August 1st, 2017 - Jace Talk: Expanding a Power Grid

August 1st, 2017

Jace Talk: Expanding a Power Grid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0OOikcWN0&t=866

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  1. Jace

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  3. Jace

    Here it goes.

    Oh.

    Or does it?

    What's going on?

    Oh, right.

    We need power, of course.

    So let's... Let's create another power line, I guess, right?

    Well, I can't...

    I can't seem to do that.

    It's red.

    Okay.

    Okay.

    Well, why?

    Ooh, I wonder why.

    It's because this actually has one power output, the biomass burner.

    So it can't go from the biomass burner to that end to the smelter.

    So that means we have to make another biomass burner, or we can use power poles.

    Power poles, as you can see here, they can handle up to four connections.

    So let's use a power pole instead.

    What I'm going to do is I'm going to destroy this power line.

    To do that, I open the build menu and then go to this little thingy up here and click on that.

    And then if I look at it, you can see there's a red outline.

    And then I left click, gets destroyed, and I get my cable back.

    Okay, so let's make a power pole.

    All right, so power pole is going to go, I'll just put it here for now, I guess.

    There, that's good.

    And then I'll take power lines.

    Now we'll build a power line from the biomass motor to the power pole, power pole to the miner.

    and then power pole to the smelter.

    Perfect.

    And now that that has three cables going in, there's only one more outlet.

    So what I might do just to be safe is I might build another power pole here and then hook that power pole up to that power pole.

    And now we still have three more outputs here.

    Just an efficiency thing that I've picked up along the way.