Everyone has been dying for a resource list for this thing and I kept forgetting to make one until now: imgur.com/u5aPIFz

Thats a great way to do this! i didnt even know you could automate trade platforms. Thanks for sacrificing your voice for our entertainment :)

instead of using the trade beacon to get organic, you can use a tapper for a more efficient supply.

Using a player drill with a wide mod on leveling mode on the floor of a gateway chamber, you can then use a drill attached to a crane to collect infinite soil. Other than the gasses, this would make the system fully automatic.

Storage sensors can be used with trade platforms now! This is as of the Verdant Update, "AS-18959: Storage Sensors should now function for Trade Platforms".

TIMESTAMPS 0:00 intro 0:36 other dirt cheap videos 1:08 the setup 1:28 how we will use it 1:51 gases required and methods for them. 3:25 how this is possible 3:55 automatic soil to scrap 4:32 how to split the scrap to the trade platforms. 7:00 how the splits work and why we did it this way. 7:43 method to tell the platform to execute the trade. 10:10 Trades go at different rates and a solution to that. 13:20 the process for ammonium/ hyrazine. 13:56 the process for graphite/graphene. 14:30 the process for titanium/titanium alloy. 16:24 the process for Iron/steel. 18:11 THE FINAL STAGE for nanocarbon alloy!! (we appreciate you sorry about your throat) 19:22 outro

Would like a “equipment list” for farms this big😅

You are an astroneer genius IDK how you came up with all this but thank you soooooo much!

"I lost my will to live entirely; that was exciting"

Love it. I've such a struggle getting stitches right

I wanted to see it run! Great explanation

I actually made most of my nano carbon alloy by turning soil into scrap and getting every material from that (except for hidrogen and argon) lol

Love that backdrop, mixing Glacio and Atrox.

soil is actually in fact expensive,because you can make scrap by packaging a working scrapper and getting that qt-rtg back out and trying to scrap it again

Great video!!!! Thanks for this! Love you videos!!!

Man thank u sooo much cuz I am lacking a TON of power and other high end stuff so I NEED nanocarbon alloy.

Been playing this game for about a week. This build looks awesome! Did you ever make a list of materials yet?

The new tapper makes this a little easier only got to split it 4 ways

Famous words from WCJ: but I have gumption

I made a very compact nca factory using 1 extra large plataform C, 2 large T-plataforms and 2 auto arms. Although I need to bring the resources, it serves my needs! I want to start trading scrap now that I finished the cores mission.

The organic part could now be done by tapper, saving soil as result. Thanks for the video tho, assuming at the time there wasn't tapper yet, it's still efficent crafting line

I saw plenty of replies mentioning counters instead of timing for auto arms. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think you could squeeze down some of this by using the filters on auto arms so multiple intermediate items could share platforms. Of course, yours works, so is perfect already… :)

Building that in my world seem hard at first but easy in process but the resource grinding is the real enemy

trade platforms with extra storage. monitor the storage full , not full this will cause a build up but requires not timing and auto arms filter from there. (med platforms b the ones with the side 2 slots and add random power object on the side not being used.)

You'd prob need to set up a few more compressors for helium cause it is slow Space engineers production: place down an advanced assembler or 2 with speed modules, you're done Astroneer production: complex conveyor lines

I made 20 nanocarbon alloy at one point around a month ago and I've only used 3 of them so far lmao

Watching this update in march and now I don’t need to do all this splitting since the tapper was released

It took a lot of time (I guess, it would take a lot more time to craft this nanocarbon myself...), but I have built it ! 🙂With a slight tweak to operate on astronium and solid fuel jet-packs instead on soil and canisters. Btw. I have a question about power. Does it matter if my main power source is right next to this factory or in the far corner of my base ? Does the length of the cable matter ?

It would be a shame if someone made it dirt cheap INTENSIVE STARE

This is a lot more complicated than it needs to be If you have the Trade rockets on a Med platform B and block one side of the Med P B with an item that can't be picked up like an unopened platform, then on the other side have a small storage with a storage sensor on it linked to the arm holding scrap set to Empty/ Not Empty to disable the scrap arms whenever anything is on the storage To ensure no scrap goes onto the storage just make sure the deposit ring doesnt touch the storage and it only needs to touch any part of the trade rocket to place scrap onto it Doing it this way once a rocket returns all the items it comes back with will automatically move onto the storage saving you from needing an arm as a buffer

Nice! I knew you could use scrap, but I didn’t think it was viable. I thought you needed a ton of canisters for 1 scrap

For me the only hard parts is the gasses with the semi auto scrap thing :/

Lights in my bases turn on and off automatically depending on the local sunlight. i´ve been using counters related to ful/empty sensors and timers to control incoming resources via autoarms for at least two years. You can feed trade platforms at your wish and counters will activate them. Counters became the programing interface after all. You can build a "Soil-into-any resource programmable facility". and a "programmable chemistry double lab" to get everything you need in 10% the space of this build. I also built a "Moveable auto-multiprinter platform" and a "Astronium-into..." facility. Them all act by themselves, until completing the program or depleting resources , after proper programming and just pressing a START "button". Powering and unpowering facility parts via automation is a "Powerful" resource to consider while designing facilities. Not that easy and not that difficult. Farewell, Astroneers!

