Ice maker automation

[willis0901]

Please let auto-sweeper and flydo able to pick up bottle of liquid.

I am planting a big amount of bonbon trees in my base lately. I have to have 2 dedicated duplicants just to move water into ice maker to make enough snow for the trees.

I just wish there is other way to do thing like this.

[meekay]

There are probably better solutions to this problem.

The ice maker lets you make a little ice in a pinch, but if you want to make a lot of ice, you should design a machine to do it. Maybe use an aquatuner to chill a space below freezing and then drip water into it.

But wild bonbon trees planted by Pips will produce nectar or ethanol at the same rate as cultivated trees, without requiring any care at all -- just a LOT of light.

[Vertel]

On 1/1/2025 at 12:50 AM, meekay said:

The ice maker lets you make a little ice in a pinch, but if you want to make a lot of ice, you should design a machine to do it. Maybe use an aquatuner to chill a space below freezing and then drip water into it.

Bonbon trees need snow, not ice. An AT could pre-cool the water to just above freezing, but only the Ice Maker can actually turn it into snow.

 

On 1/1/2025 at 12:50 AM, meekay said:

But wild bonbon trees planted by Pips will produce nectar or ethanol at the same rate as cultivated trees, without requiring any care at all -- just a LOT of light.

This is incorrect. Wild bonbon trees have 1/4 the nectar production of domestic trees, given same number of mature branches and same light levels.