Industrial Reagent Grinder

[Boaz1111]

About the PR

Added an industrial reagent grinder, that works like a recycler(can use conveyors). It mass-grinds things, at the cost of only being 0.9 times as efficient. It's researchable in the hydroponics research

Why / Balance

Botany grows produce for chem
Lot of produce
Chem can't grind it all
Work goes to waste
This allows for rapid grinding of plants, causing the chem-botany teamwork to grow.
factorio real

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• add: Added an industrial reagent grinder to the basic hydroponics research. It grinds things into reagents like a recycler.

[K-Dynamic]

How does it work

I'd rather making material reclaimers buildable since it grinds as you put stuff in, then you remove solutions from it with a beaker

[tutoumi]

I think its a good Idea if it give more reagent from the mat we grind because, for exemple, the bandana peel drug is too hard to make with a normal grinder that nobody even remember it existe

[Boaz1111]

How does it work

I'd rather making material reclaimers buildable since it grinds as you put stuff in, then you remove solutions from it with a beaker

that's exactly how this works

[Kadeo64]

Botany grows produce for chem
Lot of produce
Chem can't grind it all
Chem/Bot asks science for cool tech
"We're rushing experimental go away"
Work goes to waste anyway

[K-Dynamic]

that's exactly how this works

I see, that's convenient then; I thought there'd be a UI like that of regular reagent grinder

[Carmell0]

ITS FINALLY REAL IVE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR THIS THING FOR MONTHS

[Boaz1111]

I KNOW YOU INSPIRED ME TO MAKE THIS

[Aisu9]

what is the point of the industrial reagent grinder when you can use a material reclaimer? you wont have material lost and you will grind items instantly

[Kadeo64]

what is the point of the industrial reagent grinder when you can use a material reclaimer? you wont have material lost and you will grind items instantly

reclaimer isn't always mapped in the best places (good luck getting into cargo to use it if it's mapped there (which I never understood)) + sometimes it's next to disposals (scary!) ++ unanchoring it is hard because it grinds wrenches

[deltanedas]

unanchoring it is hard because it grinds wrenches

krill issue shrimply turn it off first

[Varen]

Why make it less efficient? It's kind of counter intuitive and encourages using the earlier machine to optimize instead, I'd look for another downside like the other machines do, such as waste heating issues.

[Kadeo64]

Why make it less efficient? It's kind of counter intuitive and encourages using the earlier machine to optimize instead, I'd look for another downside like the other machines do, such as waste heating issues.

I think at the point you need this machine you probably have enough plants on your counter to let some of their chems go to waste. If you only have 3 deus leaves you want to get as much omnizine out of them as possible but when you have 20 leaves you just want to get it over with.

[deltanedas]

entirely countered by eggs existing
just crack into bucket and dump into chemmaster

[K-Dynamic]

entirely countered by eggs existing just crack into bucket and dump into chemmaster

Ideally we're trying to get away from that since it adds another rng step to botany, especially if there is a better grinder for both chef and chem

[UbaserB]

where is the photo/video showcasing it

[Kadeo64]

where is the photo/video showcasing it

it's just a material reclaimer but reskinned

[Kadeo64]

entirely countered by eggs existing just crack into bucket and dump into chemmaster

eggmeta is annoying

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[deltanedas]

this is just a worse material reclaimer theres no reason for this to be made

[UbaserB]

this is just a worse material reclaimer theres no reason for this to be made

simple solution, make it work better for plants and not work for anything else

[Boaz1111]

Yeah I'm probably going to tweak it to

1. Make it work like a recycler(conveyor belt real)
2. Up the efficiency to like 1.0 or 1.1?

[deltanedas]

conveyor belt real would make it god tier for auto egg since its now fully automated

[Fildrance]

New sprite and disable processing of anything but plants, or bust!

[Boaz1111]

New sprite and disable processing of anything but plants, or bust!

I'd rather a maintainer give their review on the concept in general as well as if it really needs a new sprite.

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[metalgearsloth]

sure ig