what factors need to be considered for a beacon station to stay up?

[CyberWire]

I repair them, get the beacon running, all the pumps are running and the water is gone to prevent electrical degredation and when I leave I still fail the mission even though when im in there it has a tick on it to show ive successfully started up the station, I just did a wiring based one and I struggle a bit with the wiring but everything in the end was powered but I did take out some of the already present wires and run my own in, is this enough to fail the quest? it needs to be like factory preset from when it was built over my haphazard wiring?

[Chimz]

The generator needs to have fuel and keep running and the beacon's Sonar Terminal needs to be powered and turned all. That is all that matters.

Anything else like pumps is just making sure water doesn't get to these two components after you leave and breaking them.

So repair the hull (so no water gets in), run the pumps (so the current water and any unseen leaks get pumped out and don't flood), repair the generator, junction boxes and sonar, turn on the sonar and keep it on, then when leaving make sure to close the doors so you don't flood the station on your way out.

Basically the station needs to stay functional with its sonar on until you reach the destination.

It's not hard.

Also pro tip the fuel you put inside the reactor doesn't matter at what percentage it is. Unlike your ship, the fuel rods placed in beacon reactors don't deteriorate, so even a 5% fuel rod will last an hour. So I usually take my half-empty fuels and use them instead of full ones.

[CyberWire]

I think the issue is that the junction boxes were overloaded and fried out before I ended the mission, probably cause of my half ass wiring job

[lunaris80]

Someone probably left the door open somehow. happen all the time, specially when the guy doing repair are new to the routine.

You need relay components if you have problem with junctions.

[FourGreenFields]

Once the beacon is on, only player-intervention will disable it. None of the vanilla beacon reactors use fuel, and the installations stop taking damage once the beacon is active.

Either it's a bug, or you accidentally turned the sonar (or reactor) off, or you need to ban a griefer.

[Eugen]

Including all of the stuff mentioned already above: If you received a Check on your Beacon Mission in Mission Log - you know you did it right and if it's still checked after some time, you know you did the job good enough (And you can be sure: not to have to come back.). It instantly unchecks if something went wrong however much time/ distance has been past.

[climbingeastofwinter]

If the sonar switches off, the beacon is considered inactive. The beacon must be active and properly functioning when you dock. If you take a very long time between repairing the beacon and docking, it is possible for the junction boxes to degrade to the point that power no longer reaches the monitor/transmitter, causes the mission to fail. If water remains in the beacon, the odds of this happening is higher.

If you want to be absolutely sure, leave a crewmate behind in the station to maintain it and don't dawdle.

[CyberWire]

Originally posted by climbingeastofwinter:

If the sonar switches off, the beacon is considered inactive. The beacon must be active and properly functioning when you dock. If you take a very long time between repairing the beacon and docking, it is possible for the junction boxes to degrade to the point that power no longer reaches the monitor/transmitter, causes the mission to fail. If water remains in the beacon, the odds of this happening is higher.

If you want to be absolutely sure, leave a crewmate behind in the station to maintain it and don't dawdle.

will that teammate be left behind once I dock or does he teleport to me?

[lunaris80]

he will transported to the station. But just drain all the water fix every corner, specially when that beacon have 300w pump.

[FourGreenFields]

Originally posted by climbingeastofwinter:

it is possible for the junction boxes to degrade

Not once the beacon is active.

[lunaris80]

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

Originally posted by climbingeastofwinter:

it is possible for the junction boxes to degrade

Not once the beacon is active.

Im pretty sure it will because I just fix degraded junction after I turn on the beacon a moment ago.

[FourGreenFields]

Originally posted by lunaris80:

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

Not once the beacon is active.

Im pretty sure it will because I just fix degraded junction after I turn on the beacon a moment ago.

https://barotraumagame.com/wiki/Version_History

Yet another attempt to prevent beacon missions from failing for apparently no reason: sonar monitors won't get damaged by water after the beacon's been activated.
[...]
The electrical grid in beacon stations is turned indestructible after activating it. Should fix beacon missions sometimes failing for no apparent reason (if something happened to damage the beacon's walls during the round and flood it).

Either yours was damaged before you activated the bbeacon, or you ran into a bug.

[lunaris80]

0.16.6.0 (Rising Tide)
Released February 24th, 2022
0.19.7.0
Released October 5th, 2022

Thats long time ago.