Ceiling Outlets?

[Shadow Draxis]

I dont think there's a mod for this, are there any plans to add this in the game?

[Maehlice]

Wall outlets can be attached to the ceiling already.

[Kraft51]

you can attach the Wall Power Pole to the underside of foundations btw. only the singles though.

[Shadow Draxis]

i didn't know that, thanks.

[FreeMan | Black Tiger]

If you're curious enough then you'll find out naturally on your own that yes indeed you can connect wall outlets to the ceiling, just as I have, and it is my preferred method of running power inside of buildings.

I despise using power poles inside of factories, so I pretty much exclusively use wall outlets, singles for interiors and doubles to bring the power inside from outside.

This keeps your floor space nice and clean and it's great for cable management so you don't have stupid cables clipping through objects.

Are the developers at Coffee Stain studios ever going to figure out how to give the cables and machines some semblance of realism so that they have programmed behavior to not just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clip through each other and actually display some close approximation to actual physics?

I know it doesn't technically matter, but it really is a huge bummer to see such a beautifully built factory having unrealistic nonsense where cables that should behave as solid physical objects just clip through things because there's no object mesh interaction programming between them.

I would like to see an explanation as to why it hasn't been done already as I don't know how difficult it may be to program that.

3D games have been in existence for over 30 years now, so it's inconceivable to me that game development studios still can't handle basic clipping issues, it's really insane.

[Grandaddypurple]

What I want is stacking poles for conveyor belts and pipes that go upside down FROM the ceiling. Right now I'm using walls and holes but it feels like working around smth

[FreeMan | Black Tiger]

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

What I want is stacking poles for conveyor belts and pipes that go upside down FROM the ceiling. Right now I'm using walls and holes but it feels like working around smth

There are "stacking poles" for conveyor belts man it's the stackable conveyor pole unlocked in tier 2, it has a ladder on both sides and can be stacked indefinitely.

Pipes definitely need to be able to go through ceilings just like they can walls, the pipe hole should work on both, no reason for it not to.

Like, Ficsit is just ran by morons if they have the technology and know how to run pipes through walls but not ceilings, doesn't make any sense.

Probably just oversight from the developers not realizing that it's stupid to not have it that way already.

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by FreeMan | Black Tiger:

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

What I want is stacking poles for conveyor belts and pipes that go upside down FROM the ceiling. Right now I'm using walls and holes but it feels like working around smth

There are "stacking poles" for conveyor belts man it's the stackable conveyor pole unlocked in tier 2, it has a ladder on both sides and can be stacked indefinitely.

I know but they don't go upside down and you can't attach them on the ceiling

[FreeMan | Black Tiger]

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

Originally posted by FreeMan | Black Tiger:

There are "stacking poles" for conveyor belts man it's the stackable conveyor pole unlocked in tier 2, it has a ladder on both sides and can be stacked indefinitely.

I know but they don't go upside down and you can't attach them on the ceiling

Oh I see, you want hanging conveyor poles to mount on the ceiling.

That would be very nice, maybe they will add that eventually as an item in the awesome shop or something.

I do believe that we should have as many options as is realistically possible, and hanging conveyor posts is extremely realistically possible.

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by FreeMan | Black Tiger:

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

I know but they don't go upside down and you can't attach them on the ceiling

Oh I see, you want hanging conveyor poles to mount on the ceiling.

That would be very nice, maybe they will add that eventually as an item in the awesome shop or something.

I do believe that we should have as many options as is realistically possible, and hanging conveyor posts is extremely realistically possible.

Yea hanging is the right word, my english is getting rusty lol

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by FreeMan | Black Tiger:

Pipes definitely need to be able to go through ceilings just like they can walls, the pipe hole should work on both, no reason for it not to.

Like, Ficsit is just ran by morons if they have the technology and know how to run pipes through walls but not ceilings, doesn't make any sense.

Probably just oversight from the developers not realizing that it's stupid to not have it that way already.

You can actually runs pipes through a ceiling. :)
You need to place the input and output for the pipe, construct the wall/ceiling which you want the pipe to run through and then connect input and output for the pipe. It works best when you deconstruct the ceiling next to the one you want the pipe to go through. Hope i explained it good enough. If not i can make a few screenshots later.

[Maehlice]

Clipping pipes doesn't bother me one bit, because that's exactly how it looks IRL. Concrete is either poured around the pipe chase, or a full stick is run through a core-drilled hole. I very seldom see a union at the floor unless it was initially installed for future expansion. It almost always just "clips" through the floor or wall.