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Meat Machine (Banned) Jul 3, 2018 @ 6:03pm
How do generators work exactly?
From what I can tell, once the power goes out, you can hook a generator up to 1 building and use it to power the electricity in that building as long as their is fuel in the generator.

Is that all there is to it? 1 building powered by 1 generator? Does the size of the building/number of appliances powered affect how quickly the generator burns fuel? If the building is massive (shopping mall, for example), is the entire thing powered by a single generator to the same affect that a small house would be?

I ask because I'm trying to build a base in the GIGA Mart in West Point (loads of refridgerators and storage), but I wasn't sure if it would be an effective plan to try to pull off using generators.
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Chad1776 Jul 3, 2018 @ 6:17pm 
I think it runs on a radius if im not mistaken. In a previous build we were able to power 4 seperate small player made buildings with one generator. No limit to power usage as far as i can tell. Fuel consumption is based on a setting not actual power use or load on the generator . In a sandbox or on a server you can adjust the fuel consumption.
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Chad1776 Jul 3, 2018 @ 6:18pm 
I think one generator should be enough to power most of the gigamart if not all of it. Just dont put it inside.
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Meat Machine (Banned) Jul 3, 2018 @ 6:37pm 
So if generators power whatever they are connected to in a radius, and the gigamart is larger than that radius... what if I put the generator on the roof near the center? Can you connect generators to buildings from their roofs?
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DiamondDuty Jul 3, 2018 @ 7:25pm 
Originally posted by Meat Machine:
From what I can tell, once the power goes out, you can hook a generator up to 1 building and use it to power the electricity in that building as long as their is fuel in the generator.

Is that all there is to it? 1 building powered by 1 generator? Does the size of the building/number of appliances powered affect how quickly the generator burns fuel? If the building is massive (shopping mall, for example), is the entire thing powered by a single generator to the same affect that a small house would be?

I ask because I'm trying to build a base in the GIGA Mart in West Point (loads of refridgerators and storage), but I wasn't sure if it would be an effective plan to try to pull off using generators.

Also, don't put one inside, you'll get co2 poisoning and die.
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Meat Machine (Banned) Jul 3, 2018 @ 7:26pm 
Originally posted by DiamondDuty:
Originally posted by Meat Machine:
From what I can tell, once the power goes out, you can hook a generator up to 1 building and use it to power the electricity in that building as long as their is fuel in the generator.

Is that all there is to it? 1 building powered by 1 generator? Does the size of the building/number of appliances powered affect how quickly the generator burns fuel? If the building is massive (shopping mall, for example), is the entire thing powered by a single generator to the same affect that a small house would be?

I ask because I'm trying to build a base in the GIGA Mart in West Point (loads of refridgerators and storage), but I wasn't sure if it would be an effective plan to try to pull off using generators.

Also, don't put one inside, you'll get co2 poisoning and die.

Yep, I know not to do that. Can I put it on the roof, and have it work though?
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Chad1776 Jul 3, 2018 @ 7:54pm 
It should work on the roof
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