👷 Kayser's Construction Parts

🎉 Keeps the Party Flowing

Current as of: v0.7.7 (Update 3)

📖 Summary

Have you ever undertaken a construction project and ran out of certain construction parts? Did you have to micro-manage your construction part plant 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™. Ingredients are injected in exact quantities and proportions to meet the minimum stock levels (blue slider) as quickly as possible. As such, all assemblers will produce lower tier parts to meet minimum levels, until parts are released for next tier. This will go on until the minimum stock level for each tier is met.

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

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 the shortest possible time without micro management, even if started with insufficient stock available.

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

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

⚡ 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 strongly recommended, accompanied with an alert for low level.

Build the lift loop and one or more assemblers; they are all independent of each other and can also be upgraded independently.

Ensure the lifts that supply the assemblers form a closed loop. Unused parts must go back to the beginning of the loop.

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, make sure the parts are transported to other storages to stay under the yellow level.

Note: If you use the 2nd output of the storages to transport low tier parts to stock, this will prevent 50% of parts from being used for higher tiers. If this is not desired and you want max higher tier parts first, put a balancer on the existing belt leading back into the plant and prioritize the flow back into the plant.

It is recommended to keep your yellow slider one step below maximum, to allow inserting parts from deconstructions into the system.

Using steel for CP1 is not supported in this build (maybe in a future update).

⚙️ General Features

• Compact, rectangular shape for easy placement.
• Highly efficient in terms of workers, and fulfilling your need for construction parts.
• LiftBus™ supply system.
• Incrementally buildable for minimal resource investment.
• Readily accessible input/output storages for buffering, alerts, and easy mapping and connection of incoming belts.

📐 Blueprints

🔄 Input/Output

Maximum continuous input/output.

Production of CP1 is limited by belt in Stage 1-3.

Production of higher tier parts can be raised effectively by upgrading assembling machines to AS4 and AS5 respectively.

Note: Inputs/Outputs are specified as MAXIMUM average continuous values. That is, when the plant is focusing on the tier in question, and consequently ignoring higher tiers. As the plant makes higher tier parts, input of lower tier ingredients will be just enough to maintain the lower tiers' production and stock level.

🕒 Revision History

Party On! 🎉