How to Efficiently Use The Factory

[AsianGirlLover]

Any tips for how to make the most out of this thing?

So far I have 4 comprehensive cutters, 4 comprehensive grinders, 4 electric furnaces, and 2 each of skivers and blenders.

It seems I can put in orders to make as much of something as I want, but the process seems slower than if I had just used the individual machines.

For example, if I had 4 grinders chugging out 50 orders of bronze pipes each, I’d get 4 pipes per hour vs. 1.

Does putting in multiple orders of the same thing increase output in the same amount of time? I might go back to flooding my yard with fire-powered generators at this rate....

[Iyasenu]

Yes, say you want to make 10 Iron Bars.

If you just make one order of 10 Iron bars, it'll use up 1 machine power and make them one at a time.

If you make 10 orders of 1 Iron bar each, it'll use up 10 Machine Power and make them all at the same time.

The only downside is that it can be annoying to queue up many orders, but it's still way better than the non-factory alternative (which is having separate machines that you'd be walking to each and setting orders individually)

There is literally NO downside to using machines in a factory over using them outside of one, as long as you actually properly make use of all your machine power.
Of course it'd be better if the game automatically spread out a single order amongst all available machine power, instead of making you do it manually, but whatever.

[AsianGirlLover]

Ah, thanks for the clarification! Fantastic, that makes a lot of sense.

So, let’s say I wanted to make a huge amount of OP milk tea - if I had 1000 units of tea I could possibly make, and I had 10 machine power worth of blenders, I could submit 10 orders of 100 and get 1000 in about 500 hours (they take about 30 minutes to make each).

Edit: 500 hours would be if they were all make on one machine. Divide that by ten and the actual time would be 50 hours for 1000 units of milk tea... nice.

[ziroonderel]

Also, you can queue up a huge order even if you don't have enough materials, just refilling the material storage of the Factory from time to time. I just put in 999 units of most things I might conceivably need, and one month after building it I'm basically swimming in materials for everything I might need.

[KainSvendir]

Seriously it's so pratical, it just takes a bit of time to get used to put the orders. I usually do go for several hundreds of the things I want, especially carbon steel bars, bronze pipes, fiber and planks - and I mean several-times-100 of each, I don't really want to click on the 999 all the times for some reason (but ziroonderel is totally right in saying that you could do that and it would still work, you indeed just need to add the mats from the outside real quick when you gathered them, but I think I prefer to to have to cancel stuff if I suddenly need to make something rare and wouldn't have any available slot).

I've also said it somewhere else but just the fact that you simply need to put some condensed power stones to have your machines powered for months is good enough to make the factory awesome. And it's so easy, a couple of clicks and you're done.

As for the machines you put inside, I'd say that you won't really need to have more than one electric furnace at least. Save the slots for more skivers/grinders/furnaces or even blenders. There are only what, two items which need those machines? So 4 of them seem excessive to me. The comprehensive machines add more slots of their specialty though if I understand correctly (if I'm wrong please correct me) so they're a good choice.

Anyway yeah the others already explained, you do need to put manually several times others of the same items if you want a lot of it quickly, but the gain on yard space, of fuel, of time (since you won't have to walk to each machines anymore all over the place and set/check them every day) is worth it as you guess it.

[Arturia]

I just wish the worktable for factory worked the same as the outside one. Have to split up materials to get reduced costs outside.

[KainSvendir]

Originally posted by Arturia:

I just wish the worktable for factory worked the same as the outside one. Have to split up materials to get reduced costs outside.

Well it's not that much of a hassle if you place your worktable just by the factory's external console. You just take the mats you need from the factory's stocks, use them on the worktable and put them back really quick, it takes like 2s and you barely need to move, that's kinda what the console on the outside is for.
Like factory is already OP enough, I feel like it's fine if you just need to have this as a tiny thing to get around. Or else your worktable isn't much of a use too, it's cool if your dad's old craft table can at least be useful for saving you some material cost and some in-game hours for the daily commissions, while the factory is for the long term, big projects and passive money making.

[Frieren]

So i just put down my factory and i found out i needed the automatic assembly (level 3)? .. so now i'm trying to make stuff to sell to have enough gols for the automatic assembly so then i can start using my factory .... i have the mats for it .. just need the money LOL

[ziroonderel]

I found that getting money for, like, everything was a side effect of trying to fill the Museum's fish collection :D especially after I got like 4 King Gladiator Fish when I was looking for the King Wise Fish.

[Frieren]

They have a fish collection? ... i've seen the artwork ones and relics and assembled ones (of which i did try to put something down but it said no .. can't remember what it was ...)

[ziroonderel]

There's a big aquarium in the upper floor :) If you collect all fishes (and especially if you collect all King variants, but you can start with normal ones) you'll get a surprise in the mail.

[Frieren]

Originally posted by ziroonderel:

There's a big aquarium in the upper floor :) If you collect all fishes (and especially if you collect all King variants, but you can start with normal ones) you'll get a surprise in the mail.

Good to know! thanks!!!

[Dragorin]

Originally posted by KarmicRequiem:

Originally posted by ziroonderel:

There's a big aquarium in the upper floor :) If you collect all fishes (and especially if you collect all King variants, but you can start with normal ones) you'll get a surprise in the mail.

Good to know! thanks!!!

The fish collection rewards can be buggy. I'd recommend collecting all the Emperors and hand in all 13 emperors at the same time, 1 for each fish type. Do not hand in any other fish. Go home and you should have 2 rewards in your mail. After that you can hand in all the Kings. I do not know if you get a reward for the Kings. I do know if you hand in any fish other than 13 Emperors you have a chance to get no reward. I've done this twice now and gotten rewards both times by only handing in all the Emperors.

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Dragorin:

Originally posted by KarmicRequiem:

Good to know! thanks!!!

The fish collection rewards can be buggy. I'd recommend collecting all the Emperors and hand in all 13 emperors at the same time, 1 for each fish type. Do not hand in any other fish. Go home and you should have 2 rewards in your mail. After that you can hand in all the Kings. I do not know if you get a reward for the Kings. I do know if you hand in any fish other than 13 Emperors you have a chance to get no reward. I've done this twice now and gotten rewards both times by only handing in all the Emperors.

If there’s anything at all you MUST remember from that post, it’s this:

Do NOT submit any emperor fish unless you do them all at the same time. A glitch will cause you not to earn a reward if you do otherwise

[Frieren]

I went up to the fish tank yesterday .... and clicked observe ... i have one emperor fish so far .. (catfish) ... have yet to find the others ...

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by KarmicRequiem:

I went up to the fish tank yesterday .... and clicked observe ... i have one emperor fish so far .. (catfish) ... have yet to find the others ...

You can easily find all the emperor fish in one go if you participate in the fishing festival in spring