Control Station – Guide

The Control Station is a control room for the whole base. It finds every logic device on the data network by itself – also behind the data bridges of the Power Regulator and the Substation –, shows their values on large screens and controls them through a terminal. On top come an IC10 editor and slots for real IC10 chips right in the control desk. All models are original designs. Labels, screens and device names appear in German or English, depending on the game language.

Overview#

Every running IC10 chip needs 10 W extra. The control desk also has a main switch, an ACK button and an alarm bar. Wall monitors and terminals have PAGE buttons and a main switch.

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#

The character sees from a height of about 1 m, and all sizes follow from that. The wall terminal is best placed in the wall cell 1 m above the floor (0.75 to 1.25 m); the screen is then at eye level. Several wall monitors side by side make a monitor wall. The costs are in GameData/kontrollstation.xml in the mod folder.

First steps#

1. Connect a control desk or terminal with power and data to the base's data network, main switch ON. After a few seconds every device appears.
2. Put wall monitors on the same data line. They show overview, power, rooms and alarms right away. Set up your own pages in the terminal, tab Monitors.
3. Networks behind a Power Regulator or Substation: switch on the data bridge there, then the station sees those devices too.
4. Clicking a screen opens the terminal.

All stations on one data line form one system: the same devices, shared groups, scenes, alarms and monitor pages. The setup is saved with the game, in the two stations with the lowest ids.

Screens#

Every page is made of large tiles with colour status, readable while standing. Alarms flash.

Which pages a screen shows and in which order is set in the Monitors tab. Pages change with the PAGE buttons, automatically every n seconds or by IC10. Screens are only drawn within sight (default 35 m), further away the last picture stays.

Terminal#

Clicking a screen with an empty hand opens a large window for the system of that station. With TerminalTaste you can also assign a key that opens the terminal of the nearest station within 4 m.

Safety prompt: before critical actions the terminal asks first: power off, opening an airlock, groups of 5 or more devices, devices and scenes marked critical, overwriting code. Can be switched off with Sicherheitsabfrage.

Alarms#

• Own rules: device or group, value, limit, hysteresis, delay and level.
• Automatic: pressure, temperature, oxygen and CO2 in rooms, battery level, cable load and device faults.
• Levels: 1 notice, 2 warning, 3 alarm.
• Open alarms sound at the stations, hearing distance 20 m. ACK on the control desk, in the terminal, by IC10 or ks quitt acknowledges all.

Permissions#

In multiplayer every player has one permission level at all control stations:

New players get the level from RechtMitspieler (default: Einrichten). It can be changed per player in the terminal. The server and single player may do everything.

IC10 chips in the control desk and terminal#

The control desk has four slots IC10 chip 1–4, every terminal one. The chip symbol "IC10" is printed at each slot.

1. Insert an Integrated Circuit (IC10) from the electronics printer into a slot.
2. Click a screen and open the IC10 tab in the terminal.
3. Write the code and click Write to chip.
4. Under Pins d0–d5 pick any devices of the system, without cables or screwdriver.
5. Start.

• The chips run on the game's original interpreter, 128 instructions per tick.
• db is the station itself. Batch instructions such as lbn and sbn reach the whole data network, also behind data bridges.
• hcf halts the chip and shows an error; the station is not damaged.
• All chips of a station share the station memory get/put db 0–511. System values start at address 512 (below).
• The code lives on the chip. The Editor Tablet and the game's computer can read and write it. From the terminal, code can also be written to any IC housing on the network.
• With ProzessorenAktiv off the slots only store chips.

In the editor, "25C" becomes 298.15 when you type space or enter, optionally with the comment # 25 C. The checker also shows style hints such as registers without alias or raw hash numbers.

IC10 of the station#

get and put access the station memory and the system values. Writable addresses are marked (W). clr clears the station memory.

Scenes and groups count from 1 in the order of the terminal. 526 to 528 only trigger on a changed value, so a chip may write them in every loop. To start the same scene again, write 0 first.

Example: power saving by battery level#

This chip sits in a slot of the control desk. Two scenes are set up in the terminal: scene 1 "power saving" switches consumers off, scene 2 "normal" switches them back on. If the batteries fall below 20 %, the chip starts scene 1, above 50 % scene 2. In between nothing happens.

# Control Station: chip in the desk, scene by battery level
define AKKU 520           # system value: batteries 0 to 1
define SZENE 526          # put n = start scene n
define SPAREN 1           # scene 1: power saving
define NORMAL 2           # scene 2: normal operation
define UNTEN 0.2          # below 20 % save power
define OBEN 0.5           # above 50 % back to normal
alias akku r0
alias szene r1
alias test r2
move szene 0
start:
yield
get akku db AKKU
slt test akku UNTEN
select szene test SPAREN szene
sgt test akku OBEN
select szene test NORMAL szene
put db SZENE szene
j start

If there are no batteries on the network, 520 returns 0 – power saving then starts.

Example: horn and flashing light on alarm#

This chip runs in any IC housing on the same data network. The control desk is named "Leitstand", a klaxon speaker and a flashing light are named "Alarm". As soon as an alarm of level 3 is open, both switch on. After acknowledging they switch off again.

# Control Station: horn and flashing light at alarm level 3
define LEITSTAND 1656607069 # Control Desk
define HUPE -828056979      # Klaxon Speaker
define LICHT -1535893860    # Flashing Light
define ALARM 3              # highest alarm level
alias stufe r0
alias an r1
start:
yield
lbn stufe LEITSTAND HASH("Leitstand") Stress 0
bnan stufe start
sge an stufe ALARM
sbn HUPE HASH("Alarm") On an
sbn LICHT HASH("Alarm") On an
j start

Give the desk the name "Leitstand" with the labeller; the default name depends on the game language.

Console commands#

Console with F3, as ks or kontrollstation. The commands act on the nearest station within 30 m, on a server without players on the first one. Switching goes through the server, as in the terminal.

Backups are stored in BepInEx\config\Kontrollstation\<name>.json. The German words work too: geraete, alarme, quitt, szene, gruppe, setze, speicher, sichern, laden.

Configuration#

File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.kontrollstation.cfg, or via the mod settings in LaunchPad. Reading values, alarms and permissions are handled by the server with its values.

Multiplayer#

New devices: the server and all players need the mod. The server reads the values, checks alarms, records history, runs the IC10 chips and switches. Players only receive changes, plus a complete update every two minutes. Actions of players go to the server as a message; the server checks permission, power and lock. See Multiplayer.

Known limitations#

• A system reads at most 800 devices (MaxGeraete).
• The station only sees devices on its own data network. Networks behind transformers need a data bridge.
• Values are read once per second. For fast control loops an IC10 chip is better than an alarm rule.
• Screens out of sight show the last picture drawn.
• The data bridge links devices, not the channels Channel0–7.

Troubleshooting#