Ship Fabricator

The Ship Fabricator is a unit-producing building that constructs Eludes when supplied with the required materials and power. Once production begins the building consumes electrical power and the necessary items, then releases completed Eludes as a forward-facing payload. The Ship Fabricator functions in the same broad family as other unit fabricators and refabricators and shares similar inventory behavior.

Production requires specific input items; the Ship Fabricator can store up to twice the amount needed to produce a single unit, allowing it to buffer resources for continuous output. In concrete terms, its internal storage accommodates 100 Beryllium and 140 Silicon, the quantities corresponding to two times the single-unit requirement. Power consumption was tuned after release: the fabricator originally consumed 120 power units/second at introduction (Build 136) and was reduced to 90 power units/second in Build 149.

Practical usage and interactions:

• Place the Ship Fabricator facing the direction you want Eludes to be deployed; completed units are delivered as a payload in the building’s forward direction.
• Feed both resource lines (Beryllium and Silicon) and ensure a steady power supply to keep the fabricator producing; its doubled internal stack allows brief interruptions in upstream logistics without halting output immediately.
• Because the building consumes substantial power while active, pair it with reliable power generation and consider power storage (batteries/accumulators) or throttling production periods to avoid brownouts elsewhere in your base.
• The Ship Fabricator counts as a fabricator/refabricator unit for logistics and automation: conveyors, routers, and logic-controlled routers can be used to manage input flow and prevent overproduction.
• Use its buffered storage to stage production for planned waves or to synchronize with launch windows; filling the fabricator to capacity ensures a short burst of continuous unit output even if resource delivery is temporarily paused.

History note: the Ship Fabricator was added in Build 136 and received a power-use reduction to improve efficiency in Build 149.