I use hoppers for automation (With DaLioneheart) instead of the automation mod for balance purposes too, but since I'm also playing with challenging bundles mod + a bunch of harder economy mods it'll take a good while to reach the desert area lol. Appreciate the mod, exactly what I was looking for!
Ever considered adding an option to allow an individual hopper to feed multiple machines? Or maybe even have have variable ranges like the sprinkler with watering?
DaLionheart, the requirement for Walk Of Life (the mod that inspired Primitive Automate) has that functionality, but if you don't want it's other additions, Hopper Extractor might be up your alley
I'm really enjoying using this in my current game. Having automation for one machine be effectively 10 iron and 20 hardwood makes it feel actually earned and not just overpowered. Also mean I have to actually still manage my layout to be able to access input and outputs.
I really love the idea of this mod! I have never used Automate because it seems too "cheaty" for my tastes and takes the challenge out of the game. I'm now excited to unlock the hopper and start automating! Thanks so much for you work!
Appreciate the kind words. Yeah I played a lot of different games with Automate simply because the hopper was so useless and so far in the game, but its definitely easy to abuse, all for the simple cost of a single chest.
I also like that you're making it so ONE hopper connects to ONE chest, so you're forced to craft for each thing you want to automate. Also, this means that you have to line up your machines carefully, which means it takes up more space. You have to think about where you'll put them. This definitely feels way more fair and balanced!
That’s a cool alternative to automate. How does it work, does it work like automate? Or does it remain like vanilla hoppers? Is it compatible with the hopper extractor mod? And lastly can we keep the unlock method the same as vanilla? - I’m sorry for all the questions.
It still uses the base vanilla hopper mechanics to function. My goal was to automate things in a vanilla way, but just make it more accessible. So simply slap the hopper above the machine you want to automate. As far as hopper extracting goes, I use DaLionHeart which one of the features is to improve the hoppers to pull items back out of the machines when done and works perfectly fine as really the only parts of the hopper I touched were the price and the recipe unlock without changing any mechanics. So in reality as long as hopper extractor still functions on the latest version it will work with this mod.
As far as keeping the vanilla unlock option, yes you can. If you have Generic Mod Config Menu installed, simply change the “Unlock Conditions” to Vanilla / No Changes. If you are editing the config manually from within the mod folder, in config.json, change "HopperUnlock": "Farming4" to say "HopperUnlock": "Vanilla" instead.
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EDIT: Last update pushed this very day "fixed it", the 10% buff from artisan works with junimatic, 25% from industrialist only from hoppers
This definitely feels way more fair and balanced!
As far as keeping the vanilla unlock option, yes you can. If you have Generic Mod Config Menu installed, simply change the “Unlock Conditions” to Vanilla / No Changes. If you are editing the config manually from within the mod folder, in config.json, change
"HopperUnlock": "Farming4"to say"HopperUnlock": "Vanilla"instead.