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This is the smartest comment, way better solution than just using two two-color mixers, especially since the three color one is already made

Thats really useful in a dedicated factory. In his MAM attempt he has every color available at 100%. Which made me wonder why he didn't just stack two basic mixer into each other.

i was going to comment the same thing, i just did exactly that too. there is plenty of room in this build to make it happen :D

Aaaand this is why this game is already so good. There are multiple "best" solutions depending on what you're optimizing for and how you decide to implement it.

Or make white with secondary colors. Make a set (or multiple sets) of all three secondaries and use those secondaries to make white.

Welcome. Hope you find other cool designs on the channel. That is kind of what I am known for ;)

I just did it on a 1x2 platform. It is less of a headache.

​@@ANDR0iDI don't understand why we hate ourselves and try to build on a 1x1 when the space is huge to build in lol

@@VoltronBuggz There is something satisfying about fitting a build into the smallest space possible I think

Same here! 🤣

There is even a challenge mode that allows only 1x1 platforms

I was wondering the same thing. The output should be the same, and the small two-colour mixer is just too beautiful to not use it as often as possible...

I thought the same thing. Just use that first pretty build twice, problem solved....

Probably because you would end up using twice as much of the third color than the first two

​@@justsomeguy4935but that's always going to be the case. That's the weird thing about the way the paint mixing works, if an equal amount of three different colors was what it took to make white, that would be different. But you get a secondary color and a primary color and mix them together, which means that technically there's more of the third color that goes in in the mix, but you still get white.

@@justsomeguy4935 The build is designed for output, so the inputs will be more than enough in either case.

I'm now just realizing that this only makes 2 layers you would need 8 more to make 3 But. I still think there is a way

It should be doable if you rotate the first two mixers outwards. The color on that side feeds into the 4 mixers of the first stage. The two mixers of the first stage are feed by the color of the opposing side and build the new middle layer pipe of the 4 mixers of the outbound side.

@@MrHaggyy ya i ended up going back and thinking about it and relized its just doable it is pretty hard to make design cause i dont have the game yet

Or at least something that takes any base in the wild, quarters it and seperates it to combine it with its friends.

Should be fine. Each mixer outputs 750L, and he only has 2 machine outputs attached to a jumper. That matches the 1500L capacity of a jumper. On the input side, each mixer is taking 375 in, and he is running 12 off of one pipe + one jumper (on the left side); that's 4500L used, with 7200+1500L capacity going over there, so there should be plenty of capacity on input as well.

@@saynay302 He's using a single jumper to cross two of the base colors over to the other side. That's only providing a quarter of the throughput that a pipe can.

Way too expensive in platform units

​@@Nilausonly if you use modules to do it. It's really easy to make an extractor blueprint that outputs two lanes of half of a shape combined, or even one lane of a quadrant. (Or you can make an omni miner design, but I've found it cumbersome to route the outputs anywhere useful)

@@smrqunofficial There's a beautiful blueprint in the steam community hub for a mining platform which separates & combines each corner, outputting one full lane of each shape.

Actually, the game lets you choose between RGB, CMY, and RYB. RGB is the default ... it makes the least sense but looks the prettiest, since the other options add towards black instead of white. The black fluid is also a bit less user-friendly - when I tried out the other color schemes, the black shapes looked a lot like the pegs (which aren't unlocked yet in this video), and pipes with black fluid look almost like empty pipes, so I ended up switching back to the white color scheme to avoid confusing myself.

@@salionshatterstar : Awesome, I had no idea; thank you for the clarification! Yeah, I didn't think about the consequences of them combining towards black, lol.

That's literally what he did. Did you not watch the video?

It depends on how much paint you need. If you only consume 12 lanes of paint like he did, there isn't really a point in producing more, even if you could. In a dedicated build it could be benefitial to produce 24, but you could also build two mixers and put them on the same spacebelt.

Oh, and color me impressed. =P

The rgb color system is additive, where having all three colors maximally results in white. Usually colors are represented with 3 numbers from 0 to 255 denoting the amount of red, green and blue in it. White is 255,255,255 for example

No, the other way around, you 12 pipes going out, meaning you only consume 6 pipes of green and 6 pipes of green. If you wanted to you could make 24 in 24 out.

24 (12 green 12 red) would output 24 yellow, however he only made room for 12 output

He goes for 9 Input 18 output

If he had twice as many mixers, sure.

Yep, grouping the inputs works well. I have one colour come from one side and feed into the inner inputs, then jump over to the inner inputs of the second set of mixers. Then it's just a simple matter of routing the second colour around to all the other inputs.

Ohh. Totally agree here!

The throughput is output limited, so each tile outputs 12 belts. While each tile can input from any of the 12 lanes of inputted base material, it will only consume 50% of that. Or 50%/25%/25% for Nilhaus's 3-way mixer.

I wouldn't say it's wrong. The ratios are still 6:6:12, 6:3:3:12, (or 4:4:4:12 for a more intricate design Nilaus decided wasn't worth using). It's just that since all the inputs are next to each other, it's easy to allow for any of the 12 lines of input to be drawn from. It essentially creates a 12:6 or 12:3 balancer at the input. Which isn't super important, but it liberates you from the need to keep track of which belts are carried through from one tile to the next. Alternatively, one could use a bigger tile and utilize the full 12:12:24 or 12:12:12:36 capacity, but meh. Routing that much product to the next tile starts to resemble spaghetti.

No, as long as you don't go over the throughput limit (one pipe can carry input from 4 lanes).

Despite what the tooltip indicates, pipes don't actually have a throughput limit. It says each pipe can handle 7200 L/m, but in my testing I was able to push 21600 through a pipe segment with no issues. So connect them all and spaghetti away :-)

Given the platform points a train station costs most certainly.

There are few different color schemes and on top of that I think there is a non-colored version, were you have pipes covered with different geometrical patterns instead of colors.

@@HighWindd87 Thanks, that is good to know as this would literally become unplayable for me.

@@HighWindd87 AFAIK the color-blind mode is NOT a non-colored version, i.e. it uses the same colors, but adds textures on top of the pipes which signal the color. It's actually shown in the ingame help. There are certain combinations of stripes and dots in different directions which stand for certain colors.

in the settings there is a colour option where you can change it to RYB, its purely visual so it changes green to yellow i assume on the map

Yeah, it's a little strange that that's the default, but they do have CMYK and other options that you can switch to.

I think they can but YIKES

Pipes and belts can both carry 3 different items if you want to do it efficiently: 1 on each layer.

@@roadtrain_ 12 different items - one per belt, 4 belts per layer.