How to automate mixing for a recipe for more than one mix with full control. A quick guide, so might not be the best quality.
Guide
The key to the operation success is that the Chemists can move a mixed product from a mixing machine to another mixing machine, essentially creating a conveyor belt of mixing machines.
In the image:
– Orange: The input of FRESH OG Kush or whatever you start with, only going in to mixing machine 1.
– Blue: The 7 shelves of mixer products going in to each mixing machine 1 to 7 accordingly.
– Pink: Each mixing machine has a destination to the next machine, except for machine number 7
– Green: Machine number 7 (the last one) has a destination to a shelf from where it can be packaged and sold.
We’ll need 7 mixing machines; 1 mixing machine per mixer product (e.g. Cuke, Paracetamol, Gasoline, etc). Simply because this is the only way to control what is being mixed in each mixer
within this product operation. Note: you can use any type of machine, it works for MK1 and MK2.
Each Chemist can mix at 3 stations each, so we need 3 Chemists for this mix:
– Chemist 1 – Operates mixing machines 1 to 3. Moves product from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, and 3 to 4.
– Chemist 2 – Operates mixing machines 4 to 6. Moves product from 4 to 5, 5 to 6 and 6 to 7.
– Chemist 3 – Operates mixing machines 7, and has room for 2 more stations, so you can use them to cook meth or whatever. The final mixing machine (number 7) destination is a large shelf where the final product is stored.
I use 2 handlers to make this work. Because it’s a 7 mix operation, we need 7 shelves of mixer products, being moved in to 7 mixing machines. Each handler can only do 5 routes each, so we need 2 handlers.
– Handler 1 – Move products from mixer shelves in to mixing machines 1 to 5
– Handler 2 – Move mixer shelves to mixing machines 6 and 7. The other 3 routes can be used for other jobs like moving product to packing machines, etc.