FIELD GUIDE / DELIVERY & PAYMENT
Make the route end in a sale
A working conveyor route ends with accepted material and a balance increase. Check that full journey before making the line bigger.
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Send dust or stone from a releasing source along a continuous conveyor into the base’s receiving port. Follow one small load and check your money. A belt ending beside the building, or a loose pile on the ground, does not verify auto-selling.
Connect the complete route
Start with an output that actually releases material: a Packager, a vehicle unloaded through its Garage, or a Capsule Catcher feeding a belt. The Packager is useful for hand-collected loads, but it is not a required extra stop for every automated source.
Connect to the base’s actual receiving port. A conveyor ending just short of the port can leave you carrying material the final distance by hand. That is the missing connection to fix, rather than adding another machine.
Verify one small sale
- Choose dust or stone and note your balance. Keep the test small enough to track, and avoid mixing it with other deliveries where practical.
- Check the source. Unload the vehicle or Packager, or watch the Catcher’s output. Confirm a capsule enters the conveyor.
- Follow it along the line. Check every join, turn and machine handoff. Stop at the first place it waits.
- Watch the receiving port. Confirm the route connects into the intake instead of depositing a pile nearby.
- Check the result. Confirm that the balance increases when the load is accepted. Repeat with the same material before leaving the system unattended.
Use the money change as the final check. A capsule disappearing, a machine animation or an empty conveyor alone does not tell you that payment was credited.
Find where the journey breaks
| What you see | Check next |
|---|---|
| The source keeps its load | Its unload interaction, output port and any displayed status message. |
| The source is full, with no outgoing capsule | The first belt connection and free space downstream. |
| Capsules pile up on a belt | The first stopped section, its direction and the receiving stage after it. |
| Material reaches the building but does not pay | The exact intake connection, material type and balance before and after a small repeat test. |
For a Garage that will not release dust, read its silo status first. Patch 1.0.5 added explanations for stopped output, including a missing outfeed connection. Use that message to choose the next repair.
Keep material and packing checks separate
The selling route here covers payment for dust and stone arriving by belt. For sand, use a separate small-load test instead of assuming the same rule. Likewise, do not assume a Catcher with no connected output has completed a sale without checking the balance.
The Auto-Packer upgrade packs material; it does not build the route to the base. If capsules fail to form on a large base, update the game: patch 1.0.5 fixed a packing issue. If capsules form and then stop, continue checking the physical route.
Guide assumptions
Check your current machine menus and observe a complete delivery route. Read the model assumptions before using a factory estimate.