AWESOME Sink

“	Go that extra kilometer, go AWESOME.	„
	~ ADA

AWESOME Sink
Got excess resources? Fear not, for FICSIT does not waste! The newly developed AWESOME Sink turns any useful part straight into research data, as fast as you can supply it! Participating pioneers will be compensated with Coupons to be spent at the AWESOME Shop.
Unlocked by	Tier 2 - Resource Sink Bonus Program
Class name	Desc_ResourceSink_C
Building
Power usage	30 MW
Overclock­able	No
Conveyorinputs	1
Dimensions
Width	16 m
Length	13 m
Height	24 m
Area	208 m2
Ingre­dients
15 ×  Reinforced Iron Plate
30 ×  Cable
45 ×  Concrete

The AWESOME Sink is a special building that produces  FICSIT Coupons for use in the AWESOME Shop by destroying items inserted into it, converting them into points based on their value or complexity, which in turn are used to print the aforementioned Coupons. Each successive Coupon requires more points to be printed.

The Sink can consume as many parts as the connected conveyor can supply, therefore its maximum capacity is 780/min using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 or Conveyor Lift Mk.5.

Multiple Sinks can be constructed. Accumulated points will be shared between all Sinks and Coupons can be printed from any. If all Sinks are deconstructed, the amount of points and accumulated Coupons is stored.

AWESOME is an acronym, which stands for "Anti-Waste Effort for Stress-Testing of Materials on Exoplanets".

Items not allowed to sink

Some items cannot be fed into the AWESOME Sink and will clog the input. If that happens, it is advised to pick up these items or reconstruct the belt to allow other items to be sunk.

• Consumables such as Beryl Nuts, Bacon Agarics, and Paleberries (does not apply to Medicinal Inhalers)
• Special items such as HUB Parts, Power Slugs, Power Shards, Hard Drives, Mercer Spheres and Somersloops
• Alien Remains and Alien Protein
• Uranium Waste and every derived item, with the exception of Plutonium Fuel Rods, but including Plutonium Waste, which will show a warning that radioactive items are not allowed for contaminating the results
• SAM Ore, likely because it is unfinished
• Cups, Statues and the Boom Box
• Quantum Computers, Superposition Oscillators

Coupon cost

Coupons increase in point cost as more are acquired. The first three coupons cost 1,000 points. After that, the cost for the n-th coupon is calculated as 500 * (ceil(n/3)-1)2 + 1000 or 500*POWER((CEILING.MATH(N/3)-1),2)+1000. When the current cost of a coupon is known, then the number of coupons that have been printed is (sqrt((cost-1000)/500)+1)*3.

In mathematical terms, the cost of the n-th coupon is given by:

${\text{cost}}(n)=500\times \left(\left\lceil {\frac {n}{3}}\right\rceil -1\right)^{2}+1000$

Given the current cost c of a coupon, the number of coupons that have been printed is between

$3\times {\sqrt {\frac {c-1000}{500}}}$

and

$3\times {\sqrt {\frac {c-1000}{500}}}+2$

(inclusive)

The cumulative cost for printing the first n coupons, if n is a multiple of 3, is given by:

$C(n)={\frac {500}{27}}n^{3}-{\frac {250}{3}}n^{2}+{\frac {3250}{3}}n$

It takes 1,895 Coupons to purchase every non-producible item in the AWESOME Shop, which would require 125,721,388,500 AWESOME points. This would take about 11 hours and 23 minutes at the current theoretical max awesome points per minute of 184,168,000 (see Farming Points). However, it only takes 208 Coupons to unlock every unique crafting recipe, which equates to 163,289,500 AWESOME points.

Patch notes and in-game dialogue suggest further items will be added to the AWESOME shop in future releases.

Group	n-th Coupon	Cost	Cumulative cost
0	1-3	1,000	3,000
1	4-6	1,500	7,500
2	7-9	3,000	16,500
3	10-12	5,500	33,000
4	13-15	9,000	60,000
5	16-18	13,500	100,500
6	19-21	19,000	157,500
7	22-24	25,500	234,000
8	25-27	33,000	333,000
9	28-30	41,500	457,500
...	...	...	...
29	88-90	421,500	12,922,500
...	...	...	...
332	997-999	55,113,000	18,380,934,000
n (n = 0, 1, 2, ...)	3n + 1 to 3n + 3	500 * n2 + 1000	500n3 + 750n2 + 3250n + 3000

Coupon cost from Alien DNA Capsules

Alien DNA Capsules have a separate point counter. Unlike the standard coupon cost, it increases linearly by 1000 points for each group of coupons.

