Mixer automation is non existant

[Sleepy Head]

What is the point of automating mixing if all they do is press a button? You can't choose recipes... if I have to load ingredients into the machine anyway I might as well be the one pressing the button.

Also what do cauldrons do?

[more espresso]

Cauldrons are for extracting cocaine from coca leaves.

[DTW_Moe]

Originally posted by Sleepy Head:

What is the point of automating mixing if all they do is press a button? You can't choose recipes... if I have to load ingredients into the machine anyway I might as well be the one pressing the button.

Also what do cauldrons do?

I think you can put a route for your packer to move the items need to mix to the mixing machine I’ll be trying this method tonight

[Bologna]

the automation is possible its just tedious, need multiple chemists and handlers

[Boo]

handlers help you automate the mixers.
1 handler 1 chemist and 1 botanist can fully automate a weed mixed 3 times, for example.

[MeowWow72]

Originally posted by Boo:

handlers help you automate the mixers.
1 handler 1 chemist and 1 botanist can fully automate a weed mixed 3 times, for example.

What's the process for this? how do you get them to mix them in the right order?

[Sleepy Head]

I found a youtube tutorial explaining how to combine chemists and handlers to automate mixers. You just need to put items on the shelf in the correct order and have handlers move them onto a mixer. One shelf per mixer.

[DivideNull]

Originally posted by MeowWow72:

Originally posted by Boo:

handlers help you automate the mixers.
1 handler 1 chemist and 1 botanist can fully automate a weed mixed 3 times, for example.

What's the process for this? how do you get them to mix them in the right order?

They'll take the items off the racks in order.
1234
5678

1 to 8

So if you put them in order = the mix order you want.


I wrote a guide on how to do it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457187511
2 Workers
1 Mixing station & 2 Racks
Produce 8 mix product

[runner3772]

The expensive AF way is get, let's say 2 handlers, 3 chemists, 7 mixers, a packager and like 10 shelves. point each mixer at the next one with the clipboard, until you get to the end. pipe that right into a packager then pipe the packager to a shelf.

Have 1 ingredient per shelf, first station gets OG Kush and ingredient 1. it mixes, chemist ferries it to station 2 where a handler adds ingredient 2 from shelf 2 with the route you make. Rinse and repeat. First time mixes in a mixer station will clog it up until you go pick it up, confirm it and drop it in the next station.

My bungalow has this setup, bit it RIPS through ingredients once the chain gets going. only thing you have to do is buy jars, ingredients and get the weed from Sweatshop botanist

[Buttered Sausage]

As others have said automated mixing is a possible, you need 1 mixer for every item you want to mix. if your recipe has 5 ingredients you need 5 mixers manned by 2 chemists, 5 shelves 1 for each ingredient and 1 handler to take the ingredients from the shelves to their respective mixer. each mixer will only ever mix that one ingredient. than set the mixer destination to the next mixer in the order and so on till the last mixer then from there set the destination to a packing station or shelf whatever you want. the handler who is supplying the mixers can be assigned to the packing station. add mixers, shelves, chemists, handlers as needed. its can be tedious set up the first time but it does work well pretty well. you'll have to load the chemistry lab with supplies yourself because the handlers will fill them with 1 type of ingredient.

[riverrat2800]

Originally posted by Buttered Sausage:

you'll have to load the chemistry lab with supplies yourself because the handlers will fill them with 1 type of ingredient.

As long as you have all three ingredients on one shelf the handler will load the lab fine. If you let one of the ingredients run out though, it will put one ingredient in two different slots and it will hang up. So be sure to load the shelf evenly with all 3 ingredients

[Nokturnal]

Mixers could definitely use work as Chemists shouldn't need a handler to move a product that's right next to the mixer to the mixer lol.

"Hey Bob, I know you're busy moving product right now, but my job is just to press this button and I can't reach the product needed for this mix that is 6 inches away, could ya get it for me?"

Easy way would be giving each mixer it's own built in large shelf/s so you can just store what's needed on it, that way you don't need a handler to refill it until it completely runs out.

[Prometheus]

The solution is the ability to set up recipes on the mixer. Heres what I am thinking.

I want to make OG + Paracetamol + Horse + Iodine.

I set the mixer with 3 recipes:

1: OG + Paracet - Makes ParaOG
2: ParaOG + Horse - Makes ParaHorseOG
3: ParaHorseOG + Iodine - Makes ParaHorseOdineOG

The handlers look at the shelves and output of the mixer. If a recipe can be made then they input it.

[Capybarasan]

Originally posted by DivideNull:

Originally posted by MeowWow72:

What's the process for this? how do you get them to mix them in the right order?

They'll take the items off the racks in order.
1234
5678

1 to 8

So if you put them in order = the mix order you want.


I wrote a guide on how to do it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457187511
2 Workers
1 Mixing station & 2 Racks
Produce 8 mix product

Are you suggesting to put 8 different mixing substances onto a shelf in a certain order and then replenish them like that? That's even more tedious than before. Why is this a guide?

[Capybarasan]

Originally posted by Prometheus:

The solution is the ability to set up recipes on the mixer. Heres what I am thinking.

I want to make OG + Paracetamol + Horse + Iodine.

I set the mixer with 3 recipes:

1: OG + Paracet - Makes ParaOG
2: ParaOG + Horse - Makes ParaHorseOG
3: ParaHorseOG + Iodine - Makes ParaHorseOdineOG

The handlers look at the shelves and output of the mixer. If a recipe can be made then they input it.

I reckon you should be able to assign shelves to a handler the way you assign a products shelf to a botanist. Not a single shelf, multiple so the handler can work from many shelves at once. You know how you can just throw on any soil, additive and seed onto a shelf in whatever order and the botanist will use it? Just do that with handler and then as you suggested.

[TheMediocreBriton]

It's not difficult to set up automated mixers as others have stated. It's just a bit of brain power in the right order to make it work (and I mean that not in a sarcastic way. It took me a few restarts to get it up and running in the right order when i first messed around with it)

If you have 1 handler and 1 chemist, you can currently get 4 mixers up and running

have the chemist set to 4 mixers (they increased the amount of stations they can use from 3 to 4).

Set the destination from each mixer into the next so the chemist automatically moves the mixed product to the next mixer:

mixer 1 into mixer 2
mixer 2 into mixer 3
mixer 3 into mixer 4

Have the handler take from a rack a drug of your choice and put it on the starting mixer.
Now have 4 racks set to a specific ingredient you want added at different stages e.g:

Rack 1 is banana, have the handler put it in mixer 1
Rack 2 is donut, have the handler put it in mixer 2
Rack 3 is paracetamol, have the handler put it in mixer 3
Rack 4 is addy, have the handler put it in mixer 4

In this case, all the routes have been taken up for the handler so you'll have to grab the end product from mixer 4 and put it somewhere else to keep the mixing happening.

If you had a 2nd handler for whatever reason (such as packaging) you could have that handler make a route from the last mixer to a rack and that'll be it automated from start to end of the mixing process.

You could expand on this and make the drugs and having it sent either to the rack you used to store the initial drug for mixing, or having it sent to mixer 1 therefore creating a fully automated process.

Hopefully I was clear with this. If there's something you don't understand, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to help you out :)