Better Mixing Automation for NPC

[Pozimoto]

So i've noticed the NPC employees will use the mixer, but not beyond whatever ingredients are put inside by you manually. I would like to see the option to assign my workers to specific shelves for "ingredients" and then choose which production output they will provide. For instance, if i have a strain that uses 8 ingredients in a specific order, it would be nice to assign my worker to that shelf with all the ingredients (or multiple shelves) and select a final product. So they'll start mixing with the first, then add the second, then the third so on and so forth.

[happyMaskSalesman]

You can already do this, just not as elegantly as you describe...

You just need a different mixing station for each mixing step. Assign the output of one mixing station into the input of another. The chemists will automatically transfer between mixing stations if you assign it.

Then you can assign packagers to move mixer ingredients from certain shelves to a certain mixing station.

[Azshannar]

Yeah was wondering about this myself. I am currently in the bungalow so a multi mixer process to mix eight ingredients is not possible. Maybe after I get to the barn I can play with this. Hope they add an expanded mixer option for management, so you can assign specific mix-ins and chemist will just grab the items themselves to hit their target product. Makes no sense to have a helper just to move stuff to the mixer. Yeah to get the stuff from the truck to the shelves that is fine.

[Reklesnes]

yea the mixing has proven to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at best its better to mix it yourself they will ♥♥♥♥ baches up like no tomorrow the limit to 5 routes for handlers seems like a massive cuck and they have no idea on what order to do it so youi have to order the shelves yourself by that stages its faster to just mix yourself or not mix at all once you hit coke and just mass produce mixing is the most tidies thing and it gets boring as ♥♥♥♥ after doing it fora day

[Shaitan]

This can be done already, but with an additional step.

Assign a Chemist to a Mixing Station and output it to a Small Shelf. Assign a Handler to take material from a Large Shelf, and the Small Shelf, to the Mixing Station.

Manually place the Starter Product (ie OG Kush) on to the Small Shelf. Place the Mixer Ingredients required for each step of the process *in order* on the Large Shelf.

The Handler will grab the OG Kush and place on the Mixer. The Handler will then grab the first Ingredient and place on the Mixer. The Chemist will start the process. Meanwhile the Handler will move the second Ingredient to the Mixer. The Chemist will output the result to the Small Shelf, which will be fed back by the Handler, and the Chemist will start the Second Stage in the process.

This process will continue into the last ingredient in order is used up, leaving you with the final product in the chain sitting in the input of the Mixer (since the Handler moves the final product there).

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I still agree though that Mixing Table should function like the Chemical Station. Once you have discovered a recipe you should be able to assign it to that Mixer, so then assigned Handlers will only move ingredients in the order requested OR allow the Mixer to have a Supply Shelf assigned like a Botanist.

[StrangeAK47]

mixers need a supply option so you dont need a handlers filling the mixers, chemists have enough down time.
(atm i have a handler filling 5 mixers with viagra, and another stocking the shelf they are using from 5 other shelves)

the chemist table needs to be like the mixer with slot types so handlers dont fill them up with the one ingredient. (or a supply option) this is my main issue with automated meth production atm.

the ability to choose multiple supplies one for each ingredient would be nice if not item limits on shelves so handlers can fill mixed shelves.

i think handlers should be packing and stocking shelves only the technicians can do some more leg work for their higher pay.

[Pozimoto]

Originally posted by StrangeAK47:

mixers need a supply option so you dont need a handlers filling the mixers, chemists have enough down time.
(atm i have a handler filling 5 mixers with viagra, and another stocking the shelf they are using from 5 other shelves)

the chemist table needs to be like the mixer with slot types so handlers dont fill them up with the one ingredient. (or a supply option) this is my main issue with automated meth production atm.

the ability to choose multiple supplies one for each ingredient would be nice if not item limits on shelves so handlers can fill mixed shelves.

i think handlers should be packing and stocking shelves only the technicians can do some more leg work for their higher pay.

agreed! my chemists are constantly just sitting outside while product cooks when they could be doing something else, they're getting paid anyways so... I don't even mind it so much as i can just hire additional chemists to then bake the product, but the mixing is god awful. It literally cannot be done unless you do it yourself which is extremely time consuming and tends to lead me to fall behind my chemists because each mix takes an hour and I can only do 1 ingredient at a time.

[Ghastous™]

Originally posted by Pozimoto:

So i've noticed the NPC employees will use the mixer, but not beyond whatever ingredients are put inside by you manually. I would like to see the option to assign my workers to specific shelves for "ingredients" and then choose which production output they will provide. For instance, if i have a strain that uses 8 ingredients in a specific order, it would be nice to assign my worker to that shelf with all the ingredients (or multiple shelves) and select a final product. So they'll start mixing with the first, then add the second, then the third so on and so forth.

I made a similar post myself cos atm the way the hired help works is not to good and should be reworked. there is no need for 5 chains just to make 1 product when a chemist can easy make it if they could take the ingredients of shelf's themselves. Handlers would not feed machines in the real industry it would be down to the chemist. Handlers would just keep the shelf's topped up not the machines.

[Angelo Valentine]

Hi. Just try to put all staff to shelf, left to right top to bottom, starting with "product". You also need to assign a chemist to the mixing station, which should have this shelf as its destination. After that, you need to assign a handler so that it transfers the necessary staff from this shelf to the mixing station. This will help mix all the ingredients on this shelf with the "product" in the right order (from left to right, from top to bottom)