Long range electricity

[Lord Dingus]

An issue keeps coming up whenever I start a new mine far away from my "base". If I wanted to power it without needing to keep coming back to refill biomass burners, I'd either need a new coal generator, or I have to run a wire all the way over to the base. The second is way easier, but the problem is the wires going all the way across the map aren't super pretty. It feels like there should be a better way to do this...

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Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

The good news is you can use the elevated landscape features to keep the poles off the ground (because they will invariably be right in the way later on), but sometimes, you have no other choice.

But you do have a choice. Stack foundations upwards as high as you want. Place a power pole on top of the foundations. Remove the foundations. Power poles stay in the air. It works. You can drive underneath it and run underneath it and it will never interfere with anything.

[RAMChYLD]

Originally posted by Hondo:

Yes, I would like to see a larger tower(s) that can handle more than 4 connections - maybe 6 - 8 connections. Would be nice to build like a sub-station.

Research is your friend. There are later power poles that can handle more connections (Mk. 3 can handle 10). You just need to grind away until you unlock them. Truth be told however they’re kinda impractical. You get better mileage using wall-mounted power supply on the roof (this is already in Experimental) to lay out clean looking power lines, serially chaining them to create a nice looking power backbone.

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

But you do have a choice. Stack foundations upwards as high as you want. Place a power pole on top of the foundations. Remove the foundations. Power poles stay in the air. It works. You can drive underneath it and run underneath it and it will never interfere with anything.

Or you can keep everything tidy by building a skyroad between factories and have the cable and conveyor belts move above ground. I have a skyroad linking my factories and all the power and conveyor belts work over that. On the ground aside from the shade nothing is touched between factories.

However I went ahead and use power lines to go outside of my factory areas anyway, to reach the far-edge areas where I can build geothermal plants.