Factory

[Sevro au Barca]

Is it intended that, eventhough I have comprehensive cutters and grinders in the factory I still am back to having to use bars? Do comprehensive machines set in the factory lose their ability to create plates etc. out of raw materials?

[Wanderer Bobbi]

They shouldn't. Did you upgrade you factory production by purchasing the necessary books at the Research Center via their register?

There is a light green box to the right of your worktable in your factory. I believe the maximum level is 4 or 5 for production and same for progress or the other way around. Let me check & get back to you.

Definitely get 2 books to start. If you have a surplus of books, they sell for a nice profit ~~ especially when the market is high.

[Wanderer Bobbi]

Research Notes only become available for purchase the morning after completing  Mission: Adventure of the Starlight Island.

Research Notes can be used at the Smart Control Center, a console to the right of the Auto workstation, to upgrade the speed at which the Factory produces items.

According to the table under Factory#Upgrades, the player needs to purchase at least 55 Research Notes, to realise all achievable factory upgrades.

*The above information copied from Wiki My Time At Portia.

The price for each research book is 10 disks.

[TequilaSunrise]

You don't need bars except for worktable items. Factory crafted goods will always use raw materials when possible, even if you don't have comprehensive machines added.
So for making aluminum plates for example it will use the raw materials instead of the alu. bars, that's how it works for me.

[Wanderer Bobbi]

@TequilaSunrise[ES] May I please ask you, what equipment you use in your factory. I've always wondered what is the "best" to have. I'm not sure Wiki has the information or I just don't know how to find it.

[TequilaSunrise]

Originally posted by babushka:

@TequilaSunrise[ES] May I please ask you, what equipment you use in your factory. I've always wondered what is the "best" to have. I'm not sure Wiki has the information or I just don't know how to find it.

Of course, though I just got the factory very recently, like 2-3 days ago in game, just starting the first winter on my first year on this save.

What machines you put in there will be totally dependant on what you want to make, but I find that the most useful and needed ones are smelting and electric furnace smelting. For Blender and grinder its enough to have like one blender I find, since I rarely make too much with them.

For grinder I use comprehensive grinder because they also provide smelting, and grinder is not much needed either, so I find 2 is enough for me. For cutting I prefer industrial cutters as they provide way more cutting power than the comprehensive version, but I still added one comprehensive to complement.
I also use 3 advanced skivers to make tons of rope with the cotton I plant, then use it for making herb fences. The aluminum I use to make those windwheels and the steel plates can be used to make safety boxes to sell. All those things will make more money than I will ever need in very little time, I wish there was an even more expensive end game items so you can money sink like a few millions at least so all that work can be put to use..

This is how it looks for now, I will be replacing the civil furnaces in the back with industrial and electric furnaces when I get around to it.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/766098997041074943/72B1028D4A9240AA3DFF2F23158BED18A31E8319/

[Wanderer Bobbi]

Super! I'll have to get on my laptop & show you Emma's factory. I'm on my mobile. I'll return.

[Sevro au Barca]

Yeah, my problem is just that, for example, when I want to make steal plates it only gives me the option to make them out of steal bars. Then again, maybe I would get the option to make them out of raw materials if I ran out of steel bars.

[TequilaSunrise]

Originally posted by Sevro au Barca:

Yeah, my problem is just that, for example, when I want to make steal plates it only gives me the option to make them out of steal bars. Then again, maybe I would get the option to make them out of raw materials if I ran out of steel bars.

That's odd.. what level is your factory?

I did a little test on mine took out the comprehensive cutter and took a screenshot, as you can see mine doesn't even give the option to make steel plates out of bars, and I have only industrial cutters in the screen.
I don't keep any bars in the factory storage, I use the normal chests for produced items, check that out too I guess.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870295093

[Sevro au Barca]

Originally posted by TequilaSunriseES:

Originally posted by Sevro au Barca:

Yeah, my problem is just that, for example, when I want to make steal plates it only gives me the option to make them out of steal bars. Then again, maybe I would get the option to make them out of raw materials if I ran out of steel bars.

That's odd.. what level is your factory?

I did a little test on mine took out the comprehensive cutter and took a screenshot, as you can see mine doesn't even give the option to make steel plates out of bars, and I have only industrial cutters in the screen.
I don't keep any bars in the factory storage, I use the normal chests for produced items, check that out too I guess.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870295093

This actually was the answer to the problem you damn saint. Seems like the factory prioritizes bars over raw materials as long as it has access to them, removing them made it use raw materials, thread question solved.

[TequilaSunrise]

Originally posted by Sevro au Barca:

Originally posted by TequilaSunriseES:

That's odd.. what level is your factory?

I did a little test on mine took out the comprehensive cutter and took a screenshot, as you can see mine doesn't even give the option to make steel plates out of bars, and I have only industrial cutters in the screen.
I don't keep any bars in the factory storage, I use the normal chests for produced items, check that out too I guess.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870295093

This actually was the answer to the problem you damn saint. Seems like the factory prioritizes bars over raw materials as long as it has access to them, removing them made it use raw materials, thread question solved.

Nice! Glad it helped! :)

[Wanderer Bobbi]

Just a factory pic: 6 Industrial & 2 Electric Furnaces; 4 Advanced Skivers; 4 Industrial Cutters; 3 Grinders; 1 comprehensive Grinder & Cutter (I always meant to exchange 1 Industrial Cutter & Grinder to Comprehensives). I have 9 blenders. Emma breeds fish (makes dough balls), also there is a need in the game (for pigments, resin, clay, concrete, cultivated soil & if you wish, make your own fertillizer). This factory has been updated for extra machine placements. Emma did complete the game.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779609762219652435/8A2D99A9E0B2186A457F95CE4F9E1F807F6284C4/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779609762219651128/CF085186AE4C5770B956D0C76DF58642F2D1E05B/

[TequilaSunrise]

Originally posted by babushka:

Just a factory pic: 6 Industrial & 2 Electric Furnaces; 4 Advanced Skivers; 4 Industrial Cutters; 3 Grinders; 1 comprehensive Grinder & Cutter (I always meant to exchange 1 Industrial Cutter & Grinder to Comprehensives). I have 9 blenders. Emma breeds fish (makes dough balls), also there is a need in the game (for pigments, resin, clay, concrete, cultivated soil & if you wish, make your own fertillizer). This factory has been updated for extra machine placements. Emma did complete the game.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779609762219652435/8A2D99A9E0B2186A457F95CE4F9E1F807F6284C4/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779609762219651128/CF085186AE4C5770B956D0C76DF58642F2D1E05B/

Nice, thats a lot of blenders your builder's got there! :)
I upgraded the factory to full capacity the same day I got it, had over 1k data discs in my inventory and the money and materials for level 2 so switched all my production to factory asap.

To be honest it's hard to have a bad setup on the factory because it's pretty overpowered, every machine multiplies itself x10 so the output capacity of the factory is inmense.

Im still at the start of road to the somber marsh quest, got a lot to do still to finish the game.