Astroneering with Brad and Vinny: Episode 09 [Vinny's View]

looking forward to this automation update stream

This might have already been brought up already but has anyone told Vinny that he can control the buttons on the Research tab using wasd?

@vinny

Can you make a chain of robo-arms to stand in for conveyor belts?

@vinny You should attach a hydrazine booster to a medium rover and ride it off a ramp, just for funsies.

The thumper just reminds me of Firefall

I ended up playing around with some basic automation last night before watching the archive. Really cool stuff. My primary power set-up at the moment is basic but effective.

• medium platform B with 2 medium generators on the outside and two standard flat storage on the inside
• Arm connecting the platform to a smelter
• Another arm connecting the smelter to a medium platform A with a medium resource canister dedicated to organic (holds 32)
• Organic goes from the resource canister to the smelter to become carbon then on the storage area flanked by generators; when the storage is full the others hold until a spot is ready

Tonight I'm going to add another platform with two medium batteries and add a battery sensor so the medium generators shut off when the batteries are full. That coupled with two medium wind turbines should be enough power for now. If this doesn't work I'll be looking into more tutorials on how the power and storage sensors work.

Edit: Quick update. the generators and battery sensor worked! As shown in the weekly streams, this game is very meditative.

@brad I was a staunch wired-mouse user, but when my last one bit the dust I got a "Tecknet" bluetooth mouse. It runs on two AA batteries that both add a nice weight to it and last ages, and while I had problems with interference when I had the BT dongle plugged into my I/O board I haven't had any issues with it on the front of my PC. It's responsive enough for FPS games, and I haven't had any issues w/ tracking since moving the dongle.

Yeah Vinnie, the controls on console are pretty brutal. Thought this game’s on my shortlist of all time favourites, trying to fiddle with that camera for fine tuning is just brutal.

I was looking for a 5-button Intellimouse after mine died, but I couldn't find any.

@sekou: That's the one thing that stopped me from playing this on Xbox game pass. I was excited to try it out and then realized how bad it was to do some of the simple things I've seen in this stream. Even walking through the tutorial stuff took so long and was frustrating because I've seen enough of this game to know where certain things are or how to build something and it just ended up taking way longer than I had patience for.