Automatic Drecko Farm

[Hylle]

Hello there, fellow Duplicants,

@Glaemyr and @Hylle excited to share our Drecko Farm guide with you. These quirky critters play a critical role in our colonies, providing precious reed fiber for crafting Atmos suits and producing the essential plastic needed for advancing to the late-game stages.

In our Drecko farm design, we prioritize self-sustainability and room for growth. We aim for a build that fills up each ranch with the needed Dreckos automatically, ensures ample space for breeding, and provides a hydrogen-filled cutting chamber for efficient scale growth.

When we embarked on creating or discovering designs, we kept these key factors in mind:

• Automation: Reducing manual work is our motto. Our designs aim to automate processes as much as possible, freeing up your invaluable Duplicants' time for other crucial tasks.
• Efficiency: Our goal is to extract the most value out of every resource used in these builds. We've aimed to achieve optimum results without unnecessary excess (although we do sometimes make an exception for symmetry).
• Simplicity: We believe in the KISS principle - "Keep It Simple, Stupid." Not everyone enjoys complex projects, so we've strived to keep our designs as user-friendly as possible.

Our Oxygen Not Included build guides are being released in a series. Each guide will focus on a different aspect of ranching. Keep an eye out for more guides coming soon, covering various creatures and farming setups. Don't forget to visit my profile for a collection of all the build guides we've released so far.

Drecko 

The Build:

Our build incorporates two specialized ranches: one dedicated solely to reed fiber production and the other to plastic production. Each ranch features a water body at the base where all Drecko eggs are transported. If a ranch requires more Dreckos, the door leading to the ranch opens, prompting the Drecko (in an effort to escape the water) to move into the ranch. If the ranch is already populated to its capacity, the Drecko is guided into the cutting room. Each room is separated by an airlock to prevent gas exchange between them.

 

Automation Overlay:

 

The automation for this build is quite straightforward. A critter sensor in each ranch monitors the number of Dreckos and controls the opening and closing of doors based on the Drecko demand in each ranch.

Shipping Overlay:

 

A loader in each ranch collects eggs and transports them to the water chambers. In cases where an egg ends up in the wrong chamber, another loader transports it to the appropriate one.

From the cutting chamber, the produced meat, plastic, and reed fiber are moved to their designated locations in your colony.

Building the Airlocks:

The airlocks are a crucial component of this setup, and it's important to construct them before filling the rooms with gases. We recommend building these early in the process. An easy way to construct these is by creating an enclosure as shown in the image, then introducing two different types of liquids—in our case, oil and saltwater. Once around 1kg of each liquid has been placed as indicated in the image, construct the two blocks above and remove the four blocks on the sides.

And voilà, your Drecko farm is ready! With this setup, you can ensure a steady production of reed fiber and plastic, paving the way for advanced game stages. Enjoy your new venture into Drecko ranching!

Our Hatch farm can be found here:
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/149346-automatic-hatch-farm/

 

[long0900]

Just a minor optimization, 1 tile high way with a blob of water is enough to drown critter, blocking their pathing consequently. This can help you save some water and space.

And alternatively, you can move the "critter adder" to the ceiling of the room instead.

[LadenSwallow]

There was a similar topic on reddit not too long ago about the use of such chambers to the side of the groom/shear chambers that due to the differences in juvenile/adult drecko pathing would allow you to keep the juveniles in a separate pen such that only adults are in either pen. The advantage of this is that only the 'useful' lifespan of the dreckos are kept in the grooming chamber, that the next juvenile to hit adulthood will be added to the pen, rather than the next egg that hatches. Two such 'C's would enable sorting by egg type.