Rust Industrial Automation Guide
The introduction of the Industrial system fundamentally changed how clans and solos alike manage their bases in Rust. By utilizing pipes, conveyor belts, and industrial crafters, you can automatically smelt ore, craft ammo, and sort loot while you are out roaming. This guide covers the basics of setting up an automated base on your Supercraft dedicated server.
1. The Essential Components
To start automating your base, you will need a steady supply of electricity (via solar panels or wind turbines), a wire tool, and a pipe tool. You must research and craft the following components on a Tier 2 Workbench:
- Storage Adaptors: Placed on boxes, furnaces, and lockers to allow items to be piped in and out.
- Industrial Conveyors: The lungs of the system. These require 1 power and physically push items from one adaptor to another. You can also filter specific items here.
- Industrial Splitters & Combiners: Used for routing multiple pipes into a single machine, or spreading items across multiple boxes.
- Industrial Crafters: Attached to a workbench, these consume blueprints and materials to automatically craft items repeatedly.
2. Automated Smelting (The Basics)
The easiest setup for any player is an auto-smelter. This ensures you never have to manually load wood or ore into furnaces again.
- Place a large drop-box for your raw ore and wood. Attach a Storage Adaptor to it.
- Attach Storage Adaptors to your furnaces (e.g., three small furnaces or one large furnace).
- Place an Industrial Conveyor on the wall.
- Use the Pipe Tool: Connect the "Output" of your drop-box adaptor to the "Input" of the conveyer. Then, connect the "Output" of the conveyer to the "Input" of your furnace adaptors.
- Power the conveyor, and set its filter to allow Sulfur Ore, Metal Ore, High Quality Metal Ore, and Wood.
As soon as you turn the conveyor on, it will automatically pull the unsmelted ores from your drop-box and evenly distribute them into your furnaces!
3. Advanced Crafting Automation
You can daisy-chain an Industrial Crafter directly to your output boxes. For example, you can route cooked sulfur and charcoal directly into an Industrial Crafter attached to a Tier 2 Workbench, load a Gunpowder blueprint into the crafter, and have a continuous, hands-free gunpowder factory running 24/7 on your server.
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