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I need 3 identical power core units for a PA Hall I'm making; I've made everything else for it.


Do I need 3 identical factory-made gen turbines, 3 identical factory-made energy distributers, and 3 identical factory-made power conditioners? Or do they all just need to be made from the same resources used to make them for the schematic (i.e. similar but not identical)?

Thanks.

(I saw the thread on page 2 but it did not answer my question)

The only item where the components do not have to be identical is the wall, the structure modules can be hand-made. You also need to be warned that Power Cores are very bugged, you're going to lose ALOT of materials. I tried to make two earlier, first one stopped making and ate exactly half the resources with no output. I tried again and it ate the rest of the resources without making anything. I've given up for awhile.

Does anyone know?

I used identical (factory made) sub components on everything for my first run of power cores. Not because *knew* you had to, mind you. I was just in a mode where I'd saved up a bunch of resources and started mass producing all the things I commonly used because I was tired of crits. So I can tell you it will work if you use all identical items. It sounds to me like it *should* work with similar ones, but knowing this game I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.

Play it safe and just do a factory run of a bunch of the sub components ahead of time. And you'll want to make a lot. As the first respondant said, I lost a bunch of stuff on the first run. If you only plan on neededing 3 power cores, personally I'd suggest manufcturing enough components for six of them and loading them all up at once. (Seven if you count the items for making your schematic.)

I was trolling through looking for an answere on a related issue I'm having.

I also am trying to make PAs. However it wont let me make a shematic for the power conditioners. Yet I have made them before. I'm using the right station and I'm not a noob to this. Any ideas on this bug or any ways to get around it?

Odd, Power Conditioners work for me. They're listed under Generic Items on the WDG tool.

Yes they have to be identical parts. Once you put the schematic for the power core into the factory bring up the "list ingredients required" window. You will see there is a serial number listed next to each sub component. This means it requires that serial number and thus they must be identical.

I've found this way to work when making these stuborn components.

Gather enough subcomponents and resources to make the number of cores you require, plus the schematic, plus another 1 core.

My factory run, produced the number I wanted and ate the resources and components for the 1 extra I put in.

This used to fix an issue with factories eating resources back in beta, so I gave it a go to see if it would work with the bugged power cores, and it did for me atleast, of course your mileage may vary.

Ok, thanks to all for the help. I'm renting an equipment factory so that I can finally make some identical power conditioners and energy distributers.

One click, and all of my resources might go POOF, but oh well, that's the price of business

yes, you must use identical parts. so to make 3 identical ones you need 4 identical of everything(the extra 1 of everything to make the schematic)

yes it sucks. whoever thought up needing identical anything in the archiect profession wasn't thinking well.

Argh - it's surprisingly difficult to find someone whose equipment factory I can borrow. My neighbor said I could use it but I never find him online at the same time