Talk:Factory/@comment-2003:DE:F32:A700:DC08:CDF0:D2EC:9DB0-20190714201054

If I need to produce an item that needs, for example steel plates and I only have iron ore (no bars) - will the factory automatically produce these first? Or do I have to program steel bar production myself first, wait for it to finish and then start steel plate production?

Steel bars/plates were an example, I mean this question in most general way: does the factory producte all needed intermediate items automatically if all raw resources are available? Or to phrase it like this: Does an order to make "level 3" items automatically procude the needed but non-existing "level 2" items if all needed "level 1" items are existing?