An automated Drecko stable

[6Havok9]

So, I think I came up with something totally unnecessary, but nice. Fun, maybe. I wanted a reliable way to always have a topped up Drecko ranch and a packed shearing room that doesn't involve wrangling. Because I hate wrangling so much that I'll go to any length to avoid it.

Here it is:

According to ONI physics, it's possible to make stable multilayered liquid "structures". No communicating vases for you now, take that Archimedes.

Glossy Drecko eggs hatch at the bottom, in the PW layer. When drecklets then try to escape, there can be two outcomes:

1. The stable is not full. In this case, the door at the top will be open, and the one at the bottom will be closed. The drecklet will climb up and enter the stable. The top door remains open until the stable is full.
2. The stable is full. The top door will be closed, the drecklet will go right through the now open door and enter the shearing room. The last door on the right is always open, and it's there just to make it a room.

Automation is dead simple, the egg dropper in the water corridor has a filter gate to prevent it from catching the eggs again, since they fall slowly when in water. The filter gate after the critter sensor is to avoid false positives if a Drecko happens to lay an egg while another is climbing up.

The conveyor network relies on the sorter sweeper sitting at the top of the ranch in a vaacumed out area. The two loaders in the domes receive everything except plastic, which is shipped out directly. The sorter sends edibles, phosphorite, egg shells, and eggs on their respective lines.

Glossy Drecklet eggs are sent to the hatchery room, while wooly Drecklet eggs are directly sent to the shearing room. Here, products from shearing are sent on dedicated lines, while everything else goes back to the sorter. The sweeper in the PW channel is there just as a precaution.

Works reliably, I actually built two of these. They took a very long time to build, I made some mistakes and had to tear everything down and start over. I started with a few Dreckos, and now I have two full stables and a packed shearing room, while the other is filling up. It takes some dupe time to shear a massive number of creatures, but hey, gotta give those idle dupes something to do. You can shear a wooly Drecko 3/4 times before it starves, so in the long run you'll have quite a bit of reed fiber and you'll be swimming in plastic, so you can feel like a dolphin too.

[AgentVixen]

I’m inspired to give this build a go. I have long been using the shear in one room and ranch in another arrangement; however, the wrangling of drecko is so annoying and time consuming that it may be worth the effort to set this up.

I also applaud the uncomplicated automation. Bravo.

[6Havok9]

Well, the layout can be way simpler and less "artistic". I think the only requirement for the hatchery is the minimum height for an egg dropper. Every room could be on the same level, and you'd need much less water. Possibily five tiles of water in the corridor, maybe two above them in the rooms to prevent dreckos from going that tile, with the hatchery room being just 1 tile wide. Or, well, three.

Something like this, maybe. Whatever. There is so much space to be filled, my minimalist days in ONI are over 

Also, I like the massive water pool and the excessive amount of metal for temperature stabilization. And also because I just like massive water pools. And excessive amounts of metal. \m/ (>,<) \m/

[SamLogan]

@6Havok9 I'm interested by you cold steam vent setup, do you test it during a long period? I really like the concept.

[6Havok9]

@SamLogan That actually is just a closed off steam vent.   The hydro sensor is there just to keep the doors closed while I was vaacuming out the area and building around the vent, and that water is there just because the radiant pipes (empty and leading to nowhere in that picture, just prebuilt), doors and tempshift plates absorbed some of the heat, condensing the trapped steam. That vent has crappy output, I'm just gonna use it to heat some water going to the pincha peppers, before dumping the minimal amount of water somewhere. The area is just going to be a storage tank.

I'm curious to know what you were thinking it was, maybe it can be a good idea 

[SamLogan]

18 hours ago, 6Havok9 said:

@SamLogan

I'm curious to know what you were thinking it was, maybe it can be a good idea 

I though the mass effect would enough efficient to produce steam given you have a lot of water in front the steam and other material. But I've tried it and yes, it overpressures quickly.

[Nitroturtle]

@6Havok9 I'd love to check this out in more detail, do you happen to still have a save for it you'd share?

[ChickenMadness]

Awesome. I'm going to try and build the minimalist version.

Now we have fully automated ranches for hatches, pufts, dreckos on the forum.

Someone needs to come up with a wrangle-free slickster ranch