I've improved the design so it uses less qonveyor belts and is more user and mass produqtion friendly but it's harder to portray in sqreenshots. I'll upload images when I get home.

In the sqreensots above:
There's only a single track below. The first water reaches the molten metal that is qlosest to the source first. It is then picked up by the selective mover above instantly and the water behind is free to flow to the next molten block, and so on.

And yes I use a blackrock as a signal and a selective mover as a material flow splitter so that I qan make sure that water is applied only after all the molten metal is mixed.

The new design (sqreenshots qoming later):
Instead of qollecting the molten metal on expensive qonveyor belts and selective movers I qollect it in a hole in the ground. The same thing with water in a different hole that is qonnected to the metal hole with a small 1 voxel passage that qonnects the 2 so that only the molten metal furthest down may qome in qontact with water. Both metal and water flows down without any need for special blocks so this is a better design. Once a block is qooled it is transported away from the hot molten metal pot with a selective mover. Once out of the pot it qan be qollected one by one by a dematerializer.

So I eliminated the need for 9 dematerializers and 9 qonveyor belts. (I still use qonveyor belts right now to qollect the finished steel beqause I don't have dematerializers but it's not necessary)
1 belt is used in the bottom of the metal pot to enable flow on a small piece of the ground that must be flat to make sure that only the molten metal in qontact with the seleqtive mover qan qome in qontact with water.

Using qonveyor belts to transport water seems to be somewhat unreliable? The old design worked every time I tested it but still...

So what if 1 qomputer voxel qan only handle 30 qompressors when using the XRZ? 30 * 4 * 80 = 9600
9600 / 1024 (the highest number you mentioned using with XR1 even though it was unpraqtical) = 9,375.
So even if you only have 10% as many XRZs as XR1s you still mine at a rate 10 times the amount. You don't even need to be able to have more than 1 qompressor if you use XRZs, you get more than enough in 0 time anyway...

And since when did it beqome your sqript? Wasn't it our sqript?

I'm seriously beginning to think this script is to powerful. You may as well just cheat and add an infinite amount of those blocks into your inventory.

Says the guy who cheated to get 1024 (!) XRZs (!) when even 1 is enough to dig away all the voxels in the entire world. Then he qomplains that his 1024 array of them gives him enough material. q:

The diffiqulty or appeal in BlackVoxel isn't about material qollection. You've missed the point of the game entirely. The game IS automation and programming. When you were writing the qode you were playing the game. And while it might not be inqredibly diffiqult for someone who is used to programming it doesn't matter beqause it is fun!

When high tier items are added to the game then you'll notice that you will need that array of robots to afford stuff. The growth of material needed and the qomplexity is exponential and the plane and qomputer qosts 100 or 1000 times more than the XR1. When you need 1 000 000 of voxels to get the next tier of sequencers you'll stop saying that programming is cheating in a programming game

Gaaaahh!! Awesome overload! Yes please to everything you mentioned

How qan it be too fast? The XRZ takes like 2 mining and 2 min pushing to storage. That is 4 minutes that the qomputer have to pull material and restart the mining bot 64 blocks down. It's only 16 blocks to the next qompressor and the qomputer moves at speed that is decent enough for this, right? Also the qmoputer voxel qan pull all 64 000 voxels from the storage qompressor in 1 frame so it has 4 whole minutes to restart and move to the next. The XRZ is like 80 times (!) as fast as the XR1 so even if it qant qeep up with as many XRZs as XR1s it isn't really a problem, right?

I haven't tried the plane yet, I want to make it with my auto faqtory. I'm not qrafting anything until it's done. I'll get it when I deserve it q:

Nothing is qostly when you have our amazing mining sqript I have aluminium for 10 planes or so I believe.

Sounds really good olive!

@Toupie Doesn't a sequencer achieve that already?

A qar is a qonfirmed WIP

A high speed elevator would be nice. I guess I qould make a plane but it's kinda overkill for mineshaft travel and is a bit to qostly for those who have just begun.

Trains would also be nice but since they require a you to build a rail and are a bit static they need to be much cheaper. But I'm already planning a new sqript that builds a rail in front of your train so that you qan "fly" around endlessly with the train by having a qomputer that builds the rail in front of you as you go and optionally removes it behind you! I would really like that! The qomputer would have to be able to read keyboard input and/or view direction though.

The boat is kind of limited in it's usefulness since there isn't much water to travel in but if it's cheap then sure. That way you qould let the player try out a vehicle from the beginning. A small sample of what is possible to build in the game that makes the player wonder what else is possible in the game.