In mathematical terms, the cost of the n-th coupon is given by:

${\text{cost}}(n)=1000\times \left\lceil {\frac {n}{3}}\right\rceil$

And the cumulative cost of the first n coupons is given by:

${\text{ccost}}(n)=(\left\lfloor {\frac {n}{3}}\right\rfloor +1)\times (1000\times n-1500\times \left\lfloor {\frac {n}{3}}\right\rfloor )$

The table below shows the points required per coupon when sinking Alien DNA Capsules, which are worth 1000 points each.

Group	n-th Coupon	Cost	Cumulative cost
1	1-3	1,000	3,000
2	4-6	2,000	9,000
3	7-9	3,000	18,000
4	10-12	4,000	30,000
5	13-15	5,000	45,000
6	16-18	6,000	63,000
n (n = 1, 2, ...)	3n - 2 to 3n	1000n	1500n2 + 1500n

Printing

Once sufficient points are accumulated to print at least one Coupon, the option to print it is made available. As the 'Print' button is pressed, an animation is played, where a Coupon comes out of the slot with the actual Coupon items. These coupons must be retrieved by dragging them into the inventory or using (⇧ Shift + ). Coupons have a stack size of 500, so if the amount of accumulated coupons exceeds 500, the remaining coupons will remain in the Sink, and they can be printed out next time. In the AWESOME Sink UI, click the 'Print Coupon' button then drag or ⇧ Shift+ the Coupons into the Inventory to retrieve them.

• If coupons are printed but not taken out and the UI of the Sink is closed, those coupons can be re-printed the next time the AWESOME Sink UI is opened.
• It's also possible to put Coupons back into the Sink using this mechanic by printing Coupons and instead of taking any, moving Coupons in the inventory into the Sink slot. This is only possible if at least one Coupon can be printed and the sum of Coupons in the Sink and the inventory does not exceed 500 (if it does, less than a full stack or no Coupons can be inserted back).

The UI of an AWESOME Sink.

