Astroneer - AUTOMATED SOIL CENTRIFUGE - A BUILD GUIDE

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[@lordpetroollo6979]

I would like to see something like "everything except" mode on the auto arm.

[@ryanfowler1426]

Yesss! I was trying to build this myself, but I couldn't figure it out without that so now I'm here to try and see what he did.

[@Renova342]

Lord PEtroollo I would lov if it had an smelted filter unsmelted filter ect

[@abd360g5]

I think the best method is to have another picking the "except items"

[@lordpetroollo6979]

@Cruz Marc dear comment bot noone gives a fuck about some really shady program you are advertising

[@huuh1524]

To get a everything except you could have an auto arm before that auto arm filter out the item don't want it

[@biggierocc1935]

Update: With the new "repeat" button, hook a storage sensor set to "Full or Empty" from the canister to the centrifuge to turn it off when the container is full. No arm needed

[@MrWerwoolf]

Thank you!

[@rymndgeekyguy]

Paired with a drilling vehicle and several large soil canisters, this setup makes base building significantly easier.

[@Warrior00013]

Definitely going to come back to this after tidying up my me and my wife's base. We still run into the issue of not having enough compound.

[@aidenx7098]

That’s what the soil centrifuge was created

[@YTN3rd]

I did it in a similar way with a medium storage on the right, attach a storage sensor set to "empty or not empty" and it'll trigger the soil centrifuge to start when the arm remove the items from the right. There is a timing issue though, it needs the arm to be slower than topping up the soil. So if you're doing ammonium the arm will remove that item before its filled and it won't trigger to start in time as its still filling with soil. EDIT: They did mention possibility of a delay sensor in future, so that would help this situation.

[@andrey7lab]

It's ok as the centrifuge is not stopping when triggered. It only gets started. The trick is to tune printers for the scrap automation. And I wish unpacking could be automated too. And some bigger arm to load the big storages to the shredder.

[@noob115]

Great vid. I also made some kind of automation with the soil centriuge. I build it up like this: its called Auto-Carbon-Generator: 2 Furnaces 1 Soil Centrifuge 1 Large Storage ( the one with triangle shape) 1 Storage sensor (set to empty or not empty) 1 storage sensor (set to full or empty) 2 medium soil canister 2 small soil canister 2 medium storage (the foldable one) 4 auto arms 3 small platform A (for the auto arms) 1 small platform A 2 resource canister big/small (depends) Ok a lot of stuff i know. But now i explain exactly how it works: The soil centriuge has to print the green resource (sry forgot name). It will instantly be used by the 2 furnaces to smelt them into carbon. The smelltet carbon gets placed on the medium storage and gets taken by the auto arm wich is set for carbon only and gets put into the resource canister for carbon. To automate the soil centrifuge you put one storage sensor on the medium storage and set it to "empty or not empty" when the medium storage is empty or just one item gets put in, it will activate the soil centrifuge everytime, and since the storage will be everytime "empty or not empty" it eill trigger the signal everytime when one carbon is finished and placed on the storage and gets taken by the auto arm and gets put in the resource canister wich is set to carbon. Without this setup wich I explain here, the storage senor wont work properly: Of course you ask yourself, then why you need 4 auto arms? The problem was, the soil centriuge was producing more stuff then the furnaces can smelt in that time, so the storage was full with "centrifuge items" and there was no space left for the "furnace items" and it stopped the cycle and it stopped working cause there was no space left to put stuff on for the furnace. Here the 3 other auto arms come in. You set one auto arm next to the medium storage and set it to "green stuff" so it only picks up the items wich are placed from the soil centrifuge on the storage (due to the slow smelting of the furnaces). Next to that auto arm you place a resource canister wich takes the item. You place a storage sensor and set it to "empty or full" on the resource canister and connect it to the same resource canister, so everytime when the canister is full it will automatically change the mode of the canister to "eject the stuff" or "take the stuff in". Next to that canister you place another auto arm wich will take the stuff when the cainster is about to eject the items. Next to that auto arm you place one small platform A with a medium storage on it. Next to it you place another auto arm wich faces into the furnaces, yes both furnaces, so place it so it it can put items in both furnaces when on or the other is full already. The only reason i made this kind of circuit is, the soil centrifuge will always print the stuff faster then the furnaces, it doesnt matter how big of a storage you have, it will exponentially be always more printed stuff on your storage then smelted stuff, and it will cause the system to "block". The Circuit i created prevents that by taking not used items in a secondary storage and stores them for later use. With exactly this setup, like really EXACTLY same storage type, same platforms like the description i mentioned on top, by the time the furnace is using the stuff wich is stored in the secondary storage, you can go collect soil again with your rover and it will still keep going and will create a ton kf carbon for you, so it never stops working. 24/7 Carbon Generator. Sorry that was a really long comment.

