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Solar Beacon Setting
By Aieonae
A basic guide on setting solar beacons, that are great for marking your stuff, from base to vehicles.
   
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Category: Crafting, Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs, Workshop
Languages: English
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20 Feb, 2018 @ 4:22am
20 Feb, 2018 @ 4:58am
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Beacon Setting: 
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Beacon Setting:
Target the beacon press "Setup [C]" to Access the redial menu.



(IMPORTANT!)Set this to make the beacon appear on the world map



Setting a letter/alphabet(Cycles up to G for the moment) for the marker on the world map


Press this to rename your beacon.



And on the world map you will see the marker with the alphabet you set in it.
(the listed name had not being refresh which will only occur after a save and reload of the game)


Do note the beacon like all signature only get capture within the limit of 2km radius around the beacon source, which is denote on the NSEW compass bar at the top of the UI/HUD/screen


TIPS:
lay a string of beacons within 2km of each other will greatly help travelling alot


Put them on your vehicles, greatly help locating if you lose your bearings in locating it, plus it doesn't need power to light it's surrounding
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cwsumner 5 Nov, 2019 @ 9:22pm 
"It now can also have a digit after the letter. " My mistake, it only has a letter. Sorry.
cwsumner 1 Nov, 2019 @ 2:08pm 
It now can also have a digit after the letter. Note that the edited name is in the list on the left of the map. Is there more info on what the Automatic and Navigate do?
Ironhand98 14 Aug, 2019 @ 7:34am 
Bit of a necro, but since the updates recently, You can now set a target beacon on the map, and it should show up in your HUD wherever you are on the planet
Aieonae  [author] 20 Feb, 2018 @ 5:34am 
do note that, if it for your game if it is around .5k use that as max distance, since I am on a 24km planet I don't know if it scales, or there are game settings restricting it.
dahni.uru 20 Feb, 2018 @ 5:25am 
My beacons seem to only be visible from about .5k, never 2k.