Intro

 
This is a sorting and fetching method that I have been using for a while and I have decided to share it since a couple of people asked me about it. 
 
Note: This is not the only way to sort ores it could be done in many different ways but this is what I feel is convenient for me although any and all feedback is more than welcome. 
 
This design is meant to be used if you are planning to retrieve your ores for smelting purposes, and it can and should be hooked up directly to a furnace’s input to skip the manual loading of the furnace. 
 
 

Construction Parts

• SDB Silo x10 
• Sorters x10 
• Stackers x10 
• IC10 housing and chip x4 
• Consoles x2 
• Dial x2 
• Button

How to operate

 
Load up the input with your ores, they’ll get sorted to their relevant silos. Use the dial the selection dial to choose which ingot you want to make and the amount dial to select the amount (the amount number shows you the amount the furnace will yield when it’s done, not the ores count). 
 
Hit the button and it will spit out the ores needed to make that ingot in the correct ratio. 
 
 

Putting it all together

 
First off you will need to place down the silos of which there are 10. Then we’ll place a Sorter and a Stacker before every silo’s input. 
 

 
Name all the silos and their assigned sorters to the 10 different ores that we are sorting 

• Iron 
• Copper 
• Gold 
• Silicon 
• Coal 
• Lead 
• Silver 
• Nickel 
• Cobalt 
• Steel

 
Hook up everything together with chutes and cables then use the sorter motherboard to set the sorters to sort the ores to their silos, there is no need to use any type of logic here. 
 
Set the Stackers to 50, this is important to make sure we have full stacks in the silos. 
Run a single chute network through all the silos outputs and junctions to connect them all to the same network. 
 
Note: the ores do not need to be in that order for this to work, you can use whatever order you like. 
 
Place down the electronics in any way you want and hook them up together. 
 
 

Electronic Parts and ICs

 
 
 
1. Hash IC: Stores the hash values of ingots and controls the dials, display and button. Pins: 

• d0 Selection Dial 
• d1 Button 
• d2 Logic Memory 
• d3 Amount Dial 
• d4 Led Display

 
2. Logic Memory: Keeps track of the current operation. 
 
3. Lead,Silicon,Cobalt,Steel IC Controls the relevant silos.Pins: 

• d0 Lead Silo 
• d1 Silicon Silo 
• d2 Cobalt Silo 
• d3 Logic Memory 
• d4 Amount Dial 
• d5 Steel Silo 
   
  4&5 are basically the same as the previous IC but they cover the rest of Silos 
   
  6)Button: Used to dispense ores. 
   
  7)Selection Dial: cycles through all the ingots that can be crafted in the game. 
   
  8)Hash Display: Display the selected ingot. 
   
  9. Amount Dial: Controls the amount of ores requested based on the recipe. 
   
  10. Led Display: Displays the ingot amount you will get after smelting the ores. 

IC Code

 
In this section I will go through some of the IC’s functions and how it works to make it easier for anyone to make their own duplicate it or get some ideas. 
 
I’m assuming that you know the basics of MIPS if not there are plenty of beginners guides on the web, and I will not go through all of them since the 3 ICs that control the silos are basically the same with minor changes to account for all the ingot recipes. if you need further help don’t hesitate to drop a question. 
 
Hash IC it all starts here since all the other ICs are stuck on a waiting loop. 
 
in the main loop the IC loads the dials and button’s Setting variable to check their values. 

 
Selection jumping. to cycle through the hashes on the hash display, the IC has to set it’s own Setting value [db] device base to the hash value of the corresponding item. The dial selection setting is used as base to jump off of by multiplying the it by 3 and subtracting by 1 so we could skip 2 lines for every dial notch. 2 lines are needed to set the IC setting to the hash value and to calculate the amount that should be display based on the recipe. 

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Recipe IC breakdown 
 
in the Idle loop when the logic memory setting is 0, the code just keeps waiting for logic memory’s value to be over 0 to break out of the loop. 

 
in the following code block we are looking at the logic memory’s value and comparing it to each recipe index so we can set the rest of the values based on that particular recipe. by using beqal which will set the request further down in the code and come back here to check if there are any other matching values. Since this IC controls Iron/copper/gold silos any recipe that calls for any of them needs to be included so that this IC can dispense that ore for that recipe. 

We’ll take the steel index for example which is 8, if there memory was set to 8 the code will jump to the following block and it will set r0 to 0 which means d0 the iron silo, r0=1 is copper d1, r0=2 is copper d2. 
Then x is multiplied by 3 because we need 3 stacks of iron for every 1 cycle for the correct recipe. 

Setting the flag r6 to -2 to make sure that we reset the memory when we are done. 
Then we are loading the Quantity variable of the silo and checking it against the requested amount to see if we have enough to fulfill the request. if not the operation will be aborted. 

Before we start our request from the silo we’ll check if the memory value is still 1 to not make any mess. 
dr0 will handle the device with r0 value so if r0 is 0 then we are handling d0 which is the iron silo and so on. 
Before we start requesting we need to clear the silo’s memory to start a fresh run by using ClearMemory 1 
Then we’ll set the silo’s lever to Open 1 and loop counting each unit that comes out until the request is fulfilled. 
we close the silo door and jump back to ra which is where we check for the memory index. 

Links

 
Example World 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2429066247 
 
ICs 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2429065991 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2429065906 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2429065257 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2429065124 
 

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