how to automate the automatic dispenser

[The Tempted Man]

in a way that once for instance a critter egg drops, dupes will never come back to insert it again

They store the egg, it shoots it out, dupes come back to instert it again.... braindead AI is braindead.

[Owlchemist]

A few options:

1.) make the dispenser sweep only
2.) make wherever it lands handled by a sweeper which then puts it into storage so the dupes'll leave it alone.
3.) make it drop into a place that the dupes can't get to (like a pit, or an access restricted door).

[Dschinghis Pan]

Don't allow dupes near the dropoff.
Don't allow manual use of the loader.

[Strygald]

you build it in such a way so that dupes can load it but cannot pick up whatever drops out of it, eg* on the other side of a locked pneumatic door or over a ledge with the chute over a pit.

[The Tempted Man]

Then this item is useless to me. What I wanted to do is to drop all eggs in one room, let them hatch on their own, after they all hatch, dupes would come and take them animals either to my stables to refill population or to my kill room. But apparently this is impossible to do?

I also noticed that there is something called manual control, but there is no separate button for this setting.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Then this item is useless to me. What I wanted to do is to drop all eggs in one room, let the hatch on their own, after they all hatch, dupes would come and take them to my kill room. But apparently this is impossible to do?

It is possible - you just need to not allow dupes to load in eggs.
Or to use an automated critter-counter locking the doors until a certain amount of hatches hatched.
Or place some egg-breading thingies in there without energy and have an auto-sweeper put the eggs right into them.
Or use the critter-drop-off in your ranch to auto-wrangle and have dupes bring surplus hatches directly to your butcher room, without the need of an additional egg-dropoff-room.

[Ellip]

You could make an "airlock" with a weight trigger to filter out hatched critters.

Make a room where you drop off the eggs that is inaccessible to dupes with a a door into the "airlock". Since hatches will move around once they hatch they'll eventually walk through the "airlock" and step on the weight trigger. Once they walk through the door have it close the door they walk through and open another door in front where your dupes can collect the hatch and move it where you need them to go.

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Then this item is useless to me. What I wanted to do is to drop all eggs in one room, let the hatch on their own, after they all hatch, dupes would come and take them to my kill room. But apparently this is impossible to do?

It is possible - you just need to not allow dupes to load in eggs.
Or to use an automated critter-counter locking the doors until a certain amount of hatches hatched.
Or use the critter-drop-off in your ranch to auto-wrangle and have dupes bring those hatches directly to your butcher room, without the need of an additional egg-dropoff-room.

But if I am not supposed to let dupes load the eggs in, how to get them in 1 space in a manner that would allow dupes to come in and out for the hatched animals and leave the eggs in that room. That is the question.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

It is possible - you just need to not allow dupes to load in eggs.
Or to use an automated critter-counter locking the doors until a certain amount of hatches hatched.
Or use the critter-drop-off in your ranch to auto-wrangle and have dupes bring those hatches directly to your butcher room, without the need of an additional egg-dropoff-room.

But if I am not supposed to let dupes load the eggs in, how to get them in 1 space in a manner that would allow dupes to come in and out for the hatched animals and leave the eggs in that room. That is the question.

Auto-sweeper.

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

But if I am not supposed to let dupes load the eggs in, how to get them in 1 space in a manner that would allow dupes to come in and out for the hatched animals and leave the eggs in that room. That is the question.

Auto-sweeper.

you are too dumb for this. We are talking about 1 room, 1 room only. But, I figured out what I wanted, so thasnks anyway.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

braindead AI is braindead.

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

you are too dumb for this.

The pot said what?

[Xuhybrid]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Auto-sweeper.

you are too dumb for this. We are talking about 1 room, 1 room only. But, I figured out what I wanted, so thasnks anyway.

The fact that you couldn't figure it out on your own is embarassing eh lol.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Auto-sweeper.

you are too dumb for this. We are talking about 1 room, 1 room only. But, I figured out what I wanted, so thasnks anyway.

One room? I though you are loading eggs and dropping them again. What point is there in doing that in one room?

[Jarcionek]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

you are too dumb for this. We are talking about 1 room, 1 room only. But, I figured out what I wanted, so thasnks anyway.

One room? I though you are loading eggs and dropping them again. What point is there in doing that in one room?

Don't bother. We are too dumb to understand this.