The DIY battery capacity settings do not apply to me either.

I have a problem with the bank battery.. this mod does not work for me :c
B 42

Build 42, the recipe won't work, and there are no ingredients in the world.

DIY batteries not affected by sandbox settings, basements not getting power. Crafting worked for all the recipes for me at least. Mod not updated since January.

The fail safe no longer exists in game. :P

在制作表内找不到任何有关太阳能物品的配方

There is no way to crafted batteries, electronics 3 and 5 levels

For those asking about the battery bank: You must craft it with cables, a metal bar, an inverter, and a small sheet of metal. The inverter is in the game (I found it in factories). However, you must disable Tetris Inventory. If you created the battery bank before disabling Tetris, I recommend removing the bank and installing it again. What I find funny is the power of each panel. I have 5 panels connected, and I get a maximum power of 129.7 Ah. I thought each panel provided 83 Ah. I don't know if it's a bug or if they just nerfed the panels.

I searched many places, but couldn't find any solar cells or panels. Is it not working anymore?

where parts? i cant find any batterys and Solar Panels
i think mod it die

This doesn't work for basements w/ new update

@Andagor Put the deep cycle batteries in the power bank. It has an inventory slot.

I couldn't use your cells - I built a floor panel, put 3 types of batteries on the floor next to each other, an inverter, the panel writes in red that there is no battery nearby! This is nonsense, I even tried to put them on the floor below - it also doesn't work... the wires and electrics are at the maximum level, but it doesn't help!

I haven't found a battery bank in B42.

is there a way to make this work for bunkers

@Stage I haven't found a battery bank in B42 either, just panels, batteries and inverters. I use more battery banks and panels than I could find anyway, so I just craft them.

My whole base just runs on solar, no generators as backups, although I do have some generators in storage.

@Noisy Koi If you are wanting to collect vehicles and some have dead batteries you could always keep a charged battery for the type of vehicle that you are looking for in the trunk of the vehicle that you are using, or pinch the battery from another.

In single player, if you wanted to you could carry around the ISA battery bank, some batteries for it and a charger, no need for the solar panel, then put the dead battery on charge and come back later to collect the vehicle and the ISA gear, but it's way easier to pinch a battery from another vehicle or you have a mod with a trailer that can load the vehicle.

I use Autotsar Trailers - Hauler but it can only load small cars, so I use a small car to tow the trailer to the car I want and put the smallest car in the trailer. Don't load a hotwired car in the trailer or you will have to hotwire it again.

would be cool if we could either install these onto cars somehow, or if we could atleast install "temporary" solar panels to charge a car battery.

Hello Mr. Poltergeist, I hope you have been doing well as your loyal fans have not heard from you in a while ?

Battery bank menu disappears within a millisecond after opening, and connecting solar panels throws errors when using Inventory Tetris.
Can be fixed by disabling Inventory Tetris, picking up and putting down battery bank and then enabling the inventory mod again.

In case someone comes looking for answers.

Yeah, I use it myself. The battery bank runs for 18 hours a day while the generator runs six at night. Be sure to have plenty of propane, screws, Scrape electronics and large sheet metals because the RNG god was not happy with me and I had to build all my solar panels. So scrap every watch, refrigerator, TV, car radio, normal radio and keep the parts on hand and ready.

Can anybody using this mod on b42 confirm if it works well? As in, all the functionality is there and it doesn't mess up the save?

I also noticed that the DIY values from the sandbox settings are being ignored.

So I'm playing with this b42-build and I have found one crate of solar components, but no battery banks. I know in b42 I used to find solar stuff quite frequently in large warehouses and in storage spaces or cellars there where banks.
It looks like this has changed I found no bank and barely any solar related stuff (besides that one crate) - even in electronics stores.
Did something change with the spawns? Usually I did not need to grind lvl4 electronics to build a bank because I looted them.

P.S. i damn found it in craft, it have another logo image and other name, something like craft acumulator battery

@SexyPanda, thats the point i find the magazine for solar planels, DYI battery and other, but there is no Battery bank in this magazine that i found, maybe there are two of them but i found only one and dont have any battery bank in craft menu, thats weird

@AromiaFlyce I haven't tried adding this version to a current save but the B41 version you could but if it is added mid game then you miss the spawning of the parts in all areas that you have already been to.

