Recycling surplus items in the crusher

[vdst]

Once I could drop surplus items like pipes and steel plates in the crusher pit's crushing rolls and I got the ingredient ores back in return.
I tried it with some pipes and got nothing back in this version. Or stupid me failed somehow.

Does it work in the current version and how to do it?
Thank you!

[Fury6]

Doesn't seem to be working anymore in the public beta version, so either it's a bug or been deliberately removed.

It would make sense though that a rock crusher would *not* be able to reclaim base minerals/elements etc from the built components - However, I would really like to see the printer be smart enough to take into account components dumped into it's inventory for calculating it's build lists. Or, a recycle button in it's UI panel that just scraps all of it's current inventory.

As it stands now, the blueprint preselects (which are a great idea themselves) start to become a bit useless over time as you still have to resort to manual counting of the individual components to prevent runaway accumulation (or else just keep dumping overflow components into a trash bin and wear the loss).

[Seraphin]

I confirm crushing items don't work for me neither in 0.199.1. If I throw steel plates into the pit they just fall through to the bottom, without being recycled, even if they hit the roller directly.

I don't think this change is intented, but think of it as a bug.


As Fury6 is talking about, I would love it too, if the 3d printer of the crusher would consider existing items in the (crushers) inventory ... on the other hand, printing of several blueprints in a row would be needed to be redone, as for now it would result into not printing any further items for additional blueprints down the row.

[Fury6]

Follow-up...

So it seems the devs were already way ahead of me. I just tested an idea and can confirm that the crusher's printer will indeed use any component items that you dump into it... HOWEVER, they need to be dumped into it's *Resources Inventory* rather than the printer inventory.

Not the same as a recycle function but good enough for me.

[AnimeMayhem]

Interesting that it acts as another storage for the crusher, but the seed pods I threw in there a week ago won't grind up no matter how many loads of rock I have dumped into the crusher since. So yes an annoying bug that needs to be fixed, but also low priority compared to some other things.

[Fury6]

It's *not* "acting like another storage for the crusher" and it's not a bug, so there's nothing to 'fix' here. It's acting like precisely what it says it is - a 'Resource Inventory' for the printer.

Seed pods are not a resource component for the printer - the printer can't *use* them for anything it can manufacture.

Having said that, I would definitely be on board for the inclusion of a recycling functionality somewhere, if not at the crushers then maybe at the trashcans or whatever.