Modular Consoles – Guide

With the Modular Consoles you build your own control rooms: wall panels, desks and cabinets with a module field on a 10 cm grid, fitted with 20 modules – buttons, switches, knobs, keypad, LEDs, annunciators, text displays, 7-segment displays, gauges, bar graphs, signal lights, buzzers and labels. Every module is a logic device of its own for IC10. All models are original designs in an industrial look, anthracite with a green accent strip. Labels and device names appear in German or English, depending on the game language.

Overview#

Housings#

The character sees from a height of about 1 m, and since 1.0.1 desks and cabinet are sized for that. Modules from older saves are kept and move along. The wall panels stand clear of a finished wall too. Desks and cabinets have a title plate. One connector for power and data supplies all modules on the housing.

Modules#

One grid unit is 10 × 10 cm. Labels are at least 15 mm high, display lines at least 25 mm – readable while standing.

Requirements#

• Stationeers 0.2.6428, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, StationeersLaunchPad 1.0, see Installation
• Mod in the active mod pack
• In multiplayer: the server and all players

Building and recipes#

With every kit the mouse wheel picks the size or module. Large housings use several kits, see the "Kits" column above. A module uses one kit. The costs are in GameData/konsolen.xml in the mod folder.

Step by step#

1. Build the housing.
2. Connect a cable with power and data to the connector.
3. Hold a module kit (controls or displays) and pick the module with the mouse wheel.
4. Aim at the module field. The slot under the crosshair is outlined green, occupied slots are reported.
5. Click: the module snaps in and takes power and data from the housing.
6. Click the module with the screwdriver: set name, label, colours, scales.
7. In IC10 address the module with lbn/sbn, the prefab hash and HASH("name").

While the field is empty it shows MODULE FIELD with short instructions.

Mounting#

On a housing: modules snap to the 10 cm grid, on the sloped desk field too. They take power and data from the housing and appear on the data network as perfectly normal devices. IC10, the labeller, the Control Station and the data bridges of the Power Regulator and the Substation find them.

Free: like the game's console modules, every module can also be placed freely on a wall, frame, floor or ceiling. It then sits on a 19 cm deep surface box that also stands clear of a finished wall. The cable with power and data goes into the cell below.

Taking down: modules and housings are taken down with the hand drill. A housing can only be taken down once no modules are left on it (setting GehaeuseAbbauSperren). If a housing is destroyed, its modules drop out as kits.

Operation#

• Click buttons, switch halves, the fader track or keys.
• The mouse wheel over switches and knobs adjusts them. The inventory does not scroll then.
• Alt turns the key switch back. On the rotary knob a click with Alt makes 10 steps.
• Lock blocks manual operation. IC10 may still switch as long as SperreNurVonHand is on.
• The emergency stop latches when pressed, even with Lock. It can only be released by hand and not while locked; IC10 can only read it.

Settings window#

A click with the screwdriver opens the settings window.

• Module: device name (the name for HASH("…")), label (device name, own text or none), colours, positions and their texts, scale with range, step, decimals, unit, title and red zone, display lines, value formats, sound, pulse time and an IC10 quick reference with HASH lines to copy.
• Housing: name, title, brightness, grid lines on or off, list of modules.

The default label of a module is its device name. If you name a button "Pumpe Start", that text appears on the module.

Text displays#

The lines of the text displays are templates with placeholders: {1} to {8} are values, {T1} to {T4} texts from IC10. {1} is also Setting. For every value you set decimals, unit, factor and k/M/G in the window. Newly built displays show {T1} to {T4}.

IC10#

Every module also has On, Power and Error, the controls Lock as well. Colours are colour numbers such as Color.Red.

Text display: get and put#

So a text has at most 24 characters. With the display's ReferenceId in r0, put r0 8 STR("PUMP") writes the first 6 characters of {T1}. clr empties all values and texts. In Mode 5 the 7-segment display shows a text stored in Setting with STR("…").

Example: pump with toggle switch, emergency stop and pressure gauge#

On the desk there are a toggle switch "Pumpe", an LED "Pumpe", an emergency stop "Not-Aus" and a gauge "Druck". The volume pump and a pipe analyzer behind the pump are named "Pumpe" as well. The toggle switch switches the pump, the LED shows whether it runs. A pressed emergency stop switches it off, and the LED then blinks. Set the gauge's scale range with the screwdriver, for example 0 to 5000 kPa.

# Consoles: pump with toggle switch, LED, emergency stop and gauge
define KIPP 1675646743    # Console Toggle Switch
define LED 1642510011     # Console LED
define NOTAUS 1891705350  # Console Emergency Stop
define ZEIGER -1650540271 # Console Analogue Gauge
define PUMPE -321403609   # Volume Pump
define ANALYSE 435685051  # Pipe Analyzer
define BLINKT 2           # LED setting: blinking
alias schalter r0
alias notaus r1
alias druck r2
alias an r3
alias led r4
alias fehlt r5
start:
yield
lbn druck ANALYSE HASH("Pumpe") Pressure 0
bnan druck schalten
sbn ZEIGER HASH("Druck") Setting druck
schalten:
lbn schalter KIPP HASH("Pumpe") Setting 0
snan fehlt schalter
select schalter fehlt 0 schalter
lbn notaus NOTAUS HASH("Not-Aus") Setting 0
snan fehlt notaus
select notaus fehlt 1 notaus
select an notaus 0 schalter
sbn PUMPE HASH("Pumpe") On an
select led notaus BLINKT an
sbn LED HASH("Pumpe") Setting led
j start

If the toggle switch is missing, it counts as down. If the emergency stop is missing from the network, it counts as pressed – the pump then stays off.

Example: access code for a door#

A keypad "Labor" opens the composite door "Labor" for 5 seconds when the right code is typed and confirmed with OK. The keypad shows GRANTED or DENIED.

# Consoles: keypad opens the lab door with the right code
define TASTEN -38617740   # Console Keypad
define TUER -793837322    # Composite Door
define CODE 4711          # access code
define FREIGABE 1         # feedback GRANTED
define ABGELEHNT 2        # feedback DENIED
define OFFEN 5            # seconds the door stays open
alias eingabe r0
start:
yield
lbn eingabe TASTEN HASH("Labor") Setting 0
bnan eingabe start
beqz eingabe start
sbn TASTEN HASH("Labor") Setting 0
beq eingabe CODE frei
sbn TASTEN HASH("Labor") Output ABGELEHNT
j start
frei:
sbn TASTEN HASH("Labor") Output FREIGABE
sbn TUER HASH("Labor") Open 1
sleep OFFEN
sbn TUER HASH("Labor") Open 0
j start

The code is a number: leading zeros do not count, "0815" arrives as 815. With Mode 1 the keypad hides the digits typed.

Console commands#

Console with F3. Without an id, info, test and fenster act on the device you are looking at.

The German words work too: module, gehaeuse, test, fenster, ziel, neuzeichnen.

Configuration#

File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.konsolen.cfg, or via the mod settings in LaunchPad.

Multiplayer#

New devices: the server and all players need the mod. Operation and settings go through the server and are synchronised to everyone. See Multiplayer.

Known limitations#

• A text on a text display has at most 24 characters (4 × 6 characters via STR).
• IC10 can only read the emergency stop, never release it. That is intended.
• Display modules have no operation lock, Lock only exists on the controls.
• Lamps, needles and displays are only updated continuously up to 30 m away (SichtweiteM).
• In vacuum the buzzer is silent, like every sound in the game.

Troubleshooting#