Factory overall crafting time display

[Nex-Razin]

The factory shows the crafting time for individual items but when im making 250 copper coils, it doesnt really help me to know each one will take 48 minutes. If we had an overall amount of time needed to make 250 items shown then we could put the same amount of energy in the generator, like normal machines do.

Unless I missed something and it already does.

Factory is amazing btw, didnt think anything could top the auto assembling station.

[zipzoomzaria]

The factory UI is kinda confusing, I'm not a fan of the factory at all cause it seems very messy. I can't seem to even figure out how to cancel crafting. I don't really see the point of the factory at all

[bubbajoe62]

I think to cancel crafting, you just put the amount back down to zero.

[Nex-Razin]

I think the factory is cool if you want to make a complex unit like steel shell from scratch, which involves making the carbon bars, the welding rods, the steel plates then making the steel frames and then the steel shell but with the factory can just do it for you so you arent bouncing around machines. If you already have the materials on hand then its easier and faster to use the normal workshop table.

Also the factory can work on several items at the same time, depending on what machines you have put in the factory. Each machine gives a certain amount of what the machine does (example: industrial furnace gives smelting 10, grinder gives polishing 6. these numbers can be viewed in the factory worktop table.) when youre making some lets say steel plates, this will require a some of those numbers for example 1 cutting and 5 smelting, so the more machines you have the more items you can work on at the same time.

This is just some info i gathered from playing around with it for a while yesterday, just my understanding of how the factory works, i hope it helps.

Bubbajoe is correct, you have to turn the crafting count back to zero to cancel a project and yes that is a rather confusing way to go about it.