Thermal plant not connection to base

[boynamedlen]

I'm pretty far into the game and decided to have a small base in the Giant Cove Tree cave, but I can't get my thermal plant to connect to the base (one multipurpose room) which is very close to it. The plant is right next to a geiser, low 50 degrees so it should work but it isn't. Does my it take at least one foundation to get the plant to recognize the mp-room as a base? That's the only reason I can think of.

Here's a screenshot. Base on the right, geiser and thermal plant on the left. I tried with a transmitter but still noting.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1381010438

[PrimeSonic]

It's simply too far.

You'll want a Power Transmitter to get it hooked up.

The Power Transmitter can connect a power generator to a base or to another transmitter up to 100m away.
But you'll need to build the first one fairly close to the power source.
You'll know it's close enough when you can seen the blue line between the Thermal Plant and the Transmitter as you find a place to build it.

[boynamedlen]

Originally posted by Alexstratos:

It's simply too far.

You'll want a Power Transmitter to get it hooked up.

The Power Transmitter can connect a power generator to a base or to another transmitter up to 100m away.
But you'll need to build the first one fairly close to the power source.
You'll know it's close enough when you can seen the blue line between the Thermal Plant and the Transmitter as you find a place to build it.

Thanks, that's all I needed to know. It's hard to judge distance, it looked close enough to work...

[PrimeSonic]

No prob.
As far as I can tell, there's no clear indicator when building a Thermal Plant or a Solar Panel that tells you if it will be able to connect to the base without a Power Transmitter.

So all we can do is make our best guess and add a Power Transmitter when it doesn't work.

[Graf Schokola]

You can put the plant direct on top of the geiser. Its hotter.

[boynamedlen]

Originally posted by Graf Schokola:

You can put the plant direct on top of the geiser. Its hotter.

I probably should. I moved it to a different geiser with one transmitter. It's at 60° now, just on the ground at the bottom of the volcano-like thing. I tried putting it almost on the edge of the ledge where the geiser in the pic is, but it still wouldn't connect. It seems the transmitters can be further away from the base than from the plant itself, which is weird. Anyway, it's working so I just need to make a few more, because more is more.

[PrimeSonic]

Yeah, the Transmitter needs to be (I think) within 15m of the power generator.
After that, it can transmit power to the closest base or other Transmitter within 100m.

[Mr. Fusion]

I had the same issue in that general area, except in my case the power plant was only like 5 meters from the base, and I still had to use a transmitter to get a link between them. It's a luck I actually expected something to go wrong (that's kind of a given with this game, bugs, bugs and more bugs) and I packed extra resources to make one if necessary.

[PrimeSonic]

Originally posted by Mr. Fusion:

I packed extra resources to make (a power transmitter) if necessary.

That's a smart move even if you weren't expecting bugs.

[Adeptus Lebowski]

How can i build a power transmitter? It's missing from my exterior list in the build menu!

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You'll need its fragment, look for them in wrecks.