Collection of player tips

Note: BuildAndRepair will henceforth be shortened to “BAR”

This section describes general best practices to allow seamless BARing!

• Do not include limited blocks in the blueprint! Before you take the final version, remove any limited blocks (especially refineries, assemblers and H2/O2 Generators) from the grid. If structurally necessary, add a brightly colored light armor scaffolding to be ground off afterwards.
• Start your build as a separate grid! Best practice for this is to start from an existing connector, building a light armor block onto its side, adding a projector and placing another connector facing the existing one. Weld the projector and connector, connect the two connectors, grind down the light armor block and rename the grid to what you want it to be. Afterwards, load the projection in such a way, that the connector you already built aligns with one from the blueprint! This will allow you to refuel, power and arm the grid while it is being built while also completely avoiding any grid limit issues.
• Subgrids are best separated, connected to main grid via brightly colored sprues and then attached with a tug. The “Multigrid projector” plugin will not work on the server.

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.
• Running “Multigrid Projector”: While it looks like it will save you time, this is actually another great way to get a BAR stuck. This script will almost never work on the server!

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.