Assembly Line Throughput

[Reformatio]

Hey guys,

I read somewhere that the production rate of an assembly line is 32 robots per minute.

Can someone confirm please?
So it's 4 Assembler IIIs for bodys and heads and 8 Assembler IIIs for arms and legs?

Is there any way to increase this or do I just build more of them to satisfy my blast furnace?

[barbrady123]

Yes, 32/min is the max for a single line. You'd have to build multiple assembly lines to go above this. Note adding more lines will make it a pain to get all the bars down fast enough....you'll need a ton of warehouses.

[Reformatio]

Ok, I did a quick calculation and the rates for robots are terrible.

One assembly line is only like 560 Xenoferrite Ore Rubble and 320 Technum Ore Rubble per minute.
So what did I set up two blast furnaces with 96 casting machines each for?
Meanwhile this is bleeding my oil reservoirs dry and those are finite.

In my opinion I can stop playing until the next patch hits and hope for a recipe that needs gratuitous amounts of basic resources.

[barbrady123]

Yea, I personally don't think blast furnaces are worth it...I have enough infinite ore (with fracking) for over 2 of them from a single underground vein...and you can always grab additional underground veins and frack those too if necessary. Much easier to scale than building additional blast furnaces....not worth the hassle IMO...but they do look cool.

That being said, yea if you run the numbers, robots are MUCH more resource efficient than drones, EXCEPT for Olemite...which unfortunately, is the one that isn't infinite. But, it's also kind of a pain to scale drones super high, as they just don't sell for very much.

I also had quit and decided to stay gone until they fix Olemite issues, but then I started messing around with mods and that has sort of fixed the issue for me, at least for the time being lol

[TargetLost]

What you guys need so much Oil for? Is it the plastic plates or do you heat the arc furnance with Oil?
I know it will take like 100 or so large solar panels and batteries per arc furnance to heat the air electric but that is sure worth with.

[TargetLost]

Originally posted by TargetLost:

What you guys need so much Oil for? Is it the plastic plates or do you heat the blast furnance with Oil?
I know it will take like 100 or so large solar panels and batteries per blast furnance to heat the air electric but that is sure worth with.

edit: ok I see i have 350 large solarpanels providing more than 200 MJ peak and my consumption is 100 MJ (1 blast arc + the whole factory) so well it requires a lot of those panel. still wonder though do you use oil for the power and therefore need that much or just for the production of robo parts?

[Fenix]

Originally posted by TargetLost:

Originally posted by TargetLost:

What you guys need so much Oil for? Is it the plastic plates or do you heat the blast furnance with Oil?
I know it will take like 100 or so large solar panels and batteries per blast furnance to heat the air electric but that is sure worth with.

edit: ok I see i have 350 large solarpanels providing more than 200 MJ peak and my consumption is 100 MJ (1 blast arc + the whole factory) so well it requires a lot of those panel. still wonder though do you use oil for the power and therefore need that much or just for the production of robo parts?

Using Olumite for fuel in boilers is not a good idea... you're better off Tapping a Ignium Ore vein and putting a Fracking Tower on it, or make a ton of Batteries and Solar Panels
Anyway, The problem is you need olumite for These:

Fracking liquid
Power Cells
Polymer Board
Hydraulic Pistons
CPUs
Paint

These eat thru Olumite pretty quickly, as you really need all of them.
EDIT: JetPack Fuel, Too

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by TargetLost:

Originally posted by TargetLost:

What you guys need so much Oil for? Is it the plastic plates or do you heat the blast furnance with Oil?
I know it will take like 100 or so large solar panels and batteries per blast furnance to heat the air electric but that is sure worth with.

edit: ok I see i have 350 large solarpanels providing more than 200 MJ peak and my consumption is 100 MJ (1 blast arc + the whole factory) so well it requires a lot of those panel. still wonder though do you use oil for the power and therefore need that much or just for the production of robo parts?

FYI:
MJ is power storage. MegaJoules
MW is power usage. MegaWatts. Understood to be usage per second.
Pretty sure you want MW up there, not MJ

[TargetLost]

Yes you are correct and I am glad this is one of the games that does the units correct a lot are doing it wrong which is bad because ppl learn it wrong.

I upgraded to 500 large Solar panels 325MW peak and 500 large batteries 500000MJ that I hope will just cover 2 blast furnance and the rest of my factory.

The game needs larger solar panels and batteries...

Now what to do with 6 green belts metal plates and likely 6 green belts metal rods later?
The Assembly Lines are all limited with that FI currency Station bottle neck mechanics.
Don't like that you need something external to produce stuff.

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by TargetLost:

Yes you are correct and I am glad this is one of the games that does the units correct a lot are doing it wrong which is bad because ppl learn it wrong.

I upgraded to 500 large Solar panels 325MW peak and 500 large batteries 500000MJ that I hope will just cover 2 blast furnance and the rest of my factory.

The game needs larger solar panels and batteries...

Now what to do with 6 green belts metal plates and likely 6 green belts metal rods later?
The Assembly Lines are all limited with that FI currency Station bottle neck mechanics.
Don't like that you need something external to produce stuff.

unless you're deliberately overbuilding batteries, you should add another 1250 solar panels to match the battery capacity. 3.5 large solar to 1 large battery will give a tiny bit extra power over.

[TargetLost]

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

unless you're deliberately overbuilding batteries, you should add another 1250 solar panels to match the battery capacity. 3.5 large solar to 1 large battery will give a tiny bit extra power over.

Nope. Why everyone is telling this?
The batteries have another reason to be that larger.
They have to cover the time I simple build and add new power hungry stuff. That can span 2 or 3 days. I first expand then later I check how much power I need to cover all the expansions.
This way i never have to plan the power in ahead and can freely build.
So much better when you don't have to keep the power consumption n mind all the time.

anyway right now I am at 600 panels 500 batteries since there isn't much I will expand anymor ein the future I starte dto build panels only