Space elevator upgrade 4 for Global rail network

works :-)

Thanks Katoo for answer. So then I will deliver more copper ore...

eagle355 yes, it was meant like this. Copper ingots are primary send to basic production and overflow to aluminum sheet. If there is no overflow, it means you are not delivering enough ore to cover needs. Or you have problem with ingot production.

First i will say - wonderful megaprint. But i has one problem by use. Thermal Propulsion Rocket will no longer be produced after about 140 are finished. No more copper ingots are used in production. This means that no Alclad Propulsion Sheets are produced and therefore no head sink and so on. When distributing the copper ingot, a smart splitter works with an "OverFlow" output for the Alclad aluminum sheets and it remains empty. Is that really what you want? I've now changed it to Copper Ingot as a test and with that comes Thermal Propulsion Rocket again.

I do have both unlocked haven't used them before and idk know to to be honest

Angrmrmyers it is designed to use trains, or drones for resource delivery. But there is no issue, you skip this step and deliver by trucks directly to truck stations dedicated in buildings. Just make sure, you delete all 8 tractors and you deliver correct resource to correct station. Or you can deliver it directly with belts. Easiest connection point is probably belts from drone hub to trains station building. Because there is sorter, you dont need to care, what you connect where. Just connect you belt to any of 8 belts going from drones to train station and sorter in train station will do its job and send resource to correct place.But hey, it is level 4 upgrade, you should already have both, trains and also drones unlocked.

Question do i have to use the rail network or can i just add all resources into it??? cause i havent used the trains yet

I didn't! Thank you, not sure how I overlooked. Works like a champ! amazing work.

Hello frankthefish, did you saw video in description? At the end you can see, how to connect it to GRN. You have to delete 4 rails and rebuild them. Hope, it will helps.

Love GRN! I tried to add this megaprint but the trains would not route. Everything looked connected and shows up to select the station, but I get an error with the route. I tried driving around the tracks manually and found some spots that would stop the train dead, fixed those but still no luck. U8. Any ideas?

Hello Leon7, i like tight places :)

It is good concept and looks nice from outside , but the actual realisation is not very good because everything is build very close so that it basicly works, but it's not nice if you go inside the buildings.

Yes, issue is nuclear waste in the wells. Just connected my own water and the power plants started running. thank you :)

NICZAF there are wells in tower, related to pressurizer. Unfortunately in U8 there there is a bug with wells, so if you go to tower and check, there is nuclear waste inside wells, instead of water. Correction is under development. For now, you can still use megaprint, if you will connect it to your own power grid. It needs ~15GW(dont remember exact number).

I cant figure out why the power isn't working. I took out a wall and see a resource well pressuriser under the tower which seems to include the power plants, but its not taking anything out nor are the power plants working. What am I missing?

@praken unfortunately same answer. Packed nitrogen and packed oil is not included. And because this is really complex megaprint, im not going to add it there. You can not use drone ports already placed in here, because they are going directly to sorter under train station. My proposal for you, is to build dedicated drone ports on train station roof, there is a lot of space for unpacker near oil/gas buffer and output connect directly to buffers. Send empty packages back to drone ports. Or check my new blueprint - drone hub and use it as stand alone oil/gas delivery, unpacker and connect it to buffers again.

and also the oil conditioner

Hi . I have the same question as for your nuclear plant. Have you thought about handling the bottled nitrogen that arrives from drones?

additional Info for UP8, Water excavators are not working at all, one reason is, that this region of the sea isnt allowed anymore for them "invalid position", i placed the water stuff more close to the coast, thats workin. Btw one mod is used in the blueprint, you can multiconnect electricity at the maschines. So if you rearrange you have to establish a partly new network ...

short info: 50x70 plots is the footprint needed

Hello Theradrim, finally i found time to check and you are right. Again changes in water source naming convention... I decided to replace water extractors with wells. Now version 1.1 works without issue in U7. Enjoy.

Thanks for the quick reply. i am playing update 7 , tried to load it with and w/o experimental the water extractors are filled with nuclear waste.

Hello Theradrim, you implemented in SCIM with "Early access" option to experimental U8 version.Which is wrong, in experimental version, name convention of some objects was changed and they are not compatible with older version. You need to integrate it again and choose correct "Experimental version" on SCIM interactive map page.

Hi, thanks for this awsome build, But it doesnt work , the water in the tower is broken. and i dont know how to fix it since the extractors are stacked on top of eachother.

@Katoo: I am deeply grateful you shared this meticulous build for others to enjoy. You took so much time to place everything together that fits together logically and aesthetically. I like that you included tractors to do the resource delivery, so we can see on our compass and map how active and alive the factory is. It was a gamble to use such bugged vehicles, but it is acceptable (I had to replace a cement tractor that disappeared after reloading a save, but I don't have as many problems with your factory vehicles as I do with my others). This mega-print brought me back into the game to finish the final delivery. Very satisfying! Thank you for bringing fun and enjoyment to the final stage of the game that was too tedious for me to build manually.

@Tom Supergan glad to hear, that you are satisfied with my factory. I didn't want to push players to build space elevator on exact place and let them keep elevator, where they already have it. Drones can easily transfer output from my factory, because they are really low runners. Anyway i saw your screens, nice and easy solution! Good job mate.

Katoo: I am thrilled to be able to use this factory off the coast north of the Rocky Desert without any issues with the tractors related to a custom location (U7). The blue pathing arrows for them are all pointing in the same direction (perhaps to original location), but it has no effect on the trucks following their routes in the new location. All resources are picked up delivered, and I now have all of the required parts built to send up the space elevator. Only issue I found was one of the squished elevators for caterium into the constructor (end of the line) had to be rebuilt. I wasn't using any mods, so the belt to the new elevator clips into the ceiling a little.

I couldn't resist so made a little stool for the base of the space elevator to sit on between the train station and particle accelerator, and ran a short belt to it to load the finished parts. The interactive map shows my home factory which is placed nearby, with its train station. https://snipboard.io/gSTGI0.jpg https://snipboard.io/H2oX0a.jpg https://snipboard.io/OjgNZV.jpg

@sgtperry problem solved, SCIM page was updated and now you can use it also with U8 version. More info in description.

Haha, NM my previous post.. Would help if I read ALL the description.

As a side note. I am on Update 7 still, but I had to redo some of the train railways where this megaprint joined with GRN. Maybe in a future update just have it where we connect the 4 small lines to it?

@katoo, thanks for response, have a good vacation

@sgtperry still waiting for correction in SCIM. Anyway, im on holiday and will be back in 2 weeks, so do not expect any changes in next 2 weeks.

any way to put this into current game? or still waiting to update?

Fantastic build!

@Elfim0FF thanks a lot mate, i appreciate it. And don't worry, im pretty sure, that a lot of players doesn't like big and difficult project like this, including drones, trains, sorter, tractors, fences...and prefer clear, simple, effective building like you did. Players will rate our projects, so we can learn from it.

I have to admit, your project is clearly better than mine! Respect to you!