Points generated per item

Points	Items
1	FICSIT Coupon (For the first time, the Cyber Wagon is made available for purchase in the Shop and no points are given)
1	FICSMAS Tree Branch,  FICSMAS Decoration,  Blue FICSMAS Ornament,  Iron Ore,  Actual Snow,  Candy Cane,  FICSMAS Gift,  Sweet Fireworks,  Sparkly Fireworks,  Copper FICSMAS Ornament,  FICSMAS Ornament Bundle,  Iron FICSMAS Ornament,  Snowball,  Red FICSMAS Ornament,  FICSMAS Wonder Star,  Fancy Fireworks,  FICSMAS Bow
2	Iron Ingot,  Screw,  Limestone
3	Coal,  Copper Ore,  Leaves
4	Iron Rod
6	Iron Plate,  Copper Ingot,  Wire
7	Caterium Ore
8	Iron Rebar,  Steel Ingot,  Bauxite
10	Flower Petals,  Mycelia,  Color Cartridge
11	Sulfur
12	Polymer Resin,  Concrete,  Biomass
14	Black Powder
15	Raw Quartz
17	Quickwire
20	Silica,  Petroleum Coke
24	Copper Sheet,  Cable,  Steel Pipe
25	Rifle Ammo
27	Aluminum Scrap
28	Compacted Coal
30	Wood
35	Uranium
42	Caterium Ingot
48	Solid Biofuel
50	Quartz Crystal
58	Smokeless Powder
60	Rubber,  Portable Miner,  Empty Canister
64	Steel Beam
72	Copper Powder
75	Plastic
120	Reinforced Iron Plate,  Turbo Rifle Ammo
125	Medicinal Inhaler
130	Packaged Water
131	Aluminum Ingot
140	Rotor,  Fabric
147	Encased Uranium Cell
152	Nobelisk,  Packaged Sulfuric Acid
160	Packaged Alumina Solution
180	Packaged Oil,  Packaged Heavy Oil Residue
186	Stun Rebar
225	Empty Fluid Tank
240	Stator
266	Alclad Aluminum Sheet
270	Packaged Fuel
312	Packaged Nitrogen Gas
320	Beacon
332	Shatter Rebar
360	Explosive Rebar
370	Packaged Liquid Biofuel
393	Aluminum Casing
408	Modular Frame
412	Packaged Nitric Acid
465	Battery
520	Smart Plating
544	Gas Nobelisk
570	Packaged Turbofuel
608	Parachute
632	Encased Industrial Beam
696	Circuit Board
830	Gas Filter
855	Homing Rifle Ammo
860	Color Gun
920	AI Limiter
1 000	Alien DNA Capsule
1 176	Versatile Framework
1 376	Cluster Nobelisk
1 400	Object Scanner
1 440	Automated Wiring
1 520	Motor
1 533	Pulse Nobelisk
1 552	Factory Cart
1 880	Xeno-Zapper
1 968	Rebar Gun
2 560	Electromagnetic Control Rod
2 718	Iodine Infused Filter
2 760	Chainsaw
2 804	Heat Sink
3 072	Crystal Oscillator
3 776	High-Speed Connector
4 088	Blade Runners
5 284	Zipline
6 480	Nobelisk Detonator
9 480	Rifle
9 960	Modular Engine
11 520	Heavy Modular Frame
12 006	Cooling System
15 650	Magnetic Field Generator
17 260	Computer
18 800	Xeno-Basher
19 600	Nuke Nobelisk,  Radio Control Unit
35 580	Jetpack
44 092	Uranium Fuel Rod
54 100	Hazmat Suit
55 000	Gas Mask
62 840	Fused Modular Frame
86 120	Adaptive Control Unit
99 576	Supercomputer
153 184	Plutonium Fuel Rod
242 720	Turbo Motor
257 312	Pressure Conversion Cube
413 920	Hover Pack
543 424	Nuclear Pasta
543 632	Assembly Director System
732 956	Thermal Propulsion Rocket

This table is compiled using the data from Template:ResourceSinkPoints.json via Module:AwesomeSinkItemsTable.

The first time a FICSIT Coupon is inserted, the Cyber Wagon is made available for purchase in the AWESOME Shop, and no points are generated. Items not listed in this table will clog the input.

Alien DNA Capsules have a separate point counter, see above

Recipe point improvement ratios

As mentioned earlier, recipes usually yield more points than their ingredients. However, the point increase when using alternate recipes varies widely; the output from most recipes is worth between 1.5 and 2.5 times as many points as the combined input, but exceptions exist in both directions (as alts use either cheaper or more expensive ingredients, which affects how effective using the alt is point-wise).

Seven alternate recipes actually provide less points than all of their ingredients combined: Compacted Steel Ingot, Coke Steel Ingot, Rubber Concrete, Steel Coated Plate, Coated Iron Plate, Portable Miner, and Radio Control System.

The most "profitable" recipe as of Patch 0.3.3.0 is Silicon Circuit Board, which generates items worth 7.19 as many points as the input items.

Tips

• Other than farming points for Coupons, the AWESOME Sink is very useful to get rid of solid by-products, which is quite useful for any setup involving Refineries. Connect a Smart Splitter with an Overflow setting, with the Sink connected to the overflow output. An AWESOME Sink is also useful for forcing the factory to run 100% of the time as the output item will never have a chance to back up, with the cost of increasing power demand.
  • Further reading: Smart Splitter
• The AWESOME Sink does not consume power if it is not doing any work, much like other buildings.

Farming points

Some items can be used to effectively get lots of points for comparatively little effort:

