Is there a way to speed up platform build time?

[adam_bise]

Assuming I am building an absurdly large platform and have no bottleneck with the materials. The actual construction fans out a tile at a time slowly. If I am using a repeating blueprint I have to wait a long time for this.

Is it because of technical reasons or is there a tweak to speed it up?

[eugenekay]

Platform de/construction seems to occur at 1 Tile/Tick (not scientifically tested), Unless it can happen to an entire “Row” at a time. It seems like this is to prevent Holes or Donuts from forming; instead you get a long “river” until the last pieces are laid.


Blueprinting and Deconstruction planner are “Instant” while using the Map Editor, skipping the Platform Scaffolding animation entirely.

[adam_bise]

Yea I was hoping there was a tweak or console command for this, as it seems to be just a cosmetic animation. I don't really use the editor unless for experimenting.

[vark111]

I don't know if this speeds it up, or if its just a placebo effect, but all of my platforms get two blueprints: One is the full platform (obviously), and the other one is only the foundation and first batch or two (depending on how many incoming rockets you expect) of cargo pods.

After the entire foundation gets built, _then_ I stamp down the full build.

Like I said I have no objective measure to say this is any faster than typical, but it sure feels faster to me when I'm sitting waiting on it.

[pioruns]

There is a way to paste one blueprint and speed up the building process. That's how I do it:
Paste blueprint onto a platform
Note how much platform foundation automatic requesting wants to import
Disable automatic requesting
Create manual request for that amount of platform foundations, and wait to get them delivered
Once all foundations are in place, delete your manual order for foundation and enable automatic requesting.

That way, everything is building as quick as possible without massive delays waiting for right product.

[adam_bise]

There is a way to paste one blueprint and speed up the building process. That's how I do it:
Paste blueprint onto a platform
Note how much platform foundation automatic requesting wants to import
Disable automatic requesting
Create manual request for that amount of platform foundations, and wait to get them delivered
Once all foundations are in place, delete your manual order for foundation and enable automatic requesting.

That way, everything is building as quick as possible without massive delays waiting for right product.

Thanks, I did already have 2x blueprint in a logistic group. Getting the material wasn't an issue, it was the waiting for the actual construction combined with waiting for blueprintable space to be placable on uncharted area.

It was for this ship plus a BP for thruster layers, where there were 60 layers of thrusters. Each stamp was a partial stamp, waiting for expansion, completed stamp, waiting for expansion, another partial stamp and so on.

All in all a lot of waiting that didn't serve any real purpose.

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[pioruns]

I understand what you mean. For that, I have no solution. Stamping layer by layer is something game does and I have no way to speed it up. I know that foundation only is lying faster than foundation+items at the same time (that takes ages).
Perhaps devs can look into it and determine why building a spaceship from blueprint takes sooo long time