Stuck at Firmarlite

[El Rhino]

I am stuck at the Firmarlite stage and all those buildings related to it. I have thus far:

Set up the radio tower, but it's only the base and says not connected to grid, but there's no connection point.
Set up and powered 3 Construction Ship Ports, but all say there are no construction sites assigned (no idea how to do that)
Set up the Sales Warehouse and filled it with 100 Maintenance Drones, and it does nothing.
Set up the Space Station Requester and requested Firmarlite, but nothing happens.
Set up the Construction Warehouse and filled it with 25,000 Construction Materials, but nothing happens.
Started the Long Range Scanner and assigned whatever it would let me and it has scaffolding, but nothing is happening. It says Progress 0%, Assigned Ship Ports 0, Construction Site Active.

How or where do I "deliver" the material to the LRS? I am missing some connection, but don't know where. The lack of guidance in the Info Database is annoying.

[Fenix]

Transport Drones (Transport Ship Port) are what you are missing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3244629325

[El Rhino]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Transport Drones (Transport Ship Port) are what you are missing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3244629325

That's it, but I just searched everywhere and have no idea how to find them or set that up.

[GD]

Warning: Some Spoilers ahead. Don't read if you want to fiddle it out yourself.

Prerequisites
1) Build at least one construction ship port
2) Build a Construction Warehouse
3) Build at least one transport ship port giving you 4 ships
4) Build Antenna / Build Base and Use the Special Construction Tool (Board) to finish the plan (no options here just add all elements)
5) Craft Construction Blocks (5100 for the Antenna) and Automate it don't do it by hand it stacks only 25 link it to Construction Warehouse
6) Finish the Antennna
7) Connect the Antenna with Power-Net (High-Power Grid) Warning: Needs 10 MW the most powerhungry building so far.

That's a lot already. Now you can communicate with the space station and can repair the space station and especially the Cargo Hold and Sales Platform you need to start trading and getting this new metal you need.

The Sales now allows you to establish Trade and Firmalite is the money/payment.

Trade for Starters
1) Automate Construction Drones and needed Tech
2) Build at least one Transport Ship Hub to have 4 Ships for Transport
3) Build Sales Warehouse (Superhuge Building) ... put the Drones for Sales in
4) Build Station Requester Warehouse (Superhuge Building 2) ... to receive payments from station (Firmalite)

This allows you Yellow Research, some Green T3 Tech and prepares the next steps for T4 Tech.

[Fenix]

Transport Ship port unlocked with the Yellow construction ship port and on the crafting menu it's right next to it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3245531020
Transport Ship Port - Consctruction ship port - Warehouses all on the same row.

[El Rhino]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Transport Ship port unlocked with the Yellow construction ship port and on the crafting menu it's right next to it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3245531020
Transport Ship Port - Consctruction ship port - Warehouses all on the same row.

OH GOOD LORD. I looked at that 1,000 times and thought it was the Long Range Scanner even though I see LRS on the Buildings Page.

Thanks.

[Fenix]

To be fair, I can't blame you that icon is awful, It's really hard to see what is supposed to be.

[El Rhino]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Transport Ship port unlocked with the Yellow construction ship port and on the crafting menu it's right next to it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3245531020
Transport Ship Port - Consctruction ship port - Warehouses all on the same row.

I didn't even power the transport drone port and had just placed it down and everything took off and now things are happening. Thank you so much. I was on the verge of uninstalling it.

[GD]

Builders never give up ^^

[El Rhino]

Originally posted by GD:

Warning: Some Spoilers ahead. Don't read if you want to fiddle it out yourself.

Prerequisites
1) Build at least one construction ship port
2) Build a Construction Warehouse
3) Build at least one transport ship port giving you 4 ships
4) Build Antenna / Build Base and Use the Special Construction Tool (Board) to finish the plan (no options here just add all elements)
5) Craft Construction Blocks (5100 for the Antenna) and Automate it don't do it by hand it stacks only 25 link it to Construction Warehouse
6) Finish the Antennna
7) Connect the Antenna with Power-Net (High-Power Grid) Warning: Needs 10 MW the most powerhungry building so far.

That's a lot already. Now you can communicate with the space station and can repair the space station and especially the Cargo Hold and Sales Platform you need to start trading and getting this new metal you need.

The Sales now allows you to establish Trade and Firmalite is the money/payment.

Trade for Starters
1) Automate Construction Drones and needed Tech
2) Build at least one Transport Ship Hub to have 4 Ships for Transport
3) Build Sales Warehouse (Superhuge Building) ... put the Drones for Sales in
4) Build Station Requester Warehouse (Superhuge Building 2) ... to receive payments from station (Firmalite)

This allows you Yellow Research, some Green T3 Tech and prepares the next steps for T4 Tech.

Very helpful, but I am stuck on the radio tower. I built the base, used the special tool to set one red square to be the power port, but it only shows "Reset Configuration", not Start Construction. No drones or ships are flying to do anything.

[El Rhino]

Originally posted by El Rhino:

Originally posted by GD:

Warning: Some Spoilers ahead. Don't read if you want to fiddle it out yourself.

Prerequisites
1) Build at least one construction ship port
2) Build a Construction Warehouse
3) Build at least one transport ship port giving you 4 ships
4) Build Antenna / Build Base and Use the Special Construction Tool (Board) to finish the plan (no options here just add all elements)
5) Craft Construction Blocks (5100 for the Antenna) and Automate it don't do it by hand it stacks only 25 link it to Construction Warehouse
6) Finish the Antennna
7) Connect the Antenna with Power-Net (High-Power Grid) Warning: Needs 10 MW the most powerhungry building so far.

That's a lot already. Now you can communicate with the space station and can repair the space station and especially the Cargo Hold and Sales Platform you need to start trading and getting this new metal you need.

The Sales now allows you to establish Trade and Firmalite is the money/payment.

Trade for Starters
1) Automate Construction Drones and needed Tech
2) Build at least one Transport Ship Hub to have 4 Ships for Transport
3) Build Sales Warehouse (Superhuge Building) ... put the Drones for Sales in
4) Build Station Requester Warehouse (Superhuge Building 2) ... to receive payments from station (Firmalite)

This allows you Yellow Research, some Green T3 Tech and prepares the next steps for T4 Tech.

Very helpful, but I am stuck on the radio tower. I built the base, used the special tool to set one red square to be the power port, but it only shows "Reset Configuration", not Start Construction. No drones or ships are flying to do anything.

Nevermind I got the tower going. It wasn't clear what it meant about not meeting the requirements.

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by El Rhino:

Originally posted by El Rhino:

Very helpful, but I am stuck on the radio tower. I built the base, used the special tool to set one red square to be the power port, but it only shows "Reset Configuration", not Start Construction. No drones or ships are flying to do anything.

Nevermind I got the tower going. It wasn't clear what it meant about not meeting the requirements.

orange text in upper left = stuff to pay attention to