Data updated with T3 numbers
Automatic Loom
Automatically weaves thread (capacity 10000) and twine (capacity 2000) 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.
Automatic loom is as efficient as a manual loom, requiring 60 twine per canvas and 400 thread per linen .
To build:
Construction costs:
Built: in a compound, uses 7x6 cells
Skill/Tech required: Loom Automation
To upgrade the hopper
- The Loom increases in size like all other machines that upgrade and can now hold 3 times as much. (30000 thread and 6000 twine)
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 120 twine. If there's less than 120 twine available at the end of the cycle, the loom stops. Thus, a fully loaded loom (2000 twine) will only produce 32 canvas (1920 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 800 thread per cycle.
Timing raw data
- In about 10 minutes, created 2 canvas, at a cost of 60 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% |