[@suu7965]

holy sheesh this helped a ton

[@retriever5229]

I have a feeling that your writing teacher is harassing you to type this for some reason.

[@h4aton66]

The clock reminds me of the cheap minecraft clock of 2 repeaters, 4 redstone and a trigger/Redstone signal.

[@cubeface114]

I love how I said on Twitter that there isn't a video you make that I won't watch as soon as I see the notification, well here I am, watching as soon as I see the notification, really amazing content, thank you for the content

[@seymourbewty]

I have a full large container of Carbon now from using this method combined with the auto smelter! Thanks and have a happy 4th!

[@mutemusings]

I was debating doing this to fuel my backup generator module. Thanks for confirming that it works.

[@tophat802]

Thanks for the awesome videos! Just so you know, if you do the 2 buttons like that, it will break every other sensor you have in your base (it just won't trigger your other ones, but the button repeaters will work). Not sure if it is a glitch or bug, but just so everyone knows. It's like the button repeaters trump every sensor when they are set up like that

[@Whistler-007]

Thanks for the heads up. It was my first question after seeing how this works. Need a way to figure out when the centrifuge is finished. Looking for a similar solution to automating printers

[@tophat802]

@@Whistler-007 there is a "timer" of sorts that goes from a medium storage to a medium storage canister that works beautifully. It is on reddit and your should be able to find it. Are you on Midnight's discord? I could dm you the link

[@itsthegr8matt]

Oh my goodness I actually tried to automate stuff and I was wondering about Soil automation since I love turning Soil into resources. So thank you.

[@orokmusic694]

I tried this the other day and it's a great setup. Worked perfectly until I need to use more button repeaters around my base. Apparently it's a known thing that the button repeater "spam" clock breaks all other button logic. Someone suggested using a full/not full storage sensor on an auxiliary med storage as a clock in this particular scenario. I'm guessing it would work in other situations too. The reason I mention it is that I've watched a few of your videos and I like the format/content but they all rely on this game breaking clock. Only started Astroneers 2 weeks ago but I'm already excited to see them expand their logic tools. Cheers for the content 😁

[@digbyodell2924]

I think the important takeaway is the button repeater repeater. I had just figured this out. Now that the ingredient and byte cost of X-large Cs has been reduced significantly, I think they are almost an early game item now. Certainly when one goes to get wolfy, carry an extra solid fuel thruster and come back with hematite also, OR gain extra credit by finding a couple iron/hematite nuggets on Calidor.

[@SammiChimi]

Hey, I was working on one of these yesterday. The clock runs too fast to have more than 1... Trying to build 2 breaks the other one. My solution to this is a slower clock that uses auto arms. If you have an RTG and a full medium battery, you can set up a scenario where you will have a battery sensor set to (charged or not charged) then have 5 auto arms connected to this powered platform. The platform will give 7 U of power to the arms if they are on. This will drain the battery because the RTG can only supply 4/7 of the units needed to run the arms, but if you turn 2 of them off, the arms will only use 3 U of power, causing the RTG to start charging the battery. You can make a clock by telling the battery sensor to turn 2 arms off if the battery is NOT charged, and turn them on if the battery is fully charged. I can send a screen to showcase. (the clock is also toggleable!)

[@SammiChimi]

imgur.com/a/YZi5jhB Here you go, try it yourself! You can run more than 1 of these at a time. But I warn... its really loud! I couldn't come up with a different system sadly, the items in astroneer are limited.

[@Whistler-007]

@@SammiChimi Thanks! I found a random video on this just the other day. It's a late game setup. 1 RTG on its own platform, 1 Splitter, Extra Large Platform C, 1 Medium Battery, 1 Battery sensor, Soil Centrifuge etc. The medium battery & centrifuge share the Extra Large Platform C. Make sure they have no other power source other than the splitter, nor any other power draining objects on their shared platform. With the RTG on its own small platform hook its output to the splitter. Set one splitter output to the Extra Large Platform C and the other splitter output to something else. On the splitter set the output to the Extra Large Platform C to 2.50. With the battery & centrifuge sharing the platform, hook up the battery sensor from the battery to the centrifuge. Set the sensor to full or not full. The battery will drain as the centrifuge does it' thing, with the power set to 2.50 the battery will recharge with enough time for 8 items to clear from the centrifuge before the sensor sends a signal. Doesn't work with variable power sources because the battery recharge time will vary or the battery may not be drained at all.

