Update/Revision: You CAN bypass the separate cooking system and ignore sucking ore into it's own box. This will allow you to immediately pump any cooked ore back into the system and sort as with any other items by running your furnace directly into your drop box combiner. The drawback to doing so is your drop box will always be filled with ore while cooking and this may require you to have more drop boxes. I would still do things as I've shown in this video as I would prefer to separate out any uncooked ore and save me drop box space (I tend to come home with full inventories)
Nice guide, but you might add: - Increased speed out of the dropbox by linking two storage modules *on the same box* - Electrical splitters don't need to use only port 1 & 3. They automatically balance on whichever outputs are used. - You can keep everything sorted by having another conveyor excluding the items you put into a box, pumping other items back into the start of the system. That way your messy teammate can't give you a reason to throw a spear at him.
Hands down the best thing facepunch added to rust. A system to let us spend more time doing what we WANT to do, instead of sitting in a base, organizing boxes, managing furnaces. Great video!
@@travv88 I usually make a simple smelting system as soon as I can, and immediately progress speeds up while the base cooks for me and I just keep it fed. Once the base is fleshed out, I redo the whole lot in one go. Just be aware that building and upgrading can disconnect pipes (especially the vanilla sheet metal model), and it always seems to disconnect the pipe going to the furnace against the back wall...
I would recommend putting the conveyors on the wall above/next to their respective boxes. Makes for a cleaner install and also if you want to change what boxes contain it's easier to tell which conveyor goes to which box.
I'm always the base organizer whenever I play rust with my mates. This system makes my work much easier, thanks! Also, really good and easy to follow video :)
Yeah, I'm a base rat in a group myself. Just came back an last I played this wasn't in the game. Makes my rat role a bit less important, but I'll take the convenience over clout any day
I was the base organizer, and after this I got fired :( I then became a chad, and been raiding their base everytime, since they already sort everything for me xD
An extra tip: You can connect a second wall of conveyors, one for each going in, with an inverted filter (copy and paste and select to exclude) all going into combiners and into the dropbox. Set the filter fail of each original conveyor to the power input for each respective one, and now you have your loot automatically moving back to your dropbox if put in the wrong place and back into autosorting system for only the frag cost of combiners and conveyors. It does have the slight downside of the box not sending items out of its full and has possible items to bring in, but unless you are overwhelming the system with items it should'nt happen, and even then its just a slight limitation of saving half the power, not a downside of adding them. Props to @x-tremespeed for this one, goat.
They did recently add a seasons system to Rust, where the sun changes positions throughout the wipe cycle, which could easily be its own video topic if you chose to dig into that. Some people have made documentations on Rust’s seasons, however I haven’t come across any videos explaining it in layman’s terms. Anyway, thanks for the automation guide, cheers
You can't really see anything about it without running your own server, but the day and year do change in rust over time. Sesh isn't wrong and the sun can change position based on how far into a wipe it is
Seasons have been a thing in Rust for a long time, at least since 2020 when I started playing. They just weren't as noticeable because solar panels were using the wrong vector to the sun. The Rust island is 10 degrees south, 25 degrees west Rust servers start with the date being May 20, 2024 by default. Before around Oct 10th you'll generally want panels facing somewhere in the north, after that, they should face south. That's a difference of 143 days and since 1 real time hour is 1 day in-game, that means the changeover happens 143 hours after wipe, around 6 days. 6 months in-game is around 7.6 IRL days. So If you play a monthly wipe, you'd want to flip your panels every week. If you can afford it, just place two panels. I think generally East/West works better than North/South, but I'd need to do more testing to know for sure which one is better on average.
I really love the automation of my whole base and even I could learn something from this video. Like putting the ore in a box before it gets sucked into the furnace to get the dropbox nice and empty. What I personally do differently (aside from a way nicer piping xD) is that I highlight my pipes in different colors so that I always know which pipes are going in which loot room. That makes it easier for me if I need to reconnect something or boxes get destroyed etc. I do the same with my electrical. It´s not much more time you need to invest but it makes everything cleaner and nicer imo. Keep on Reks. Love your content.
By far the most helpful box sorting explanation and tutorial I have seen since it’s came out. Thank you. I’ve basically just ignored sorting bc it seemed too complicated. Keep it up
This is the first time I have used automation in a base and you have made it a breeze to do! thanks for the time you invested in the video. It has helped me out a ton!
Happy to hear it helped! I knew this wouldn't be a super popular vid but I wanted to make industrial more approachable and have something to send people to for help
Such a good and easy video to watch and follow!! I had NEVER tried anything like this before and would still consider myself a rust noob. However, my base is now sorting and smelting away and I am very VERY happy! Thank you for a nice clean, easy, tutorial that isn't overly complicated or overwhelming.
