Planet Humble: Planet Crafter DLC - Automation Started and Power Solved [E11]

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

It's going to be fun when you put the water life collectors down, you'll be drowning in phytoplankton, lol. I usually set up a shredder specifically to take care of the excess phytoplankton. Edit: I think it's time to build a trophy case, you have four of them now.

[@surtrplays]

Lots of Phyto coming soon. I will get to the decorating soon too.

[@dennisfuery3426]

Small quality of life tip: When setting demands for items, you can hold CTRL and select multiple items at once rather than open the demand, select the item, and open it again to select the next item. Open the Demand window, hold CTRL, and select all that you want. It helps with setting Shredder demands as well as T2 Beehive supply.

[@surtrplays]

Thanks! That’s a nice tip. I will give it a try.

[@reaperbot5226]

After getting T2 drones unlocked and some made it's possible to set the station to supply any T1 drones left inside to be stored or sent to recycler. Rather then having to grab them by hand when they are idle.

[@surtrplays]

It is happening in the next episode.

[@markdonnelly1913]

This really is a fantastic DLC. I have played many hours on it already and am really loving the subtle differences to the original game. $10 well spent. I do admit that I always watch your videos to give me a quick heads up on the best way to go, so thank you for making my own game experience even better.

[@surtrplays]

Awesome. Thanks for watching.

[@hazem-y7j]

Nice episode, a nice trick is to put your overflow storages to supply all and when you go out and fetch resources just put them in there and the drones are gonna handle them

[@surtrplays]

I will do. Just need to tidy up first.

[@iansoccerreferee]

I have the same I call auto sorts in every base

[@stue2298]

Have a fairly similar set up, i would suggest is to setting up storeage containers for iridium, uranium and super alloy in your 'production area', and set supply from the crushers for iridium, uranium and super alloy, also set demand at -1 on the shredder for iridium, uranium and super alloy. This will put more work on the drones but you will not get clogged up with uranium and super alloy, you will probably never shred iridium but you will shred tons of uranium and super alloy. It does seem for me that the bottle neck is with Iridium, when you sold 2 rockets worth of Iridium rods, I was shakling my head, saying that it was a mistake.

[@vulcanfeline]

i saw lots of posts on the steam forum saying that iridium starts to get rare

[@surtrplays]

Honestly, I just wanted to get rid of them. I hope it doesn't come back to bite me.

[@dragorin1108]

Sulfur can be mined at your main base saving Drone travel time. I like the crafting area, I built mine where I was mining Uranite and I did that right on the lake shore(the lake that remains frozen the longest), had trade rockets here as well, was neat seeing them rise up out of the mountain from my main base. Power room is nice, I usually just use the Biodome as my power room.

[@surtrplays]

Nice. Thanks for the Sulphur reminder.

[@merc7105]

I appreciate the way you play these games, and the way you talk through your reasoning. Thank you.

[@surtrplays]

Thank you very much.

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

You can also craft supper alloy to get rid of some of the access materials - you should still have enough aluminium for the tods

[@vulcanfeline]

have 2 auto crafters for super and don't set supply + 1 for super rods set for supply

[@surtrplays]

I am not having a problem with super alloy supply right now. If I do, I will build a dedicated crafter. There is a place in the south where you can mine super alloy directly.

[@Wobieyoi]

The best planet crafter season i've ever watched. I watch different youtubers playing this one but man they took so long to upload an episode. I like your eden planet crafter too

[@surtrplays]

Thank you very much.

[@JamesComia-vw1ns]

Love how you make everything lined up perfectly and everything is always I organized

[@surtrplays]

I try.

[@sherbertfizzgig]

You're so organized! I'm going to try your automation set up for the crushers. I'm about the same stage as you, I'm slightly ahead with insects. But I've gone for ordering the 3x3 room first, then the T2 storage and move a lot of stuff into there. At this stage of the game, so much is happening at once! I'm running around just trying to set everything up! lol

[@surtrplays]

There is a lot of running around. It sounds like you are doing fine. Thanks for watching.

[@aaronshakeshaft6423]

With the T2 Aquarium I lined them all up in a deep lake. You can put the bottom half in the water and it looks so cool! Did it on the lake on the old planet starting point.

[@surtrplays]

I did that in my last playthrough. It does look good.

[@aaronshakeshaft6423]

@@surtrplays ah didnt realise and then saw you did it on the next episode! it looks great.

[@ivanvaliev6601]

Just in case - it seems that sulfur can be mined everywhere, so it can be built closer to the drone station

[@surtrplays]

Thanks for the reminder.

