Design concept sharing of automation factory in special-shaped factory

Special-shaped factory automation factory is the key to synthetic materials in the game. How to design an automated factory? Share with you the design idea of an automation factory in a special-shaped factory.

Here is my idea of designing an automation factory for your reference.

flow chart

The solid arrow indicates the flow direction of the article, and the dotted line indicates the wire connection.

After the end of 26 levels, all items have been unlocked, and the level content of the game has also become synthetic random content. At this time, if you want to continue the game, the best way is to make a machine that can automatically synthesize patterns.

As we all know, this game has four basic patterns (round square star wind model) and seven pigments (red, green, blue, yellow, blue, purple and white).

It is these four basic patterns and eight color states (red, green, blue, yellow, blue, purple and white, one colorless) that make up countless figures.

Basic mode

So how do you automatically synthesize these graphics?

Let's take a look at this example first:

This pattern is formed by stacking three patterns from bottom to top.

It can be seen that although the overall pattern is complex, it is a very simple pattern after being disassembled into a single layer. As long as a single-layer pattern can be automatically synthesized, a whole pattern can be synthesized.

Therefore, it can be seen that our automatic synthesis factory needs to store four kinds of pattern raw materials and seven kinds of pigments (four of which are also synthesized by the other three), and the stored raw materials can be released and combined by circuit control.

With the theoretical basis, we will know what kind of components our automatic synthesis factory needs.

The first is essential mines, cutting machines, color adjusters, stackers and dyeing machines.

main console

Secondly, as a signal source to control commodity output, we need to use image analysis module and quadrant analysis module, which is probably this.

Through a design like this, we can get the color and shape of each quadrant of each layer of image, and then combine with filters, so that we can control the release of items.

With the treatment module and control module, only the controlled release of raw materials is left.

Anti-overflow/one-way tee separator

The picture above shows the anti-overflow device and the one-way three-divider.

The function of anti-overflow device is to prevent the cutting machine from stopping. Because the storage is output on the left side first, after the left side is closed, the redundant items will be removed from the trash can at the outlet on the right side of the storage, which avoids the shutdown of the cutting machine and improves the response time of the system.

One-way N separator is used to distribute one pigment raw material inlet to multiple parts (red pigment storage, purple pigment synthesis inlet, yellow pigment synthesis inlet and white pigment synthesis inlet). This is because a quadrant can only be dyed with one color at most. Take red raw materials as an example. No matter whether the quadrant is dyed with red, purple, yellow and white, the output of any color will lead to the closure of the other three outlets, that is to say, only one group of red raw materials is needed at most, and the number of raw material pigment inlets corresponding to a quadrant is reduced from four to one, which greatly reduces the trouble of finding raw materials and connecting feed inlets.

(* One-way trisector really can't divide the input into three parts. The real one-way trisector below can, but it takes up too much space to plug this thing into the automatic synthesizer.)

Release of raw materials

The device in the above picture is a raw material release device, and the comparator judges whether to open the filter to release raw material blocks or pigments by comparing whether the signals of the memory and the signal source are consistent.

Colorless confirmation/null input confirmation

The above picture shows a colorless confirmation module and a null input confirmation module.

Colorless confirmation module can prevent the feed inlet of a quadrant of a four-port coloring machine from being opened by mistake when a quadrant is colorless, resulting in the shutdown of the coloring machine.

The empty input confirmation module can directly enter the next stacker when there is no input at one side of the stacker due to the empty value in one quadrant; When there are inputs on both sides of the stacker, the filter will prevent raw materials from directly entering the next stacker.

Residual clearance rate

The two devices in the above picture are both slag removal modules, aiming at removing the residual raw materials on the conveyor belt when synthesizing the last article and correcting errors, so as to improve the speed of article synthesis switching. Theoretically, the more such devices, the faster the switching speed (but also more prone to bugs).

case analysis

The following is an automatic synthesizer assembled by me according to the above modules. If there are any defects, please advise.

Finished product display

This is the first layer of automatic synthesizer, and the other three layers are basically simple copies of this layer, with a total of 1 task input ports, 4 kinds of image raw materials ×4 conveyor belts = 16 image raw materials input ports, 3 kinds of pigment raw materials ×4 conveyor belts = 12 pigment raw materials input ports. Combined with the other three layers of synthesizer, the total is/kloc. Convenient installation, no need for high-purity ceramic tile raw ore, basically can be installed anywhere, saving the trouble of finding special minerals.

Common layer analysis

The flow direction of raw materials and semi-finished products is red arrow input → yellow arrow transportation and processing → blue arrow output.

Clear mining (red) → transportation (yellow) → processing (green) → storage and release (powder) → synthesis of finished products (blue).

Each row in the storage area is responsible for a raw material, and each column is responsible for a quadrant.

Line layer analysis

The frame is a variety of circuit modules, and the solid line is the connection and trend between modules.

Generally, it is connected in the direction of general control input → signal analysis → colorless input confirmation/blank input confirmation → dyeing control. As for slag removal and screening, it is dispensable and different opinions.