• Concrete: Only requires one step to manufacture from limestone but generates decent points for low energy costs.
• Cables: Can be automated almost immediately and generate a decent amount of points for early game.
• Raw Quartz: If a Resource Node is found early, lots of points can be generated with minimal effort.
  • Converting them to Quartz Crystals once possible doubles point yield.
  • Converting them to Silica more than doubles point yield.
• Uranium: If the player is willing to accept risk of death from enemies as well as radiation, the Uranium ore itself can be sunk at any stage in the game for a lot of points due to its high base value and lack of a need to process it.
• Object Scanner, Blade Runners, and Xeno-Basher give a lot of points early on, but can't be automated.
• Quickwire: Given how much can be manufactured from just a single node, sinking excess can be effective.
• AI Limiter: Similar to Quickwire, but considerably more effective.
• Excess Space Elevator parts: Have no use if not demanded by the Space Elevator.
• Some combination of Assembly Director System and Thermal Propulsion Rocket are used to farm points in the end-game. Assembly Director Systems are favored because they use less resources to produce.
• The maximum amount of points that can be generated while using all available resources and energy without underclocking any buildings was about 184,168,000 points per minute by sinking 296.46/min Assembly Director System and 31.6064 Thermal Propulsion Rocket. This requires a 46% Uranium-Plutonium setup involving 23.2/min Uranium Fuel Rod and 10.3/min Plutonium Fuel Rod at 547 GW. This will max out the usage of every raw resources except Uranium (2% left), Limestone (20% left) and Nitrogen Gas (45% left), which leave no buffers for producing other high end items. One coal node has been added since then that is not considered (map limit for Coal used 30,120 instead of the current 30,900).
• If allowing for underclocking limited production buildings (i.e. Miner, Resource Well Pressurizer and Oil Extractor) - which generally doesn't increase the required total number of buildings built - and considering the new coal node, this increases to 177,066,380.81? points per minute. The only buildings actually utilizing underclocking in this configuration are Miners on impure Limestone nodes and Resource Well Pressurizers on Water wells, which are more energy efficient than 100%-clocked Water Extractors up to some clock setting between ~12.86% to ~40.94% depending on the well. Otherwise the configuration is very similar, the same three items are ultimately sunk. This requires building over 33,840 buildings.
• The theoretical maximum if additionally allowing for underclocking of unlimited buildings (Water Extractors and all processing buildings) down to 1% clock speed is 189,873,115.77 points per minute. In this configuration, fewer Plutonium Fuel Rods are sunk, instead some Concrete and raw Uranium are sunk as well. Even under these generous power conditions, the map's Limestone and Nitrogen Gas resources aren't fully utilized in the optimal configuration. Note this configuration is practically infeasible since it requires building around 3,274,000 buildings and will affect the FPS negatively.

Trivia

• The maximum amount of points per minute the chart will display is 2,147,483,648, the signed 32-bit integer limit plus one. This is only a visual limit. Since points come in on a per item basis and not all at once it will not affect the actual amount of points the player gets.
• An early concept for the Sink had considered using the Space Elevator for sinking items, but this was discarded due to concerns about getting all the resources to one central location.
• It takes about 2.31 MJ to sink a single item, assuming Mk.5 belt is used and it is saturated with items.
  • For lower tier belts, from Mk.4 to Mk.1, the energy spent for sinking is 3.75 MJ, 6.67 MJ, 15 MJ and 30 MJ respectively. Thus, it is least efficient to sink items with Mk.1 belts.

See Also

•  FICSIT Coupon
•  AWESOME Shop
•  Smart Splitter

Gallery

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  Using AWESOME Sink to remove excess Packaged Fuel to prevent Refineries from clogging up.

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  Maximum amount of points per minute.

History

• Patch 0.7.0.1: Fixed a crash for Clients when placing a Blueprint that has the AWESOME Sink
• Patch 0.7.0.0: Added a separate point counter for Alien DNA Capsules
• Patch 0.7.0.6: Fixed the Print Coupon button flickering briefly when opening the AWESOME Sink
• Patch 0.6.0.3: Recalculated AWESOME Sink point values and made the new parts sinkable
• Patch 0.5.1.7: Fixed bug where right clicking coupons while picking them up from the AWESOME Sink would result in losing half of them
• Patch 0.5.0.2 (Released again in Patch 0.5.0.3): Fixed some shader bugs in the AWESOME Sink UI
• Patch 0.4.0.0: Points for Tier 7 and 8 items were rebalanced
• Patch 0.3.7.7: FICSMAS items can now be sunk for 1 point each
• Patch 0.3.4.14: Now capable of processing more than 600 items per minute
• Patch 0.3.3.0: Point values for all items were changed and re-balanced, generally reducing the amount of generated points. Most Equipment items gained point values.
• Patch 0.3: Introduced