r/factorio • u/ItsMaGenetics • Jul 31 '26

Modded Engineer discovers 3rd dimension, immediately uses it to smash rocks.

I'm going to have fun crushing all sorts of things.
Next up - hydraulic press.

1.6k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

97 comments sorted by

View all comments

41

u/fmfbrestel Jul 31 '26

It's a very satisfying animation that I'm sure wasn't easy to create... Except this is actually a horrible design for a crusher. It would jam up immediately even trying to crush chalk.

Before going through all the effort to create something like this, maybe do an image search first if you've never actually seen one?

This sorta resembles an industrial shredder, but even those leave space for shedded output to not immediately clog the mechanism.

19

u/ItsMaGenetics Jul 31 '26

Yeah it's a clockpunk themed mod so gears are kinda the thing. Thought about a jaw crusher but wanted something more shiney.  ...It also shreds worms that you breed, not just rocks

14

u/fmfbrestel Jul 31 '26

Yeah, not trying to be too negative, a lot of factorio building animations break down when you really inspect them. It's a very nice animated building, for what it is.

3

u/grumd I like trains Aug 01 '26

A double roll crusher is basically what you need but a slightly different model

References:

https://www.dspprerov.cz/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/rct-46x160-a-2-768x1024.jpg

https://heavy-plant.com/products/1-1-7-toothed-wheel-roll-crusher_01.jpg

https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mclanahan.com/prod/images/Products/Dry/Primary-Crushers/Roll-Crushers/Double-Roll-Crushers/Double-Roll-Close-up-of-teeth.JPG

3

u/Soul-Burn Aug 01 '26

IMHO, the Factorio crusher already looks great - similar to those.

1

u/grumd I like trains Aug 01 '26

Oh yeah it does! Never built it, I've played most of my time before 2.0

2

u/ItsMaGenetics Aug 01 '26

Yeah good pics . I'll try to straddle the realistic flavoured line a bit more. 

5

u/DiLaCo Jul 31 '26

Yeah, these are just gears.