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I've attached a save that contains test sites for four rocket silo prototypes:



1. The vanilla rocket silo placed on Nauvis.
2. The vanilla rocket silo placed on Muluna. Using PlanetsLib's entity replacement engine, this entity has doubled rocket lift from the vanilla rocket silo.
3. The big rocket silo placed on Nauvis. This rocket silo has 5x lift capacity, 3x rocket parts required, and 3x crafting speed from the vanilla rocket silo, among other changes. Code containing modifications: https://github.com/nicholasgower/planet ... t-silo.lua
4. The big rocket silo placed on Muluna. This rocket silo has 10x lift capacity, 3x rocket parts required, and 3x crafting speed from the vanilla rocket silo.
Each rocket silo listed above has two versions, one automatically loaded with exactly one space platform starter pack, and one loaded to capacity with space platform foundation.

While the vanilla rocket silo and its Muluna variant works without issue, for a reason unclear to me, neither big rocket silo is able to launch cargo other than space platform starter packs.

To reproduce this issue, load the attached save and load all mods requested by the save. Attempt to ship up space platform starter packs and space platform foundation on each rocket silo set up for testing.

Because the PlanetsLib vanilla rocket silo replacement for Muluna works, I don't believe lift weight is the direct cause of this issue, and the actual issue is with a seemingly unrelated prototype property in the big rocket silo.
The big rocket silo added by Muluna is intended to have the same behavior as the vanilla rocket silo, in all but scale and speed.

Thanks for the report, this is not a bug. Your big rocket silo creates a different cargo pod which is not accepted by the platform hub (see also 132664). Manual launch is correctly rejected and I'm going to fix this for automated rocket launch as well.

Thank you for your response. This is likely enough information to fix the bug on my end. I still think that the current experience of attempting to ship cargo to a space platform on a silo unsupported by the platform hub feels unpolished, and would benefit from a notification indicating that the platform hub does not support receiving cargo from this rocket silo.