At this point, the farm is more expensive than the recourse! 😭😂💀

I love this video. But I noticed that something might not work. I don't know how it's hooked up with the electricity. But it might cause a problem when you put the switch in front of the auto Arm for the Scrap, it'll just turn off the entire system and you won't clear out the Trading platform, so it'll just be permanently off. So I figured a way to fix that is just instead of connecting it to a switch just connect the storage sensor to the auto arm.

I did something like this using astronium and Kuya Game's tutorial Edit: You use the astronium to automaticaly buy solid fuel jump jets and then shred those to make even more scrap

Quick question before i build it as well. 16:47 how did you hide a storage platform? What platform is it? And how to make sure the autoarm will not put any iron in the atmospheric condenser?

I know most people are not gonna make this contraption. So I have a suggestion. Make the nanocarbon alloy manually and do every step. But instead of one make 32. Have medium resource canisters and use extra lage platforms. That way you don't even need auto arms, because if you have two devices two stroage and and 3rd final storage then it can all fit automatically and chemistry lab will be able to take resource from the platform. Once you have 32 nano carbon alloy I doubt you will need more. but you can always just repeat the step once you are done.

my brain after the words dirt cheap D4C dirty deeds done dirt cheap

Could you use a counter sensor to delay the trade ships? Also, could you add medium resource canister on output mode as an additional buffer. That way you can continue to collect the resources but only shutting down the line completely when the storage is full?

Instead of using the smelting furnace can we use portable ones

You don’t even need to trade for organic anymore because of tapers

Wait, we don't get to see it in action?? :D After all that effort... Great video though, really helpful, thanks!

I am looking forward to building it, but how much u/s does it require? Like for it to work on medium speed

I never got far enough into Astroneer to start on automation. I really should fix that.

Or just make compound then tethers then scrap then nanocarbon alloy

You went through all that and didn't show it in action?? What a jerk! Great job though, that was awesome. Get some Ricola

You could replace the organic one with a tapper

loved the vid but upset cuz you didnt show it workin and i was looking forward to that

Dirt then resin then scrap then auggg I can’t keep up 😂

Any auto arm connected to the storage and delay repeaters don’t turn back on once the platforms get full any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Technically, if you use inter planetery trains, its dirt cheap dirt cheap

For me on the auto arm the storage sensor doesn’t work when I try to do it just doesn’t wait for it to be full to take do you have any solutions?

Great tutorial. Very easy to understand. I do have a couple of suggestions to simplify the build and operating processes. First, I suggest building this plant on Vesania instead for a couple of reasons. 1st, it has 3 of the 4 gases you need and 2nd it has high levels of lithium. If you build an auto extractor network on lithium nodes, coupled with the nanocarbon alloy this plant is making, and you can make an automatic RTG plant. All the second part is optional but makes it a good fit. BTW, you can expand the trade stage to bring in glass and make an additional titanium line to make an automatic Large Resource Canister line. Doing both those extensions would fully automate the repeatable uses of the nanocarbon alloy. Second, I think the use of counters can better automate the trade stage for this plant. It would take some manual input of scrap to set up the timing, but I think it would make the build cleaner and more efficient. TBH I haven't played around with the automation capabilities in this game but I definitely think these would make your build more reliable and easier to operate. Also, have to give you compliments on the cleanliness of your build, mine are messy from the start lol.

How much power does this need? You need nanocarbon alloy to get all the rtgs, and one for the storage.

"The gases are not a problem". It definitely is. The entire point of this is that it was interesting to find out how you managed to get everything needed for a nanocarbon alloy with only soil. The intrigue of the video was almost entirely based on finding out how you could get all the gases you need on only one planet using only soil. This contraption isn't practical, it's interesting for a theoretical purpose. Make the theoretical purpose uninteresting, and it becomes redundant.

Would it be possible to use astronium than soil for this farm?

Man I love your videos …….

What a legend

Could you make an equipment list because I’m kinda getting stuck on if I have already made it or not thx

I can't follow at 11:40 The sensors are not connected and if I want to connect to a switch, I'm not sure where. My Ammonium line is each time empty and the graphit Tradeplatform drops often the graphit.

Why soil though? Why not just set up an auto extractors to get the resin? Isn't that more efficient? I haven't built this yet nor have I used the extractor but I read it gives 15 times the amount a player gets so it just sounds like it makes sense to use it than soil no?

I found out that you just need 1 solar array to make it all work but it will only run very slowly

Don't forget about the infinite dirt glitch.

