Universe Matrix Not Being Made

[Strigon]

I've just started producing antimatter, but my labs refuse to make Universe Matrices. Sorters won't feed the labs, and even if I manually insert all the ingredients, the labs never actually start making anything.

Yes, the labs are set to construct rather than to research, they just won't do it. Anyone know what's wrong?

[TyCobb]

Screenshot? Going to be hard to troubleshoot other than saying what you possibly already "think" you have set up correctly.

Lab set to White (you did this already) - 6 belts in (Blue/Red/Yellow/Green) for 5 and the 6th being Antimatter. Actual Antimatter made from the Miniature Particle Collider, not the critical photon from the receiver. Then a 7th belt to output the White matrix. And also the easily missed piece if Warnings are turned off, connected to enough power to power the lab.

[ZomBeGone]

as I recall, you have to provide the 5 matrices + the antimatter in a lab set to produce the white cubes. That should spit out the white cubes that feed into the normal labs set to research.
It does wants antimatter, not what comes out of the relay dishes, it needs to be converted to antimatter.

[Handbanana]

Delete and rebuild it. I think somebody posted about this yesterday and the like bottom lab didn't have the recipe set.

[Strigon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130895251
This is the screenshot of my setup. You'll note the bottom lab is animated as though it's working - I fed that one manually, but it is not actually working - it's at 0% progress, reading 0/min on its output:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130894948
As you can see, it has the recipe set. I've fed it antimatter and all the previous science matrices. It's just not working.

It's not a power issue, either:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130895430

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by Strigon:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130895251
This is the screenshot of my setup. You'll note the bottom lab is animated as though it's working - I fed that one manually, but it is not actually working - it's at 0% progress, reading 0/min on its output:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130894948
As you can see, it has the recipe set. I've fed it antimatter and all the previous science matrices. It's just not working.

It's not a power issue, either:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130895430

It looks like the bottom one is not set. Delete it and rebuild.

[webboy7]

I think when you remove dark fog on the planet, you have to shoot down all the dark fog floating things(relay station) with missile and make sure they don't escape or you end up with a system where you can't remove the "core destroyed" message and you can't get critical photons that you need to build universe matrixs...

[Shermyth]

Originally posted by webboy7:

I think when you remove dark fog on the planet, you have to shoot down all the dark fog floating things(relay station) with missile and make sure they don't escape or you end up with a system where you can't remove the "core destroyed" message and you can't get critical photons that you need to build universe matrixs...

Completely not true. I have active dark fog in my home system and have done a lot of Universe matrix research. I would go with delete and rebuild myself. Something seems strange there.

[dhitch89]

Originally posted by webboy7:

I think when you remove dark fog on the planet, you have to shoot down all the dark fog floating things(relay station) with missile and make sure they don't escape or you end up with a system where you can't remove the "core destroyed" message and you can't get critical photons that you need to build universe matrixs...

You've been told this before in a different thread, and I'll tell it again: Dark Fog don't interfere with critical photon creation.

Literally all they can do is steal a portion of the swarm/sphere's output, but as long as everything else is working properly, you can make them just fine.

[Zaflis]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

It looks like the bottom one is not set. Delete it and rebuild.

Hard to say from camera angle being from above, but it's probably easier to just change recipe in the bottom lab to for example produce green cubes and then set back to make white cubes.

One thing is that i never use 3 belts on 1 side of any building. Use all 4 sides of building if you must for just distance of 2, it will make a big difference to throughput and you can make full use of higher lab towers.

As for the original issue my first guess is mods doing it.

[Nargon]

3 belts on 1 side is "ok". It has only one downside and that is speed. Sorter on 3rd belt is slow. For most recipes it is not a problem, but for a lot of research labs in a high stack it can create a bottleneck.