how to build a room at your base that provides inddors?

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Hi,

I want to plant Fungal Clusters but it always keeps saying that I can't plant outdoors. The trays are indoors and not outdoors.

I built several buildings from floor and roof panels and with walls and when I enter them, it says that I have entered my outpust, and yet I can't plant in any of them.

Do I need to place some kind of special prefab building for this? Are none of the wall types and floors air tight?

[taniwhat]

The trays need a power supply ?

[stvlepore]

Has the tray clipped through the wall?

[Spocks Toupee]

The neatest arrangement (IMO) is to use those small cuboid rooms, then you can build a room 3 cuboid rooms across, and however long you want it, leaving a middle aisle to walk down, with the planters on either side.

Also, with the cuboid rooms, if they're connected to your base, then they provide power to whatever is inside them.

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The tray has a power supply. The wire is going through the wall.

It's seems unadvisable to run a power generator that uses a furnace to burn carbon inside an airtight room. I guess you could do it by using an air intake (provided that there's suitable air outside) and an exhaust, and both of them would have to go through the wall, ceiling or floor. It won't very practical, though. A solar panel would require a glass roof which I can't build.

I placed the tray into a corner of the room. Maybe that's too close to the wall?

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Originally posted by Ozwald:

You need to put plants in a hydroponic tray.

If you do not have a tray, the game will tell you it can't plant outdoors, even when you're inside.

If you do have a tray, if you don't line up the plant to the tray, it will also tell you that you can't plant outdoors, even when you're inside.

I tried with a single tray and the larger one that combines 4 planting spots. I build the fungus in the planting spot of the tray, and it takes like a second before the plant shrivels up and it says I can't plant outside.

So I'm assuming that the tray needs to be inside, which it is. Still it doesn't work.

Does the tray need to be inside or does it suffice to build the plant in the tray?

[test]

Originally posted by Spocks Toupee:

The neatest arrangement (IMO) is to use those small cuboid rooms, then you can build a room 3 cuboid rooms across, and however long you want it, leaving a middle aisle to walk down, with the planters on either side.

Also, with the cuboid rooms, if they're connected to your base, then they provide power to whatever is inside them.

Cuboid rooms? So far, I haven't seen any prefabs yet though it might be possible that I'd need to unlock them. They might be an item which I ignored because there are important items to get first.

Am I doing something wrong by building the plants in the trays? Maybe there's something else I need to do?

[Tryshard]

It does not matter if you are inside or outside the trays will work. How are you powering your base? These work so simple, lay one down hook it up to power and plant a seed. Maybe take a screenshot and show up your setup

[Spocks Toupee]

Originally posted by test:

Originally posted by Spocks Toupee:

The neatest arrangement (IMO) is to use those small cuboid rooms, then you can build a room 3 cuboid rooms across, and however long you want it, leaving a middle aisle to walk down, with the planters on either side.

Also, with the cuboid rooms, if they're connected to your base, then they provide power to whatever is inside them.

Cuboid rooms? So far, I haven't seen any prefabs yet though it might be possible that I'd need to unlock them. They might be an item which I ignored because there are important items to get first.

Am I doing something wrong by building the plants in the trays? Maybe there's something else I need to do?

Nope, you need to build the trays indoors.
Just make sure you have a floor, and the tray isn't sticking into the wall.
MY cuboid room was just a suggestion, of how I do it.

[s0ur lem0ns]

Originally posted by Tryshard:

It does not matter if you are inside or outside the trays will work. How are you powering your base? These work so simple, lay one down hook it up to power and plant a seed. Maybe take a screenshot and show up your setup

Agreed. Let's see a screenshot. It'll be the easiest way to determine exactly what the issue is.

Originally posted by test:

Cuboid rooms?

You buy them from the Anomaly. They don't require any wiring. When you place them together, they combine to make larger rooms. They're pretty fun to play around with.

[Drackmore]

Honestly, I would not bother with the trays, instead I'd save up your salvaged data and unlock the Biodome instead. It has 16 slots for plants and can allow you to harvest all of the plants in a single button press. And it only takes 50 energy.

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The biodome sounds nice, yet I don't have any salvaged data atm. I found the prefabs, though.

I tried to plant the fungus on my freighter and it didn't work, either. So I noticed that it says 'ensure toxic atmosphere'. I thought the trays or the growth chamber on the freighter would take care of that. Otherwise I could just plant the fungus on the ground.

So the error message is wrong. I need to provide a toxic atmosphere. Why would it matter if it's outside or somewhere else? I'll try a base on a toxic planet and see what happens.

How do I fill a room having the trays in it with a toxic atmosphere?

[AmberAnvil]

You just might want to save and exit your game and restart. Something's not working right. You do not need a toxic atmosphere to plant in a Freighter Cultivation Chamber. Just use the Build menu to place the plant and the freighter will take care of the rest.

[lordoftheapes79]

Originally posted by test:

Originally posted by Ozwald:

You need to put plants in a hydroponic tray.

If you do not have a tray, the game will tell you it can't plant outdoors, even when you're inside.

If you do have a tray, if you don't line up the plant to the tray, it will also tell you that you can't plant outdoors, even when you're inside.

I tried with a single tray and the larger one that combines 4 planting spots. I build the fungus in the planting spot of the tray, and it takes like a second before the plant shrivels up and it says I can't plant outside.

So I'm assuming that the tray needs to be inside, which it is. Still it doesn't work.

Does the tray need to be inside or does it suffice to build the plant in the tray?

It's going to say this whenever your on the wrong biome planet and not targeting a snap point it can be planted in. If you hit the snap point and the plant wobbled into place, make sure your planter is powered up and wait 4 hours(this varies by plant, but fungal mould takes 4 hours to grow). If you're unsure, look at the plant with your visor. It will tell you how long until it is fully grown. If it doesn't give you that count down, then there's something wrong.

[Jaggid Edje]

I agree with the posts above that are saying you are not hitting the snap points. Both in your on-planet attempt and on your on-freighter attempts, what you are describing is what happens if you are not hitting the snap points when planting. If you don't hit the snap points, you're trying to grow it 'wild' rather than in the planters.

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You mean the dotted circles? I'm sure I'm hitting them; it even seems you can't plant the fungus when you don't hit those.

Now I'm on a toxic planet and it keeps saying "Cannot build Must attach to structure". It doesn't matter if I try it outside or inside.

What needs to be attached to a structure, what is considered 'a structure' and how do I attach what needs to be attached to it?

I'll restarting the game ...