Mega Stockyard

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⚠️ Alpha: not fully tested yet. The stacker-reclaimer and its pile are brand new and have only been played in a few test games. Expect rough edges, try it on a copy of your save first, and please tell me in the comments what goes wrong.

⛰️ Mega Stockyard

A real bulk stockyard for your loose products: a stacker-reclaimer on rails pours a long windrow pile from its boom belt and digs it back with its bucket wheel.

60,000 units of one loose product in Mega stockyard I, or 120,000 in Mega stockyard II (concrete retaining walls, a pile twice as high and a bigger machine), on 44 x 18 tiles.

Features

• 🏗️ Stacker-reclaimer on rails: it travels along the pile, slews and luffs its boom, all smoothly together, and only pours or digs once it has arrived
• ⛰️ A pile that grows and shrinks with what the yard holds: poured from one end, with a cone at its tip, in the stored product's look
• 🪣 Bucket wheel: reclaiming, the wheel digs into the pile face, with dust
• 🎛️ Two settings: Only take in (stacking: nothing goes out) or Only give out (reclaiming: nothing comes in); changing it swings the machine over in a few seconds
• 🛤️ Yard conveyor along the track: from the west intake house to the machine and from the machine to the east outlet house
• 🔌 Four inputs (A-D) on the west edge and four outputs (W-Z) on the east edge
• ⬆️ Tier II: an upgrade in place with retaining walls, a higher pile and a bigger stacker-reclaimer
• 🚛 Trucks deliver and collect as at any loose storage, following the setting
• 💡 Details: floodlight masts, sprinklers along the pile, drain grates, cable trough and a slewing cab

How to start

1. Research Mega stockyards (after Storage (Large) II and Mega vehicles).
2. Build a Mega stockyard I and connect belts to ports A-D (west) and W-Z (east).
3. Pick the product, then choose Only take in to fill the yard or Only give out to empty it.
4. Research Mega stockyards II (after Construction IV) to upgrade it in place.

Good to know

• 🌍 Speaks all 21 languages of the game.
• The stockyard uses power while products move through its ports (120 / 200 kW).
• Can be added to existing saves, but not removed once you have built a stockyard.
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original. No game files included. Contains Harmony (MIT).