Editing Production (section)

== Connection Points and Automation ==

Every producing object and every storage has so-called connection points, which can be displayed by switching to one of the underground layers with a button at the screen's bottom or by pressing C. These are points where the object tries to recreate its process by putting products there and pulling materials from. The connection points can look a bit off if the producing object is placed below a wall, because the object is moved a bit toward it.

[[File:Production connection points.png|center|thumb|After activating the pipe interface with a button at the screen's bottom, the connection points of producing objects and storages are shown. Furnace and loom can interact with the chest in the middle.]]

As an example, a malt box will put its created malt in a chest above, right, below or left to the malt box (where it's connection points are). If the product is moved to the chest, the malt box tries to grab materials from connected chests ([[fuel]] like [[wood]] and [[barley]]) and rain barrels ([[water]]) to recreate the exact same product. Therefore if the malt box produces a barley malt with a tint brightness of two, it will try to grab some fuel (for example charcoal if no wood is left), barley and three water from chests and rain barrels on the malt box' connection points. This automation will go on forever until it runs out of places to put products in or out of materials.