How do you automate the mixer with chemist

[Dylan3DD]

hi, im just so confused, can someone walk me through how to automate the mixer with the chemist. can they load it up with products or do i have to? TYIA

[xMerc]

You have to use a package handler to load up the mixer, or do it yourself. The chemist will do all the mixing and unloading to a specified destination after it completes the mix.

[RegularGuy]

You can do it two ways. One way makes more product. The way that makes more product is to get one shelf and one mixer for each ingredient. If you have an 8-step mix you need 10 shelves 8 mixers 2 handlers and at least 2 chemists. I used 3 chemist for my 8-step mix. One shelf is for the starting product, one shelf is for the finished product, and the rest of the shelves are for ingredients. You fill each shelf with the ingredients and assign the handler a route from the shelf to the mixer. Fill one shelf with starting product and assign that route from the shelf to the first mixer. Each ingredient has a route to each mixer. You set the destination from the mixer to the next mixer. The final mixer has a destination set to a shelf. You need to use a discovered recipe because the chemist wont pull out new mixes from the mixer. It is a bit confusing but it is worth it.

[RegularGuy]

The other way, that is slow is by having one chemist one handler 2 shelves. You load the ingredient shelf with the right combination of ingredients to mix a strain. The handlers will pull the first item of from the front of the shelf, so if it is loaded correctly it will work.

[David Davidson]

Hopefully in a future update the chemist will be able to see shelves and use his/her hands to pick stuff up.

The way handlers do things is far too clunky. They'll transport anything on a shelf to a chem bench, I've found chem benches with acid, phos and seeds before. I assume a mixer is no different, so if a chemist is put on a mix requiring something like weed + banana + donut + mouthwash + horse jism a handler could fill it with banana + weed + jsim + jism and any other permutation of the 4 ingredients, breaking the recipe.

Handlers badly need fixing, as do chemists. Hope it happens.