Foreword
Gray Goo Technologies: The New Journey is an open-world factory game produced and distributed by 🐖🐖. The game takes place in a fantasy world called "My World", where those chosen by the chairman of Gray Goo Technologies will be granted "cyclically self-increasing recipes" to guide the power of "orders are too big and I've run out of them 😨". Players will play as a mysterious character named "Employee", encountering various unique and strange recipes while toiling away at writing templates – and gradually uncovering the truth that "I was just a 🐖 all along."
The first loop-incrementing recipe faced in the game should essentially be the Wild Loop of the Magic Line, followed by those crafting recipes that forge catalysts.
The first cycle auto-increment recipe for the tech line should be crystal chip raw materials, followed by large cycle auto-increment recipes for dragon dust and the biological line.
I will introduce three methods to deal with various in-game loop increment recipes, ensuring no freezing or exhaustion.
Method 1: Message Synthesis
First, introduce mail synthesis.
The standard sender can be inserted into a synthetic card. It has two modes. The first mode is to send a signal when the marked item is being synthesized. The second mode is the synthesis mode, which is the mode shown in the figure.
This pattern's effect is that itis equivalent to a templatethat can be seen in the terminal. This marked item displays as craftable. Ordering this item requires no materials and shows the text "Send Synthesis". After ordering, this sender will emit a redstone signal until the ordered quantity of the marked item returns to the network (i.e., the order is completed).
After seeing this niche item, I believe everyone's mind has flashed with some mysterious ways to turn passive into active.
This thingHighly suitable for the cyclical self-incrementing formula used in catalyst forgingRecipes that might be used include: Blaze Rod, Fluorite Powder, Redstone Dust, Snowball, Coal, Nether Quartz, Netherrack, Soul Sand
First, you need a structure like the one shown in the figure below, which consists of aDo not connect to any networkThe me output bus, two storage buses, and one me interface are composed. Pay attention that the purple glass cables are all main network cables, and the pink cable is a subnet cable. The cable colors here are just for ease of understanding; actually, any cable can be used.
The priority of the storage bus corresponding to the storage controller needs to be increased..., so the output product will preferentially enter the drawer to participate in the cycle, and the excess will enter the main network.
What if it's still early stage and you can't afford AE equipment? Of course, that's fine! We can use the proximity principle of pipelines to achieve a priority effect, as shown in the figure below.
The output bus in the lower right corner, the principle of proximity causes the products to be stored in the drawer first.
After that, we place several input buses on the magic infusion machine and install machine control overlays on their sides, set to inverted.
To avoid interfering with the operation of other template modules (In the early days, there were no template modules. A daisy-plugged input module with "Circuit 2" written on it, isolated in an open chamber, was needed to complete the daisy recipe. Recipes other than the daisy recipe required a programmable chamber and an input bus with "Circuit 1" written on it), we need to dye these input buses and place a Smelting Catalyst and a Dimensional Catalyst into any one of them(Blaze Rods need this)
Then place the transmitter, insert a synthesis card into the transmitter, mark the item, click to switch the mode to transmitter synthesis mode, then place a single-slot drawer on each input bus, put a few corresponding items in the drawer, lock the drawer with a configuration tool, and link the drawer to the drawer manager
The picture below is the completed product. Although the drawer is not full yet, when the order is placed, the transmitter lights up, and the input bus automatically pulls it in and outputs it. The output will preferentially fill the drawer, and the drawer will definitely be full when the order is completed.
Increasing the input bus and drawers can improve the maximum parallelism, In the late game, the input bus can be replaced with the me inventory input bus pull mode, but it is not actually very necessary, this machine is still very fast, it is difficult to become the one that drags its feet
Other loop increment recipes are not suitable for this method
Method 2: Send products back to input
This is the most widely applicable method.
We need to arrange it like this below
The output assembly and inventory input bus here together form a small network, which can also be separated into two, but they look better together.
The inventory input bus and the sample assembly need to be dyed together, the output assembly does not need to be dyed, and for other normal samples, this output assembly can also be used for output, because it is equivalent to directly storing in the main network for non-circular items.
After building such a device, remove the raw materials from the circulating incremental template, and subtract the value of raw material consumption from the product, put the template into the template assembly, then put enough raw materials in the drawer for one run, then place an order large enough to fill the drawer, and then it can be synthesized normally
This way we can complete 12 out of the 14 self-incrementing biological lines. However, it's important to note that since Frost Shards are consumed by cell proliferation and Barnard C logs self-increment consumes two types of fungi, we need toisolate a portion of the templates. In the cell proliferation template, appropriately write Frost Shard distribution (greater than or equal to the expected consumption value). We need to isolate the Barnard C log template (consuming two types of fungi from the drawer) and the Frost Shard template (consumed by other cells). Additionally, the culture medium stock solution for the cosmic essence recipe will be consumed by stem cells. The biological cell recipe consumes both Frost Shards and completely overlaps with the raw materials for the dragon cell recipe. Therefore, it is recommended to open a separate template assembly for these two recipes, totaling three template assemblies.
