Production
Beyond These Stars Waste Resources: Clear By-products and Restart Production
The quick answer
A full by-product buffer stops the whole production building, even if its main product still has room. Inspect every output and provide reachable storage or a consumer for the blocked resource.
Check more than the main product
A building can have space for Iron, Tools or Planks and still be unable to work. Soot, Slag, Wood Waste and other by-products have their own output limits.
Open the building’s Work panel and check every output from each enabled task. Find the full resource before adding more of the same production building.
Create space where it is needed
- Place a Storage Shed near the producer or its consumers.
- Configure it to accept the blocked resource.
- Check road access and the workers needed to move goods.
- Watch the producer’s local output buffer fall below its limit.
- Confirm that inputs are consumed and the main product starts increasing again.
A basic Storage Shed holds four resource types, with 20 units of each. Do not apply that capacity to a Warehouse or a different upgraded storage building.
Control the surplus
By-products can become inputs for other industries, but the relevant consumer must already be unlocked and able to work. A later use does not clear today’s full buffer by itself.
Pause production you do not currently need or lower its priority. When demand returns, restart it with room available for all of its outputs.