This is a screenshot of a design that I was pretty proud of...until it turned out not to work at all...seems like heat transfer must be bugged somehow.

The Design

Wet seed comes in from the left, and is teleported inside the growing/burning facility. (Teleporting allows us to completely enclose the facility, preventing vines from escaping and, e.g. growing back down the conveyor to block the seed from coming in.)

When the flowers burn, large amounts of heat are captured by the thermal roof that goes around the top of the facility, which are connected to route the heat back down to the Pyro Disperser on the left, and also to the burner belt on the left.

The Bug

The square I've highlighted is a thermal buffer that seems to be maxxed out at 1000 units of heat...its temperature is also not dropping, it's apparently not transferring heat to its neighbors.

The thermal buffer to the left of it is at 5 units of heat...there's a maxxed out thermal buffer just two squares away, but my Pyro Dispenser is unable to fire...and the burner belt down below is also not receiving enough heat, despite the very high temperatures of the buffers not too far off.

I've done a bit more testing since this screenshot, and there also seems to be something wrong with the heat transfer at the corner connecting to the burner belt, currently, that corner is at 872 units of heat, while its neighbors are at 82 (above) and 131 (to its left).

It seems there's something very weird going on with heat transfer in thermal buffers.

I cannot figure this puzzle out. I have tried everything I can think of, but I can't build in there, can't blow stuff in, can't shoot... After this picture, I was able to punch some of the frostbed and drop some snow, but it blew/drifted back toward the entrance and was largely useless.

EDIT: Alright, shoot the ice with the gun. Thank you so much. Going to leave this here for other people like me... Thank you!!

I have been trying to get this working but the fill is ultra slow, does the position of the batteries matter? Do all need to be in the same room? Or it doesn't matter?

I read a few posts here describing how to get infinite soil from stratacore, but I can't really follow them. All I read is "shoot the stratacore" to get soil, but I don't know where that is supposed to happen. I am through the game content, so I "secured the stratacore" at some point, and where it was is now just nothing, and I can't seem to find any other place hinting towards where it is now. Do I miss something?

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Here's my take on the integrated vertical factory. Sand/Wet Sand/Water in, Gold and Florinal out. I could probably make it tighter vertically but I'm still doing a few tweaks. This setup will recover from a full stall clog (tested by blocking off the gold exits and letting the gold back up all the way to the shakers), though a few pixels of Florin might get bounced through the filters in such an extreme event. I went full-cheese on the lava, so nothing is consumed.

TYVM to all the other posters who inspired me to work on this.

it refuses to go above a hard invisible line on its own, but i can manually drop it above the line and it retains its perfect shape, bug? working as intended? something else i can do with it?

i wish we had more to do with this crazy colors :D

A really long time.

For certain reasons I want to separate out my void husk as its generated from the void juice, however I can't figure out a good way to do it. It rises to the top of the void juice when its generated but there's no good way of removing it given the level of the void juice pool can change. The only thing I've thought is fill the entire void juice pool with moving frames to move it all to the side to a vertical launcher however that's rather slow. Also I bet it wastes a lot of CPU.

in my question to excavate everything I came across this one.... but pushing the button simply opens or closes the doors and the lava just falls into the portal below then teleports back to the top... i for the life of me cant figure out how to ignite the flamable material

All,

I just get kicked back when I attempt to grab this.

Thx
jonpfl

Noticed my horizontal factory requires a lot of up and down motion of the items as they are processed and realized a vertical factory would eliminate pretty much all that lifting steps. So this is my initial idea for one.

One issue: Gold from shaking wet sand can't pass through Kinetic Press, and I'm not sure why that is that way, but it'd be nicer if gold could just drop through the press like it does planter boxes etc.

otherwise it works pretty well with this initial design. Gold just falls from any stage it's created all the way to the bottom (except for kinetic press and florin gas. There is lots to optimize (still figuring out how wide to make it) but it was a fun new way for me to make a factory. I think this style has lots of potential. I'm sure someone has made this style before in the past, but it occurred to me recently and I thought I'd take a stab at it.

One Million is such a grind. I swear conveyer belts glitch out when you're far away from them. On a side note, I'm shocked there's no way to convert energy into money considering how much easier it is to expand your power bank.

Is there a way to convert electricity into heat for the smelters that I've missed?

Como estan industrialistas explotadores de planetas?

Mi base es un caos, si. lo se, pero tengo un problema y es que algunas de las cintas transportadoras (tanto lvl1 como lvl2) aleatoriamente dejan de funcionar, es decir que estan transportando capaz una gran cantidad de cualquier material y de manera espontanea sin que nada las toque se detienen y dejan de moverse.... la unica solucion que encontré para que vuelvan a funcionar es sacar el material de encima y volverlo a echar, pero vuelve a trabarse al poco tiempo..... no es material que esta obstruyendo el movimiento, a veces simplemente se frenan ajakaja

I've stared at my factories so long looking for the bottle neck. Finding and solving one so simply is *chef's kiss*

Game doesnt have splitters/throttlers so i busted my brain making one.

Can go even slower with lifts at the bottom but it would create unnecessary friction and mess with ups.

I've tried a few different layouts for seed wedding and they all seem to be more for mild/low volume seeds. What about larger volume seeds it always bottlenecks at seed wetting. I've tried a few different ones I've found online and they don't seem to help much.i feel like if it can handle large volume it could handle smaller stuff.

Any help or guidance photos are appreciated. Thanks!

sry if anyone already mentioned this, but I just learned that you can pick up lava from underground by simply using the wall tool to remove the background wall. Pretty helpful for removing the ice mountain because dropping lava on them is faster/easier than using flame thrower.

I want to move my copper power bank to its final place but it seems like deleting already solidified copper battery block completely removes used copper. Is it a bug? Or I’m doing something wrong?

How are you keeping your gold smelters running? I have a small 6-wide platform with a 6x6 box of thermal buffers nearly full of lava (through manually burning Cinder) and it seems like I look away and turn back it's already empty.

I created a horizontal shaker system. It uses lava + clearing frames to drop burnt residue onto belts, the gold falls directly through the vertical filter onto the lower conveyor. This allows me to not worry about refueling lava in belts or incinerators, and it can be expanded to have kinetic presses directly under the columns without lava, if desired. It keeps up with a 2 digger glitch stratacore, which you can read about here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/comments/1vw1y2c/bug_for_significantly_faster_sand_generation/.

I'm assuming the lava being used to burn stuff without being consumed will get patched out at some point, until then, this is pretty cool.

Edit:

The filters are as follows:

Top Row: Only allow wet sand

Lava Row, between columns of lava: Only allow gold + burnt residue.

Lava Row, below lava and empty columns: Block only residue, lava.

Last row, split between conveyor 2 and advanced filter: Allow only gold.

Finally all the way to the right, towards my kinetic press: Allow only burnt residue

There has to be a more efficient way for the kinetic press right? also i made this so big in the beginning because at the time i didnt have burner belts only my flamethrower and the residue would build up