If the priority functions of compartments like sample assemblies could work properly, perhaps there wouldn't be a need to open so many assemblies separately. However, my testing found that priority seems to be useless. No matter how I mark it, items in the drawer are consumed first, so I still recommend separating these samples directly.
The remaining two incremental recipes are basal medium and biological cells, which will be discussed below.
Drawer size determines parallel capability, you can use one copper upgrade in the front, and then add two more in the back for increased speed
It should be noted that this method is only suitable forone-step incrementsthings, and is not very effective for two or more steps, such as the stock solution of biological media and the incremental recipe for biological media stock solution.
However, the raw materials for crystal chips are actually equivalent to a one-step self-increment, which is very interesting.
This is equivalent to 1 crystal chip raw material + 16*9mb liquid europium -> 9 crystal chip raw materials
The key factor is that the intermediate product, crystal chip component raw material, has only one use: to produce crystal chip raw material. Therefore, we need not fear that the crystal chip raw material in our drawer inventory will be consumed for other purposes.
Then the solution is very clear, we write the template as 16*9mb liquid europium -> 8 crystal chip raw materials, and then use the same equipment to preferentially store the items into the input bus on the forging hammer machine, and the output bus transmits them back, pulling them into the inventory input bus.
The left is a simulated large autoclave, the right is a simulated large stamping machine, and the two are connected by Ender Chest + Hyper Cube. The output bus is large enough to connect the input and output buses of the large stamping machine simultaneously with two Hyper Cubes or one advanced Hyper Cube.
However, this setup has limitations, because if the autoclave runs too fast, the output might be completed before the forging hammer has processed the raw materials consumed by the autoclave, causing the portion meant for recycling to be outputted to the main network, potentially causing the next synthesis to get stuck on a few items.
However, considering that the recipe for the autoclave and forging hammer differs by 120 times, such a risk is almost nonexistent.
Method 3: Order Method
It's said to be an order, but you don't necessarily have to use this order item. You can just find something like a giga chad token, but the automatic order cancellation and item tagging functions are too convenient. If you tag an item name inside, it will automatically change and you can search for it directly.
The principle is that if the loop template cannot be written, I will just replace it with other items. After replacement, I can place an order.
This perfectly solves the problem of circular self-incrementing not being able to place orders, but at what cost? Since the product is replaced, the synthesis tree cannot incorporate such boilerplate. This means that the boilerplate written this waymust be manually ordered for production.
But the benefit is, due to the existence of missing synthesis, we can place a very large order at once, for example, storing 64 biological cells and ordering 10,000 units. Despite many missing components, because it is self-incrementing, the self-incremented output will be automatically reinvested into manufacturing by AE, ultimatelymissing synthesis can also complete production , without needing to manually double it up.
The following recipes require ordering in this way. They don't do passive skills, and each one is a heavyweight. They all have various multi-step indirect increments. Doing passive skills is also quite troublesome. Merging them manually is a relatively comfortable solution.
However, for such recipes, remember to keep a box with the minimum required materials for each, in case you happen to run out, although the possibility is very small.
There's a bug with Hero Soul. When the number of recipes that can be completed with the input hero shards is greater than the number of recipes that can be completed with the input essence, it consumes materials and thus cannot complete a loop.
End Crystals are similar to crystal chip raw materials and have a unique purpose. However, considering their complex synthesis route, they are relatively troublesome to make. It's better to rely on orders directly, as their actual cost is not high. You can place a larger order at once, and after you can mine Ender Dust later, you basically won't have to worry about them anymore.
Neutronium particle is a recipe you only discover when you hit it. The auto-increment path is Neutronium particle -> Antimatter -> Discrete Antimatter -> 64 Super Silicon Rock Bomb recipe -> Liquid Neutronium -> Neutronium particle. Considering that the item with the smallest amount used and the least utility in this chain is the Neutronium particle, it is made into an order here, rather than Super Silicon Rock Bomb or similar.
The latter three are all extreme heavyweights, extremely complex, extremely expensive, and completely impossible to make passive, but they are extremely difficult to cycle.
Finally, the stock solution of biological culture medium can indeed avoid circulation through made-to-order production. However, considering that this formulation came later, there were already sufficient material reserves at this time. Moreover, the ratio of raw materials to products for this formulation is 1:100, and the requestable input bin can also normally request the stock solution of biological culture medium. Therefore, I suggest directly requesting 10kb of stock solution of biological culture medium through the requestable input bin.