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It takes some micro-managing, but basically you leave sandstone tiles in the center, then diagonally dig them.  And you HAVE to start with diggable tiles.  Something like this:

 

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Dig out corners and build:

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Corner walk build...

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Continue...

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and....

Success!!

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Well, I know you used to be able to build them from nothing.

4 minutes ago, Xyer said:

I do think that the middle 2 tiles do have to be dig-able for this to actually work since you get the below error if you try to build joint plates beside existing tiles.

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What happens when you build the Joint Plate first, and try to build a block over one of the connectors?

5 minutes ago, PhailRaptor said:

Well, I know you used to be able to build them from nothing.

What happens when you build the Joint Plate first, and try to build a block over one of the connectors?

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Also had the same error with the joint-plate already built. As you can clearly see, I do not have any actual wires built there yet. I believe this was a change documented in one of the recent patches iirc.

6 hours ago, PhailRaptor said:

Well, I know you used to be able to build them from nothing.

What happens when you build the Joint Plate first, and try to build a block over one of the connectors?

You used to be able to, yes.  And you can't build blocks over the connectors on heavi-watt plates anymore.  It makes it really tricky to get the vacuum between them.  :(

2 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

You used to be able to, yes.  And you can't build blocks over the connectors on heavi-watt plates anymore.  It makes it really tricky to get the vacuum between them.  :(

Does it mean the only way to make vacuum with that setup is making 2(or 3?) wide in the middle and adding the small pump

8 minutes ago, Oni Noob said:

Does it mean the only way to make vacuum with that setup is making 2(or 3?) wide in the middle and adding the small pump

If you look at the example I posted, you can use an un-dug area.  If you're building somewhere that is already dug out, then yes, you have to make it wide enough for a small pump.

12 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

If you look at the example I posted, you can use an un-dug area.  If you're building somewhere that is already dug out, then yes, you have to make it wide enough for a small pump.

Sorry I cant use that my location for my power is already dug out already :(

I had forgotten about that changes to the joint plate that make it unable to build in if the adjacent tile is a tile.

Why don't you just fill the area with tiles, build a liquid U lock against the face of the tiles, then dig out the vacuum ready for your joint plate.  This is how I've done it in the past as I have some stupid OCD that I don't like to lose that single stray piece of igneous rock in the cavity, the same igneous rock that is in infinite supply, I know, right, how crazy is that!

 

4 minutes ago, Craigjw said:

I had forgotten about that changes to the joint plate that make it unable to build in if the adjacent tile is a tile.

Why don't you just fill the area with tiles, build a liquid U lock against the face of the tiles, then dig out the vacuum ready for your joint plate.  This is how I've done it in the past as I have some stupid OCD that I don't like to lose that single stray piece of igneous rock in the cavity, the same igneous rock that is in infinite supply, I know, right, how crazy is that!

Just do the minipump solution. Once it's a vacuum the minipump will stop and no longer be active for the rest of the game.

3 hours ago, Saturnus said:

How?

You think there's a difference between a 60W load being on a wire can support loads of up to 1KW, 2KW, or 20KW respectively?

I could have swore that some low voltage devices got damaged if you hooked them up to heviwatt. Unable to check at the moment though

19 minutes ago, chromiumboy said:

I could have swore that some low voltage devices got damaged if you hooked them up to heviwatt. Unable to check at the moment though

I can understand that. I’ve played games where hooking a low voltage device to a high voltage wire caused the device to explode.

Oxygen Not Included doesn’t have that concept, though. It’s only total draw on a wire that matters, and “voltage” isn’t even a game concept, despite the presence of watts as a unit of measure.

There are cases where hooking directly to a Heavi Watt wire is a problem, but they’re very much edge cases, and not common. For example, if you have a really large base, and you’ve got an elaborate distribution system where a Heavi Watt wire connects via 5 large transformers to another Heavi Watt wire, that wire is constantly carrying the full 20kw load. Adding any load at all to such a wire is inviting overload.

But as I said, that’s a very unusual case, and it has nothing to do with a specific limitation on small devices like mini pumps.

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