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How to Make Your Refinery Stop Pulling Random Ores Without Scripts or Complex Sorter Setup
By Luca the dry humored girlfriend
A way to make your refinery process the ore you want to process first instead of seemingly randomly picking any ore from your inventory without scripts or complex sorter setup on Space Engineers, useful for when your refinery is "clogged" where you can't put the ore you want to put in because it keeps putting other ores in

Also very useful in survival when you have limited amount of PCU and can't afford gigantic sorter setup
   
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TigersFangs 2 Oct, 2022 @ 12:09am 
Kinda neat that you pointed this out. I've been using this for years and it is the 'magic' that I do to quickly unclog my friends backed up refinery. Another trick that I've used before is setting up conveyor sorters on the input and output lines to my refineries. I will leave them blacklist with the filters blank which lets them act like normal conveyors. Then when I have something that I either want or don't want them to process, I just set the input conveyor appropriately. Then, as long as your output feeds back into your normal storage system, you can pull out the ore that you want to stop and it won't pull more back in.
[DSTM] Misha600 31 May, 2022 @ 6:55pm 
I could understand them just fine, I think you might have to get a hearing test
Sir Borks-a-Lot 31 May, 2022 @ 3:44pm 
Thank you for the guide, simple thing that's so easy to overlook there, but damn is that accent hard to understand...
Ronin Planetary Industries 1 Feb, 2022 @ 11:49am 
Yes. ALSO, your refineries will pull ore from the closest cargo containers it can mechanically reach until all the ore in that location is used up. So labeling your cargo containers in reference to how close they are to your refineries AS WELL AS limiting the pathing from your refinery to cargo containers allows for much easier management of refineries. By sub-dividing your cargo nearest cargo container's inventory, you can also control the quantity and type of ingots being produced without using mods or scripts... very helpful on official Keen servers where mods and scripts can't be used.
Luca the dry humored girlfriend  [author] 17 Jan, 2022 @ 9:52pm 
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Pteromaxylus 17 Jan, 2022 @ 6:51pm 
Thankyou