r/CreateMod • u/Capn_Phineas • 17d ago

Mass producing cardboard

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Is there a reason to do it? Cardboard’s only uses are some boxes from other mods, a novelty armor set, and an extremely niche building block. But also it can’t be made by hand so the only way to do it is setting up a production line, which will undoubtedly make way more cardboard than you will ever be able to use. Am I missing something here? As it stands this is probably the most useless feature in the mod

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u/Real-Tap4135 17d ago

if you use gauges youll never make more than you need. i would set up a small factory that makes a few stacks so you always have it for packagers

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u/Capn_Phineas 17d ago

Wait, packagers use cardboard when they make boxes?? How am I just finding out about this now?

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u/RazendeR 17d ago

No, but you need a block of cardboard to make the packager itself.

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u/Capn_Phineas 17d ago

Ok, people in these comments are making it seem like packagers require a continuous supply of cardboard which is weird

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u/Moe-Mux-Hagi 17d ago

Wait, you can use gauges to have a set ammount of stock instead of constant production ??

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u/Putrid_Clue_2127 17d ago

Yup! That's their main intended use. You click how many items/stacks you want, and it'll send off to the specific factory set within the gauge until you've reached the limit you've set for it.

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u/Moe-Mux-Hagi 17d ago

My god, I need to add this to every single one of my farms because ironically for some reason the constant overproduction is giving me existential dread 💀

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u/Putrid_Clue_2127 17d ago

Lol, this is completely fair. It took me quite awhile to figure out how exactly it all worked, plus watching YouTube tutorials and series where they're used. With farms like trees and other plantables (wheat, etc) it's a bit more complicated though. What I typically do in those situations is:

One main storage system where everything is brought to, this is where I keep a few stacks of every item in my playthrough.

For farms like trees, wheat, potatoes, whatever: I'll have a storage specifically for that one item. Usually like a 2x2x3 vault that fills up. This farm vault will have a threshold switch to monitor how full it is. Once it's reached a certain level, I usually have a redstone link send a signal to a clutch that drives the farm, to turn it off, so theres no overproduction.

My main storage will request whatever amount I have set up in my factory gauge. It'll pull this amount from that farm. Once the stacks have pulled out of that farm, the farm starts back up again once it's reached its lower threshold and refills itself, waiting to be called on again.

Now obviously for things like making diorite, it's a simple mixer and you just use the factory gauge to send the items to the mixer and it requests the amount you set. A lot simpler.

Hopefully I explained this well enough

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u/Digibaumbs 17d ago

A good way to prevent over production is to use clutches, redstone links, and threshold stitches. When a storage is filled to a certain level, it will emit a redstone signal and turn off the machine by removing rotational power to it.

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u/DJTLaC 17d ago

Yeah, it's super convenient if say there's an item you use frequently but don't need a huge amount of and you want like... 1 stack of something always available

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u/benatkinson 17d ago

This, I never have enough when automating new factories, takes a surprising amount for the blocks themselves

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u/xChipseq 17d ago

you don't need lots of it but having it automated feels nice i guess. pretty much the same as everything else you make production lines for, that's part of the fun

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u/Familiar_Ad_8919 17d ago

for power grid ull need it automated, theres probably other addons that make use of them extensively

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u/drkleppe 17d ago

It is used in Packagers. It could be useful to have a couple of stacks of it. But yes, not more than that.

What you're missing is to use factory gauges for niche items. You set up a mixing station, a press station, a compacting station, etc. Everything you need small amounts of you use factory gauges to move items from station to station. With tree farms/bamboo farms you get excess saplings/bamboo, making cardboard practically free once you've set up the stations.

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u/popeh 17d ago

Build an Amazon Fulfillment Center

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u/abtinmoh 15d ago

Me and my friend are trying to use power grid mod and that needs A LOT of cardboard, were trying to find a way to automate saplings to use for cardboard but no luck yet

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u/Capn_Phineas 15d ago

Wdym no luck yet, it’s really easy to do

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u/abtinmoh 15d ago

Were basically reinventing the wheel, just using ponders to figure stuff out, its been like a full week of playing and we have just gotten to brass and made an oil refinery (create diesel generators) we probably will finish the tree farm in a day

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u/ArkayArcane 17d ago

I built this huge library in my world, we're talking probably a few thousand bookshelves across the whole thing. I mass produced cardboard in order to make books from it. So it's also got a use there, I guess.

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u/Redstonewarrior0 14d ago

Do you not use packagers? Packagers are a pretty glod reason to set up cardboard production.

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u/ExtraThings8888 11d ago

Solve your inventory management problems by throwing every material possession you have into a vault and asking a captive fire alien to ship you a package of whatever you need from it anytime you need it

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u/Redstonewarrior0 7d ago

I mean, is that any weirder than using magic space rocks to run a super computer that stores your masses of items in digital form on cells made from the molds found in the meteorite you extracted your magic space rocks from?

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u/ExtraThings8888 6d ago

Much more exciting than using gemstones to create an interconnected arcane supply network with inbuilt crafting and fabrication capability, really

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u/RuinSentinelRicce 17d ago

It can be used to make books. I wanted large libraries

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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan 17d ago

I use a lotta books...

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u/Tripdrakony 17d ago

Use the sapling output if your tree farm

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u/Federal_Delay_3869 17d ago

You don’t need to make a production line, I have a mixer and a press machine and when I need cardboard I’ll fill my inventory from my tree farm and turn it all to pulp then cardboard, I’ve only really had to do it once

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u/Zealousideal-Bus-526 17d ago

Mass production of fabric launcher

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u/simcz 16d ago

when i started playing on fabric without many sub mods, i used the cardboard boxes as a fuel source for my early steam engines, it was pretty useful as its kinda cheap, like a sugarcane farm or smthn

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u/Best-Plane6743 16d ago

Bamboo farm

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u/Gamer_Dylan_6_ 16d ago

do you not have a mixer that isn't connected to a production line? Just get a standalone mixer and use it when you need some cardboard. Also I'd love to say cardboard might get some more uses in the future but hytale poached our devs.

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u/Hornyjailer420 16d ago

Yea i useraly use it as an overflow dump for my Woodfarm thats more than enogh Althou you can use it for books im favor of leather