Industrial Crafter: Automated Crafting Setup

Overview

In-game description

Attaches to a workbench to allow automated crafting.

Attach it to a workbench and that bench keeps crafting with nobody standing at it. Materials come in through pipes, finished items go out, and you can be across the map while it works through a stack.

Picture a base whose furnace yard already runs on conveyors. Frags pile up in storage faster than anyone spends them, and every evening somebody stands at the bench queueing the same crafts. Point a conveyor at the crafter instead, set the recipe once, and the boring part of the wipe happens on its own.

Place it against your workbench. The bench's level still limits what can be made there.
Run power to it.
Use the pipe tool to connect its input to the box that feeds it and its output to the box that collects.
Pick the recipe in its menu.

The crafter itself needs a Level 2 workbench, three HQM and two tech trash. That last part stings. Tech trash also goes into C4, turret targeting computers and batteries, and no bench can craft it: it only comes from loot and the recycler, so expect the crafter to wait behind your raid and defence plans.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	67–69	1,700–1,750
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Satchel Charge	5	2,400
High Velocity Rocket	13	2,600
Rocket	2	2,800
Beancan Grenade	24	2,880
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	33	420
Propane Explosive Bomb	2	1,800
Mortar Shell	7	2,400
Survey Charge	49	2,940
Homing Missile	39	4,000
MLRS Rocket	2	—
40mm HE Grenade	12	—
Hammerhead Bolt	16	—

Explosive

Quantity

Sulfur

Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo

67–69

1,700–1,750

Timed Explosive Charge

2,200

Satchel Charge

2,400

High Velocity Rocket

2,600

Rocket

2,800

Beancan Grenade

2,880

Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot

Torpedo

420

Propane Explosive Bomb

1,800

Mortar Shell

2,400

Survey Charge

2,940

Homing Missile

4,000

MLRS Rocket

—

40mm HE Grenade

—

Hammerhead Bolt

—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.

Crafting