Fabricators

Fabricators craft items automatically. You choose a recipe once, feed the ingredients with Grabbers and take the products away; the Fabricator keeps working as long as it has power. The first one, Fabricator T1, comes with the Automation research in Epoch 1.

Fabricator tiers

	Fabricator T1	Fabricator T2	Fabricator T3
Epoch	1	2	4
Unlocked by	Automation	Automation 2	Automation 3
Size	3 × 3	3 × 3	3 × 3
Energy	electric, 75 kW	electric, 150 kW	electric, 375 kW
Speed	0.5	0.75	1.25
Fluid connections	–	1 in, 1 out	1 in, 1 out
Rune module slots	–	2	4
Noise	4 per minute	3 per minute	–
Recipe	3 Electronic Circuit + 5 Iron Gear + 9 Iron Plate	1 Fabricator T1 + 2 Steel Plate + 3 Electronic Circuit + 5 Iron Gear	2 Fabricator T2 + 4 Rune Module Speed MK1

Speed is relative to the crafting time of the recipe: a recipe with 1 s takes 2 s in a Fabricator T1 and 0.8 s in a Fabricator T3. All Fabricators need a power pole nearby, see Power. For module slots see Rune Modules.

Choosing a recipe

Press Use to open the Fabricator window. The lower part shows every recipe you can make as a grid: each cell shows the product and its amount. Hover over a cell to see the ingredients and the time per craft, then click it to select it. The chosen recipe is highlighted in orange. Clear removes the recipe.

• The grid only shows recipes you have unlocked. When a research unlocks new recipes, the grid updates.
• A Fabricator makes recipes with exactly one product.
• Fluid recipes (for example Concrete or Lubricant) only appear in a Fabricator T2 or T3.
• Some recipes can only be made in a Fabricator, not by hand, for example Advanced Circuit. Alternative recipes from Research Capsules also appear here once unlocked.

When you change the recipe, ingredients that fit the new recipe stay; the rest comes back to you.

Ingredients and output

The upper part of the window shows the chosen recipe, the status, the progress and each ingredient as "have / need".

• A Fabricator has up to six ingredient slots, one per ingredient of the recipe, and one output slot.
• It only accepts ingredients of the chosen recipe.
• Grabbers fill each ingredient up to twice the recipe amount, so the Fabricator always has the next batch ready without hoarding.
• Deliver ingredients moves the matching ingredients from your inventory into the Fabricator.
• Take moves the output to your inventory. Grabbers take products from the output.
• Crouch and press Use with a stack in your hand to put it in; crouch and press Use with an empty hand to take the output.

Fluids (T2 and T3)

The Fabricator T2 and T3 have two pipe connections on the sides of the back row: one for the fluid ingredient, one for the fluid product. The tanks inside appear when you select a fluid recipe. If the product tank is full, the Fabricator stops until a pipe carries the fluid away. See Fluids.

Copying the recipe

To set up a row of Fabricators quickly, crouch and right-click a Fabricator to copy its recipe, then crouch and left-click the others to paste it. The same works for Splitter settings.

Status

Status	Meaning
Working	crafting
Waiting for ingredients	an ingredient is missing
No power	no power pole with a generator nearby
Low power	not enough power, working slower
Output full	take the products out
Output tank full	connect a pipe that takes the fluid away

See Status Icons and Warnings.

See also

• Crafting
• Grabbers
• Fluids
• Rune Modules
• Recipes