inputs. I have the inventor ants going past one input, with a counter gate set to one. If no ant is waiting, than one will divert to the combiner and either climb in, or wait to go next. On the other input, I had the Old Drones going past, with a Timer gate set to 10. That way, once every ten minutes a drone will try to enter. The two will combine into a princess and exit, and the next Inventor Ant will climb in.

It's not a perfect setup. It does mean that an inventor ant will expire of old age every once in a while before being combine, and I've had it skip a turn because an *extremely* Old Drone triggered the timer gate and then immediately expired before climbing in. But it mostly seems to work pretty well. I've been running at Queen Level 13, and can support feeding in enough ants to complete a Lesser Gyne Cocoon every ten minutes, which is why I picked that value. Just set the timer to whatever works so that you don't have a bunch of Princess Ants waiting to go, or big gaps in between completed Lesser Gynes.

I also use Timer Gates to control how many Pod Workers are being made for the cocoon. Since their "old" state doesn't last very long before they turn into Pod Worker (Empty,) it's easier for me to send them straight in without trying to use their lifespan first. For the ones being sent to the Gyne Cocoon, I have an assember with a timer gate that makes a new Pod Worker Empty every minute, and then a divider gate to split them between assemblers set to make Pod Worker 1 and Pod Worker 2. Then I have them run past the cocoon, and then a couple of Caste Gates and a loop for them to run on if they don't get consumed immediately. I have an Old Gate on that loop so that if they do hang around, they'll run out, turn back into Pod Worker Empty and get back in line to be recharged.

I'm sure there are better ways to do it, especially once you get the Age Gate and could set up something to use up half of the Pod Wokers' lifespan doing something productive before sending them to join the cuddle pile. But what I've got seems to work and doesn't need me to constantly move ants around by hand to keep it running.

[D I Z Z Y Y]

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Oprindeligt skrevet af D I Z Z Y Y:

skill issue

did you feel better after posting?