The silk needs to be cleaned from the glass walls, and hoppers and boxes are needed to collect them in containers. If Liu Liang went to collect it himself, not only would he be easily attacked by spiders, but it would not be an automated spider farm.

The spider silk on the wall can be twisted off with a sword, and according to this principle, he can design an automatic glass scraper.

It is necessary to put another steam engine behind the wall, replace the connecting rod axle of the cylinder piston with the axle drive gear, extend it above the glass wall with belt and gear transmission, and then connect the gears with iron pipes, and tie 4 hemp ropes to the iron pipes, and two steel pipes are hung under the hemp ropes, and the steel pipes are sandwiched with knives made on the workbench.

It works on a simple principle, when the steam engine is started, the piston connecting rod pushes the wheel shaft to start rotating, and it is geared to the gears and iron pipes on top of the glass wall. When the gear turns, it will drive the iron pipe to lift the hemp rope upwards like a wheel, and the hemp rope will pull up the steel pipe holding the knife, and scrape off the spider silk attached to it against the glass. Eventually, the silk falls into the hopper below, and then teleports through the hopper to the chest below.

But this is only a machine that can only run a single item, and the glass scraper can be raised up, but not lowered.

Liu Liang pondered on the spot for a long time, and decided to add another cylinder to the steam engine, control the previous cylinder to stop at the same time, realize the reverse rotation of the gear, and use two joysticks to control.

He installed these two levers above and below the steel pipe of the glass scraper, when the glass scraper was lifted up, after touching the upper lever, the No. 1 cylinder was closed to achieve reversal, and when the glass scraper was lowered and the lever below was touched, the No. 2 cylinder was started to close the No. 1 cylinder, and the reversing was carried out again, so that the glass scraper could move up and down in a cycle.

It seems that for Steam Technology, automation itself is a matter of taking up more energy resources, so the machines in steampunk works are very large.

How can it not be huge? Electronic technology can do what can be done with a few wires and a single circuit board, and steam technology needs to use hundreds or thousands of gears of different sizes.

In fact, Liu Liang also wants to further realize automation, and the produced spider silk is transmitted to the textile machine through a belt, so that the unmanned production operation from spider silk to silk can be realized.

But it is impossible to truly achieve unmanned operation, because the steam engine also needs to be added with coal at regular intervals, and he now has more than a dozen steam engines in his camp, each of which is like a bottomless pit waiting for coal to be fed. Is it necessary to rebuild some transport belts to transport coal and supply the steam engine? However, the transport belt still needs to be driven by a steam engine, and the new steam engine still needs to be supplied with coal, which is already a repeated nesting doll.

His game, Strange Realm, is all about survival, but now it's going to be Factorio soon.

But in fact, the biggest problem in the automatic management of steam technology is not kinetic energy, but the distribution of each link.

A coal can burn for 2 hours in the incinerator, 20 minutes on the torch, and only 10 minutes in the steam engine, and a steam engine can hold up to two groups of 128 coals, and it takes about 21 hours to burn it. Other machines also need to measure the supply time, which requires a machine for overall distribution and scheduling.

What Liu Liang needed was an epoch-making machine - the difference machine, if there was no electricity, it would be the fastest machine in the world, which could adjust the automatic operation, could be used to calculate weather forecasts, and could also be used for mathematical operations. As long as it has it, it is not a dream for Liu Liang to create an industrial base.

But it was still a very distant thing, and it was impossible to achieve it in front of him, and he would need to travel further to the map to make it happen.

Now as long as the spider farm is done well, even if it is a great progress, in fact, there are still more areas that need to be improved. Spiders that fall into the canal below will also grow, and these things will grow and reproduce very quickly, and the only thing that can limit their mass spread is the living space. So a spider-killing machine should also be built at the bottom.

But this matter is not in a hurry, you can put it to a later date, and now enjoy the joy of harvesting in advance, and see how much spider silk this spider farm can produce in a day.

He walked to the door of the glass room that served as bait and stopped, thinking that this design was too inhumane, and he actually needed to be the bait himself to produce.

What kind of automation is automation that can't detach farmers from the production process?

"My time is so valuable, how can I spend it in a place like this? Should someone be found to replace it, to be the screw in the production system, but who should be replaced? ”

He thought of Lei Zhen's son Lei Ming, this kid peeping at his alchemy and card bugs outside the door, and let him be a screw for a day today, which can be regarded as a slight punishment.

He came to the door of the thundering house on the outskirts of the camp and knocked lightly on the door.

Lei Ming came out and opened the door, and saw Liu Liang with a smile on his face: "Lei Ming, why didn't you take the initiative to drive the train to mine in the mining town today?" ”

Lei Ming saw Liu Liang, and his expression was still a little guilty: "I made such a big mistake yesterday, and my father punished me for thinking about it behind closed doors and not going out." ”

Liu Liang complained perfunctorily: "This thunder shock is too harsh, this immortal has already forgiven you, how can he punish you for thinking behind closed doors?" Even if you have to think about it, you can't do this kind of meaningless thinking without any growth. ”

Lei Ming was very moved when he heard it: "The seniors are right......"

"You should think about it, and you should also exercise your guts and courage in thinking about it, and improve your tolerance in the face of fear. Look at those senior brothers of yours, they have only been in the secret realm for a few days, and they have already become fearless. And you've been here for two months, but you still haven't grown, don't you feel ashamed? Don't you think you should change? ”

Lei Ming was immediately ashamed when he heard this: "The immortal master has taught me that the disciple is willing to go to the wall from the immortal master." ”

"That's fine, you come with me."

Liu Liang came to the wall of the spider farm with Lei Ming, pointed to the small house built on the wall abruptly, and said: "This is the wall room that Ben Xian just built, come, you go in and feel it." ”

Lei Ming nodded and walked up the stairs, entering a room with floor-to-ceiling glass, but the back and roof were replaced with stone bricks.

He looked alertly through the glass to the opposite side, and under the houses on the other side of the yard were corrals with hideous-looking spiders in them.

The spiders saw their targets come alive, squeaked, and then squirted silk out of their mouths and shot at the glass!

Lei Ming was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, and was about to crawl out the door in a hurry. Liu Liang's hand speed was very fast, and he waved his hand to stack two stone bricks at the door, and directly blocked the door.

The master of Lei Shaomen let out a frightened cry inside: "Immortal Master let go of me!" The first master spares my life, let me out, let me out! ”

Liu Liang couldn't help but smile outside and said: "Boy, I'm here for your own good, don't endure hardships and hardships, how can I be a master, not frightened, how to be a hero?" ”

It actually rhymes, I'm a fucking genius.

Lei Ming screamed inside for a long time, and found that the spider silk could not break through the glass, so he was relieved again, until these white cobwebs covered the glass, and there was a sudden noise outside, and a machine pulled the glass scraper full of blades to lift up, and the spider silk fell in response.

Then the spiders vomited frantically, and he screamed symbolically, and finally made sure that he was safe, and then sat in the room peacefully, boredly observing the activities of the spiders opposite. Otherwise, if you don't do anything, you'll suffocate him.