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All recipes has a maximum productivity of 300%. This was primarily done to prevent infinite resource exploits involving the [[recycler]]{{SA}} and its 25% return of input items. This cap puts a hard limit on the effectiveness of infinite productivity researches. | |||
Note that miners are not crafting machines that execute recipes, nor are labs. As such, {{Icon|mining productivity (research)}} and {{Icon|research productivity (research)|space-age = yes}} have no upper limit. | |||
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Revision as of 15:21, 30 December 2024
Productivity is a percentage based modifier that can be applied to assembling machine, mining drill, and lab type buildings. It can be increased by inserting productivity modules and by researching certain technologies.
Functionality
Progress made by productivity bonuses can be observed by opening the interface of a building that has a bonus. It will be shown as an additional progress bar in purple. For each time this bar fills up, the machine creates an additional product. How fast this bar progresses is determined by the amount of productivity bonus.
A productivity of 100 % will create an extra product at the same rate the machine works at. A productivity of 50 % will create additional product on every second cycle. A productivity of 1 % will create an additional product on every 100th cycle, and so on.
Represented as a simple forumla:
| Additional product per cycle = productivity % / 100 |
Lab productivity
When productivity is applied to labs (or biolabs
), the productivity bonus is directly calculated and applied each tick so the productivity bar is simply cosmetic. This means that it does not matter that the productivity bar resets when the research is changed; no productivity bonus is lost.
Built-in productivity
Some buildings have a built-in productivity bonus regardless of modules and researched technologies:
Technologies
Certain technologies will increase the productivity of some recipes:
- Mining productivity
- Steel plate productivity
- Low density structure productivity
- Scrap recycling productivity
- Processing unit productivity
- Plastic bar productivity
- Rocket fuel productivity
- Asteroid productivity
- Rocket part productivity
- Research productivity
Limits
All recipes has a maximum productivity of 300%. This was primarily done to prevent infinite resource exploits involving the recycler and its 25% return of input items. This cap puts a hard limit on the effectiveness of infinite productivity researches.
Note that miners are not crafting machines that execute recipes, nor are labs. As such,
and
have no upper limit.