Crafting

Motivation

In the beginning of the game, it is easy to make everything manually, but as the time advances manual crafting is less and less sufficient way to create stuff.

Basics

• Assembling machines are used for automated crafting.
• There are two versions of assembling machines.
• Assembling machine 1 is cheaper and allows to use recipes up to 2 ingredients.
• Assembling machine 2 allows to use recipes up to 4 ingredients (it includes all recipes in the game currently).

Setup recipe

When the assembling machine is built and opened for the first time, player can choose the item it should create.

Usage

When the assembling machine is set up it contains:

• Input - inventory slots dedicated for the individual recipe ingredients.
• Output - result of the crafting
• Reset - button to change the recipe

Both Input and Output slots can be filled manually, which is practical in the intermediate automation phase, but later in the game, it is usually filled automatically by inserters.

As soon as it has enough ingredients for one item, the assembling machine starts to craft it, result of the crafting is stored in the output slot, and can be taken manually or by inserter.