[@kool-aidsphuckery9596]

I love the extractor. It is great. Just takes so much power.

[@andrey7lab]

Best way is to place storage on the output and connect it to the stotage sensor. Tune it as you want - full/empty or full/not full to trigger the centrifuges used. Also, with the forever-loop design centrifuges might run halfloaded as they fill up all the spots and there's no room for the soil canisters to load the soil onto the centrifuge quickly before it gets triggered.

[@ArthurT22]

Love you man! I tried to figure it out by myself. Took almost 8h to quit and come look for the answer on yours chanel! Thanks. Wish I could play with you some day. Cheers.

[@daniilhdff2523]

Quick tip for new players after u make ur shuttle and ur solid fuel thruster u go to glacio and go in a cave and find a minaral reasearch it will give u 3400 bytes and then u will have enough bytes

[@SinnerD2010]

I had an issue where the resource canisters wouldn't accept the resources from the centrifuge if the canister was on the same platform, especially for the stuff that makes a lot per soil canister. So I just used arms to route stuff off the platform.

[@DennisRyu]

The button to button loop is too fast for some stuff, first time you activate it, it did trigger the centrifuge while it was not fully loaded with soil for example. A much better clock is two medium resource canisters on a small T platform (it has two tier 2 attachments). Put a storage sensor on both and set them to empty or not empty and send the signal of each sensor to the opposite canister. Put one of any resource in one of the canisters and manually trigger that canister. The resource then loops between the canisters an creates a very nice clock tick that can be used for a lot of these automation tasks. Could be done with one canister and one resource too and let the sensor also trigger the canister, but with two canisters the clock is a lot smoother and you get a better on/off signal loop.

[@beirirangu]

And here I thought you found a way to make it FULLY automatic: a process where it gathers its own soil

[@OneLastMidnight]

LOL, no! Otherwise the title would have been Automated Soil Collection. :)

[@aendriu514]

me too

[@orbe5533]

Ikr

[@HAVOCSLEGACY]

IS THAT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GET SOIL?

[@enricocvik601]

I just kinda improvised, I just slapped a storage sensor on that puppy and it works too!

[@Lavisher1]

Would like to see these updated as there’s a button in these to automatically produce the same recipe without the timer stuff.

[@roomie101]

thank you Boss, just started trying to do this using the extra large platform and was having problems

[@killerzedboss]

I hope we get a sort of logic gate and a switch, could help with an easier way to deactivate the clock.

[@muresanalvaro3270]

You can actually put the soil centrifuge on a [LARGE PLATFORM A] and hook a [STORAGE SENSOR] on the platform set it to (WAITING TO FILL) and hook the branch to the soil centrifuge this way when it will fill up it will start automatically I discovered this by accident maybe it will help some of u;)

[@enginear0620]

You would have to refill it very often as the storage of soil would only give 48 ammonium. 16 small canisters per medium canister, 2 small canisters per 1 ammonium and 6 medium canisters per large storage silo type B. Ps new to the community just trying to help.

[@enginear0620]

You could use a auto arm to load and unload empty and full canisters from another platform holding a larger amount of medium canisters and make a sort of drive thru to exchange medium canisters with a large rover.

[@KittyPozer]

Thanks for your videos! I’m getting back into Astroneer and these have been so helpful

[@Jess-it9sc]

Really cool. I made one for carbon but I used a wind turbine whenever i gain or lose power so it isn't as fast. I will definitely switch to this method. The only problem I have is I have to watch it because I can't have all the soil canisters open at once. The lag is horrible it's like I have the game on slide show mode.

[@janlu1892]

FANTASTIC

[@OneLastMidnight]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@idancohen4753]

Thanks for the big one on the end will be good as a hydrazine factory, though a medium hydrazine canister will be nice to needed

[@petelawson3670]

Been trying to do this but only had 1 button repeater. Very helpful. Btw love that commander suit, that's what I got.

