Helmod: Assistant for planning your factory

by Helfima

Assistant for planning your factory. Can calculate required ingredients, products, machines, modules, and beacons. Can also calculate power production / consumption.

Utilities
a day ago
0.14 - 2.0
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i Option to calculate based on input

7 years ago

Hi, love the way your mod works, definitely helps to figure things out better than an excell sheet that i have been using so far, however im having trouble with one particular problem.

I know this tool is supposed to help with calculations regarding how many different type of buildings you need but i think it can also help a lot with choosing the right recopies for the job. im using angels and bobs and the oil refining process is far from being straight forward. there are many ways to produce the same liquid/gas and before i want to figure out how many of each building i need i actually just want to see how different combinations of recopies work together.

The feature im looking for might already be there, but i couldn't figure out how to set it up. So here is what i would like to be able to do.
1) set up a base resource like the mineral oil as a constant (lets say i set it up as 1000)
2) add the recopies in the block the way it is already possible however i would like the calculator use the 1000 base oil as a limit and even if it would not use the factory to its full 100%
3) see the results of my process so if i use 1000 oil i also need steam and other stuff that would be added to the input in quantities that are required to fully use the 1000 oil and see the results of the process (in this case liquid plastic + any byproducts of the recopies i have added to the production block)

This way it would be easy to see what happens in a chain of recipies when certain ammounts go in. whats expected to come out and how much. if this stage seems to be alright then the tool can be used as it works now to determine how many buildings i need to optimize the process.

im mostly interested in this because while i have set up a working oil/gas refining system there seems to be shortages and overflows at certain areas and once all the tech is researched it makes sense to pick the recopies that would result in a balanced system that doesn't over/under produce anything.

Hope this makes sense.

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