Some machines inThe Planet Crafterare essential to continuing the game. Drills and heaters give you air pressure and heat, solar panels and nuclear reactors give you power, and so on. Machine optimizers don’t perform an essential function like that, but they can make all these other machines more effective.
Like the name says, a machine optimizer can boost the productivity of other devices: heaters can produce more heat, drills can produce more pressure,ore extractors can work faster, and power plants can produce more power. The only problem is that these optimizers need special fuses to work, and you’ll need to know where inThe Planet Crafterto look to find them.
How to Unlock Machine Optimizers in The Planet Crafter
The Planet Crafterfeatures two machine optimizers.The first version unlocks relatively early into terraformation, at 70 MTi, and the second one unlocks when you reach 1.85 mK.
Both optimizers have the same basic effect, but the T2 model is better in a number of ways:
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How to Use a Machine Optimizer in The Planet Crafter
Machine Optimizers won’t do a thing if you don’t put a fuse inside it (see below to learn how to get fuses). Once an optimizer has a fuse, it can boost a specific type of machine’s output, based on the type of fuse you add.
For instance, say you build five T2 Heaters and place a Machine Optimizer next to them. Each T2 Heater generates 4.5 heat per second on its own, so five gives you 22.5 heat. If you then place a Heat Multiplier Fuse in the Machine Optimizer, this will boost the heat generated by five nearby machines by 500 percent. This boost adds to the existing total, so your heat generation will go up to 135 per second.
You can boost this effect even further with more machine optimizers and more fuses. A second Heat Multiplier Fuse added to the setup above will increase heat production by another five times, or 112.5 heat per second for a total of 247.5. Note thatthe multiplier added by Asteroid Attraction Rocketsapplies separately to this boosted total.
Machine Optimizers follow a few rules regarding which machines they affect:
How to Get Fuses in The Planet Crafter
Machine optimizers are easy to get, but fuses aren’t. Fuses canrandomly spawn in crates, but mostly they appear in shipwrecks and hidden bunkers. They’re particularly likely to appear in the safes you can find in the roomslocked behind Fusion Energy Cell doors.
The Space Trader sells most fuse types, but they can be expensive:
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Reduces the Trade Rocket return time by about 10%
Something to note is thatthe Production Multiplier Fuse specifically works on machines that generate new resources and hold them in an inventory. This means a Production Optimizer will work on beehives, water life collectors, and gas extractors, but not onfood growers, outdoor farms, or algae generators.
The Trade Rocket Multiplier Fuse doesn’t appear in the Space Trader’s shop. The only way to get one is to find it, usually by reaching the secure room of a procedural wreck with 5 rarity.
