Chapter 306 Steam Factory and Steam Machine

The dean adjusted his glasses, and the last steel plate of a square steel building was falling in the stream of light not far away.

"Let's wait until the lord comes back and tell him."

The dean touched his head and looked at the eight-meter-high steel factory built on the hilly side of the territory. The square, fully enclosed structure made it look more like a steel coffin on the ground. This steel building stood alone on the grassland, with hills not far behind it.

There are three rewards in total for era improvement, and this is the third.

The buildings obtained by upgrading the era are just like the Star Pulse Tower obtained by upgrading the third era to the fourth era.

Choose one of the same three, but all three have been replaced with buildings/zoning.

‘Elemental Crystal Tower (Arcane Division): It can slowly extract magic elements from the environment to form mana crystals. Please note that the crystallization towers cannot be too close, otherwise the production efficiency of the two buildings will be affected. ’

‘Heavy Focused Rune Obelisk (Tower Division): Can be used as a defensive building and unlocks the battlefield support ability: Heat Ray Cutting (cooling time 24 hours). Territory stability +5. ’

‘Crystal Mine Steam Factory (Industrial Zone): Replaces the ordinary factory in the industrial zone and can be used as an ordinary factory. ’

Three buildings, three routes. Without any hesitation, Ji Lin chose a factory that took into account both production capacity and combat capabilities, and handed over the licensing rights to the college principal, allowing him to choose a location to build it.

‘Crystal Ore Steam Factory (Zoning)’

‘Special, unique territory, fifth era’

‘Mechanical units that the territory has mastered the blueprint for will be produced at 100% efficiency and can produce machinery/equipment units lower than that of the era. ’

‘Fuel is needed to maintain the operation of the internal steam engine. When the energy is sufficient, an additional 20% production efficiency will be obtained. ’

‘Assembly line division of labor mode: Building other factories near this factory can increase the unit manufacturing speed, which will gradually increase production efficiency when producing a single type of item. Productivity growth is increased by an additional 10%. ’

‘Integrated production: When there is no assistance from other factories, the factory will slow down the production of all components to ensure completion. The production speed increases depending on the complexity. Part complexity reduces productivity losses by 30%. ’

‘The machinery roared, the gears meshed, and the heavy hammer fell. Machinery will also be an extension of our hands, without exception. ’

Compared with the college's experimental factory with a standard factory efficiency of 33%, the Crystal Mine Steam Factory has a true 100% full production efficiency... This does not mean that the territory's current production efficiency can be quadrupled. The territory is very lacking in relevant technology. Worker.

While it is a factory, it is also divided into the same area as the Engineering College...it just doesn't have as many ancillary equipment.

Due to the shortage of teachers, the college can train 250 science and engineering technicians in two years. The dean of the college is also consulting some outstanding students whether they want to become teachers, and promises to provide them with sufficient experimental funds.

A group of teachers must be trained to expand the college's enrollment quota.

This plan was hindered from the beginning. Most of the outstanding students preferred to hide in their own laboratories and do research instead of teaching and educating people - especially when the funding granted to them by Ji Lin was extremely high.

The dean of the college really wants to ask the Lord if he can change the experimental funding to a quota system or a performance system, so that these people can be forced to leave the laboratory and take up the position of teachers.

With the territory so short of technical personnel.

The dean estimates that this newly built steam factory can roughly double the territory's production capacity, allowing the territory's machinery manufacturing department to mechanize.

The mechanical equipment in the small factory affiliated to the college is completely insufficient, and several machine tools have to be used in turn. Some research groups have been waiting for permission to use machine tools until midnight.

In the future, the college-affiliated factory can better utilize its advantages as an auxiliary research and production test unit, rather than simply being used as an ordinary factory.

The president of the college only plans to use this crystal ore factory to do one thing in the short term:

Put the steam mechs into production and obtain the steam mechs independently produced by the territory, and then you can start to improve the design of the steam mechs.

They have an improved model with a blueprint, and Ji Lin can directly support the troops by exchanging units with strategic support license rights, eliminating the troublesome manufacturing process.

