Streamline ranching: Egg Dispencer

[Horserax]

I love farming In just about any game and ranching isn't an exception but I have noticed its a bit of a pain to get eggs were I want them to be. I like already having eggs were my ranching area is, and its not easy to transport the eggs there. typically I have to make a storage container, set it to just the specific egg I want, then destroy it or remove that specification so it drops on the ground. Until I get the incubator, which takes a long time, I have to deal with this slow, and arguably painful method of egg transportation.

Its even worse for Fish eggs, seeing as the fish must be hatched in water and I cant just easily craft a storage container underwater, and well I have yet to get a Incubator, Im pretty sure those don't function underwater either. So, I have an idea: Something that dispenses eggs. Perhaps make it a 1 block high 3 block wide building were specific kinds of eggs get dropped in above on one side, and then get dispensed out the bottom on the far side. This would streamline setting up a Pacu farm and prevent you from needing to constantly disassemble and reassemble storage containers, as well as making it so Ranchers would prioritise this task, which just seems fitting for egg transportation.

[Yunru]

Or just have something to drop items in general:

 

For now apparently cutting power to a sweeper mid-operation works.

[Juicearific]

I'm all for the egg dispenser. That said, just to help along the way, you can use the storage method in shallow water. The dupes will run along a ladder, or you can put pneumatic doors that the dupes can deposit through and put the container beneath them.

[abud]

I agree that we need egg dispenser, Too much trouble transporting eggs with current method.

 

As for temporary workaround for your problems:

On 6/20/2018 at 1:33 PM, Horserax said:

fish must be hatched in water and I cant just easily craft a storage container underwater

This is not true, they can hatch in dry land and flopping around. You can put compactor like this and when they hatch they will flopping and fall to water below.

 

And storage compactor also works underwater,

[BadlyBurned]

I designed an egg dispenser using automation and gates. I'll post a picture later when I get home if no one understands my explanation here.

Make a room with ONE mesh door. Place a supply container inside with a level 9 priority for all eggs. The floor for this "egg storage room" should have all metal mesh doors for the flooring as well, so that items dropped on it fall to the room below.

At the entrance to this room, put down a weight plate with a Buffer Gate set to 5 seconds, attached to a NOT Gate, which is then attached to a second door inside this egg storage room.

Whenever a Dupe enters this room to deliver an egg to the level 9 priority storage container, it will trigger the weight plate and the 2nd door inside which will block off access to the storage container for 5 seconds. This Dupe will immediately drop his egg which will fall through the mesh door flooring into the room below.

Make ONE Dupe only have access to this egg storage room and limit his access to the room below so he can't go back down and pick up the same egg again.

This has allowed me to manage/deliver all the wild and tame eggs I have through one Dupe to a single room for organizing all my eggs/critters. No more expectancy issues and I don't have to run/power rails everywhere. You can also be creative and make this room above a kitchen with a sweeper to automate some egg cracking, or a slaughter room for meat.

I hope I explained that well. I know you can also do something similar with an item dropper setup using sweepers that will gain you similar results, but I like my method as it collects wild eggs as well and I can get everything done with only 1 supply dupe.

[Horserax]

thanks for the help guys! I'd much rather there be a mechanical change as I had previously suggested but its nice to have a few work arounds.