Factories randomly stops working

[Uni]

I've came across this several times where factories will randomly stop producing even if they have the materials. If I open the recipe menu and turn off the recipe then turn it back on it'll start producing again.

I have my manufacturer to produce gears, and the output exceeds the input so there should never be screws in the inventory, but theres quite a bit. It's possible it stopped working between play sessions.


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[Albach]

Same problem here. Also randomly Astrocatcher stop catching.

[Rusty]

I've had smelters, autocatchers, constructors, and manufacturers all randomly stop producing one or more items. Usually I can reset it by ticking the toggle for that item off and back on, but then they stop again later. not all items stop and in a group of 8 smelters, a couple will stop producing iron ingots and others will stop copper ingots.
autocatchers can sometimes be reset by clicking on the current asteroid, but half time time I need to pick it up and re-place it.
It seems like devices that are restricted to only producing one item type don't have problems, but I can't say for sure.

Also, if you use the picker (middle-mouse button) to select and place a miner, then it doesn't mine anything. you must re-place it using the hotbar. This seems to be a bug in the copy/paste active recipes function. Maybe there's a similar issue with the other equipment.

At this point I'm going to wait until this bug is resolved.

[THE_Fricadelle]

Same here, still not fix.

[ChanTeo]

Same. Re-scheduling the recipe fixes it but doing that for more than 100 machines is a pain.

[Bastez]

I had the same problem with the recycling machine. Tried emptying it manually and re-depositing but still wouldn't work. Dismantled the machine and rebuilt it in the same spot and then it worked fine.

[Bastez]

Also just had the same issue with a drill - there was ore under the drill head and it was powered but it just wasn't producing. Flicking the on/off switch did nothing so I deleted it and placed a new one in the same spot which worked fine straight away.

[Uni]

Originally posted by Bastez:

Also just had the same issue with a drill - there was ore under the drill head and it was powered but it just wasn't producing. Flicking the on/off switch did nothing so I deleted it and placed a new one in the same spot which worked fine straight away.

Same thing happens with autocatchers. I have 200 autocatchers in a large 3D grid and 80% of them has stopped working and are inaccessible...

[Bastez]

Originally posted by Uni:

Originally posted by Bastez:

Also just had the same issue with a drill - there was ore under the drill head and it was powered but it just wasn't producing. Flicking the on/off switch did nothing so I deleted it and placed a new one in the same spot which worked fine straight away.

Same thing happens with autocatchers. I have 200 autocatchers in a large 3D grid and 80% of them has stopped working and are inaccessible...

Ouch, that really sucks. Seems like the game needs a 'reboot all' function but which retains current recipes/settings.

[Peloli]

i was playing yesterday and same problem happened every now and then
even in a small factory this instability is quite annoying and it becomes enraging in mid-late game factories...
i'm going to play satisfactory until this garbage become something more playable