Electrical Wiring

[Arkadus]

Any ideas how I can lay the wiring right? Generator is on the second floor of house, the equipment is on teh first. I can connect the first work bench, but unable to connect ceiling lights. and all the wiring placed in error cannot be deleted.

[КрендельФигов]

1) 'Merged' bug where 'washers' disappears
I also had such errors. You need to find the edge where there are 'washers' through which everything is connected and start delete them away from them in the direction of the 'connected' area.
So far, the bug in which it was impossible to remove the ‘washer’ is unknown (I am not considering options when mods are used).
The blue wire is the water supply, so you will need a ‘water’ tool.

[Arkadus]

I can connect only one item to the generator. Any additional items do not get powered up even though they are on the same grid and are within power requirements

[Rekal]

Originally posted by Arkadus:

I can connect only one item to the generator. Any additional items do not get powered up even though they are on the same grid and are within power requirements

Only one wire can go to the generator. So from the generator you have to create a node on the ground or on the wall behind it. Then connect everything else up to that node.

It's the same to wire up the lights. Create a node near them and branch off of it. Now if you want to learn the secrets of making the wires look tidy... Well, I don't think I'm allowed to share it on a public forum.

The wires you can't remove should update and be removable after you leave the game and return. Super annoying but one of the coming updates they're hyping up is for battery storage which means a likely rework of some of the rest of the electrical stuff. Fingers crossed.

[Arkadus]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Originally posted by Arkadus:

I can connect only one item to the generator. Any additional items do not get powered up even though they are on the same grid and are within power requirements

Only one wire can go to the generator. So from the generator you have to create a node on the ground or on the wall behind it. Then connect everything else up to that node.

It's the same to wire up the lights. Create a node near them and branch off of it. Now if you want to learn the secrets of making the wires look tidy... Well, I don't think I'm allowed to share it on a public forum.

The wires you can't remove should update and be removable after you leave the game and return. Super annoying but one of the coming updates they're hyping up is for battery storage which means a likely rework of some of the rest of the electrical stuff. Fingers crossed.

That makes sense. I tried the node. None of the appliances that connect to it actually get power. Going to try to leave the game and come back and see if that fixes it.

Edit: For prettying up the wires, putting the wires on the foundation and then covering them with the floor works really well on the first floor.

[ChaosSound]

Originally posted by Arkadus:

Originally posted by Rekal:

Only one wire can go to the generator. So from the generator you have to create a node on the ground or on the wall behind it. Then connect everything else up to that node.

It's the same to wire up the lights. Create a node near them and branch off of it. Now if you want to learn the secrets of making the wires look tidy... Well, I don't think I'm allowed to share it on a public forum.

The wires you can't remove should update and be removable after you leave the game and return. Super annoying but one of the coming updates they're hyping up is for battery storage which means a likely rework of some of the rest of the electrical stuff. Fingers crossed.

That makes sense. I tried the node. None of the appliances that connect to it actually get power. Going to try to leave the game and come back and see if that fixes it.

Edit: For prettying up the wires, putting the wires on the foundation and then covering them with the floor works really well on the first floor.

Thanks for the tip that's pretty cool idea, though you have to take anything off the floor before you do it though unfortuneately.

[Dragonlord]

First, only one connection to a wire directly connected to the generator, so you want to run a backbone cable, then connect devices to the pucks that are along the backbone, not directly to the end of the cable, if that makes sense.

As for hiding the wires, I like to make pillars up off the ground and build above, that way I can crawl under the house to run wire. Sometimes, later on when I have more resources, I'll use half tiles to run the cables through the wall gaps between them, then just connect the device through the floor or wall.