shipping mass storage

[geniusthemaster]

[OxCD]

To poop in that cold is gonna be the hardest stage of your dups lifetime.

[geniusthemaster]

xD

[Craigjw]

Why do you not place the receptacle in the non-occupy zone above the sweeper, then you have a free spot for another container?

 

[Nightinggale]

42 minutes ago, Craigjw said:

Why do you not place the receptacle in the non-occupy zone above the sweeper, then you have a free spot for another container?

Are you saying you are trying to be smarter than the master genius?

[Craigjw]

Just contributing to science, helping the midget stand on the shoulder of giant midgets, if only the ladder had rungs it wouldn't be necessary to go to such extremes just turn on the light.

[KittenIsAGeek]

@geniusthemasterYou have 10 dupes.. set up shifts and cut it down to 3 or 4 outhouses...  I can see it in my head... suddenly there's a line to the outhouses and a race to see which 9 get to the clean ones...    ... oops, sorry, Mae.. guess you gotta clean yours first.  Just don't be slow next time, because Travaldo just filled up #7!

 

Seriously, though, you have an interesting idea.  One thing to consider is using a conveyor chute to just drop everything next to a sweeper.  If you have your drop-off where dupes can't get to it, then you can use one sweeper to feed material to a second sweeper that loads up dupe-accessible storage bins and turn that map-wide hallway into a 10x4 room.

Or maybe something like this:

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Set the bins appropriately and your dupes will have access to what they need, and everything else stays in the box where nothing can interact with it.  Or if you need more variety, add more loaders....

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Or even MOAR LOADERS!!!! ...

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There's room for one more loader, but I couldn't figure out how to route the rail out.  Anyway.. one box to store EVERYTHING!

[Craigjw]

I like this.  There is even potential to fill the top room with liquid and cool everything a bit.

[ozymandias_3]

36 minutes ago, Craigjw said:

I like this.  There is even potential to fill the top room with liquid and cool everything a bit.

should one store everything in vacuum instead

[Craigjw]

When you start collecting iron from space that is at 200C+ building things in your base soon gets troublesome as you see the ambient temperature rise considerably and then have to start cooling your base rather than the materials you are using.  Cooling the materials at the point of collection is a much better solution, storing them in a vacuum won't support this.

[Nightinggale]

14 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

You have 10 dupes.. set up shifts and cut it down to 3 or 4 outhouses...  I can see it in my head... suddenly there's a line to the outhouses and a race to see which 9 get to the clean ones...

I agree with that one. When I reach a certain number of dupes (and that's way below 10) I usually make a night shift. It lowers the number of needed toilets, showers etc and it means there is always somebody at work. An important priority 9 task (recover downed dupe etc) will be done without red alert regardless of when on the cycle it takes place. Also 10 dupes doesn't do twice the work of 5 dupes because they run into problems with other dupes reserving stuff. Moving all rocks to storage is more efficient if the transport dupes can take as many piles as possible. Too many dupes and the pile next to the first one will be reserved by somebody else.

14 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

One thing to consider is using a conveyor chute to just drop everything next to a sweeper.  If you have your drop-off where dupes can't get to it, then you can use one sweeper to feed material to a second sweeper that loads up dupe-accessible storage bins and turn that map-wide hallway into a 10x4 room.

I thought about it, but never fully implemented it. I once made a room kind of like that, but it didn't sort that much. Instead items ended up on doors and it would take more than a cycle to fall through the doors. Since the room was full of chlorine, all items would be germ free when it reached the bottom. Designed mainly for slime, though it turned out to be useful for transporting everything.