Is there a way to automate Organic production ?? (and rocket launches)

[.:[Double Helix]:.]

i have a base that crafts all resources with a nice train line for easy loading of canisters onto the production line. auto-miners do the hard work for everything but organic.

is there a better way than just mindlessly driving around with the paver and drill just gathering up plants into a large container.

also can you auto launch rockets with the buttons or do you have to be onboard. ?

[PleB Hitzgi]

Soil centrifuge, but you're still gone have to gather soil manually.
Afaik you can't automate rockets yet.

[Mr. Fibble]

Trade platforms can sometimes be automated with storage sensor buttons but it depends on the cost, the 6 scrap for 4 wolframite works easily enough but the 1:1 for organic needs a bit more to stop the loading arm filling the storage for arriving resources.

The shuttles are player vehicles so can't be automated.

[seven]

Originally posted by Mr. Fibble:

Trade platforms can sometimes be automated with storage sensor buttons but it depends on the cost, the 6 scrap for 4 wolframite works easily enough but the 1:1 for organic needs a bit more to stop the loading arm filling the storage for arriving resources.

The shuttles are player vehicles so can't be automated.

I have a setup that works ok using several delay timers. It does slow down the process for the easy ones, but it's automated so I don't care.

[Mr. Fibble]

Simple rule, if time is a factor then DIY.

Automation is for the long game

[.:[Double Helix]:.]

thanks mate. after much messing about and some googling i have a astronium to organic trade station setup using storage sensors. the buttons and sensors did not work how i expected. would also be cool if you could grow plants and use the shredder for organic's seems more rational than trading for them.

bit sad about the rockets. would be nice if i could have launch pads on the end of each material line and shuttle in hematite and wolframite.

[Mr. Fibble]

For shuttles you could automate hydrazine fuel with an arm to load the shuttle that parks on the landing pad and arms filtered to unload whichever "tite" you're bringing in. Then on the mining world have storage and arms set to load.

All you would then have to do is to fly over and wait for loading then fly back for the refuel and unload.

With trains you now have the option for a spaceport with multiple pads each for a different resource away from a main base that can send the incoming resources back to storage via a rail loop.