How to build structures and do it safely
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In this guide I will be building an extractor on Adalia Prime to show the steps involved and explain how to do it safely, in order to avoid possible loss of materials or even loss of control over your building.
The first thing to do upon locating the plot where you want to build, is to contract a leasing agreement to take control of the lot. If you are not controlling the lot you are building on, you are exposed to someone else renting it after your construction, taking control over it, and gaining the ability to repossess your building and all the materials it may contain.
In order to contract a lease agreement, select your lot, open the Lot Info menu from the right-side panel, navigate to Lot Permissions, and Form Agreement for the duration of your choice. You should now be the administrator of the lot.
Now that you have control over the lot, let's start building. The first step is to plan a building site. Select the lot, and next to the lot view in the bottom left corner, click the Plan Building Site icon. In the window that opens, select your building type and click Create Site to validate the plan. Thanks to having control over the lot, the planning action can be done instantly. Without lot control, the crew would be required to travel to the lot and enter a busy state for the duration of the travel.
In the crew activity list in the top right corner, an orange notification should be available for the construction site. The timer on it shows that you now have 24 hours to deliver the building materials and start the construction. If you let that delay expire, the construction and all materials on the site become vulnerable to possible scavengers. Click the notification to bring the construction window, displaying a list of materials that need to be delivered to the site.
If you have materials available in warehouses, they can be transferred using the top half of the window. Click the Transfer Materials To Site area, and select your warehouse from the list. Click the materials in the Construction Requirements area and select the goods from your warehouse. Validate by clicking the Transfer button. The goods will be on their way alone, taking some time before arriving to the location. However your crew is still free to take other actions, such as buying the rest of the materials from the market.
Missing materials will have to come from the market. I hope you have good memory or a notepad at hand, because the game UI will not help you a lot here. Take note of the required items and their quantities, and close the window. From the right menu panel, open the marketplace.
Use the filers to find your materials, and select your marketplace of choice based on material price or distance (mind that this is the distance from your crew base, not from your building site!). Purchase the requested quantity while being careful of unit conversions (e.g. tons vs. kg), and deliver the goods directly to the construction site. Do not transfer them via a public warehouse, as anyone would be able to get grab them. As for the warehouse transfer, the travel time is only for the goods and your crew will not become busy. Click Submit Order to complete your purchase, and continue until all materials have been bought.
After the transfer time completes, new teal notifications will appear in the crew activity area fo each delivery. Click the notifications one by one to open the Surface Transfer completion window, and Complete the deliveries.
You can now open the construction site window again by clicking the orange notification. All materials should be showing a blue checkmark if they have been sourced correctly.
Click the Construct button to start the building construction. The crew will be unavailable in a busy state for a time equivalent to 20% of the construction time, plus the travel time both ways. Having engineers in the crew helps reduce the construction time (and therefore, the busy time too!).
When the construction timer ends, a teal notification will appear in your crew activity area. Click on the notification to open the construction window, and Complete the construction. This action is instant and will not make your crew enter a busy timer.
Congratulations, you can now enjoy your new building!
