Determine types of buildings needed

[straker]

So as I've thought more about the game, the more I'm thinking that less is more. Going off your idea that we don't need smelters to transform copper ore to usable copper, we can try to reduce the amount of steps to produce things as well as the number of buildings to do it.

Examples of buildings we could skip:

• smelters - as described before
• grabber / inserter - Mindustry doesn't have anything that moves items from one belt to the next or from a belt to a building. It just lets the belt feed directly into the building or outputs to any belt adjacent to the building. we could do the same thing
• power buildings - similar to smelters, just adds a step that is just filling a room with as much of a building as possible. Also means there is no power needed in the game
• Multiple types of mining buildings - Can just have 1 type with multiple levels

Examples of buildings we need:

• Miner - mines all resources at once (iron, copper, nickle, oxygen, etc.). Level 1 could mine metals, level 2 adds liquid, level 3 adds gas. Could also just have 3 different types of miners (metal, liquid, gas).
• Belt - probably 3 levels as well for speed
• Splitter - Split resources evenly between different belts. Can also sort.
• Junction (Mindustry) / underground belt - Should maybe have only 1 type, but not both
• Room input - filters resources from the universal storage to enter the room. Attaches to the wall and is essentially a belt
• Room output - moves resources out of the room into the universal storage. Attaches to the wall and is essentially a belt
• Assembler / Manufacturer - combines resources to make more complex resources. One building could just make everything. Levels could be for speed of the production

Any thing else we should have or take away?

[dllndv]

I was thinking maybe a repair tool that applies the components to the ship needing repairs. there could be a couple upgrades for that tool as to either the speed of the repairs or the bandwidth of how many components it can repair at once.

[straker]

Good idea.

After thinking on it, I think I want the inserter and multiple types of miners. The inserter makes the limited space problem more interesting as you can't just fill the room full of miners and leave only 1 line for the belt. It forces you to plan better and see how many you can fit and still output to a belt 2 tiles away.

As for the different types of miners, it makes the problem of "how much of what type of resource" more interesting. Having 1 miner type getting everything isn't interesting, but trying to figure out what the optimal ratio of metal, gas, and liquid miners is. Plus you can change that ratio when you need more or less of one type.