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Automatic Loom

Automatically weaves thread (capacity 5000) and twine (capacity 1000) into linen and canvas. Once started, it will continue to operate unattended until it lacks sufficient thread or twine to continue producing, or until it is stopped manually.

Once you have started it weaving something, the two weaving options disappear and are replaced by a 'stop this automatic loom' option so each automatic loom can only process one thing at a time.

Though automated, the automatic loom is less efficient than a manual loom, requiring 75 twine per canvas (compared with 60 for a hand loom) and 500 thread per linen (compared with 400 for a hand loom).

To build:

Construction costs:

• 2 Sheet Glass
• 20 Steel Wire
• 1 Carpentry Blade (3000+)
• 10 Small Gears
• 4 Medium Gears
• 120 boards
• 4 Eyelet Gem (Any Type)

Built: in a compound, uses 7x6 cells

Skill/Tech required: Loom Automation

Comments

• It is possible to tune these to operate faster. Timing data needs to be established for the base speed though.
• The loom produces 2 canvas per cycle, consuming 150 twine. If there's less than 150 twine available at the end of the cycle, the loom stops. Thus, a fully loaded loom (1000 twine) will only produce 12 canvas (900 twine consumed) before stopping. Also, if you wait for the loom to automatically stop before reloading, you're wasting a cycle as the last cycle before stopping won't produce anything.
• Weaving linen produces 2 linen from 1000 thread per cycle.

Timing raw data

• In about 10 minutes, created 2 canvas, at a cost of 75 twine per canvas.

Data collected by Tepham; the 12/10 numbers are actual measured times, the others are inferred:

Level	12 canvas in..	10 linen in..	2 canvas in..	2 linen in..	Speedup
0	50m00s	41m40s	8m20s	8m20s	--
1	44m30s	37m05s	7m25s	7m25s	11%