Mindustry

Mindustry

(Previously) Best Silicon Setup
17 Comments
DeltaWing  [author] 12 Jul, 2024 @ 6:58pm 
Outdated design
NIMROD 12 Jul, 2024 @ 5:46pm 
En la misma imagen se ve que solo 9 pueden andar con el diseño, 3 por cada fuente de recurso, es improductivo, deberian andar 6 por fuente de recurso. ademas te sobran 2 que no funcionan
DeltaWing  [author] 14 Jul, 2020 @ 3:27pm 
this is a massively outdated design
Ultra 14 Jul, 2020 @ 12:47am 
Could be much, much, much more compact.
DeltaWing  [author] 1 Feb, 2020 @ 10:10pm 
just to clarify, you need to make sure you use overflow gates, else problems may arrise.
Xane Tempest 1 Feb, 2020 @ 8:40pm 
The checker-board Router-Junction setup is the core of most the great builds in Mindustry. Something so simple to look at but so functional and useful!
I came up with this too (exact setup, only four long in the campaign) so we can all say that great minds think alike and this has to be one of the best designs for this!
Duboc42 13 Nov, 2019 @ 5:50am 
So, TheChosenEvilOne, make a silicon schemetic for us
DeltaWing  [author] 30 Oct, 2019 @ 3:20pm 
thanks for sharing
Harryoe 30 Oct, 2019 @ 1:04pm 
i started playing on the first mobile version
Runi 29 Oct, 2019 @ 1:18am 
i mean he got a point in your gif, two of the smelter aren't even running... that's ridiculous enough :x
DeltaWing  [author] 25 Oct, 2019 @ 12:32am 
its not about speed, its about volume. and anyway, the supply is the efficient part, not the actual silicon
tceo 24 Oct, 2019 @ 11:37pm 
but then again, what do I know. I am just a person who started playing in 2.0
tceo 24 Oct, 2019 @ 11:36pm 
hmm, time for steam to advertise the formatting but have it not work, thank you steam. very cool.
tceo 24 Oct, 2019 @ 11:35pm 
[h1] Speed or lack of speed [/h1]
You can see it in the gif, two of them aren't even running.
As you can't supply enough sand to keep this running with just three titanium conveyors.
Also this is all expecting that the input is uninterrupted.
And a junction overflow gate chain is not faster than a titanium conveyor, at most same speed. (I did just test this.) If you wanted speed you would use an inverted sorter+overflow chain which is nearly instant (few ticks of deviation).
[h1] Compactness [/h1]
5x22 (110, not including input and output) isn't compact for 11 silicon smelters, 10 tiles for a single smelter.
A design based on the one I posted that I just made is 5x6 (30, including input but not output) and has four smelters, is 7.5 tiles per smelter. That is 35% smaller footprint per smelter.
tceo 24 Oct, 2019 @ 11:35pm 
Alright, lets explain why:
[h1]Numbers[/h1]
Craft time of the silicon smelter is 40 (around 0.66666... seconds) and you got 11 of them.
Every 0.666666... seconds it uses 11 coal and 22 sand, a single titanium conveyor can movee around 12 items per second (this is excluding the deviation caused by delta time).
While using 0.50 power per tick per smelter (that is 5.5, admittedly you can run this with six combustion generators).
DeltaWing  [author] 24 Oct, 2019 @ 3:26am 
do you prefer using routers, by any chance?
tceo 24 Oct, 2019 @ 3:22am 
Misleading title, isn't that compact or fast.