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Power; it is the name for the capacity to do work in Waste of Space. Without power, your machines cannot operate. As such, it is crucial to master this mechanic. Power is also closely linked with this game's electronics mechanics, such as trigger signals. This guide will cover everything from the basics of how power works, to constructing nuclear reactors to power your base. Before we can cover more advanced topics though, we must start with the basics of how power works. If you've played the tutorial, this should be familiar.

 

[[Polysilicon]] adds additional information to trigger signals. It can either be activating, deactivating, or FlipFlop - which switches through the other two modes each time it is triggered. A [[switch]] receiving a signal from activating [[polysilicon]] will turn on, and vice versa. Note this type of 'trigger' cannot be transmitted.

 

One important aspect of power we haven't talked about yet is how its generated. We'll cover that now.

 

 

We'll cover building each of them by outlining every step. Let's start simple with [[coal]]-based power;

 

=== Building a coal-based power generation setup ===

# Power the [[refinery]]. You can do this with a few [[Battery|batteries]].

 

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Solar power is stupid easy. Just connect [[SolarPanel|SolarPanels]] (which have direct view of the [[Star|sun]] and are either around a [[star]] or in a [[Planets|planet]] where it's day) to [[PowerCell|PowerCells]]. Yup, that's it. Due to this, solar power is an amazing source of energy for starterships or space bases.

# Connect ''<small>([[Wire|wires]])</small>'' the [[SteamTurbine|SteamTurbines]] to a [[PowerCell]]

 

[[Reactor|Reactors]] are a great way of generating power for base. They aren't ideal for most ships due to their high [[water]] consumption. However, larger ships should have no problem fitting the necessary [[water]] [[Container|containers]] needed for running a [[reactor]] for any meaningful amount of time. The [[SteamTurbine|SteamTurbines]] required to generate power from [[steam]] are also quite large. Make sure you have enough room for them if you're doing this on a ship. This guide assumes you'll be creating up a single [[reactor]] setup;

 

# Connect the [[DarkGenerator]] to [[PowerCell|PowerCells]] using [[Wire|wires]].

 

If you've made it this far, <big>'''good job!'''</big> You've learnt the basics of power and triggers, and built a power generation setup for your base or ship.