NEED help with connectors/conveyors

[Naz]

For days i've been trying to get my connector to throw out al the inventory of my mining ship into my refinery, but i CANNOT get it to work, it doesn't even leave my mining ship.

Can someone explain to me a complete system starting from the drills, to the ship cargo, to the connector, to the station connector, to the refinery, to the assembler, then finally into another cargo container.

I literally cannot figure it out, i will love you long time if you help me

[Naz]

Bump?

[Rhea]

I'll try and help, the conveyors need to be connected to two things at least before they'll work. If you have a solid connection, they will change color (well a part of them will) from red to green. To expel things from the connector, you need to first toggle its options. Go to the menu and look at them there should be a, collect all, expell all option. If you want it to continuously pull items from your storage select collect all, if you turn expel all , it will continously poor out said objects. Please keep in mind that the connectors have to be fed into the appropriate port. You can pretty much match the sizes up, most have ports for large connectors and a few ports for small ones. Does this help? I can try and elaborate if it doesn't

[Nightwing]

I have a mining ship that doesn't even bother with the larger conveyors.
Since the only thing in the inventory will be ore, my whole conveyor system is made up of small conveyors, from the back port of the drills, to the exit of the ejector.

[Naz]

Sorry for not replying, was bed time where i live!

I'll give an example of my mining ships layout and the layout of my station.

Mining ship:

Drill - Conveyor tube - large reactor - conveyor tube - medium container - conveyor - connector.

Station:

Connector - small container - conveyor tube - conveyor - refinery.

The problem i have is everything gets to the medium container and stops there, it won't move to the connector even with "Collect all" enabled. I had one mining ship that did manage to pull all the items into the connector but neither of the two ships will throw out the items into the station.

Can someone tell me where my layout has gone wrong? I'm totally at a loss

Thanks guys.

[livedlila]

Somethign seems wrong with my ships as well, since update, my small 2 grinder attachment's ship connected to a conveyer tube/conveyer tube/comveyer cube/conveyer tube to an ejector. everything was fine 2 days ago I would grind down ships then fly over a hopper and dump from both sides of my ship via the ejectors. Not they will not dump anything. Tried to remove a ejector and put a connector on it and attactch it to the large storage container on my base with a connector, and that isnt working either. Maybe uninstall and reinstall will help.

[Andarvi]

Check the faction settings on your drills/containers/refineries

[livedlila]

I was playing solo do I need to make a faction to play alone? Sounds weird but hanks I will try.. I actually thought about that but everything was set to me , but who knows almost done reinsalling. Also the key to move 10 units was working fine, but the key to move 100 wasnt doing anything.


Well made a faction and selected everything in the inventory list and put it to everyone can access still no go. Guess its back moving crap by hand

[Ramble Calidaho]

I have the same issue and ship layout as you livedlila. it works fine in creative, but refuses to in survival, it's starting to annoy me.

[Rhea]

Originally posted by Nemesis:

Sorry for not replying, was bed time where i live!

I'll give an example of my mining ships layout and the layout of my station.

Mining ship:

Drill - Conveyor tube - large reactor - conveyor tube - medium container - conveyor - connector.

Station:

Connector - small container - conveyor tube - conveyor - refinery.

The problem i have is everything gets to the medium container and stops there, it won't move to the connector even with "Collect all" enabled. I had one mining ship that did manage to pull all the items into the connector but neither of the two ships will throw out the items into the station.

Can someone tell me where my layout has gone wrong? I'm totally at a loss

Thanks guys.

Kay, so I don't see anything wrong with it. Long as you have green lights on them it should work. Unless theres some kind of glitch, which the others seem to be implying. If thats the case, you may need to post this on the bug reports forum.

[Naz]

My world was created after the faction update and its all set to the same so i don't think its that.

I have this on my MP world aswell, we were using the default easy start 1, the connectors were all working find and now that world also has this problem, im tempted to say its a bug but i we made slight changes to the default start also i can't be sure.

[dragonfirecustoms]

The only way I could get my grinding ship to "dump" was to park it over a collector. It wouldnt "dump" through a connector but I could pull items one at a time through it.. This was before the last update. I posted about my troubles here .. http://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/46476691833881024/

[Xenoshaft]

I have a grinder connected directly to a mid size cargo container on one arm and a welder oneccted to it's own container on the other. Both cargo containers are linked via small convayer directly on one side. The other side connects them together again, and then to an ejector. I am able to eject out everything from the grinder side, but I am unable to move things between the cargo containers and the welder side is unable to use the ejector. I am thinking this is a bug- I tried hooking up the welder as a stand alone system with it's own ejector and I could still not get the ejector to work. I would have guessed that the fabricated items may not be able to use the small convayers but, then why does it work fine on the grinder side? In anycase- I think its a bug.

[Andarvi]

Small conveyers have a size liimit to what they can .. er.. convey. So if you try to put a couple of steel plates trough them, it will work, while a large tube won't. Grinders, welders and connector, use large conveyors for them.. and be careful how you connect them, as the small ship conveyor is not the same on all sides. It has 4 large attachments and 2 small attachment sides.

[MongognoM]

Problem is the Large reactor
I had this problem with my station

Storage-Storage-Convyer-Large Reactor-Convyer-Assembler
_____________________________________|_____________
__________________________________Refinery__________

Didnt Work
Removed the reactor set convyer there put reactor behind Refinery and it works
Reactor also pulls Uranium ignots from storage if there some

[livedlila]

Originally posted by Andarvi:

Small conveyers have a size limit to what they can .. er.. convey. So if you try to put a couple of steel plates trough them, it will work, while a large tube won't. Grinders, welders and connector, use large conveyors for them.. and be careful how you connect them, as the small ship conveyor is not the same on all sides. It has 4 large attachments and 2 small attachment sides.

I'm not sure about this, as my ship that had ground down about half a dozen large ships and it had no trouble from the grinder (and sending everything) to medium storage, then from storage to the ejector, which in turn fell into a hopper mounted to a large storage chest on my platform.

Maybe I'll add to this when I get home and pop in a picture so everyone can see the simple setup that it is - and it just doesn't work. I do have the settings correct I've watched a few youtube videos since my problem.

As the only items that are used is:

grinder - medium storage - small ship 90 degree conveyer - and one ejector. (also tried with one box conveyer instead of the 90 degree one.

Hmm maybe just slap the ejector right onto the ships medium cargo container and dump sideways.

Thanks you Andarvi, you just gave me another idea to try... no conveyer's at all.

If that doesn't work i will try a new game....but hey isn't this one of the reasons we all purchased it ahead of it being finished...