PlateUp - OT37 Steak Automation

Attempting all starters and desserts with all steak add-ons. After 11 days and 2 attempts, I'm running out of space on large map (How?!). Not sure it's possible without cramming in more teleporters for steaks and sacrificing some frozen prep stations. Will probably abandon the run and try again sometime T.T

[@often_nie]

This is super creative and unique! I loved watching it work

[@theone-jn4zq]

I think you could compact the onion water setup by making them in a central location and teleporting in a chain to each spot that needs them. would probably need more pots, but should be more compact than what you have. Clean plates can be one tile smaller by moving teleporter right one tile, manual filling the pates would save another. You can combine your plate and board return into a single teleporter, and smart grab the boards and clean plates off the plate line, saving two tiles. manual board filling saves another tile. Removing all frozen preps and taking off the conveyors directly should be fine unless you get two people who want the same type and done steaks, and should not be a long wait if you do get that unlucky. (a 1/12 chance). Otherwise, very compact and efficient, well done! Keep up the great content!

[@IcedMilo1]

Thanks for the compliment and analysis. Tho there are some things that I would like to clarify. The general issue with steak is with the large number of manual interaction points necessary compared to other recipes. Ie exposed surface area. 12 + 4 (sauces and toppings). While it would have helped to have more space by reducing the number of frozen preps, the space gained can't be used for much of anything, since you would need to reach the now oddly placed grabbers if not using teleporters. Also, since you can't plate directly on smart grabbers for rare and medium steaks as you would reprogram it, the space savings are less. The setup would be just as squarish as it is now. Filling the onions and water centrally doesn't make much sense. Such a setup requires minimally 10 pots with use of teleporters similar to my existing red wine setup. 10 pots because you have to backlog the conveyors up to the junction (sink) to ensure an even split. Otherwise, you need direct access to the hob similar to the existing mushroom sauce setup in which case you can manually load the pots instead. So I tried it prior to abandoning the run by pushing the sauces up to the serving window and manually loading 1 pot each, forgoing teleporters and auto pot loading entirely. (gives 2 teleporters) Moved plates to the back to join it with the cheese boards for 1 more teleporter. Also, should probably mention the extra grabber was for potential coffee automation 😂 just needed a place to put it. Used the three teleporters to test steak automation w/o frozen preps. It did not go well. Only thing it worked with was thin cut, sort of. Plating steaks directly from grabbers makes sense in theory. In practice, you not only have to wait for steaks of the same type and doneness to replenish, but steaks of the same type and lower doneness as well since they are not independent. Wait time is from 10.7 secs for double rare thin cut up to 26 secs for double well done thick cut with this hob configuration with a expected wait time of 15.3 sec accounting for probability across all steak types with the current hob types (yes, I did the math. The things we do for games hahahaha). Sacrificing that for 2-3 hobs per steak for independence will take up significantly more space, due to the additional trash bins required, than using the prep stations in this setup. Plan for the future is to remove only prep stations for all rare and some medium steaks. Some frozen prep is still necessary to ensure first customer is served immediately. Then creating a grid of teleporters to walk in between, hopefully reducing the number of empty tiles to reclaim some space.

[@theone-jn4zq]

@@IcedMilo1 Gotta finish my current run so I can do a steak run on this seed lol. I love this game.

[@TheFyrewire]

I'm kinda new to PlateUp automation, but this looks so cool. Where do you fit the desks/cabinets for getting all the appliances you need?

[@IcedMilo1]

This is the end result of building up appliances for all recipes (at least all recipes at the time the run was done). At which point no further blueprints need to be researched/copied. I usually run 7-8 blueprint cabinets around a copy desk, moving them around to accessible spaces as the run progresses. They are then discarded as the space is used to prebuild automation setups for upcoming recipe cards. At some point I will have to do another full steak run, cutting down the number of prestations used in order to recover some space for the new recipes 😅

[@him9104]

It would be funny if there was a card that made burnt steak a option

[@IcedMilo1]

Hmmm... That sounds like a plan. A good plan