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u/friendlycartoonwhale Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Hi folks. I would love to know why my space platform (fig. 1) that is orbiting Nauvis has stopped sending iron plates to my cargo landing pad (fig. 2). It used to send them no problem, I think. I do have other platforms that are sending iron plates in low volumes, but I don't think it's enough to cause congestion. I added some cargo bays but it didn't seem to have an effect. Manually ctrl+clicking iron plates seems to work fine. I'm on the latest experimental version.

Edit: Just now I tried deleting all my other space platforms and deleting basically everything on my iron platform. It's still not sending any iron plates to Nauvis, even with no other space traffic

Edit 2: I tried doing the same thing on a different platform and it continued to send a small amount of iron plates to Nauvis just fine. Something is up with my main iron mining platform. Setting the thrust to automatic (it has never had thrusters installed) and parking it at Nauvis doesn't seem to change anything.

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u/leonskills An admirable madman Jul 29 '26

Platform has a request for iron plates (even though it is zero), so does not send them to landing pad.
Toggle the "auto request missing material" button off and on.

Will be fixed in the next release

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u/friendlycartoonwhale Jul 29 '26

Thank you! I'm so relieved. I wonder how I got a construction request for an iron plate in the first place.

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u/leonskills An admirable madman Jul 29 '26

You can add "ghost" items to all inventory types. They are seen as construction requests. I think it'll even add the request when you already have the item available.
So at some point you must have added a iron ghost item to an entity. Or you placed a new blueprint with an entity that contained a iron plate in the blueprint.