#Graphite astroneer mod
#Graphite astroneer full
#Graphite astroneer plus

#Graphite astroneer plus

For any production setup that involves 8 or fewer Centrifuges, the rule of thumb is the player needs a number of Medium Scrappers equal to the number of Soil Centrifuges plus 1. For purposes of scaling production, the ratio is approximately 9 Medium Scrappers per 8 Soil Centrifuges. As such, to fully consume the output rate of a Soil Centrifuge, one needs at least two Medium Scrappers.That's 26s per scrap, and 52s per 8 Resin, which is longer than the Centrifuge takes to produce the same. A Medium Shredder takes ~6.5s to consume a Small Canister.A single Small Printer can keep up with the output of ~5.75 Soil Centrifuges. A Small Printer requires only 1 second to print a Small Canister, and thus is never the bottleneck in this system.

#Graphite astroneer full

A Soil Centrifuge takes approximately 45s to complete a full cycle producing 8 Resin, including soil loading time from a Medium Soil Canister, as well as the time for the machine head to fill each of the 8 tubes in the centrifuge.

#Graphite astroneer mod

Graphite and Ammonium are still more efficiently produced using the Scrap route, resulting in twice as many of each per unit of soil (versus 3 times as many per with the Drill Mod 1 method).

If using the automated method above, which operates at a ratio of 1 Scrap per unit of soil rather than 1.5 (as with the Drill Mod 1 method), Quartz breaks even, and thus is more efficient to produce directly in the Centrifuge (due to the additional power requirements and complexity of the Small Printer + Medium Shredder + Trade Platform.

A Trade Platform it is more efficient to use the Soil Centrifuge to create Scrap using the method listed above if players want to obtain Quartz, Graphite, or Ammonium, as the amount gained from 3 Scrap is 6, 6, and 3, respectively, resulting in more of the desired resource per unit of soil.

As a full Centrifuge tank produces 8 Resin, this produces a total of 2 scrap, or 2/3rds the output of the above Ceramic option. The most efficient automated conversion is using a Centrifuge to produce Resin, then using a Small Printer to produce Small Canisters, which scrap into 0.25 Scrap each.

Unfortunately, however, this method cannot be automated, as the Small Printer cannot print Drill Mod 1's.

Each Drill Mod 1 is worth 0.5 Scrap, with the net result of 3 Scrap per full Soil Centrifuge tank. Using the centrifuge to obtain 6 Clay, smelting them into Ceramic with the Smelting Furnace and creating 6 Drill Mod 1.

The Soil Centrifuge is a good source for Scrap.

In total, the Centrifuge requires approximately ~45-46s to complete a full cycle for a resource that is produced at a rate of 8 per fully-filled cycle, ~44s for 6 per cycle, ~42s for 4 per cycle, ~41s for 2 per cycle, and ~40-41s for 1 per cycle.

Thus resources that produce more per Centrifuge cycle also take slightly longer to run each cycle. Resources that produce at a lower number per Centrifuge cycle require more soil per tube, but the time increase to fill the tubes does not completely offset the time saved from filling fewer tubes before each Centrifuge cycle.

The overall process, including the time to load two Canisters worth of Soil from a Medium Soil Canister, as well as the time for the machine head to fill each of the necessary tubes in the Centrifuge, varies depending on the resource selected and thus the number of tubes that need to be filled.

The Soil Centrifuge takes 30.375 seconds to complete the process, not including start up.

For bulk production, use a Medium Fluid & Soil Canister in combination with a Small Canister to continuously feed soil to the Centrifuge.

The following table lists the resources that can be extracted from a full Soil Centrifuge tank (two Canisters of soil):Įach full operation consumes 182.25 Units of power, regardless of how many items the machine produces.