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Has anyone ever gotten their structures factory to pull structural modules from crates ? Making walls by hand is fools work, and loading in 90 bricks at a time is definitely no way to go about things. Loading the other 910 bricks I've got isn't going to be any more fun than the first 90.

Ockit

Master Architect on Intrepid

People have claimed it works, but they don't say when they made their factory. I have a factory from like Day 3, and it will not take the stuff out of crates. I made another one a few weeks ago, but have not tried it yet.

I've tried with a factory made in the 3rd or 4th week, as well as one made in the 2nd month, and neither of them pull it automatically.

Also these factories have been redeeded and replaced multiple times and still don't pull bricks out of a crate.

Yes, it is VERY annoying. I can make 500+ bricks at a time, nice and easily, then I have to pull them out 90 at a time and hit go. Time consuming, annoying, and tiring on the hands.

Sometimes I just manually build the walls, since that saves me dragging them over to the input hopper, even if there is the odd failure.

Will they fix this? Who knows, it's been around like this for as long as I recall, and they never seemed to address it.

I have been using my factory for a few weeks now and it will pull everything out of crates just fine. One thing I have noted though is that I have been unable to make walls at all in my factory. I have not tried to pull the modules out of the crates first though but I make Manufacturing Mechanisms all the time with the generators in crates and they work just fine.

From my experience, anything that only needs to pull 1 item fromeach crate (mfg mech, power core) will work but anything that has to pull more than 1 item per crate (wall module) won't work.

I think it's something about manufacturing walls. As far as I know weaponsmiths can manufacture their final products which take multiple components from the same crate as well.Food/chem factories don't seem to be having any problems on pulling multiple items from the same crate either.

Wasn't this brought up by Zarcath back when we all thought our whining made a difference ?