Indicator Light

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Indicator Light
An Indicator Light, which is attached to all buildings that have a power connector. Displays the operation state of the building.

Indicator Lights are tube lights situated on electricity-powered and generator buildings that reflect the building's operating state. There are five total operating states they can display. Indicator Lights have a hitbox and cannot be walked through, but structures such as walkways can be built through them if they aren't within the hitbox of a building.

The only exceptions are Crash Sites and the AWESOME Sink, which have a power connector but lack Indicator Lights, and Power Storages, which have a capacity meter on their side, but no Indicator Light.

The Radar Tower has three Indicator Lights, the only building to have multiple. All lights display the same color.

States

Color		Meaning	Cause
	Red	Unpowered	Power is not being supplied (production buildings) The recipe is not configured (production buildings) Power Line connection is missing (generators)
	Yellow	Standby	Insufficient materials are present in the machine to operate (the building is starving for resources) The output slot or fluid tank is full (the building has backed up) The power fuse has been triggered (generators, production buildings show red as no power) The building is manually set to standby mode with the standby switch Miner is powered but has depleted a S.A.M. Ore resource node Hyper Tube Entrance is powered but not connected to a Hyper Tube Pipeline Pump is powered but fluid is not flowing through The Pump is not connected to a Pipeline on both ends There is no fluid to be moved or nowhere to move it to Head lift is exceeded
	Green	Operating	The building is working (executing a crafting or burning cycle) Generators idling due to not enough power being consumed will be in this state, despite not consuming any fuel
	White	Overclocked	Same as the green state, but the building has a Power Shard inserted (it does not need to be actually operating overclocked) The only state of the Power Switch that does not actually correspond to overclocking
	Blue	Bugged	This state only appears on unfinished or improperly implemented buildings, it cannot occur during normal gameplay Presumably the default state when the light isn't set to react to the condition of the building It could be seen in some old UI icons of buildings and some official game trailers

Gallery

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  Constructors with the red, yellow, green and white Indicator Lights

History

• Patch 0.3.4.0: Red and yellow states no longer blink