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Hey guys!

Thanks a lot for bringing us this amazing update!

I want to report something thats been happening quite frequently in my current playthrough:

Red X appearing on random entities: Mines, Assemblers, Chests, Lamps, etc... For no apparent reason. The only way to fix those that, is by destroying and rebuilding and even then, it comes back sometimes.

I had this happen on a storage chest. It was being fed by a burner drill mining stone. It was an iron chest. Red X appeared and the chest stopped storing stone. It wasnt full. Mine was working, it had fuel. I had not restricted the chest inventory and it was about 1/4 full.

The only to fix the problem was to destroy the chest and rebuild it. And the X came back after a while, same issue.

Also happened on a Gun Turret. I had just placed it, put ammo in it and a red X appeared. At first I was thinking that maybe Gun Turrets now take... power?! But nope. Tried to rebuild it at the same exact spot and the red X would appear on it 5-10 sec after building the turret and feeding it ammo.

I had to change the turret spot 1 tile up and then it stopped appearing.

I wish I had taken screenshot... but hopefully this can be replicated or other people reading this will have that bug too!

Cheers guys!

Hello, by any chance, are pressing Ctrl+Z accidently? What it your keyboard layout?

Hey posila,

Nope. Nothing like that.

By keyboard layout I assume you're asking me if I'm using default controls and QWERTY?

Yep! And just updated my post with a screenshot!

Edit: Ok well now its happening all over my base and as you can see in the screenshot, you can see the turret affected too and another lamp.

Another screenshot:

The thing is : could you be pressing the "Undo" key combination wile doing something unrelated, due to control settings ?
The layout question is because if you had been with an AZERTY keyboard, going forward ('Z') and handfeeding ('Ctrl-Click') would have guaranteed unwanted "undo".
So the wider question, couldn't you be "undoing" inadvertantly building placements ?

DELETE THIS POST!!!!

IM AN IDIOT - an old mod was interfering with my hotkeys and I forgot to disable it before starting my new game.

So sorry.