TowerFactory

TowerFactory

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Turn logistics stations into factories

Overview

• Put a production building in slot 1 of a logistics station and set that slot to Storage (neither Supply nor Demand). Put what you want to make in slot 2, and the ingredients after it.
• About 1 second after the setup is complete, the station becomes a "Tower Factory". It works as if the buildings stored in slot 1 were running inside the station: N buildings run at N times the base speed.
• Each base cycle is split into 10 shorter cycles, and each short cycle produces ceil(N / 10) times.
• Tower Factories do not use power (critical photon towers use surplus Dyson sphere energy instead).
• Proliferator effects are ignored.
• If a station doesn't work as expected, BepInEx/LogOutput.log tells you why it was or wasn't recognized.

Production

• Works with every building that has recipes: assemblers, smelters, chemical plants, oil refineries, particle colliders and matrix labs.
• Slot 2 is the product; slots 3 and later are the ingredients, in recipe order.
• Byproducts:
• Only the product in slot 2 is stored. Byproducts are discarded, but still counted as produced in the statistics panel.
• Byproducts never block the main product.
• Auto-fill ingredients:
• Put the product in slot 2 and leave slot 3 onward empty, then click Fill Ingredients (top right). Slot 1 is set to Storage if needed; if slot 1 is empty, the mod picks a production building that can make slot 2’s product (preferring a building already in the station).
• Ingredients are set to Demand. Pseudo recipes take priority.
• If no recipe fits, you'll see "Not enough slots, install a station expansion mod" (not enough slots, install a station expansion mod).
• Pseudo recipes (several real recipes merged into one; every intermediate step is counted in the statistics):
• Oil Refinery: 4 Crude Oil + 2 Energetic Graphite → 3 Energy Matrix
• Oil Refinery: 1 Refined Oil → 1 Hydrogen + 1 Energetic Graphite (put either one in slot 2)
• Oil Refinery: 2 Crude Oil + 1 Coal → 3 Refined Oil
• Oil Refinery: 1 Hydrogen + 1 Coal → 1 Refined Oil (reforming net; statistics: 2 oil consumed, 3 oil produced per craft)
• Assembler: Titanium Crystal / Optical Grating Crystal + Fire Ice + Hydrogen → Casimir Crystal
• Miniature Particle Collider: 12 Critical Photons + Annihilation Constraint Sphere + Titanium Alloy → 2 Antimatter Fuel Rods (Mass-Energy Storage ×6 + assembler fuel-rod recipe)

Mining

• Mining Machine: slot 2 is a mineral found on this planet. 180 per minute per machine (6 veins × 30), linear with stack count, multiplied by mining speed research.
• Advanced Mining Machine: produces every mineral from slot 2 onwards, 900 per minute per machine (15 veins × 60) per slot. Slots with minerals not found on this planet are skipped.
• Water Pump: slot 2 is this planet's ocean item (water or sulfuric acid). Uses the real pump speed.
• Oil Extractor: slot 2 is crude oil, and the planet must have oil seeps. 1 per second per extractor, multiplied by mining speed research.
• Veins are never depleted.

Critical Photons

• Slot 1 is a Ray Receiver, slot 2 is Critical Photon.
• Each receiver makes photons at the speed of one real receiver at full warm-up without a lens.
• Energy is taken from the Dyson sphere's surplus (whatever real receivers leave). All Tower Factories share it; production stops when there isn't enough.

Fractionator

• Slot 1 is a Fractionator, slot 2 is Deuterium, slot 3 is Hydrogen.
• Each fractionator converts 0.1 Hydrogen into Deuterium every half second.

Accumulators

• Slot 1 is an Energy Exchanger, slot 2 is a full Accumulator, slot 3 is an empty Accumulator.
• Charges empty accumulators at the real exchanger speed. Charging only; no power is used for now.

Dyson sphere (v1.2.0)

• Ejector tower: Slot 1 ejector(s) (Storage), slot 2 solar sails. Builds cell points on the shell directly (like ray-receiver absorption, stat 11903). No sail bullets, no Dyson cloud. Each node must have 30 …