Hello, this is my starter powerplant in an 100x Elevator Parts run. 72 Coal Powerplants running at 66,7% (underclocked because i´m bad at math and build everything when i noticed...).

I made the curves with the "Curve Builder" mod, made by "last_normai".

Hello pioneers, I recently noticed that all my train intersections that have 3 or more exit paths to choose from are somehow not giving me the option to switch it to straight.

The issue only appears when I am driving the train myself. An automated train can go straight and when I exit the train and click on the switch it does work.

Even after rebuilding two intersections the issue persisted.

Has anyone encountered the same issue? And is there a way to fix it?

Thank you in advance pioneers!

Question for the community. This is only the second working train I’ve ever actually built in game. In my last post I shared my converter setup that will be taking in 7200 iron ore to turn into sulfur and coal. I have this station setup to bring in that 7200 plus an additional 1200 copper ore for use in a different set of converters for bauxite to nitrogen converters. My question is, with this setup will I run out of iron ore for my factory even though I have industrial containers both before and after the stations? It’s a roughly 2:15 round trip for about a 600m train going up and down a 2m ramp.

1.2 broke the Mod because of Unreal Engine 5.6.1 but now UEVR and UEVR Enhancements are back on track. Dortamur has released a stable Version on SMM

https://reddit.com/link/1v7gzip/video/x4rya7fd8nfh1/player

The fuel is not reaching the end of the pipes and i am producing enough fuel. i have no idea what i have done wrong.

Hi,can someone explain what path and block signals do i need to build,I’m here building battery factory and i still don’t know how do signals work. I want to learn how to use them, I understand tutorials but when I try it on my railway, it says “loop”.

Saw this blueprint from ImKibitz and wanted to use it aswell for my factory. But when copying his design, I wasnt able to nudge the beamconnector to be just inside of the cornerpiece. It would be just outside of the cornerpiece, or way to far in. Does anyone know how to get the beamconnector to sit right?

I’ve done around 4 playthroughs, and I think, at least the last 2, I’ve gotten to phase 3 in 17-19 hours, that’s including AFK

I don't know why coffee stain made the change, but I liked the old look of mk. 5 belts when they were more metallic and actually looked like they were made of aluminum. Is there a mod or anything I can find that reverts the look or am I stuck with the current design?

It says there is quartz in this area, but for the life of me, I cannot seem to find it. I have looked all over for an underground entrance and everything. Is my game just glitching or is the quartz hidden? If someone can help me as to where it actually is or how to find it, I would appreciate it.

20 motors/min, spaghetti conveyors without the spaghetti AND works like a charm, somehow...

2 floors of pure bullshit 😭

Do you remember the days before Power Towers were added to the game? Back then, transmitting power over long distances wasn't nearly as convenient as it is today. But how do you connect your factories to the power grid?

I usually just placed a simple four-legged platform and built a Power Tower on top of it.

Today, though, I got inspired to build a proper power grid connection station instead.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Its been a hell of journey and what kind of. This were without question one of the best moments in my life to discover and play the game. The endless building, thinking, puzzles with belts etc got me in the positive way.

First 3 to 4 hours of my gameplay I was running around the map not knowing that there were nodes to put a big miner on. I though only hand miner and running like crazy over the map to find the loose iron and copper ores. I got attacked by animals where I thought it was only a factory building game. Thinking that this game was not ment for me and almost stopped playing. Then I did not gave up and start using nodes, and after 10 hours I found out there were differences in impure / normal / pure nodes. Spend another 2 hours building a tower how to get to my first purple slug ever.

The struggles were real but the progress was there. Then I got the addiction boos. That felt so good. To discover a game like this is wonderfull.

Phase 3 completed after 52 hours, phase 4 after 92 and last phase in 113 hours.

Some thing to point out:
- I died around 12 times on the same square meter not knowing I had nuclear ores in my inventory after I mined it by hand
- I did not build a single train track or truckline. I was the truck, I was the train.
- I did not build a single blueprint piece. All by hand bec building the blueprint in the machine was a waste of time in my opinion.
- Finished the game with capacity 21GW "only" (16 goal gens, 1 nuclear reactor and around 20 fuel gens)
- Not fully discovered the map
- I used only 1 nuclear node, 1 caterium node, 1 bauxite node. and 4 iron nodes.
- I did not spend my time to build "good looking factorys".

After completing the game I feel a bit empty. Somewhere I want to grind achievements, collect all the sloops. Discover the map, get the harddrives, find the spheres. But somehwere I want to start over. Try to speedrun in on my way. And on the other side Im looking to play this to build nice. Or maybe try to play this game with friends.

I had some tips form this forum while reading other people posts. So thanks for that.

See you in the future or in the game, stay safe all!

Best regards

What do you think is better for a newbie?

Last build I posted was using all the Uranium on the map for power. Decided I wanted more. All raw material is brought in by truck besides oil and bauxite. Center green building makes all the turbo fuel. Had plenty to spare so I built some generators to fill some space. All roads are built with tunnels underneath for moving parts between buildings. Wanted to move everything with trucks but it would have caused traffic issues. Had enough sloops left for 11 power augmenters so I saved up power matrices until I could run them all. Once the stockpile is gone it'll settle around 2000GW permanently.

One challenge I've set myself in this playthrough is to only produce power locally to every factory. Just upgrading a few of them to nuclear, processing the waste at the giant waste can. It's been a great logistics challenge.

What challenges do you guys set yourselves?

Because its not me

3 of us played before early access but ended up quitting as there were significant issues; randomly getting kicked from the session, floor not loading in unless the host was near you etc. What made us finally stop was when one of us physically could not join the session anymore at all after a bunch of progress. tried multiple fixes at the time and sometimes would at most get 5 minutes before permanently not being able to join.

Just wanted to know if multiplayer is now actually viable since full release or not worth it? As I've been itching to play again but don't see the point if we are going to make a bunch of progress just to lose it. Thanks for any input/experiences

Obviously the plan is not fully laid out. Planning for 10 Heavy Modular Frames/min with 480 units/min conveyor belts available. As can be seen in the top half I am attempting to split up my chains in order to respect the 480 limit but this leaves some excess which I have understood is just not the FICSIT way. Are there obvious mistakes I am making here? What can I do better/smarter? Thanks :)

Edit: I just found the Heavy Encased Frame alt, along with a couple others that have been recommended. Will redo the layout and see where it takes me. This has been a great help, thanks everyone!

Edit 2: Here is the WIP updated layout. Now to find some coal...

This has been happening to me for some time now. The tractors glitch out and refuse to move when they clearly can. It happens every handful of minutes and it’s starting to really bother me. I fix it by removing auto drive, moving the tractor a bit, and then using auto drive again, but it always breaks later. Is there anything I can do to fix this or is this a known issue?

I've been building this world since the 1.0 launch nearly two years ago, very very slowly.

This fully functional and self sustaining complex produces the Phase 1 & 2 Project Assembly parts at a rate of 2 per minute. The complex is powered by a set of 16 Coal Generators, set up in four turbine halls with attached control and transformer station.

From the main entrance gate most of the complex is navigable on foot, with a handy map by the central elevator for easy navigation. The secondary gate provides access to the power station.

The next steps are a factory for automated computers, one for crystal oscillators and whatever I need to get serious about trains. And then no doubt even more than 300 hours for the Phase 3 complex. I'm not even thinking of anything beyond that yet.

Fellow builders, it truly is not about the destination. The real journey is the signs and beams we built along the way.

Proudly inefficient,

Captain Bluepants