I remember a guy who crafted using Logistic network or....

[Cosmoros]

I remember (loong aagooo so may be forgotten) some video where a guy used Log Net to craft stuff. Or at least bring needed parts. Is there a way? Cause Im quite annoyed by when I need some parts to craft 1 stuff I need, but it needs like 4 diferent components.

[Fel]

Logistics robots are definitely one of the possibilities, just put a requester chest, an inserter taking from it into the assembling machine and set the requester chest to demand whatever ingredients are needed, you will need passive provider chests fed with those materials somewhere in the same logistics network as well.
Logistics network isn't really that hard after you learn what each type of logistics chest does, especially since you will mostly use passive provider and requester chests for your logistics and storage chests for your construction robots.

But that isn't the only way to craft 4 ingredients items.
Since your belts have 2 sides and the recipes needing a lot of different ingredients typically craft slowly you can use 2 belts, each having a different item per side, that means that just with an inserter and a long hand inserter you can grab all 4 items easily.
There are other tricks you can use with underground belts to even get 4 belts within reach on a single side of an assembling machine as well (that is usually used for science since you have 7 types of science packs by the end of the game but it can be used for assembling machines as well if needed).


Or did you mean bringing the items to your character in order to manually craft maybe?
The answer is pretty similar except that instead of using a requester chest you use the request slots you have in your inventory and logistics robots will try to bring you what you want from the passive provider and storage chests that are in the network you are also in.

[Cosmoros]

Originally posted by Fel:

Logistics robots are definitely one of the possibilities, just put a requester chest, an inserter taking from it into the assembling machine and set the requester chest to demand whatever ingredients are needed, you will need passive provider chests fed with those materials somewhere in the same logistics network as well.
Logistics network isn't really that hard after you learn what each type of logistics chest does, especially since you will mostly use passive provider and requester chests for your logistics and storage chests for your construction robots.

But that isn't the only way to craft 4 ingredients items.
Since your belts have 2 sides and the recipes needing a lot of different ingredients typically craft slowly you can use 2 belts, each having a different item per side, that means that just with an inserter and a long hand inserter you can grab all 4 items easily.
There are other tricks you can use with underground belts to even get 4 belts within reach on a single side of an assembling machine as well (that is usually used for science since you have 7 types of science packs by the end of the game but it can be used for assembling machines as well if needed).


Or did you mean bringing the items to your character in order to manually craft maybe?
The answer is pretty similar except that instead of using a requester chest you use the request slots you have in your inventory and logistics robots will try to bring you what you want from the passive provider and storage chests that are in the network you are also in.

I can do that. Just I dont know how to make them bring the materials for craft. Like witout manually chosing all of them ughhh

[Lunacy]

You can shift right click to copy the building then shift left click on the requester chest to auto-sort a requester chest and it'll bring the necessary ingredients if they're available in the provider chests

[KatherineOfSky]

OP, Have you ever done the Lazy B-stard achievement? If not, I HIGHLY recommend you do so. It will teach to make everything in the factory, so all you need is to request finished items in your inventory.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

OP, Have you ever done the Lazy B-stard achievement? If not, I HIGHLY recommend you do so. It will teach to make everything in the factory, so all you need is to request finished items in your inventory.

My favorite part of that was when I finally got t3 assemblers so I just had one loaded up with speed modules to fastcraft whatever I wanted in bulk :P

[pat]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

You can shift right click to copy the building then shift left click on the requester chest to auto-sort a requester chest and it'll bring the necessary ingredients if they're available in the provider chests

Whuck?? Why didn't you people tell me about this before?? I had no idea!

[Fel]

It only saves a marginal amount of time since it sets quantities that can be pretty weird, meaning that most of the time you would have to open the chest's interface and set the quantities yourself.

For example, an assembling machine set with an electric mining drill (10 iron plates, 5 iron wheels and 3 electronic circuits) sets the requester at 75, 37 and 22, which is a weird quantity that matches the ratio (roughly) but doesn't correspond to a specific amount of crafting cycles (7 plus a bit).

[piccolo255]

Originally posted by Fel:

For example, an assembling machine set with an electric mining drill (10 iron plates, 5 iron wheels and 3 electronic circuits) sets the requester at 75, 37 and 22, which is a weird quantity that matches the ratio (roughly) but doesn't correspond to a specific amount of crafting cycles (7 plus a bit).

The requester amounts are set not for a specific amount of crafting cycles, but for a specific amount of crafting time (maybe with a certain minimum) -- wiki says 30 seconds ( https://wiki.factorio.com/Requester_chest ).

Basically, requesting enough for, say, 3 cycles, is going to be more than enough if the recipe is a Speed Module 3, but woefully inadequate if the recipe is a green circuit. And the numbers get more out of whack when you consider different marks of Assembler or various combinations of modules. Time-based makes the most sense.

[pat]

Originally posted by Fel:

It only saves a marginal amount of time since it sets quantities that can be pretty weird, meaning that most of the time you would have to open the chest's interface and set the quantities yourself.

For example, an assembling machine set with an electric mining drill (10 iron plates, 5 iron wheels and 3 electronic circuits) sets the requester at 75, 37 and 22, which is a weird quantity that matches the ratio (roughly) but doesn't correspond to a specific amount of crafting cycles (7 plus a bit).

I get your point, but I'm really ok with that. If nothing else, it quickly tells me what I need to be requesting, and now I can adjust the amounts if needed. (But I probably wouldn't.)

I also tend to feed a lot of assemblers (Bob's mods)

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