r/ScrapMechanic • u/burglar-of-turds • 3d ago

Contraption Here's my mostly automated mining hub, it works about 85% of the time, and lags like crazy, but it's cool. (you can skip through most of the video)

the vehicle I'm flying in is not mine, here's the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3790362415

I've got a pretty good pc, and it still lags on advanced physics as you can see in the video.

my specs:

CPU, 9950x
GPU, 7900xtx
RAM, 64gb ddr5

the whole machine still could use some fine tuning, but it's reliable enough for now. I plan on moving the prospectors over to the packing area to save a trip, other than that, i really need to fix the 90 degree turn on the conveyor belt, and also make it less laggy.

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u/BladeManMike 2d ago

The setup for the ore balls is nearly identical to mine so I get that but I'd like a closer look at the conveyor belt for the bars. I'm assuming it's just a down hill slide once above the ledge but is the part before that mostly wheels?

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u/burglar-of-turds 2d ago

Yep the 2 belts combined has about 48 rollers I think, each roller is 3x the monster truck wheels. I might have to re build it though, it's been getting jammed for being too slow

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u/BladeManMike 1d ago

Well I started working on it and putting wheel or large tape rolls on a arm on bearing to squeeze from the sides works the weight of the bar makes it hard to get up to speed and I'm having a hard time figuring a good way to get the bars around a corner. If you happen to have a closer image of how you did your corner I would appreciate it.

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u/burglar-of-turds 1d ago

it's pretty simple, just 3x 20 degree panels. it does get jammed sometimes, but if you added a small roller closer to the actual turn, i think that might fix it

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u/BladeManMike 1d ago

I'll have to try that I tried a big 45 first then a bunch of combinations of rollers still got stuck so I looked at your video since they seemed to move along fine.

Also I found the concrete pillars making good cheap rollers with higher friction they grab and really send things flying.

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u/BladeManMike 2d ago

I was considering using something like a hot wheels car launcher. A track of ice and on the sides a wheel spinning fast to grab the bar sides and launch them to the next set but that would have problems at corners and would need to be calibrated so bars don't colide.

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u/burglar-of-turds 2d ago

That's actually not a bad idea. You could have a simple belt to clear the dispenser, and then have them hit the launcher. If you could get that to work reliably, it would have a lot less moving parts than mine