[@tylerwertz7552]

Just wanna give you compliments to uploading regularly. Whenever I need to burn time I can count on a new video to just watch or listen to go down the road or just relaxing. Love the style of content you put out. Keep up the work!!!

[@surtrplays]

Glad you enjoy the content. Thanks!

[@vickiscraftythings]

One of the most satisfying moments is when that power jumps high when using the T2 optimizers. That changes the whole feel of the game. Nice job!!

[@surtrplays]

It really makes a difference. Thanks.

[@kacperszczepanski3965]

You must be playing the new planet for so many hours!

[@surtrplays]

I an not sure how many hours but it has been a few.

[@random2829]

The drone tutorial was very much appreciated!

[@surtrplays]

Thanks! Glad it helped.

[@gavinhalliday5231]

Great stuff! Some extreme off-roading there! The ore crushers does make it much more complicated to make the rods, although I am sure your system will work. Maybe an alternative is not to try and sort out and produce things at the crushers, but instead use the drones to take everything away from the crushers, deliver them to lockers, and have the auto crafters beside the lockers? Anyway, it’s all looking good and coming together very well.

[@surtrplays]

I could do that but it will increase the load on the drones.

[@gavinhalliday5231]

@@surtrplays that’s true.

[@NeilGKing]

For the rod autocrafters, set them to demand their respective ores (but not the aluminium). That way the autocrafters will take priority over the shredder.

[@surtrplays]

I actually have never set a demand on autocrafters. I forgot that you could. Great tip thanks.

[@wolfen210959]

The autocrafters beside your ore crushers, will take time to begin crafting because you set the crushers to "supply", which means the drones will remove the resources before they can be used by the autocrafters. Eventually they will begin to craft stuff, but only after the "demand" storages are full. Setting destructors to auto can be problematic, better to just leave them on manual, that way you know that nothing useful is being destroyed.

[@surtrplays]

I still have to refine that process.

[@stanleyclark923]

@@surtrplays One trip for a rod is way better than making 9 trips for the ore. If you ever need the ore just deconstruct a rod.

[@reaperbot5226]

The rover makes a nice drop box when exploring the map and while portal hopping. Because you can pick it up and carry it in your inventory and it's max capacity is roughly the size of a tier 2 storage locker. Drones can travel to portal locations and grab items from it but they might be a bit slow so another option is to recall the rover to it's platform first. Can also build and carry multiple rovers with you to increase overall inventory space with this method.

[@surtrplays]

Nice tips. Thanks.

[@ivanvaliev6601]

Actually a nice trick with "-1" priority on the shredder. Much more convenient than putting "1" priority on 100500 producing machines.

[@surtrplays]

Yes, that does make more sense.

[@seajaytea9340]

Enjoying the series a great deal! Well done and thanks.

[@surtrplays]

Thanks for watching!

[@bharathkumarreddy5596]

Your dedication is impressive! Keep striving! 💯

[@surtrplays]

Thanks for watching! I hope you like how it's turning out so far.

[@shovkovskyi]

For osmium - you don't need to put the Ore extractors inside that cave. You can put them on the flat surface outside of the cave entrance... which is gonna be closer to your base. I did that myself...

[@stanleyclark923]

I put mine at 350: 150: 715. I believe that's close to where you're referring to.

[@shovkovskyi]

@@stanleyclark923 mine are at -35:166:488... yours is at a different entrance... I haven't tested that area, but it's possible that it works there too, because just like Obsidian, Osmium also seems to have a pretty big range... it's worth experimenting to see how far into the landing area they can go...

[@surtrplays]

Excellent, thanks.

[@stanleyclark923]

@@shovkovskyi My base is built over the lake above the waterfall so those extractors are right in my back yard. That's as close as I could get them in that direction.

[@stanleyclark923]

Auto crafters can pull from areas above and below. I built a 2x2 production building 5' over a water source. Below the building I built a couple of water gatherers and algae growers. I put the crafter on the main level along with lots of T2 storage containers receiving resources. Then I added another level above it with food growers/silkworms/etc making stuff that can be used as it is produced. The autocrafters will use the algae, water, silk, eggplants, etc as they are produced. Placing things like beehives, methane extractors, etc near the building means drones can focus on gathering from sources further away.

[@surtrplays]

I did that in one of my previous playthroughs. It works great.

[@jean-marclabbe2587]

nice video, you could put a platform with a chest outside the wrecks and supply all, you dump your stuff when you're full

[@surtrplays]

Thanks.

