[Question] Wrenching mass fabricator with "power" in lighting bolt slots yields advanced machine

1st Official Post

    Good day


    basicly what the title states, when I wrenched my newly installed mass fab to relocate it I got back a advanced machine. Was kinda frustrated at the loss, made a new one 2 hours later and backed up my save, wrenched it again and it just popped off nicely. So I rebuild my installation it worked fine and i got the the point to upgrade it again and had to relocate. I made sure everything was out of the mass fabricator and it again yielded a advanced machine block rather then a mass fab. The only difference between this and the time it worked properly was that it had power in the "lighting bolt" slot.


    Is this a "feature" or a bug ?


    *i googled, i searched this forum, couldn't find anything concering this issue

    It's a feature. Mass fabricators are delicate, expensive machines and the risk you run every time you wrench one is that you may lose it.


    I was using one earlier yesterday like that and while I did break it, I was also able to wrench it successfully several times when it was powered. So I know it isn't a 100% chance, it's a random number generator and just a coincidence that the time you lost it it was powered.

    • Official Post

    Wrenching machines usually has a chance to fail, encouraging players not to constantly move around.
    Machines meant to be moved do not have this chance, the mass fabricator clearly isn't one of those, though.

    thanks for your answers on the subject, helped to clear up a few things.
    A bit hesitant to move anything now but that will work out :P

    Quote from Alblaka

    Wrenching machines usually has a chance to fail, encouraging players not to constantly move around.
    Machines meant to be moved do not have this chance, the mass fabricator clearly isn't one of those, though.


    Would a wrench which can't use a batpack,and takes a million EU to charge, and uses a million EU to wrench but is always successful be a good idea?

    Is there any way to make the thing stop giving off it's sound though? I wrench it just for this reason, the sound is absolutely annoying and very loud.


    Edit: Nevermind! Lever does the trick. :P