Move buildings and diagnose production bottlenecks

Move the layout before replacing it

Official patch 1.0.5 lets you press R with the building tool to pick up a piece together with everything standing on it and place it again for free. Belts at its ports follow where they can reach, so our suggestion is to inspect those connections after moving. Right-click restores the original placement. Removing a piece now refunds its full price. Machines snap to foundations or a 0.5 m grid; F enables free placement. Dusty ground no longer needs cleaning before you build on it.

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Check the recipe, not just the belt

Wikily’s community production data gives a Pressure chamber 25 kg of dust input and 25 kg of sand output per minute at 10 kW. A Stone press consumes 10 kg of dust plus 10 kg of sand per minute and produces 20 kg of stone at 18 kW. These are full-power, uninterrupted-input rates, not guaranteed output in your base. The press needs its own dust feed as well as sand: a belt delivering only chamber output does not satisfy both ingredients. Use this distinction to inspect the missing supply.

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Power and patch checks before expansion

According to Wikily, partial power lengthens a production cycle and a machine stops below 8% of its required power. Our diagnostic order is to check available power, both required materials and the outgoing route before buying extra machines; adding machinery does not by itself resolve a missing input. Official patch 1.0.4 fixed machines reporting that they could not pack despite having power and materials, and 1.0.5 fixed further large-base packing failures. Match the symptom to the installed version. The recipe figures are community documentation, not our own timed throughput measurements.

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Balance the line before multiplying machines

At the documented full-power rates, one chamber makes enough sand for 2.5 presses. For a whole-machine layout, multiplying those source rates gives 2 chambers feeding the sand demand of 5 presses: 100 kg dust per minute in total and 110 kW for these production machines alone. This is arithmetic from the published rates, not a tested layout. Each press still needs its separate dust input; the calculation excludes transport, solar variability and any other equipment.

Wikily lists peak solar output as 3 kW for Solar post (S), 7.5 kW with a 4 kWh battery for Solar twin (M), and 16 kW with a 10 kWh battery for Solar tracker (L). The small post has no battery. Peak power and stored energy are different quantities; these values alone do not establish an overnight design. Its belt rate is 88 capsules per minute, while machine outfeed can emit 171 units per minute. Compare capsule traffic rather than assuming the belt keeps up with every output.

Sources: [2]