Automated Industrial factory

[DrKillPayShunt]

It would be awesome to have a one stop spot that will be able to take all items that are placed within it and transport them around the base to the different places that it is used to keep crafting and all you have to do is gather the raw materials. Having an industrial grill that when linked will keep adding fuel and raw meat (priority to raw prime able to be toggled) and removing cooked and transferring to refrigerators and preserving bins with a 10-15% of each inventory to be transferred to making jerky and the preserving bins that will automatically be topped off with oil and sparkpowder, and generators automatically topped off with gas. Forges automatically topped off with wood when empty and raw metal still in inventory, with charcoal transferred to mortar or chemistry table. and then all the overflow or processed materials then transferred to their own storage boxes or vaults. Then all that is left is to have the ability to draw from the conveyor along the crafting tables, smithy's, fabs, cooking pot the items that are across the base or a level or two away to craft all the specific items you want and need without having to waste the time to travel to and from the individual storage locations. All this to keep the inventory of your crafting tables, smithy's fabs, cooking pots empty and ready to be used for whatever you want without having to search to the bottom constantly through a list of items that will either spoil, or were incorrectly placed in the first place for each new item made. Again I know its a big undertaking but for those of us doing solo games this will remove the need for a tribe to keep things crafting and in the time to tame a bronto or a rex we could have a whole new batch of items ready for 1-3 more tames. The only demand that I see to use this mod or update would be having enough specific storage made up. This will also allow the players that enjoy building or taming or just travelling around the ark and exploring more time to do exactly what they want to do knowing that the majority of their factory is working along the same speed as that of a tribe with x3+ more members and able to keep essential production happening.

[Frostbringer]

This isn't minecraft tekkit.

[Eldardûr]

More like "This isn't SpaceEngineers" :D

[kotawolf]

Okay, I got lost about the third of fourth sentence.... looks like a big runon paragraph. I'm not sure half of what you want is even possible....in a single construct.

[DrKillPayShunt]

I have not seen or played minecraft in any way shape or form so no clue what you mean by that. As far as SpaceEngineers, Why is that a problem? isn't the same effect that people use in those games the same that I am talking about here, to make the grind and time demand to prepare before being able to play less and therefore making the game more enjoyable? isn't that the same effect of the Industrial items to craft and refine things at a higher pace so people can get back to whatever they are wanting to do in the game faster to make the game more enjoyable?

[Eldardûr]

Originally posted by Crazy Carrlos:

I have not seen or played minecraft in any way shape or form so no clue what you mean by that. As far as SpaceEngineers, Why is that a problem? isn't the same effect that people use in those games the same that I am talking about here, to make the grind and time demand to prepare before being able to play less and therefore making the game more enjoyable? isn't that the same effect of the Industrial items to craft and refine things at a higher pace so people can get back to whatever they are wanting to do in the game faster to make the game more enjoyable?

Minecraft is the reason why u r playing Ark right now, u should try it, is the game that pushed the survival+crafting+building genere in the main stream. You could even build electric cicuits which means that u could create computers inside the game ... even with screens !! They were superbig but an interesting engineering work to do. Never seen it in other games.

A part from that Minecraft and SpaceEngineers have something Ark still does not have: procedurally generated maps which means u have unlimited resources at any given time while in Ark u have to wait for them to respawn and other people can farm them before u so u might find an empty spot. So I don't see in Ark the capability of having a constant supply of resources to feed the industrial factory and what makes u lose most of the time is transporting the materials from farming to dino and from dino to crafting spot which even if u have that factory u would have to do it anyway.

The only time you safe is from boxes to crafting spot and viceversa but i don't think is that much compared to what i mentioned above. Mayb building a factory input up to the farming spot but that would lead to servers full of ugly tubes from mountains and forests and any farming spot to player's bases. Sincerly i don't wanna see that