A dialogue box will appear into which the string can be pasted. To import a blueprint, the player can click the Import string icon on the shortcut bar ( ). This string can be copied to the operating system clipboard, from where it could be saved to a text file or uploaded to a website. This makes sharing blueprints between players very easy.Д¬licking the Export to string button ( ) in the top right of the blueprint edit window will pop up a window containing the Blueprint string. It is possible to export blueprints as a text string and import said text string to create a new blueprint. Right clicking on a blueprint allows you to view, edit and clear it.Д«y clearing it, it will become blank so it can be set again. The required items need to be in the network in an active provider chest, a passive provider chest, a buffer chest or a storage chest.Д«lueprints can be placed from map view as long as the area has been explored. The blueprint can be placed anywhere inside the green (or orange) 110Г—110 tiles area of a roboport, or within range of a personal roboport installed in modular armor or spidertron.ДЄfter the blueprint gets placed somewhere, the buildings are placed as ghost buildings.Д¬onstruction robots will now start to pick up the needed items from the construction network/the player inventory (if using a personal roboport) and place them at the ghost buildings. It is possible to place it rotated, press the default key r to rotate. In this case the Blueprint was renamed to 'Example blueprint'. The whole building setup of the blueprint will be shown at your mouse cursor. To use/place the created blueprint select it from the tool belt or inventory. The created blueprint will replace the empty blueprint in the player's cursor. Additionally, blueprint creation can be cancelled by clicking the X in the top right corner.Д¬anceling the blueprint does not consume the blueprint item. The green 'Create blueprint' button creates the blueprint. On the left the 'Total' number of components included in the blueprint is shown.

This can be changed by simply clicking on the icons to choose the desired ones. The game chooses automatically the number of icons and which are pre-selected depending on the number of buildings that are included. On the top left of the 'Setup new blueprint' menu there are four icon slots. Once everything to 'copy' is inside the drag box, release the mouse button, and the 'Blueprint icon setup' menu will open.

With the blueprint icon shown next to the mouse cursor, click and hold the left mouse button and drag a box as large as needed (which can be cancelled by pressing Q).ДЄll buildings which will be included in the blueprint will be highlighted with a green square. To create a blueprint select the blueprint item out of the toolbar or the inventory. The blank blueprint can now be used to 'copy' a set of buildings.ДЇor example, copying this small gun turret defense setup: Construct more machines using robots than manually.Д«lank blueprints can be crafted by clicking the ( ) button in the shortcut bar.

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