Tutorial/Scrap Factory

Scrap factories are cheap to make and run and can be hugely bennificial. One advantage is scrap can be used to increase the speed of a Mass Fabricator by up to six times.

Items you'll need for a simple factory:

Recycler

Timer

Filter

Pneumatic Tubes

Power Source*


 * Recyclers use LV power so you don't need a huge source of power.

The power will go from the source (in this example a solar array ) and through and step down transformers that are needed, then into the recycler. The filter behind the recycler will then pull out any scrap that is produced, and will flow through the pneumatic pipes and into a chest or a mass fabricator. You will also need your source of blocks to feed into the recycler which in this example is coming from a chest, being pulled out by a filter, and into therecycler. Any that can't fit in will bounce back in the tube. To reduce the amount of rejected blocks, it is reccomended that you have at least two Recyclers, especially if you are adding multiple types of blocks.