Instead of just using dirt, set up multiple auto extractors on a large resin deposit, and just do that so its more efficient

pleeease let it run next time at least for a minute i was so sad you didnt :( :D

Hey WCJ! I really need you to see this comment! I invented a way to automatically send the trade platform's rocket to space only when it is full, without the use of timers. My contraption is thus more reliable. You need: 1 L platform B 1 medium storage 9 compound 1 trade platform (obviously) 1 storage detector 1 count repeater 1 button repeater Now, you place ur platform down, and place the trade platform on it. Then, you fill the left side of the L platform B with 2 compound, and place a medium storage on the right side of the platform B. Then, you place 7 compound in the storage. Now, you place a storage detector on the medium storage (ONLY THE STORAGE, IT CANNOT BE CONNECTED TO THE PLATFORM) and set it to FULL OR NOT FULL , you place a count repeater on the ground next to the platform B, and set it to 4. Now, you have to connect the storage repeater with it's cable to the count repeater. Connect the count repeater with it's cable to the trade platform. You should have ONE empty socket in the medium storage, and let's call this one socket "socket important" . Now, the hardest part: place a button repeater on the ground, and connect it with it's cable to the count repeater. Now read CAREFULY: - if ur trade platform is full with scrap, and you have one scrap in the medium storage's " socket important" , use the button repeater to send FOUR signals to the count repeater. - if the "socket important" has a scrap in it, and the rocket isn't on the trading platform but in outer space, fo NOT send a signal to the count repeater. - if the "socket important " has a scrap in it, and your trade rocket has a mix of scrap and the ressource you're trading for, do NOT send a signal to the count repeater. - if the "socket important" is empty, and your trade rocket isnt full of scrap, but still has some of the ressource you trade for then send a ONE signal the the count repeater. - if the "socket important" has the ressource you ' re trading for, send TWO signals to the count repeater. - if the trade platform is FULL of scrap, and the "socket important" is empty, then send THREE signals to the count repeater. - if the trade platform and the "socket important" are both empty, then send THREE signals to the count repeater. Once the final step is done, you can remove the BUTTON repeater. Your trade platform is finally automated. IMPORTANT info: the auto arm loading the trade platform and the auto arm unloading the trade platform with scrap has to also have the "socket important" within it's range. Additionally, the unloading arm has to have the ressource you're trading for as a filter. This can also be used for astronium and fault finder trading; just replace "scrap" with "astronium" or "fault finder". I hope you'll find this helpful, wish you a great day and im sorry for my English as it is not my main language.

Hey one question could i replace smelting furnace with the portable one for faster production?

actually gas still cost hydrozeen but that is already 'dirt' cheap.

Auto arm keeps scooping my small printer, no matter what I do. I've tried moving it out of range, tried moving it too close, tried literally everything. It intends to just ruin the entire setup for no reason. It's hella irritating, because even outside of its range, it does it anyway.

Would it be better to use a portable smelter?

I'm not clear on the benefit of trading for organic as opposed to spinning it up in a separate soil centrifuge? Maybe someone can check my math, but: 1 Small Canister of Soil spins into 4 Resins 4 Resins prints into 4 Small Canisters 4 Small Canisters shred into 1 Scrap 1 Scrap trades into 2 Organics. But... 1 Small Canister of Soil spins into 4 Organics. So, twice as many Organics as trading.

How many power switches will I need for the arms before the trade platform? You only shown 1 in the video.

I'm fixin to do this in my hard-core world

could you give a list of all the resorses needed to make this?

"it makes sense"

You could of done this with an astronium scrap farm and a rail station to bring you the astronium for a much more efficient and entirely automatic design thats what I did at least lol

We wanted to see it in action!!

I spent 8 hours building and it is worth it

How do I keep the auto arm from grabbing the printer?

can someone make a video with the whole layout on screen?

Dude… you can turn soil directly into ammonia and graphite. Two more soil centrifuges would be way cheaper than two trade platforms.

Ayyyyyyy hell yeah dude

And now you need to get like 50 rtg's

What do you need Nanocarbon alloy for?

Yooo new video 🥰🤩

why trade scrap for organic when you can get it from soil?

Could you tell me how much energy does this system need?

Couldn't you use counters to activate the trade platforms?

wait so do i put a power switch on all assembly lines?

i dont even wanna know how much time it takes to invent a farm like that...

I feel like I'm doing more work in this game than I do at work 🤣! Hell even in Minecraft I didn't feel this much over worked 😆.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, the Argon and the Helium are on the same platform, but they're not "steel-ing" from each other because of the auto arm filters.

I play on xbox series S I'm going to make a version based on yours, how can I send it to you?

"dirt cheap" proceeds to make a chart saying it takes 200 resource to make and 30 different types of resources aswell as you have to terraform the planet to get as much rtgs and large canisters than you will ever need

I tried building this in survival, ended up blowing up with tnt 😂

Yo how much power do i need to run this up

The splitting of the scrap to the trade platforms did not work for me Have not found a solution yet

You can turn some of the soil directly into organic, graphite, and ammonium... why waste time trading scrap for it?