A standard steam marine formation consists of twelve steam marines.

A strategic support license can be exchanged for three teams, with a total of thirty-six steam marines.

Or exchange it for thirty-six steam spiders.

The dean went inside the steam factory and took a look around. Its ceiling was built so high to leave enough space for the gantry crane driven by the steam engine inside. There are more places where different mechanical processing equipment is placed. A series of steam pipes made of brass are connected to the hydraulic press and gantry crane along the wall to provide power.

A large number of workers in blue uniforms stood at the door together with students returning from vacation. They came to participate in the opening ceremony of the factory and gradually transferred production work under the leadership of the dean.

The dean sighed and crossed out a work task on his notepad.

Production, production, production, why is he responsible for this kind of thing?

A large amount of forged steel was hoisted and controlled to be placed on the humanoid skeleton. The body of the mechanical soldier gradually took shape amid the crisp sound of steel collision. The activation of the steam pipeline made the whole factory stuffy, but everyone stared at the five-meter-tall mechanical soldier gradually taking shape on the workbench.

There was no thinking core required by the steam mechanical soldier, and the dean had not had time to make it... and it was not easy to make it.

No, there was another solution.

As long as its thinking core was removed and the transmission system was slightly improved, the position where the thinking core was originally stored could be...

One person sat down.

Step forward.

The dean released the source substance and completed a simple synchronous resonance. It was a bit difficult to control the mechanical soldier to lift its right leg.

There was a sense of blockage, delayed by 0.2 seconds.

The wide walking foot landed on the ground with a dull sound, and the whole body of the steam mechanical soldier also tilted forward involuntarily. Because it was an experimental machine, the body of this steam mechanical soldier did not even have the most basic steel guard installed, and the spinning gears were exposed to the outside.

The crowd was all stunned as the five-meter-tall, white steam-breathing mechanical soldier took a step forward. The blue runes on its body shone in the light white mist, showing all observers that it was already in operation.

Both are small structures with similar production costs. The height of the Steam Mechanic is almost twice that of the Steam Spider, and it has a higher height and a smaller chassis.

This Steam Mechanic has no weapons installed, but it can be designed to have them - the design means that they can get the strategic support license of the system for free, allowing it to have some weapons that are not easy to produce in the territory at present.

It will be manned.

Then the height can be lowered a little, making it easier for soldiers to control... Its structure is more suitable for manning, so that the crew will not be shaken by the constant bumps and shakes.

No, the flexibility is too poor...

If the lord can borrow a Holy City Skitarius and let him disassemble it and carefully study its rune structure... it can improve the flexibility of these guys.

Humanoid units are not a good idea.

The dean stretched out his hand, releasing his own source essence to penetrate into the internal structure of the steam mechanized soldier, temporarily replacing the role of the thinking core with himself.

The creation of rune literature can be controlled, and so can he. Each of their source essence awakeners can connect themselves to the rune circuit. Others need auxiliary devices to connect to the rune circuit, but they don't need them. They can synchronize the rune linkage circuit very roughly.

There is a very obvious sense of blockage, and the delay of each action is more than one second, which is five times more than controlling only the legs.

If you improve the reaction speed.

The steam mechanized soldier slowly took two steps forward, and the extended mechanical arm stretched, and the five fingers bent like humans. Let others see the transmission rod on the thick mechanical arm start to rotate, and the gears are engaged and transmitted.

I don't know who cheered, and everyone was excited. They all watched the dean controlling the mechanized soldier to move slowly.

The existence of the steam mechanized soldier shocked them more than the fully automatic steam spider.

They will also use the power of controlling the machine for their own use.

Sweat drops dripped on the frame, and the dean gasped.

There is feasibility.

The framework is available.

It is too big and difficult to control, so it needs to be redesigned.

We must wait for the Lord to come back and decide which plan to adopt.

Is it a manned miniaturized mechanical soldier.

Or is it an independent structure that can fight on its own like the steam spider.

The dean wanted to stand up and wave to them, but found that he could not squeeze out any extra strength in his body. In less than thirty seconds, all his physical strength and source reserves had been drained.