Yeah no time to make diagrams atm but confirming that no machine passes spark. Not a generator or a crafting machine.
If you want multiple machines sharing multiple generators, you have to create basically a circuit of conduit, with the generators and machines outside the circuit.
The word “circuit” is confusing there as it doesn’t have to be a loop, it just has to be uninterrupted. But it might help to understand, for some. Other things can branch off of the path, but the path from each generator to each machine has to be an unbroken series of spark links.
Yes you can do that. I have a single machine of each basic type under my workshop floor. All connected with a ring of spark links. Then I have spark generators in groups of 6 or 8 just under each machine connected with more spark links.
2 rows of 3 machines.
I stuff generators at random and all machines are fueled from the generators
You could actually trace an unbroken line from every generator to every machine. In a tiny setup like this it’s simple, but it can get pretty crazy. The spark links themselves are a neutral conduit and the spark just passes through them freely in all directions, like electricity on a wire.
If it helps further, think of this. Machines can take power in, but they can’t put it out. Generators can put power out, but they can’t take it in. So each one is a single directional interface.
This setup allows each machine to see only one generator, and wastes a bunch or links:
The links between the generators glow as they are getting charge from both sides. You can see the links between the machines are not receiving power, since a machine cannot output power.
Here two spark links have restored free flow across the entire system.:
The new machine on the left connects to the circuit between two generators, and it can see both of them. The new machine on the right is connected between a single generator and a machine. It can only see the power from the one generator feeding it’s loop.
I had weird thing with spark being all over the place if I started adding spark from the smaller groups than the larger centralized core… I definitely will be interested to see how this works…
Are you putting additional spark generators anywhere else to expand the line? If so I’ve just noticed that if you put spark in there versus the main core things get out of sync.
I’m pretty sure you can make it man. I never went over 150 or so but at least one of my larger layouts could have been probably inverted and duplicated upside down.
For me though, it was more about getting more generators per machine
I guess if you started spiraling machines along spark link runs you could get a heck of a lot of machines on there, and still have them all be somewhat usable.
Ehhh, editing in to say: that thread reminded me my big workshop was 180 not 150. I don’t think I could have flipped/doubled that layout and still included all eight generator sets.
As @Xaldafax is discussing, getting more generators shared out is a very particular process.
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