Issues with the factory / greenhose

[root.s]

Was anyone able to build and / or use the factory and greenhouse so far? I could build a factory and place a factory control panel / information panel. Moved one of my industrial recyclers inside. Now I can in theory add a recycling job for any scrap I have. But they queue job is always stuck at either "Paused" when I add a single scrap or at "Not enough Materials" and "Paused" when I add all the material I have and I don't see a way to "start" the queue.
Additionally, the factory floor is just sand. And from what I remember from "My time at Sandrock" there were fixed positions for machines as well as dedicated storage boxes for materials. Are those gone or do I have to buy them somewhere else?

And for the greenhouse: I don't see any option to build / buy it at all. I bought the control panels but that's about it.

[Gorynych]

factory control panel is bugged for me, E button not working : (

[Ankanator]

I created the factory, added the control panel and moved all my machines in there. I started one queue for scraps and after that, I wasn't able to interact with the panels again.

[Gorynych]

Originally posted by Eltipo:

yup same

[Vondor]

Where can I choose to build the factory?

[root.s]

Originally posted by Vondor:

Where can I choose to build the factory?

The same way you would build / modify your house. Either from the home editing or through Heidis office.

[Vondor]

Originally posted by root.s:

The same way you would build / modify your house. Either from the home editing or through Heidis office.

So under Structures I guess where also the Barn or Stable is avaible?
If yes... something is missing here for me.

[root.s]

Originally posted by Vondor:

Originally posted by root.s:

The same way you would build / modify your house. Either from the home editing or through Heidis office.

So under Structures I guess where also the Barn or Stable is avaible?
If yes... something is missing here for me.

No, under Home Expansion. See here: https://imgur.com/a/TlYi9xW
But maybe it's locked behind a quest? I was pretty much done with all the available story quests before todays patch.

[Vondor]

Hm, maybe. But okay, you also used a pre release Save. In that case I will play a while and see if it comes up.

[Ankanator]

Originally posted by Vondor:

Hm, maybe. But okay, you also used a pre release Save. In that case I will play a while and see if it comes up.

In Heidi's shop there should be a Factory panel and a Greenhouse panel, if those aren't available for you, then maybe it's too early in the story for you.

[root.s]

Allright, I figured out how to build a greenhouse. You have to build a regular room. Afterwards you can select the room and have a new icon that allows you to convert it to a greenhouse. Similarly, you can apparently convert a factory back to a regular room.
Whoever came up with this way of doing things, gets an F.

And after saving, going back to the title and loading my game, the factory seems work to some extend. The queue is no longer marked as paused although the recycler inside does not do any animation.

[aurelius.manica]

Same problem

Originally posted by Eltipo:

I created the factory, added the control panel and moved all my machines in there. I started one queue for scraps and after that, I wasn't able to interact with the panels again.

I was able to produce a lot of stuff, but out of the blue it is bugged and I just can't interact with the factory panel anymore.

[Lightingale]

Has anyone successfully used the factory yet? I also stopped being able to interact with the factory console, so I reloaded to an older save

[Magus`]

Are you only able to have one moderately small room as a factory? I tried attaching a second room using the "factory" option and I couldn't put machines down. What was wrong with how they had a factory in the previous game in that it was just a building you put down?

[Endora]

Didn't try a factory for lack of space, but the Greenhouse worked very well. You put the console on a empty room and the floor becames biocrust.
You plant and it will use the water on your water tank (take attention, for the first time you'll have to refil the tank a lot of times depending on how many seeds you use).
It also use the energy from my Fire-Powered Generator, so I don't know how it would work if I didn't have one.
The fertilizer you'll have to put on your rucksack and add manually, the console won't take it from the storage boxes.
If you also put the external console outside, you won't need to enter the room every day to see if some plant matured, just look at the second pannel.

Edit:
For the Factory:
With the console on your rucksack, go to the Construction Junction, select the room you want to transform and a button for make it a factory will appear, click it and confirm that you want to use a console to transform it into a factory.

Edit2:

Forget what I said, once I reload it stopped working.

[Xanthris]

I must say that I'm a tad bit underwhelmed with the Factory/Greenhouse.

We can only use one single room as factory and one single room as greenhouse. You cannot have two or more at the same time, despite being able to buy the control panel. When you place a 2nd panel, the first room will be destroyed.

Not that I would have wanted to use more than one room at first, but we're limited to the normal room size of 15x15. Which isn't much, if you start placing all the machines you have. They barely fit and it looks really cramped.

Then the factory can only work on 10 things at the same time across the board (except recycling, it has an extra page), even if you do have the free capacity. For example, if I smelt 10 bars of iron in 10 concurrent queues, I cannot have an 11th queue that cuts boards or blends some fertilizer. Because the factory can only handle 10 queues at once, regardless of overall (free) machine capacity.

And again, you cannot circumvent the 10 queue limitation by setting up different factories, i.e. one for smelting, one for cutting, one for polishing, because you're only allowed to have one single 15x15 factory.

The small size also hurts the greenhouse. 15x15 is just too small, considering that there are plants that are 2x2 or 3x3 sized.

I hope we'll see further improvements in the future, but for now it's performing worse than the Portia factory. That I didn't expect.