Hello, here is a quick tutorial about how to correctly scan your baggage (as of Alpha 35), and not get “slapped with fines”. You may not see the need for this tutorial here, but it is often encountered on the Discord.
If you are here to learn how to build the baggage system, there’s a tutorial on Steam:
Here’s the tutorial:
At first, all inputted baggage should go to the tier 1 scanner.
The tier I scanner.
- Baggage declared safe should be sent straight to the bay.
- Baggage found suspicious should be sent to the tier 2 scanners.
Later, the suspicious baggage from tier 1 should be directed to the tier II scanners.
As far as I know, the order of these does not matter, though you should always include all of them.
The process with these is the same as for tier I:
- Baggage declared safe should be sent straight to the bay.
- Baggage found suspicious should be sent to the tier 3 scanner
The tier three scanner is special as it’s the last in the process, and it also requires a security agent to man it, so it should be accessible (it doesn’t have to be in a secure zone though!).
Ditto, except there’s no tier IV scanner, so all suspicious baggage goes to the baggage destroyer… which makes bags magically disappear, maybe it teleports them to a different dimension? Who knows, as long as it makes cool sounds and animations in the process.
Bags that the security officer decided are safe should go to the bay.
Summary:
Overall, your scanning setup should look like this (most optimal placement):
I generally recommend to place it underground to save space, but do as you wish, some people like to put another tier III scanner after the tier III scanner, but it has not proved to be more reliable.
Here’s a simplified layout:
Thank you, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Now I’ve just got to hope Alpha 36 doesn’t revise the baggage security system and break this.