Platform Connector and Sorter Problems

Derek Winmill shared this bug 2 days ago
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Good Evening Keen Development Team, 

I have attached some screenshots of the issue that I am currently experiencing in the space engineers game. I have noticed that the sorters, neither the vanilla sorter block nor the industrial dlc block, is draining the platform connector's inventory to the connected cargo container and refinery. 

This system is designed to have a mining ship dock on the left platform connector with a sorter that has the *ore, stone, and scrap metal on a whitelist and the drain all is on. It has a bulk cargo container and a refinery on the other side of that sorter with a seperate sorter that will drain only ingots into a second bulk cargo container then lastly a third sorter block to drain all the ingots to the transport ship platform connector. Neither of the platform connectors work. But if I switch the platform connector to an inset connector, the sorters 'drain' function performs as intended. 

I do have mods in this world but I was able to recreate the issue in a vanilla creative world with zero mods and scripts running. The martian world that i provided has no scripts running on this grid to interfere with the sorters functionality. 

Everything moves correctly if I manually move the ores and stone into the ores container or the refinery, even the middle ingots sorter functions properly automatically draining the refinery of its ingots but their sorter also doesn't drain the ingots into the platform connector. I have attached a small cargo container on the tradeship platform connector's conveyor block in an effort to see if that will get the last sorter block to push the ingots into that connector but it does not function at all while the platform connector is in between the small container block. 

I am emailing this as an fyi, i love the platform blocks and wish to continue to use them, but i won't be able to use the connector version until this is fixed. It won't hinder my current game, I will simply use an inset connector and build a platform around it until the platform blocks are fixed. 

I play on PC through Steam, steam id titan_noble. 

Thank you for this game's continued development and looking into this issue!

-Derek Winmill

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Hello!

Thank you for contacting us. Since this is a bug report, I'm moving your ticket to our support page, where our QA team will take care of you.

Kind Regards,

Keen Software House

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Hello Derek,

Thank you for writing to us on our PC Support Forum. We're glad to hear that you're enjoying the game, and we appreciate your kind words.

Regarding the issue, could you please send us the vanilla (unmodded) world containing the affected grid where you experienced it? This would help us better understand the grid setup involved and allow us to attempt to reproduce the issue on our end as well.

You can either upload the world save to your Steam Workshop and send us the link or send us the world save file directly.

  • You can access your save files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves. There should be a folder with your SteamID and your saves.
  • Please zip the file and attach it here. If you are having difficulty attaching files you can optionally use Google Drive. When sharing a google drive link please make sure it is set to be downloadable by anyone with the link.

Kind Regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department

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