
How to get a specific oxide from Multi-Regolith Refiners when its % is too low?
I have 5 MDRs mining Regolith, and I've accumulated around 200k Regolith sitting in a single Cargo Dock.
My setup is:
- 4 Multi-Regolith Refiners
- 4 main conveyor lines
- 4 large Regolith storages, ~20k each
- Each storage feeds one MRR
- Each of the 4 lines has around 20 Smelting Furnaces processing the refined materials
- All conveyor belts are Level 4
The Regolith composition isn't balanced. I have a lot of Iron Oxide, but I need a lot of Titanium.
I can deal with the excess Iron Oxide by adding storage, so that's not really my main concern.
The problem is getting Titanium when I need it immediately.
For example, even if I send an MDR to a Titanium deposit and bring back a full load of Regolith, that Regolith still has to go through the MRR. If my storage is already full of thousands of tons of Regolith with a high Iron Oxide percentage, it feels like I have to process tens of thousands of Regolith just to eventually get to the Titanium I actually need.
I don't want to keep building more and more processing buildings just to consume the excess Iron, because that creates an endless chain of needing more buildings, more power, more batteries, etc.
So if I need a large amount of Titanium RIGHT NOW, what's the solution?
Is there a way to specifically target Titanium production, or some way to process Titanium-rich Regolith separately so I'm not effectively waiting for tens of thousands of Regolith to be processed before I get enough Titanium?
How do you guys handle situations where you have plenty of one resource but urgently need another?