You should connect all your outputs to the drop box and let the system sort it. The problem of your system is that if you put metal frags in the drop box, they will not get sorted
Good vid. I would add something though. It doesn't make it more complicated, and could save someone's sanity. 1 memory cell, one more conveyor, and a small box. Put the memory cell just before the splitters. Put the conveyor above the furnaces and have it set to pull the cooked ore into the small box. Have the small box output go to your industrial splitter to be sorted to their boxes. Why do this? Because no one wants to hear those furnaces going nonstop. It will drive you crazy. Now, when you put ore in the drop box, it will pull into the furnaces on automatically, then when all of it is cooked, they automatically turn off. It of course can get much more complicated from there.
Oh I like this. I usually hook up my system to buttons (on and off) and just leave them on ALL the time, but ur right it is annoyingly loud so I put the furnaces behind a closed door.
nice stuff. I thought I knew most of the industrial related info but definitely found several useful bits of information here. well worth the watch. thanks.
its always wiser to use the extra solar panel branch on the inside combiner to connect to a generator, incase you have other things like smart autoturrets and door controllers and your being raided or just some hack got on your roof and destroyed the solar panels.
What if you have multiple drop boxes in your base - like having some in your compound and some on your roof? What would be the easiest way to get all the boxes to filter into the correct boxes in your open core/loot room?
The only downside here is that you’re consuming a fair bit of a power, so at night it could drain the battery a fair bit. Is it possible to only have the furnaces turn on when there is ore to cook? If so, this would be a great 2nd part to this video, cheers!
Hey! I've recently just started messing with the industrial update. What's the reasoning for sending the cooked frags/sulfor straight to the intended boxes instead of feeding it back to the start of the loop? Won't you need another conveyor and combiner for each box to deal with any cooked materials from other sources than smelting with this system?
i hope sometime soon they incorparate the drone into this system. So you could do something like transfer ore from your farm base to your main base on the other side of the map.
I’m on a server where large and small furnaces (when using automated industrial components) only fill ores into the first slot until it full or until a different item needs to be smelted, rather than evenly spreading the ore across all the slots to reach max efficiency. Is this intended? Is this normal for all servers? Is there a way to instead fill each slot evenly rather than the first one when using automation?
@@Reksmore it was on 2x quad server, there was a very big compund and we had way too many boxes and so. But almost everything was automated, and there was no way to hide all them pipes whatever you do. Currently I mostly do automated charcoal factory. Sending 10 wood per go and no max on return. It burns forever 😂
Ughhhh I didn’t realize u could just directly connect the electric furnaces together with pipes, before I’d use a splitter to split the pipes into each furnace then back out the furnaces and into a combiner and then to the out box…. I also for some reason didn’t think to use the pass through on the conveyors… i feel a lil goofy…
+1. Never put any electrical component where someone can destroy those, like roof , specially the combiners, bc pretty easy to destroy them. At least was some time before, idk if they change that. And its RUST. Some naked will do the work .
Question: Why use second splitter for the furnaces? Since you only use 4 furnaces, you could save 1 splitter by putting three furnaces on the first splitter and then sending the branch out from the leftover branch to the 4th furnace. That 2nd splitter is just wasted in this design.
Ah, you're correct yes it would save you the 1 power use to just go directly to the last furnace instead of using the 2nd splitter. I've just never done it that way as I like to make things as easy as possible to expand without re-wiring. This set up gives me the option to very easily add 2 furnaces anytime I need to (Which has happened)
Separating the cooked ore as a different system is a pain if you drop cook sulfer and metal frags to the drop box as well so I like to make everything go back to drop boxes.
This actually has complications. You see if you put it back into the loop it'll actually pull all the currently cooking ore aswell. And unfortunately you cannot place a filter before going into the loop or the sorting items after won't pull
@@wesleyjongbloed I stand corrected. I just tested. For some reason I just assumed as much. It does indeed keep the uncooked ore in and only suck out the cooked stuff. You 100% can bypass the separate system for cooking. This would result in your drop box being full of ore until you're done cooking, but this can be fixed with multiple drop boxes
Can't you just use a combiner before the sulfur/frags box. One conveyer into it from drop box splitter filtered cooked sulfur/frags, and another on the output of furnaces splitter filtered correspondingly? Or am I in the wrong here?
100%, the easiest way imo, directly connect the output of the ore into the tc w/ a conveyor and this would allow you to also set the limitations on how much (ie you could tell it to always only hold 4k metal in tc and keep the rest in the box), I would keep in mind that a combiner before going into the tc is probably best to allow you to also send from other sources
I don't use the electric ones for that very reason. I automate the small furnaces because even though you need more of them than you would using large furnaces, they take up less space for the same smelting rate. If I have more charcoal than I need and I'm short on wood, then the electric ones would be useful. You can also automate oil refineries and just run them empty to make charcoal, since they take 1.5s to burn 1 wood and the other furnaces take 2s.
Is it possible to have drop boxes outside or on the roof, go into drop boxes in the base, then those drop boxes go into organized boxes? How would I do that if so?
@@jamesjacobsmeyer72 You can see at 19.48 that the sulfur ore is "getting sucked" and going inside the furnaces, just like the other ores. It's definitely smelting, but going somewhere else ( or not going at all lol )