[@darthyetgon]

38:41 you need to set your vehicles to supply everything that way when you start filling it up and you're still exploring drones can start pulling stuff out of your storage containers of your vehicles😊

[@surtrplays]

I haven't got that logistics chip yet. Soon.

[@JohannHoeller-n6k]

I wonder if you can set the storage on your rover to supply all. Then you could be out and about and have theoretically infinite storage, as long as the drone make it to your rover and it's always accessible

[@vulcanfeline]

also all the containers on the ships. if you can set them to supply, you don't need to take anything at all with you

[@surtrplays]

Yes, there is a chip that allows logistic from the vehicle.

[@darthyetgon]

41:49 at The crushers you need to put an auto crafter making super alloy I know you already have one making rods but having one making the alloy itself will help with stuff from backing up😊 if you also supply your trade rocket to take extra iridium rods away and extra uranium rods away and have it automatically launch when full that would help you as well😊

[@surtrplays]

Thanks. I will set that up when things start backing up.

[@urkerab]

In theory you can also check the drone station's list of storages to check that you have something supplying osmium rods but I'm sure that gets quite tedious quite quickly. It's interesting how you have to adjust your production for the way you get ores on this planet.

[@surtrplays]

It is different. Balancing things with the crushers is a nice mechanic and I am still figuring how to work with it.

[@urkerab]

@@surtrplays Yes the crushers were definitely a neat way of making the new planet more interesting.

[@The_destroyer0]

Best youtuber

[@surtrplays]

Thank you very much.

[@grandmajeanne5631]

Nice episode, I arranged all mine a little differently but it works. T3 ore extractors can mine sulfur anywhere so you could have put that miner at base or next to the Obsidian miner. I know little things like that are easy to forget, I only play 2 games so I remember all the details. Keep it up

[@surtrplays]

Thanks for watching and for the reminder.

[@RookwingsKirk]

Thank you for episode 11. MY setup is quite different to yours [I only use shredders for the multitudes of Phytoplankton, haha] but it's really nice to see how you get going. My NMS void egg still hasn't hatched, but I'm still starting file 2 when I get a living ship. As I said before, I hate my base in file 1...

[@surtrplays]

Oh, the Phytoplankton shredder is coming. It sounds like you are doing okay. Thanks for watching.

[@llwellyncuhfwarthen]

You can have my spare Pulsar Quartz I keep getting Pulsar Meteors still. (And I just lucked out and picked up 11 of the 1200% butterflies).

[@surtrplays]

Wow. I haven't had a single pulsar meteor yet.

[@reaperbot5226]

Could setup an auto crafter to make super alloy ore because it requires the common resources meaning you won't have to shred as much. Could also set trade rockets to demand items that give tokens at a low priority to reduce things getting backed up.

[@surtrplays]

That's a very smart idea.

[@Rogerfoulger]

I noticed in the area where the fog was by the water you could put down a super alloy miner, so could double dip with the uranite if really needed a lot of it

[@surtrplays]

Next episode.

[@reaperbot5226]

It's possible once you have the resources regularly available to have an auto crafter building more drone. Which you can then set the crafter to supply and the station or a storage to demand. If you have the station demand them it can hold more then the 25 slots worth. Any extras drones will float overtop of the station when they are idle though.

[@surtrplays]

Thanks. I don't really like the drones floating over the ports.

[@JamesComia-vw1ns]

Love how he sounds like Jarvis from iron man

[@surtrplays]

LOL!

[@vinodmidha8752]

Surtr, you can mine the super alloys in a cave which is better because you can use the uraninite to make more uranium and iridium for your auto crafter setup and you can get more super alloys (I just call the auto crafter setup a factory because it’s kind of like a small factory in satisfactory)

[@surtrplays]

I will check that out. I don't need more right now but maybe later.

[@Svesh_Victoryan]

production fuses allow you to accelerate the extraction of any ores in drilling rigs.

[@surtrplays]

They do, but I will only use them later if needed.

[@Rogerfoulger]

so for the Uranite cave if you go to the lake part it's nice and flat where the drone wreckage and crates are

[@surtrplays]

I didn't check for Uraninte in the area. Thanks.

[@nebulamageplays1541]

A buffer storage should suffice for your rod problem. Or multiple.

[@surtrplays]

I will give that a try.

[@waynethomas3638]

Surtr, for a while I was just listening not watching and I was wondering what a terror token was! Your accent threw me 😇So, would that crusher be Wesley son of Beverly?

[@surtrplays]

LOL. Those tokens are scary.

[@Vell1981]

You can mine Super alloy at the beach and Cobald on that little island in the south of the Map.