[@Avargatoth]

i feel like that double button repeater function should be just built into a single button repeater as per the name. but thank you for this i was wondering how to get it going

[@Geoduce]

honestly this is the most useful video ive seen

[@tommygungaming8512]

Hey Midnight. I was thinking of the best way to farm soil now that we have the automation update. Is it the same as the video you made in 19, just with the big canisters now or do you have a new better design? If you do i'd love to see a video about that :)

[@StegoRex99]

You can remove the arm put the resource canister next to the soil Center fuse keep one soil canister and use the button repeaters

[@orbe5533]

Most stations including the soil centafudge have a auto craft Button next to the craft button making a chosen resource once there's soil

[@goobah7637]

Yes but this was in an earlier update

[@orbe5533]

@@goobah7637 :> big happy

[@WharfRat0A54]

interesting set-up, and definitely worth a try, but does the constant cycle of button repeats hit the performance hard? Just wondering. Thanks for the video, excellent content and fun to watch.

[@tophat802]

Yes, you do run into a problem or two depending on your base. Notice my comment above

[@Whistler-007]

I was wondering about this too.

[@demondylan2502]

Idk if this is any use but it seems to be outdated now, you can set the centrifuge to auto create the materials however with this process you could add a step so when storage is empty it turns off… maybe, idk im still learning

[@idancohen4753]

I saw Sir_Lancastian on reddit making a clock with a resource canister with enabled output and a storage on the same platform, then you hook up a storage sensor to one of them, I think you can control the time by tweaking the number of resource nuggets

[@cigdembircan9825]

4:24 Big brain move

[@prowlerpunk]

That helps a lot, thank you

[@OneLastMidnight]

Glad to hear it!

[@eierdiebs6388]

Cool, I.l try that out tonight right away. Cheers mate

[@MilhafreTuga]

This way you crush all the other automation on your map. I find a better solution. You can use a Medium Resource Canister mounted on a Large Platform A, them on the other 2xconnection you put a Medium Storage. Attache a Storage Sensor with the fill and empty option on the side of the Medium Storage and put a wire to the Medium Resource Canister and another to each Soil Centrifuge you have. The last part is just put 8 of any resource, all the same, on the Medium Resource Canister and let her fill the Medium Storage. When you fill the storage the sensor will send a signal to the centrifuge and will also change the Canister to take back the resources till the Storage will empty and send another signal. With this solution you don't crush the other automation itens.

[@zeezee8136]

Im on the ps4 and i dont have to use the button repeaters i hit the recycle looking button on the centrifuge and activate the green button and it stays on

[@the_dead_knight3]

You don't need the button repeaters anymore because the dev team added a repeat function to most of the machinery

[@OneLastMidnight]

Yes, thank you. You are watching an old video.

[@illuminamiYT]

thx a lot for the repeater

[@Betruet]

Thanks, great guide!

[@KodamaVictor]

yo, your tips are so good, subscribed

[@OneLastMidnight]

Glad you like them!

[@jamingmike966]

awesome video midnight

[@groenewolf4940]

thank you so much!!!

[@kevynstorm]

I wasn't able to make it automated, not sure if it's a Xbox issue or not

[@durpswagjr3962]

The button repeaters won't trigger the centrifuge. I have everything set up right I think.

[@gavindebeer3022]

This is freaking awesome 😋thx

[@thefriendlyaspie7984]

you could just have added the resource can on the same platform as the soil centrifuge so you avoid having to use the arm.

[@OneLastMidnight]

You can, and I think I said there are many ways to configure this system, but if you do place the soil canister directly on the Large Platform B you can only have one canister. By offsetting the soil to another platform you could have a lot more soil to run the soil centrifuge.

[@dynamystic3050]

Hope they make some additional modes for the automation things

[@ilyazzar]

Well. That is great. But I have one concern. I'm afraid that this looping signal will lag the game.( If used too much ofc)

[@andrey7lab]

If you start forever loop with button repeaters then all other buttons stop working. Not even repeater but storage sensors also. I guess that button spam prevents other buttons to send any signal even though condition is met. So, bad design on that.

[@CreateTeen]

im gonna set this up in my save

[@mxdndy]

This impulse maker completely destroys other buttons or sensors.

[@dionysus2006]

Very helpful !

[@OneLastMidnight]

Glad you think so!

[@bg6b7bft]

Is there a way to automate scrap production? I can't find a way to make anything small out of "dirt byproducts" except in the backpack.

[@dhanarsantika]

Button Repeater A : Hey you, activate!! Button Repeater B : no u

[@rpgman7]

now it has a repeat button on the machine itself 😁

[@joshualawton57]

Ps you need over 16 medium soil canisters to completely fill a large resource canister with Ammonium (400) NOW THAT'S A LOT OF D̶A̶M̶A̶G̶E̶ DIRT

[@the1tigglet]

Why didn't you use the full or empty sensor on the container to run this circuit?

