👷 Kayser's Construction Parts (Mk2) 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️

🛠️📦 Makes Every Construction Project a Party 🎉

Current as of: v0.7.9 (b495)

📖 Description

Have you ever undertaken a construction project and ran out of certain construction parts? Did you have to micro-manage your construction parts to address the shortages? Say goodbye to that!

Kayser’s Construction Parts is a compact, efficient, and auto-prioritizing plant that keeps your settlement’s lifeblood flowing — construction parts.

Instead of juggling multiple dedicated lines, this design unifies everything on a single production line, supplied by a high-capacity LiftBus™. All asseblers have all recipes, and ingredients are injected in exact quantities and proportions to meet the minimum stock levels (blue slider) as quickly as possible, lower tiers first. As such, all assemblers will produce the lowest tier parts until its minimum stock level is met. At that point, parts are released for next tier. This will go on until the minimum stock level for every tier is met.

Once all minimum stock levels are met, the plant continues to produce the highest tier parts until its maximum stock level (yellow slider) is met. It then proceeds down to the next (lower) tier, and so on, until all maximum stock levels are met.

The result: high utilization across all assemblers, low/no idle time, automatic priority handling, and no misdirected resource investments in higher tier parts when lower tiers are in demand — shortages are promptly addressed and your construction projects complete in a whiff, even if started with insufficient parts available.

All of this comes in a rectangular, compact footprint that’s easy to place, expand, and integrate into any layout.

UPDATE: The Mk2 update (Oct -25) incorporated the option to use steel for CP1, increased maximum capacity, and introduced fully graceful expansions and upgrades (no demolish, no shift-click). (To transition from Mk1 to Mk2, demolish the entire storage area and force place one of the new Mk2 BPs on top.)

Remember: No Parts, No Party — so always Party with Kayser 🥳

⚙️ Feature Summary

• Dual Injection LiftBus™ (Mk2)
• 100% Graceful Upgrades and Expansions (Mk2)
• Auto-balancing supply and demand using 100% of assemblers
• Controllable Steel/Iron mix for CP1 (settings: 100%, 50%, 33%, or 0% Steel -- see image) (Mk2)
• Compact, rectangular shape for easy placement
• Highly efficient in terms of workers and maintenance
• Incrementally buildable for minimal resource investment
• Readily accessible input/output storages for buffering, alerts, and easy mapping and connection of incoming belts

⚡ Quick Start Guide

Use the level of plant apropriate for your current technology level. Larger plants require higher tier belts to function effectively.

Connect inbound transports. Inbound storages are not strictly required but highly recommended, accompanied with an alert for low level.

Unpause one or more assemblers; they are all independent and as such can be individually built, upgraded, paused, or demolished.

Ensure the lifts that supply the assemblers form a closed loop. Unused parts must remain in the loop, with priority.

Set the minimum/maximum stock levels that you want, using the blue/yellow sliders on the outbound construction parts storages. If you want bigger reserve stocks, raise the blue slider or transport parts to auxilliary storage.

Keep your maximum (yellow) slider one or two steps below maximum. This will allow parts from deconstructions, upgrades, loot, etc. to be delivered by trucks and recycled.

📐 Blueprints

Complete footprint is 35×46 small tiles. Connector markers show the size of the final plant. These can safely be demolished.

As common in Liftbus™ designs, all assemblers are independent from each other and can be built, paused, upgraded, and/or demolished individually. Incidentally, the plant can make all parts for its own construction, starting from a single Assembler II.

All blueprints can be built standalone or applied as an upgrade to any prior stage. If you haven't modified the design, all upgrades should be graceful (no shift-click required).

From stage 3, both steel and iron can be used for CP1, and a balancer is available to set the desired mix. (See image).

Note: Checking strict input on the steel/iron balancer is not recommended, as this will force the plant to use the default 33% steel mix, and cause the plant to slow down or stop unless both steel and iron are sufficiently available.

🔄 Input/Output

Inputs when producing the highest tier parts. Outputs per each part type. Note that all lower tier parts above minimum (blue slider) stock will be consumed to make higher tier parts.

As the plant adapts production to supply/demand, actual input/output may exceed rated levels. For example, when addressing a CP1 shortage, consumption of wood, concrete, and iron/steel will spike temporarily.

CP=Construction Parts, E=Electronics

*Assumes 33% Steel/Iron mix (default).

🕒 Revision History

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