Mission 25 : Automation, make a concrete use : a simple metal production.

Now, you own the two necessary automation needed to start industrializing your production. In this mission, we'll see a very simple metal production automation : automatic iron bar production.

Remember your melting furnace with it's pit you made in a previous mission. In order to feed the furnace, you had to introduce cubes in a particular sequence. We'll automate this work.

First, place the sequencer in the front of the melting furnace with one cube of space between the sequencer and the furnace.



Then, place the alignment voxel like show bellow. Look at the side of the alignment voxel that meet the same position as the output side of the sequencer in the direction of to the melting furnace to determine the output side number. In the case shown bellow, the side number is 0. But your own case can vary depending on the orientation you choose. Note the number for later.

At this point, you can remove the alignement voxel.

Place two Atomic Compressors and two materializers like shown on the image bellow. What's you made must match this figure.



Now open the sequencer's interface by clicking with the middle mouse button(or "V" key) while pointing the sequencer with the crosshair.



First, we'll program the sequence.
Look at the carbon in your inventory, point your cursor on it, click and maintain to drag the carbon over the first case of the sequence, then click with your right mouse button (without releasing the left mouse button) to program one carbon in the case. Now drag back the carbon in it's original location, don't release left mouse before. You should get this :



Make the same thing one the second case of the sequence with iron ore, then the third case with the "end mark".

You should match the example bellow :

At this point, verify that the case of the sequence didn't show any number of blocks as you must have only one carbon and one iron for quantity. If it's not correct, erase it with a middle button click (or "V" key) and redo it.

The last thing will be programming the output side, remember the number we say to note. Program it in the "output side" zone.

Now close the inteface with the "i" key. Your machine is done.

To make it working, place some iron in one atomic compressor and some carbon in the other.

You'll see the sequencer to feed the furnace automatically and the molten metal cubes falling in the pit.



Note that this is a first step in automation, we'll improve it latter.

At this point, your mission is over.