The Planet Crafter How to Use Biproduct Metals from Mining

Once you get drones going you can toss up a chest to have the drones to keep full, the rest is just waste. basic mats are infinite once you get miners up and running.

Guide to Use Biproduct Metals from Mining

With drones you can create a locker for every sort of stone demand with priority 0 and you set up an autocrushed / Trash with priority -1.

This way as soon as the locker is full of a stone sort the overflow will go into the autobin and the extractor will not stop extracting the rarer ores because it doesn’t gets full.

Best is to not add the rare ore to the autotrash demand so that on stand still your locker is full with the rare ore and your excarvater.

However this is obsolete once you have the extractors you can set what exactly you want to extract.

Pro tip

Create a large/yes large storage room and set up a locker for every storable item with demand of this item priority 0.
Place one locker in your base with supply everything priority 1.
Now whenever you come home you can just empty your pockets into that distribution locker.

Note

The only trouble thing is the autocrafter has to be placed somewhat in the middle of that large locker room if you want it to have all the material accessible for crating.

You can place it on another floor heigher or lower though.

Other Tips

Build an Advanced Crafting Station next to the aluminum one. early game, you can take the junk metals plus some of the aluminum, and turn it into Super Alloy. This is really nice before the T2 extractor, as alloy found in the wild is in limited quantities, and you’ll likely have to make some yourself to keep up with the alloy demands.

Later on, I’ll use drones to dump the junk into lockers for each of those materials until they are full, and then after that, they go into the shredder.

You can also build an Advanced Crafting Station next to the sulphur one too, and before you go out to raid it, bring 2-3 pieces of aluminum with you to make alloy right there at the sulphur extractor, OR, use the aluminum that is found in that valley.

Building an ACS next to the Uranium Mine lets you condense all of the uranium into 1-2 rods, too. In general it’s handy to have an ACS next to each extractor for various reasons.

Bonus Tip: Have your storage in the first and third floor (first floor storage is basically your smart base setup before you automate) and put auto crafters on the second floor. Incubators and DNA-tools fit well close to all the lockers with the required stuff. That way eventhough you might have to fudge around a little bit, the autocrafters will be able to access all the necessary storage. Oh, and use large compartments, not just the basic ones.

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