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
7 days ago
0.14 - 1.1
368K

i Getting Rid of Byproducts or mark something as a byproduct

3 years ago
(updated 3 years ago)

First of all I want to thank you for this great mod it is soooo helpful, pls keep up the awesome work.
I have a little problem with Angel/Bobs and getting rid of "byproducts"
If i want to produce silicon ingot it says that silicon ore is missing.

https://imgur.com/gGsyGdp

In this case i want to craft tin plates out of molten tin:
Bobmonium ore -> crusher = Tin ore (and silicon ore)
Tin ore -> Ingot -> smolten tin -> tin plates

The problem is i cant treat the silicon ore as a byproduct. In this case it would be a byproduct like slag etc because i wanted to craft tin plates and now i want to get rid of my "byproducts"

I found out that i can set the quantity for a specific item in the output to zero, that worked well for turning silicon ore to silicon ingot but if i need to void something i can set something to zero because i have no recipe where i can use the item i want to void (void has no "product")

I dont know if its a bug or im just missing something but when i try to turn slag into crushed stone this happens.
1. https://imgur.com/jgLNoRC (199 crushed stone to show excess slag is lower)
2. https://imgur.com/rK1g5TA (200 crushed stone -> missing 400 bobmonium ore ?)

Turning crushed stone into stone is weird too, when i place the stone recipe after the slag-to-crushedstone it doesnt work but when i place it at the bottom it work, i dont know why. What am i missing?
3. https://imgur.com/wIbeQRN

My Workaround to keep track of the numbers splitting the production line into blocks (I really dont know if this is intended)
4. https://imgur.com/atdAvyz

Thank you :)

3 years ago
(updated 3 years ago)

Hello
I added in v0.10.20 for the product of recipe
Ctrl+Click: Set or unset master product
Shift+Click: Set or unset excluded product
that can resolve your case 2 if you Ctrl+Click on bobmonium ore

in the normal calculation, the product must be a ingredient in the upper line or in ouput
if you want consumme a product you must build a another block with Ingredient Input option

3 years ago

thank you for your quick response and thank you for this awesome mod :)

3 years ago

np, your case 2 was a problem
set a master product resolve the problem and set a master product was a old request
there are no bad question :)

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