Issue connecting static grids, snapping 2 static grids together

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Keen SWH QA Agent 2 ●

Hello, tiy!

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tiy ●

Hi, attaching my save and also image example of how I was able to recreate this issue:

I remembered I didn't try it on new vanilla world so I tried it on one now. (Alien Planet - default settings) I built 2 grids, if I wanted to place block between them (on yellow X), I could only do that while aiming at grid number 1. Grid number one was placed in free placement mode, while grid number two was placed in local-grid align placement mode.

Also, not sure if this is worth mentioning, but I am using experimental mode.

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Shumba ●

Can confirm in a new vanilla game the bug can be reproduced and the bug pops up frequently in normal play. It’s rather game breaking.

Steps to reproduce.

Load SE and go to New game, Custom game, then “Start System”.

Start with default settings.

Select earth start.

Jump out of respawn pod and fly off some place.

Alt+F10 and select creative mode tools.

Build a small large grid cargo container in the ground.

Attach a normal battery on top.

Build out 10 strait “conveyor tube” from the cargo container.

Place another cargo container (we will call container_2) on the end with a battery on top to match what you did at the start.

If this end is not rooted into the voxel, then build down with armour blocks until it meets the voxel.

Test normal behaviour: You should be able to right click a tube piece and replace it. The grid will connect back together and you can access one cargo container from the other. This is normal behaviour.

Make sure your grid is one grid before continuing.

Now we will go to the second cargo container we placed (container_2), and connect 10 basic refineries all piped up to each other. I did this so that the entire grid is in one long line.

Go back to container_2.

While looking at the access port so that it is highlighted, press Shift+F10 to open the spawn menu.

Select stone from the list and enter 999999 as the amount.

Click “spawn into target container” 5 times, then hit esc to leave this menu.

Test buggy behaviour: Wait about 2 seconds for the basic refineries to start up. While all the basic refineries are processing the stone, break a conveyor tube part and try to replace it with the same part type. Be sure to check placement on both sides of the broken connection.

Expected buggy behaviour: The game will not let you place the conveyor tube part back in, to ‘re-join’ the parted grid back together again. This may effect just one or both portions of the ‘split grid’.

If you wait for the stone to finish processing in my experience you still cannot re-join the grids.

In my testing you can often only join in one direction.

In practice it can become imposable to join from ‘any direction’ possibly due to other parts of grids interacting.

If the bug did not reproduce for you, try adding more refineries and stone, what I think matters is the amount of stuff going on. Adding mods, strains the system easy but this is 100% a vanilla bug. I believe you just need to get a lot going on in one area. You can trigger it without 10 refineries.

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