Working vending machine in Astroneer Adventure with automatic resource collection
My mate and I designed and made this working vending machine in adventure Astroneer. It took quite a while as all the designs I saw online had the resources feeders in a circle rather than in a line, like ours. I believe this design is more effective in survival mode as you can effectively make it really long for any number of resource choices and extremely wide if you wanted to refine all your materials before getting them.
Typically circular vending machine layouts have a central platform for counting how many nuggets got placed upon them however this isn’t easily translated to our line design. If the resource counter was at the final platform then theres lots of excess material on the line that hasn’t been accounted for (jamming up the system); to solve this I designed another AND gate unit that basically counts at each specific line platform.
All this is rigged to auto extractors mining astronium then trading it in to create scrap, which is then trade to gain our resources.