[@surtrplays]

Thanks.

[@richard2mitchell]

25:18 so it is best if you put a chest (i do the basic one) behind it and demand the ore....so it would work like this...base chest (ore) 5...chest behind auto crafter 4....then shredder -1...(then have a chest in your base for the bars) doing this it will only ever delete stuff AFTER the ore and bar chest in your base is full....you can do that for all the types to.

[@surtrplays]

Thanks for that.

[@teddytiger5217]

I need to go back and see how you set up your Prime storages & autocrafting. I've spent the last two days reorganizing once I got the trade rocket and T2 Large Storages, but it seems like I'm running out of items too quickly. I've got autocrafters for the Bio stuff, and a couple for food items. I'm thinking I should not use the T2 Large storages for food items (HQ Food, Chocolate, Flour, Honey Beans and fish soup) since my autocrafters are just taking everything too fast. Any and all suggestions would help, and I can even take a clip and show you how I've done it so far. It's driving my ADHD and OCD insane! :)

[@teddytiger5217]

Oh yeah, and I have like, 4 T3 Ore Extractors up for Uranium, Iridium, Super Alloy and Osmium, but I shouldn't need that many?

[@surtrplays]

You will need a lot of extractors. Getting everything into storages and filling them up is a constant battle. You just need to identify a bottleneck and upscale. That will probably cause an issue somewhere else that you need to do the same thing to. Rinse and repeat.

[@teddytiger5217]

@@surtrplays Thank you for the advice. I spent the last few hours tonight re-distributing things and I think I've got a pretty viable solution that seems to be working mostly smoothly. I've 4 T3 Ore Extractors in the 'Important' places, doing Rod production there into a standard large storage, with the overflow now going to Trade Rockets to get some extra tokens. I've got a Pulsar production area at another Trade Rocket with T1 Large storages picking up the leftover items needed which works out due to the rocket timing. Now I need to figure out the Farming and Bio automations. :)

[@shovkovskyi]

Instead of using T1 drones, you should've just waited until the rocket with 15K tokens is back and then buy T2 drones for 12K... that's how I did so I don't have to deal with T1 drones - collected enough tokens and bought T2 drone blueprint as my first purchase...

[@surtrplays]

It's not a big problem. I will get it done.

[@Rogerfoulger]

so I'm in a catch 22 with the quartz crystal, I'm 5 unlocks away from getting it have 928 power and don't want to spam any more uranium power plants... there aren't many caves with them and no storms as yet. My only solution so far is to spam rockets to get the GTI to accelerate till I get them unlocked. I feel the Devs need to walk back the nerf on this and where it unlocks as we have power hungry crushers etc now

[@surtrplays]

Yeah, there is a bit of a balancing act in this DLC. Its not bad having the challenge and trying to find ways to advance.

[@cjrichmond6102]

♥♥♥

[@surtrplays]

Thanks.

[@darkcrow7]

Have you looked on top of the big ship?😉

[@surtrplays]

I haven't but I had a feeling there might be something there thinking about planet Prime.

[@Godfather-GODY78]

💯👍

[@surtrplays]

Thanks.

[@richard2mitchell]

17:40 so...there is no demand all and that sucks. BUT if you hold shift when you click it will add it without esc the menu so you save some time in clicking 500000 times lol

[@surtrplays]

Good tip, thanks.

[@joshuamullins8445]

Is it just me or does this dlc feel like it goes faster than the original planet did? Even though the objective is the same.

[@surtrplays]

I think it goes faster when you know most of the mechanics in the game. It does feel like there is a lot more loot.

[@kingsmegger4089]

can you sell the bp chips that you find and if so how much

[@wolfen210959]

They can't be sold.

[@surtrplays]

Unfortunately not, but it is possible that there will be updates that need more.

[@elanore4764]

not sure if you have a video on how to set up and use drones yet im finding it so hard to set them up sorry im almost 60 so brain function isnt the greatest

[@surtrplays]

I will look at doing something dedicated to drones in the future. This episode does cover most of it.

[@elanore4764]

@@surtrplays I found it a bit rushed sorry if you could explain it a bit slower . Your episodes are great I enjoy watching them 😁

[@SonneFrank]

Do you realize you have 2 Energy Multipliers in your explosives storage, to the left of your food locker? EDIT: Or are they Heat Multipliers?

[@surtrplays]

Yip. The Portal Generator is very expensive.

[@stashiv]

40:37 Starform robotics chest... another @ 342:201:911... underground

[@surtrplays]

Awesome, thanks.