Collection of player tips

Note: BuildAndRepair will henceforth be shortened to “BAR”

Any of the following will prevent the BAR from working fully or will get it stuck. A good way to tell a BAR is stuck is when the main block plays the welding animation and sound, yet no blocks get added to the grid/welded up.

• Projector on different grid than welded object: This will never work, even if the alignment is perfect. The projector needs to be ON the grid that is being built!
• Hitting a limit: Run “!blocklimit mylimit” to make sure that…
  • You have enough space in your player limit on varying blocks needed for the build
  • The grid you are welding on can support more of the blocktype (E.G. a base with a drill arm with 10 drills on it will prevent any more being placed on a mining ship being welded while connected to said base)
  • You are not maxing out your personal block count (see INFO tab in inventory, max 50 000 block per player)
• Trying to be smarter than the BAR: Blocking off blocks (e.g. limited production blocks) because you have hit your limit on them will often cause the BARs to hang - especially if “Welding Only” mode is used!
• Building a separate grid without fly mode: There is little reason to use walk mode, which is the default. This will make sure the BAR will not work on grids other than the grid it is on!
• Not owning the BAR: Not only will this not allow you to station / rename the grid via the INFO tab, this will also…
  • Mess up DLC Paintjobs like carbon, gold etc
  • Get stuck immediately upon reaching a DLC block
    • Note: These last two bullet points will not be an issue if the owner is online at the time of welding.
• Not supplying enough materials: Make sure the BAR or its connected inventories are well stocked! It greatly helps to use a plugin called “Projection to Assembler” or running a programmable block using the BARQueue script.

Credit: @jonasfors on GURP Discord

• Turn BARs off and on
• Repainting BARs
• Turning bars on and off
• Repainting bars
• Fix ship with bars and projection on
• Fix ship with bars and projection off
• Fix ship with bars on and projection off
• Fix ship with bars off and projection on
• Fly away 6-7 km so the grid unloads with everything on
• Fly away 6-7 km so the grid unloads with everything off
• Reloading the blueprint
• Logging out and logging in again
• Changed welding priority order
• Changed from flymode to walk mode
• Changed to welding only
• Fool around with priority order
• Make sure you own the block
• Sometimes the owner of the BaR needs to be the same owner as the projector for them to weld the projections.