Nikki’s Guides: New Cycle Advanced Production Ops [SPOILERS]

If you’ve made it here, first of all; Welcome! It should go without saying, but if you missed the title, there are major SPOILERS in here, so take a moment to consider that. In this guide, I mainly tackle the complex nature of Advanced Cycle Production facilities, and how one’s outputs can be mapped to another’s’ inputs for automated production. PLEASE NOTE: This was fully operation with Patch III from the developers. Future updates may break, or otherwise render this guide less efficient.

Second, this was done on Easy mode, so your results may also be affected by the difficulty level you select.

This section shows the flow of materials, starting from your Mines and Quarries. The outputs of these facilities are inputs to other facilities. If a facility has no outputs, those resources are put into your storage piles. Additionally, if an output EXCEEDS the input of the next building, those excess resources are put into storage.



For 100% capacity, you will need the following workforce (includes 4 fully staffed Mines);

Oh course, you’ll likely be able to reduce your workforce in the Quarries, as your stockpiles will fill rather quickly. Alternatively, if you have so many people that it doesn’t really matter, just set a cap on those resources. Below is the workforce (minus the Mines, as the were scattered over the map).

This section only shows the main Production Operations Plat-map. Because the Mines are scattered in different areas, you should consider outlining this area nearest to your mines. Keep in mind that I didn't find an area with all 4 easily accessible, so my Tin is being imported quit a distance. Also, because I didn't initially understand how the conveyors worked, I had to use my current save file because I didn't feel like starting completely over.


With this layout, you can produce "roughly" the following. I stress roughly because choices you make earlier in the game have an effect on output. Example; I choose Enhanced Safety Regulations, so I'm getting a penalty for that now.

Please note that my screenshot example looks quite messy, and that's true. There's conveyors everywhere :)


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This produces the following PER DAY;

There are a few additional opportunities that you could consider adding, including;

Factory Input: Tin Ingot -> Canned Food
Factory Input: Wire, Motor, Tin Ingot, Steel ->Machinery.

There may be others, and as noted in the flow chart, there is an opportunity for the Devs to add a Wire input into the Motor Factory, but as of this writing, it provides no additional benefit. In truth, it actually provides a -10 penalty for the workers to sort out the wire.

Overall, this produces a LOT of resources, but requires a lot of your time setting up all the conveyors, splits, and combiners. The conveyor system takes some getting used to, and I'd recommend that you take a file and just mess around until you get a good handle on it. I finished the game just fine without anything being automated, but that was also on easy mode. This may be more critical when space becomes an issue.

Of course, none of this is actually necessary, you can simply just build multiple lower level buildings with less skilled workers and get the same results. It just requires a lot of oversight.