when building/grinding a block, it often lost focus and come back : Unplayable

when I'm welding i have to be kissing the block or it will start flickering same with the the grinder but not as much and the drill just need a little more range as well.

When I try to weld a projected block, the UI constantly flickers from showing nothing selected to the block selected, so when I try to weld it, it's constantly flickering and barely welding at all because it needs to be solidly welding for some fraction of time for any progress to be done it seems.

I think it might be related to moving grids but not sure. I am trying to weld a ship that is not connected to anything so is drifting very slightly. Locking it to a platform seems to have a significant improvement but still flickers.

I have tried different distances and angles to the grid to no consistent improvement.

Some blocks (Detailing and conveyor so far) are unable to be welded or ground down unless looking at a specific side of the block. They can weld to stage 1 then I have to look at a specific side to continue welding. If I can't do this then I have to grind down numerous other blocks just to finish welding 1 block. It seems that some blocks have only one interactable side on occasion. I hope this makes sense.

Tried to grind a damaged block on its damaged side.

The grinder spluttered.

Ground the block successfully on the blocks non damaged side.

I thought at first maybe it was just the Mk1 welder and grinder really sucked. But I have Mk2 of both now, and it's still crazy difficult to find a point on some blocks that'll let you actually use your tools. This is super frustrating with static blocks, and pretty much impossible with moving ones. Just check out all these screenshots of me trying to weld the assembler for the Manufacturing Facility contract. The cargo container for the same contract was bad, too, but not quite so ridiculous.

Sometimes, randomly, I will approach a block to either weld or grind it, I click mouse to start the process and the tool cycles on and off ~10 times a second. It's like the target isn't in range even though I'm right up against it. When that happens, I've eventually fixed it by stepping away from the object and then moving closer again...a couple times.

I first noticed this with the welder, but that has other issues that confuse things like need for the correct ingredients, there are times when a block is targeted you can see the welder sub window for the block concerned, but it won't work (even with the correct ingredients)

to simplify things somewhat the grinder also exhibits the core issue too

usually if pointed at a block you can just grid, frequently however when pointing at a block it will fail to work sometimes "spluttering" (the effect working intermittently but nothing actually happing to the block) or even not engaging, often changing height with the jet pack will make things work

please provide an easy to access debug view where the sphere of influence of the tool can be see, this will likely lead to a clue as to what is actually going on.

I'd suggest making the sphere of influence larger for the tools and picking the furthest block (counter intuitive but if nearer blocks build first you won't be able to build blocks further away)

given that the welder is complicated by an as yet unexplained (for the new user) order of ingredients this will likely result in new users picking the game up - getting nowhere and giving up

much like I did 3 times with SE1 over the years before it gelled (mainly due to poor/broken tutorial missions)

correctly working easy to understand tools are fundamental to onboarding new players

Grinding and Welding is very difficult. It difficult to find a spot in the hologram that can be welded or ground often is a only a single pixel in the model.

Weird grinder issue while using grinder on moving object. wont gring until i find the perfect spot on a block.

I ran into a possible bug. The welder/grinder struggle to stay active when the object is in motion. This could be something you're already working on, but I found specifically the objects in motion do NOT like to be ground or welded. The "lock" on the item you're grinding/welding flickers on the screen.

when i try to grind a block it acts like it's im not pointing at it then finds the block then stops and start grinding repeatedly and doesn't make any grinding progress, this mostly happens on ships especially (but not exclusively) if its moving or rotating

I’ve noticed an issue with the grinder tool: it doesn’t always properly detect blocks. Sometimes the tool simply «doesn’t see» target objects - the cursor locks on them, but no interaction occurs. In other cases, the tool acts glitchy: it starts with a delay, interrupts mid‑operation, or fails to initiate the cutting process altogether. This significantly hinders construction and demolition tasks in the game.

When hovering over some blocks, the hand tools (welder/grinder) will lose focus on the block very easily with slight movement. So when welding or grinding I have to be extremely careful not to move my mouse at all or the tool will lose focus on the block being worked on. It's often difficult to select the block in the first place.

My guess is that the block is being selected based on some sort of irregular surface geometry, rather than a simple bounding box.

It seems to mostly occur with blocks that aren't flat surfaces. I noticed the Assembler is particularly bad.

This is an interesting bug. I am currently welding up a new large station in the Oblivara sector.

Since I am not sure if this issue is due to the scale of the construction or something peculiar with how the blocks were placed, I am going to start by describing the station construction.

I started by creating a surface platform and installing a pair of batteries and an antennae to make the base easier to find. From there I added a strip of conveyor nodes with conveyors to hook up the manufacturing blocks - smelter, assembler, refinery and foundry - so I could make parts. (I prefer construction by parts versus direct from ores.) I also added 4 large (7.5m) storage containers under the conveyor nodes and cross-connected them with each other and the conveyor node strip using conveyors so they would all be recognized. I added 15 large batteries below the platform for power storage. I also added a large hydrogen tank to the station for future hydrogen storage. There is also a long conveyor tube with a connector for ship docking.

I then used half light armor cubes to add walls to which I connected a set of solar panels for generating power.

To hide the containers and tank and make the base look more polished, I added a large area of full light armor cubes (2.5m) to enclose the bottom. There is also a door to allow access to the interior and a docking tube that is exposed externally to allow my ships to dock.

One issue that I ran into early is that welding from the inside was problematic. The welder kept flickering in and out of contact for welding and wouldn't stabilize. I eventually moved outside get to a surface that allowed stable contact for welding.

When I was nearly completed with the welding, I ran into six full light armor cubes that refused to be recognized externally. In screenshot 133754, you can see the welder on the external side showing the light armor cube being recognized next to one of the blocks that refused to be recognized. Screenshot 144826 shows one of the light armor cubes not being recognized by the welder at all, no matter how close that I was to the block. Screenshot 135133 shows the 6 blocks that were being a problem - the sun is setting, so it is difficult to see the sixth block. Oddly enough, these appear to be 5 blocks apart and 3 blocks in from each edge, all of which welded up fine around it but some of the blocks are no longer being recognized by the welder or grinder.

However, if I move to the inside of the structure, you can see in screenshot 133937 that these same blocks are recognized by the welder. I was also able to complete welding these 6 blocks just fine from the inside of the structure.

Screenshots 140620 through 140940 show views of the station construction so far both from the outside surfaces and the inside storage areas, including how the containers are connected at the back to the conveyor node strip.

While playing survival, I accepted the contract to find and repair an asteroid station. Part of the contract was removing debris (free-floating storage containers). I bumped one while grinding it down. It seems that because of the grid's movement, the grinder wasn't able to properly interact with the blocks being ground, which left me unable to grind down the grid.

ya when you try to grind blocks only the sides ur able to hit the block you guys need the other sides of the box as hit boxes too thanks great game btw :)

When grinding down or welding up a block the raycast detecting which block to grind / weld becomes increasingly inconsistent. After playing the game for a while the issue appears more regular. The raycast operation lags inter-frame coherence and results in a "stutter" - one frame the block is hit correctly, next frame its missed, then hit correctly and so on.

Yes, I can weld with my handwelder, but it takes an eternity when it is broken like that.. Here is a video of what I mean by this. https://youtu.be/TD9pYBdPhco

In SE1 this would be a matter of 2 seconds, here it takes much longer.

I'am sorry If you feel like I complain a lot in my last reports, but I just want the game to get better.

In addition, I turned on advanced menu before building, but I only skipped a time, so it should not have a big impact.