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For some reason i cannot connect red/green wires to walls anymore on my space station. I can copy/paste walls with wires, but trying to connect any new ones will refuse. I used the walls to organize longer wires along the outside of my space stations.
This worked until recently, i think .15 it still worked? I assume this is because the wall is not next to a gate.
Is this intended, or did i abuse a bug i can now no longer abuse? Could not find a mention about walls in recent change logs.

This is intended, the only use of wires on walls is if next to a gate.

if you're looking for an alternative, .

Loewchen wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:39 pm This is intended, the only use of wires on walls is if next to a gate.

I'm curious, what's the reasoning behind disallowing wires from attaching to the top of walls? In regards to Space Ships, it would be quite useful to be able to build wires on walls and it'd help to keep clean builds.

The reason why it'd even be nice to have is that the connection range between asteroid collectors is an issue. When they are placed at max range, and as they rank up makes it impossible to connect from asteroid collector to asteroid collector cleanly. So to work around that, we either have to spam belts; or combinators; everywhere on the ship just to make wires reach. Could also route things through the hub, but then I'm forced to mesh different logic networks and that complicates things even more. Heaven forbid I accidently get the wrong item in the hub, and then everything breaks.

I connect them to random ammo/chunk belts with no options enabled. Same effect.

Just to get back to this, it seems i can put the wires down on ghost walls, and that works still