Astroneer - AUTOMATED SOIL CENTRIFUGE - A BUILD GUIDE 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

honestly this is the most useful video ive seen

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

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 😁

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

yo, your tips are so good, subscribed

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

Thanks, great guide!

awesome video midnight

This is freaking awesome 😋thx

FANTASTIC

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

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

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.

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

That helps a lot, thank you

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 :)

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

thank you so much!!!

Very helpful !

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.

im gonna set this up in my save

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

thx a lot for the repeater

You geniuses

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

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

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.

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

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

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

4:24 Big brain move

Hope they make some additional modes for the automation things

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.

Thanks

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).

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

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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!)

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)

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

now it has a repeat button on the machine itself 😁

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

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

Have you been able to automate printers?

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;)

System Era: adds automation Mumbo Jumbo: hmmmmmmm

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

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

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

You know you can put the canester on the platform?

This impulse maker completely destroys other buttons or sensors.

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.

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

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

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

can't the auto extractor extract soil?

How much power i need it to wrk?

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

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

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

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.

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

the clock doesnt seem to work for me

Does it still work??

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.

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

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

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

ok thats

Any reason why this wouldn’t work

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

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

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.

Do printers ever work through automation?

I think they fix this problem by adding a repeat button

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

Im just gonna automate hydrazene

So it has come to this, recipes.

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

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

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

how do you generate soil tho?