User:Lordmatt/Factory notes
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Matt's Factory Notes. The factory is where producers are made. These are vital resources for other buildings.
The Factory is fed by the mine
Contents
Standard factory
To "build max" left-shift plus click seems to do the job.
Sometimes it gets stuck on build all which sets the shop to buy some. I've not worked out why.
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Tip: Power up your power plant to boost factory speed. |
Producers
This is the main reason to run the factory. Make as many T1 producers as you can afford and start upgrading to higher tiers as soon as you are able. even one or two higher tiers will kick out far more than a stack of one tier lower.
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Tip: Your most important producer is likely  as you can convert to everything else.
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Managing inventory
I find it best to group by tier in a roughly 4-wide by 5-deep grid.
When you have massive amounts of something, processing them all can bottleneck operations. Right-click to pick up half. Drop that somewhere and then right-click it to take half and put it back on the first pile. Repeat until you have a heap about the right size for your current ambitions. This becomes increasingly important as you move up the ore tier levels.
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Tip: Early on, mass-buy the chips, rubber, and ingots/plates. After a while, you may need to stop buying tier-1. Mass-buy tier-3 as often as you can until you find you are not using them so often. |
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Tip: Microchips, rubber, and T3 ingots are worth buying whenever you open the Factory window. You probably cannot have too many. |
Workers needed
The best way to refine dust that I have found is:
- Have one worker on refining. Give them a tier at or one above the one you are currently getting into.
- Set one worker to refine ore to dust.
- Have as many workers as possible clicking the grids on the lowest tiers of the mine.
Factory Select Modes (no longer a mystery to me)
It seems you can either build one at a time (lots of clicking for building things) but buy all of the stock in the shop with a right click OR build all at once but only buy half at the shop (lots of clicks to buy all). I have not the faintest notion of how to change between the modes other than it sometimes changes. I don't know why it locks to build all sometimes.
Answer: Left shift and left click reliably builds all.
Upscaling dust
Dust can be scaled up to the next level with 8 dust plus one of the next level. This makes lumps, which are refined in the mixer to make 2 of the target dust. Effectively, you can at most double your dust if you have 8x of the lower tier. An exotic gem upgrade for 60 
reduces the lower tier cost.
Steps
I'm slowly figuring things out about the steps section.
Crafter
- Crafter allows scanning (sacrificing?) items to learn them. This starts with ore, not dust.
- Later learnings require second-tier microchips.
- The price looks like it follows some sort of power law curve - it gets expensive fast
Fabricator
This is still mostly a mystery to me. It seems to need a lot of Factory Resources in the 100xnB to 100xnQi and looks like it can generate things you have "learned".
Tree frame
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I haven't got a clue right now. Please use my talk/discussion page if you have any insights. |
Trees are made from 8 rubber and T9 (green) ore
Manafacture
Boosts to producers, machine speed, and things like that go here. I've been investing in drops boosters.
Unlocking more space needs eye-watering amounts of red cube 10Sp for level 2.