You would have to explore new areas to get he parts or change the settings so that you can craft them.

Can this be added mid playthru on the current B42 release? this looks great, cannot wait to play around and experiment

沙盒设置diy电池容量无效
Setting diy battery capacity in the sandbox is invalid

Mr. Ghost, after finding the magazine that teaches you what you need to know and getting the required skills up, I had to build an inverter since I have zero luck finding one and with other pieces I was able to build a battery bank. Some of the parts for the solar panels require a table to craft them. Also I increased the spawn loot of solar items and it appears the RNG gods are NOT smiling upon for this run. Also I had to craft a lot of solar panels, which takes 5 wires, 5 sheet metals, 10 screws, 10 electronic components and 5 propane for each one. I spawned in Irvington which has 2 small junk yards and a HUGE one just north of town which I looted the cars for batteries and radios. Then I went house by house to break down every single TV and refrigerator which was great for the parts I needed. As it stands I have 13 deep freezers and 1 refrigerator going and it takes 86 solar panels to maintain and charge the batteries.

i have to walk back on my previous comment that i thought it would be working after enabling the load commands mod. that wasnt what did the trick. i have to disable inventory tetris, place the battery bank so the inventory works and then i can enable inventory tetris again and interact with it. no idea why but it seems like something isnt initialized right with inventory tetris

If I install this mod mid-game, will the special crates appear in already looted locations, or do I have to go to somewhere unvisited?

Well you need to find the solar power book, or solar today or whatever the title is. Teaches you the recipes and if you use the sandbox settings mod you can change the settings of this very mod to let you craft almost anything.

I found the book inside a shed next to a house in the outskirts, hit some libraries and such and in a couple of days you can have UUUUNLIMIITEEEED POWEEEEEER

@Torres thats the point, i dont have any battery banks in craft menu, like a recept is needed or something

bank you can craft with 2 welding 5 electricity, you won't be finding shit the respawn rate is WAY too low and in very specific places

so raid car parts places and similar to get batteries and start doing DIY batteries as well, batteries you might find somewhere sometimes tho

I have to find some instructions to craft bank battery or ingot some bugs? I didnt find some banks in 2 cities

nevermind, the load tiles stuff mod is a prerequisite on this site but it didnt auto subscribe to it and seems to miss it as prereq on the ingame mod page so i missed using it. after downloading and enabling it it works now

kinda incompatible with inventory tetris. the battery bank has no inventory with it, cant be turned on and the status page instantly closes again. disabling inventory tetris removes the issue but playing without it is impossible for me so im just gonna have to disable it while configuring / setting up the power bank

one day...

I can't put batteries in the battery bank, has anyone else has this problem?

супер мод!!! намучался , пока разобрался что к чему. пришлось электрику качнуть. Но работает круто!!!

太痛苦了，电池显然也是有供电范围的，这不合常理，应该可以选择连接或者断开某个用电器，并且多个电池组存在时，电量不能合并在一起，新的电池组需要连接到新的太阳能板上，一个用电器存在在这个供电范围时，多个电池组的电量会同时消耗。。。

@Kronus: You have to find the instructions first. Finding a battery bank is apparently even more
difficult. I haven't found one in the 42 yet.

I can't even find or build the battery bank, only the panels and batteries appear.

i dont think this mods getting updated, i'd appreciate anyone who'd like to update it themselves

Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to find a way to repair the Div batteries. This was still possible in the 41 version.


@Mitchel Vories: Thanks for the effort :)

Can you fix layer -4 from March Ridge Bunker

unwired 4 batterys, got nothing back. and they are gone.

Can someone tell me the name of the file I need to edit to increase the capacity of the battery bank itself? I just can't find it! I want to be able to put more batteries in there.

Thank you :)

@bawkdragon it's more complicated than the one vanilla option you have (a generator), but also more rewarding and feels like a non-cheat. IMO it's one of the best mods in general, because it's realistic and requires some effort on the player's part.

Vanilla power option is: connect generator, keep filling it with gas constantly.
This mod: lay solar panel, connect it to power bank. Find more panels, build more batteries.

More panels = can refill batteries faster while sun is out.
More batteries = can store more power while the sun is down.

I also think this mod makes scrounging for loot feel more rewarding because you'll want to collect all the solar panels you can find, and you'll want to gather up all the vehicle batteries you can find (to wire up additional batteries for the power bank).