How do you make blueprints?

[ThePunisher]

Spent a few hours searching online and still cannot figure out how. I don't understand why it has to be so difficult these days. I used to have plenty of them but they are no longer able to use. How do you make blueprints these days and why is the tutorial so bad?

[Hedning]

Surely ghosts are not locked with the blueprints? So if you want to measure something out you can still do it with ghosts?

[Drizzt]

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One feature often overlooked is that you can drag select entities and know if a rock has coal or not on the minimap level using the deconstructor planner.


Some mods may spawn unique resources on the map, and sometimes they blend in too well, and the resource within an area selected by the deconstructor has a small niche beneficial role.

yeah that one's a speedrunner trick (at least that's where i saw it first i think)

[Drizzt]

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Surely ghosts are not locked with the blueprints? So if you want to measure something out you can still do it with ghosts?

you would still need to manually place all the ghosts - and for some setups that might be fiddly - much easier to blueprint and paste - plus is much nicer to be able to have the whole blueprint there to paste so you can see if it will fit, instead of laying out a bunch of ghosts and then realising you have to shift everything left one tile etc

plus manually deleting the ghosts is also far more annoying that just being able to drag the deconstruction planner over a wide area and delete every ghost in one go (and then you do it again with shift or whatever the modifier key is to cancel deconstruction - so that stuff doesn't get deconstructed once you do build some bots)

[Hedning]

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Surely ghosts are not locked with the blueprints? So if you want to measure something out you can still do it with ghosts?

laying out a bunch of ghosts and then realising you have to shift everything left one tile etc

I'm showing my ignorance here, but is copy paste also locked?

[Drizzt]

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laying out a bunch of ghosts and then realising you have to shift everything left one tile etc

I'm showing my ignorance here, but is copy paste also locked?

the only way to copy and paste is with the blueprint tool so far as i am aware - unless of course i'm showing my ignorance lol

[Hedning]

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I'm showing my ignorance here, but is copy paste also locked?

the only way to copy and paste is with the blueprint tool so far as i am aware - unless of course i'm showing my ignorance lol

No, when you copy something you have to hold a key (i forget, maybe the shift key) to make it a blueprint. If you don't you just copy and it's placed in your copied history.

[Drizzt]

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the only way to copy and paste is with the blueprint tool so far as i am aware - unless of course i'm showing my ignorance lol

No, when you copy something you have to hold a key (i forget, maybe the shift key) to make it a blueprint. If you don't you just copy and it's placed in your copied history.

i stand corrected - certainly about the controls

so it appears that i haven't actually lost the ability to create blueprints in my game - i was just looking at the toolbar where it was disabled, rather than testing the keyboard shortcuts

and you are correct that ctrl-C and ctrl-X allow copy and cut (with Alt-B and Alt-D for the blueprint tool and deconstructor respectively)

but i don't know if those controls are enabled if the player has not unlocked blueprints for the first time on their install

so someone will have to confirm that

but yes - i didn't know about the clipboard controls - so that's cool - thanks :-)

[knighttemplar1960]

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Surely ghosts are not locked with the blueprints? So if you want to measure something out you can still do it with ghosts?

Ghosts are locked until you unlock construction robots. The only copy paste you can use prior to unlocking blueprints is train schedules, train stops, and machine recipes.

Prior to that when I wanted to measure out things I had to use F4 and turn on the grid lines or use lines of chests or belts.

[ThePunisher]

It's alt B to make blue prints, I finally figured it out, yay me I didn't give up and now I can make and use blueprints from the start or a game.