Okay, so I dropped a second object in there. This time, instead of just dropping it in with the vehicle I dragged it over there with (I just hovered over the opening and dropped), this time I used the crane.

This time, the object went in, and the sequence seemed to work fine. Sign changed to tell me to close the doors, closed the doors, stuff processed, doors opened, resources came out.

Except that only the SECOND grid I dropped in vanished. The first one is still down there.

How do I fix this?

It's not you, I think there's a bug in there somewhere. I'll take a look again tomorrow as someone else reported similar results. Basically it just can't detect one of your grids for some reason.

So when I dropped in the ship, it fell to the side, left. It was still on the wheels, but no part of it was in front of those collectors that are center in the room, and a small part was past the left edge of the wheels, and beyond the bells of the engines down there..

Everything that has been detected has partially been in the center.

Out of curiosity, how does that room work? A mod analyzes the blocks? Grinders? What's it actually 'do' when the doors close?

for me miki's scrap made my game slow to 0.05 sim speed for 30 min up untill i thought of deleting it

I dropped a car in the pit and closed the blast door... Nothing is happening and the car is still there.

I figured out the bug.

The detection area isn't big enough, if the center of mass of the ship you drop in isn't in the middle, then the pit wont see it.

To test, drop a ship on end and have it lean on one of the walls. The signs wont change.
But, if you drag it to the middle, then the sings will change and it will work.

Then how do you explain this...?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1094708319
...and...
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1094708386

When I go in there and grind some things down, then close the door, it takes
one of the pieces i separated from the cars but not the bigger parts and I
only get like 400 Iron Ingots
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1094708397
I've tossed at least a dozen cars in there and it only scrapped like 3 of them... those are the remaining cars that didn't disappear

Take all the cars and blocks out of the pit.

Then put only one in and move it around till the sign changes. Make sure the car is flat on the floor and not up on end.

Also, post your save so we can look at it.

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what a shame hey