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ZG CFS Perhonen 2 [Crafting Base]

A simple "Compressed Fabrication System" all-crafter, bug free and low lag, with one dedicated Scrapper per resource type. Flat layout for easy access and understanding, with only 4 Component Factories it's minimal but fairly fast. Fixed and update version of the popular original "CFS Perhonen" tech.

As featured in episode 5 of my crafting playthrough.

► Licenses: GSO 5 (can be GSO 3 if stripped down in Creative mode, before re-snapshotting).


► Links:

• Related crafting techs in section 11 of my Complete Guide to Crafting. Examples:
• Harvester bricker - efficient and capable little gatherer of rocks and renewables.
• Compressed Block converter - simple tech for bulk Compressed Block conversion (manual setting).
• ScrapperSellerBricker - automatically converts or turns loose or scrapped resources into Compressed blocks, selling any Components.


► Function:

Uses Compressed Resource Blocks in a 'cartridge' style system; the central array of GSO Node Silos supplies the demands of the Crafting line and indicates which of the 11 GSO Scrappers have been exhausted.

Each GSO Resource Block contains 24 Chunks. So, with 6 stacked above a Scrapper, plus 2 buffered inside (invisible), that's 192 chunks waiting to go. More than 2 full (3x3) Lotsa Silos per resource, over 2000 chunks total.

This method avoids the frame rate drop of an equivalent base using only Silos. Or the tedious process of figuring out which resources are needed in a smaller, mixed silo system (and manually refilling with smaller Compressed Blocks).

This is a 'bare bones' crafting setup. Please customise it for Campaign play, with Bubbles, Batteries, defences, etc.


► Usage:

(1) WARNING!: clear area of loose GSO blocks before loading in! (Due to scrappers on this base.)

(2) The GSO Fabricators can be switched out for any other Corporation's.

(3) Set Pacemaker to Turbo. :-)

(4) Load up the Scrappers with GSO Compressed Resource Blocks in any order, provided you are always consistent. (Suggested order marked with blocks below Scrappers.)

(5) The SCUs are there to prevent the dedicated scrappers from accidentally grabbing loose blocks and jamming up the system.

(6) The spare Scrapper and big silo at the end are for supplying raw resources from low level blocks, to make other low level blocks. You're unlikely to need this, once in mid-late game. (This is not a selling base!)

(7) To drain all the Scrappers of residual resources (e.g. before moving the base): set the Filter to "All" and then try to fabricate a Resource Block of each type, until all Node Silos are empty. The Filter will 'steal' the Resources away from the Fabricator to be sold from the 2x2 Silo.

(8) The Canons at the end of the conveyor will also get rid of any spuriously sent resource chunks (from Crafting glitches), to prevent jams. (Hopefully very rare with this setup.)

(9) The Refinery is primarily vestigial - currently needed to make crafting Exotic Components actually work (a bug). But it can also Refine a continual stream of raw collected/scrapped resources, if needed. E.g. to turn them into Compressed blocks. (Not a main function of this base!)

Removing and re-adding the Refinery will also reset the crafting allocation - a kind of soft reboot, that will retain the Fabricator's stored resources while hopefully unsticking a minor deadlock problem.

(10) Don't try to craft 2 high level blocks simultaneously, as it may cause deadlock.


► System: this tech is part of a systematic way of harvesting, mining, buying, converting and using Compressed Resource Blocks. By far the best way to craft in TerraTech 0.7.8.0. See the other Workshop Techs in this collection.

These are featured in my "Complete Crafting Guide" here on Steam, or on the official forums[forum.terratechgame.com].Great if having problems, or building your own crafting system. 😊


► Change log:
• Problematic dongles removed (old Perhonen would deadlock trying to craft certain top level blocks).
• Delivery Canon assembly tweaked to be more user friendly.
• Scrappers move closer together, making tech slightly more compact (thanks to physics optimisations for blocks held for scrapping).


► Campaign loading:
• Subscribe to this Workshop item, above.
• Go to Creative mode in TerraTech.
• Click the "Load" button (bottom left of screen) and find it in the "Steam" tab.
• Remove any blocks from the tech that you don't yet have in your play-through.
• Re-snapshot the tech, so it will now be stored as a local snapshot with your own techs.
• Load as normal in Campaign.