Blue science ratio

[DragonHarrier]

What is the number of engine to miner assemblers needed to make 1 blue science a second?

[Yung Venuz]

Depends on what assembly machines your using

[piccolo255]

The crafting time will depend on the level of the assembler and presence of any module modifiers. I'll assume that both are being made with same assembler/module configuration.

Electric miners take 2 time units, engines take 10 time units to craft (how many seconds is a time unit will again depend on assembler crafting speed). So, to make 1 item in unit time, you'd need 2 assemblers for miners and 10 assemblers for engines. Therefore the ratio is miners:engines = 2:10.

If you're using lv2 assemblers (speed 0.75) with no modules, you'd need 2/0.75 = 2.67 rounded up to 3 assemblers making miners, and 10/0.75 = 13.33 rounded up to 14 assemblers making engines.

[DragonHarrier]

I managed to find a solution. Having the miner be made in an AM3 with 4x speed module 2 can keep up with 10 AM2's making engines. That is more than enough to keep 12 AM2 crafting blue science packs...provided I keep it well stocked with materials

I was originally basing it off the blue science design from this https://imgur.com/a/He44I#vayUtyR (but that was when blue science needed asemblers, not miners) Hence why I asked for a newer ratio.

Tested in creative and it works well ...in fact it makes way more miners than the engine asemblers combined

[KatherineOfSky]

I like using this calculator: http://kirkmcdonald.github.io/

[DragonHarrier]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

I like using this calculator: http://kirkmcdonald.github.io/

Wow, that is useful.

I decided to put all 6 science packs in for the build I am going for (10/12/12/5/8/8). I will need to supply this much raw:
Petroleum Gas 4796/m
Heavy Oil 385/m
Stone 514/m
Coal 225/m
Copper 6042/m
Iron 7526/m
Woozers that's a lot! Granted changing it to /s makes it less daunting, but still a lot.

[piccolo255]

Don't forget that, if you're going for infinite research, you're also going to need a rocket+satellite for space science. For 60 spm you'll need a launch every ~17 minutes. Not sure about raw resource costs --
my notes are for main bus ingredients, so I have, e.g., blue circuits instead of their raw materials -- but it's gonna double or triple the total needed.

As for the transport, a blue belt carries 2400 items/min, or 1200 items/min per lane, so your 6042 copper/min translates into 2.52 blue belts of material. (Perhaps this is listed on the site, but it doesn't work for me so I can't check :) )