[@OneLastMidnight]

Cuz this video was created a few days after the release of automation and that was the way to do it then.

[@videonmode8649]

The large setup doesn't work. Items stop depositing into the large canister for some reason and the small soil canisters stop feeding themselves to the centrifuge

[@DanielCoffey67]

Does the Button Repeater "Clock" cause lag? It might be a good idea to suggest to the Devs that they make a "Clock" object that sends activation pulses at a certain selectable rate (say 1,2,4,8 seconds between pulses).

[@chucklesda1345]

I wonder if you can FULLY automate this, by using auto extractors to harvest lots of soil. Can auto extractors harvest soil?

[@OneLastMidnight]

Sadly, no.

[@kleverich2000]

I cant get it to work, no matter where i connect the buttons to the centrifuge it refuses to start

[@retrolake2019]

Thanks

[@tony_1180]

System Era: adds automation Mumbo Jumbo: hmmmmmmm

[@_harbinjer]

I did hit the like button, I will however have to get a new monitor

[@GodKaber]

Don’t use scenario 2 on console unless you want your game’s frame rate to drop like a brick, if you put soil canisters on storage and then put it on a platform then for some reason the game’s frame rate drops so don’t do this until they fix it

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

Is it possible to use a second auto arm to change to another resource in the first arm when the canister fills up?

[@OneLastMidnight]

You mean change the filter? No.

[@killmouseky4740]

Have you been able to automate printers?

[@EdoGiardo]

now there is a button to make it works automatically by it self

[@endr9915]

Which one?

[@joeclop9484]

ty

[@LawNeu]

You know you can put the canester on the platform?

[@noosebrother]

i think they patched it out as i tried to make this precisely the same and after 3 flashes it just craps out on me.

[@OneLastMidnight]

LOL! That is one way for them to kill the bug. Use the storage timer instead. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGbWmWl3gcZrb5I

[@mikem6561]

I got the repeaters to work once but I cannot recreate it is anyone else having this problem or does anyone have a solution?

[@freekingfreaking246]

How does one get so much soil tho to power all this? I can see myself able to build all this but never able to maintain its soil demand

[@OneLastMidnight]

Use the drill/vehicle approach to gathering soil - kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXzRkHyPf8-XhKs

[@OneLastMidnight]

Oh... Use the medium canisters now. This video was made before they came out.

[@freekingfreaking246]

One Last Midnight yeah I saw that. But medium soil canisters? I thought they were bad like medium batteries.

[@OneLastMidnight]

There was a defect around the soil canister that has now been fixed.

[@noggin8216]

the clock doesnt seem to work for me

[@skiddosaurusrex3524]

no idea why, but this dopesnt work any more wit hthe button repeater

[@orbe5533]

can't the auto extractor extract soil?

[@AMBER_TIG3R]

Does it still work??

[@Goosey716]

Any reason why this wouldn’t work

[@johnharris4083]

I set the first one up to a exactly and it doesn’t automate

[@johnharris4083]

The soil centrifuge doesn’t start

[@Seebee2007]

I think they fix this problem by adding a repeat button

[@Finski-sm7cq]

How much power i need it to wrk?

[@reedhirby4293]

Do printers ever work through automation?

[@lordpetroollo6979]

Probably yes.

[@WharfRat0A54]

pretty sure this same setup would trigger printers, until they run out of resource.

[@seymourbewty]

I was able to figure out a somewhat decent way of printing a bunch of medium soil canisters when I made a version of this auto centrifuge. I set two mrcs, one with plastic and one with glass of course and two medium A platforms, then set up two auto arms to grab from the canisters and fill the small printer. I was hitting the button manually, but you could probably use the clock method as well to fully automate it. Just keep an eye on it so don't have a bunch of extra canisters lying around lol

[@romanroman5037]

I can't be the first to notice that spelling mistake?? "Platfrom C" instead of "Platform C" for Scenario 2 @6.25

[@OneLastMidnight]

Typo. Thanks for pointing it out. It's in there for good now though.

[@fancen]

ok thats

[@DerivativeWorker]

So it has come to this, recipes.

[@vakarisrasimavicius5124]

Im just gonna automate hydrazene

[@crashdodgers]

Man, you need to update all your old videos, as this one is way out of date.

[@mornaybarnabas320]

How do you know all of 😸😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 that

[@TamotojiTukamo]

how do you generate soil tho?

[@Lordgungave]

You geniuses