Color coding buildings

[SlantedRhetoric]

I just got the idea to use the color coding feature to paint different pipes, conveyors, etc. for quick ID of different features. I feel a bit dumb for not doing it before but for some reason I thought that "painting" objects would take resources so I never bothered with it before.

[Obz3hL33t]

Symbols cost resources. Colors are free.

It's a smart thing to do if you put your combinatorial work above / below your machinery. I've fallen into enough of a pattern I don't need paint to pretty much know on sight which hole goes with what resource, but I still remember my first time doing this with steamed copper sheets and pure copper ingots. There were refinery elevators everywhere, complete chaos. Thanks, color-coded elevators ...

But yeah my systems are all kind of laid out the same, like if I look up and see floor holes I can tell if they're part of a series of, say, Foundries just by the way they're spaced. I've built the same stuff the same way so many times I see a bunch of holes on the ceiling I know what they're for.

Finding a hole that isn't part of a system, especially if it's just "passing through" taking resources to another floor, that's another matter. In frustration I've been known to turn foundations BRIGHT FREAKIN' PINK!! so I can see where I put the accursed conveyor hole. If it's under a machine you might never find it without the impossible-to-miss bright pink foundation paint.

edit: Actually "under a machine" gives you a warning from below. Under a belt is a pretty good hiding place.

[PhailRaptor]

It used to take resources. You'd have to craft Flower Petals into Color Cartridges for the Color Gun in order to paint. This is no longer the case, as it has all been replaced with the Customizer as part of the Build Tool. You can still craft the Color Cartridges, but they don't serve a purpose anymore.

[Obz3hL33t]

Color Cartridges let you write symbols. They really oughtta be called "Ink Cartridges", as coloration is free.

[lpnlizard27]

Originally posted by PhailRaptor:

You can still craft the Color Cartridges, but they don't serve a purpose anymore.

They can be used as vehicle fuel and is the longest lasting early fuel type, outperforming liquid bio fuel and regular fuel, only when you unlock turbo fuel will you get something better.

[kLuns]

If you press X you get the colour gun, and you can select the colour by richt clicking on the desired colour before you build the thing. It should not require any resource, even changing the colour multiple times after it's built.

[SlantedRhetoric]

Originally posted by Obz3hL33t:

Symbols cost resources. Colors are free.
Finding a hole that isn't part of a system, especially if it's just "passing through" taking resources to another floor, that's another matter. In frustration I've been known to turn foundations BRIGHT FREAKIN' PINK!! so I can see where I put the accursed conveyor hole. If it's under a machine you might never find it without the impossible-to-miss bright pink foundation paint.

I've been painting the foundations my trucks run on with yellow and pink (sulfur and quartz) because I kept getting run over while afk lol

[Obz3hL33t]

LOL that sounds exactly like something I would do ...

[Zaflis]

Did they fix the painting yet? Last i checked months ago the HUB and miners for example remained orange or so.

[kLuns]

Originally posted by Zaflis:

Did they fix the painting yet? Last i checked months ago the HUB and miners for example remained orange or so.

If you change the standard swatch, everything you have built before will change, the upper left one in the colour part of the customizer.

[Zaflis]

I know, back then i changed the default color to blue but miners and saw no blue at all unlike all the other buildings. I kept checking back every few weeks if they'd have done anything to it but no avail. Now i still wait for more features before i start playing...