Lightyear Frontier: How to Connect Machines/pipes - The Don't Work

The problem

I'm trying to automate my seed production a bit. I have the T pieces and just want to string all my see machines into one container. I go to put the T down and it melds into the floor and there's no way to make it go on top of the floor or float. I'm all for automation but this is a complete pain and spending half the game day trying to put in a simple system is really annoying. How do you get…

What players suggest

The pipe system is on a different 'grid' (probably not the right word) to other building constructs. I can't remember why it was made that way, some talk about the way roads also work. To get the Ts to place you need to raise it slightly until it floats higher and then build it. I've seen some neat screenshots of different ways builders have worked with the system to neaten or hide their…

it's really not difficult. pick an intersection, click, move mouse up to lift it up off the floor, turns blue, click. that's how you get it off the floor/float it. literally just try actually clicking first. would have been faster than this post. get hose, start on the output on whatever you wanna take stuff out of, hook it up to the input. automating my entire seed production only took a couple…