3D Printer Doesn't Work so why does it exist

it's as simple as the title says

 

Works fine for me.

Explain what about it is not working.

 

It works for me.. Put the schematics in and you can craft them through the crafting table/anvil.

Also..

You do know this is beta, And half of the stuff here doesn't even work.

 

Wut? You guys are putting blueprints into the 3d printer? You know you can just use those straight from your inventory right? Or are you talking about something entirely different?

 

i put items in it http://starbound.gamepedia.com/3D_Printer which is what it's suppose to be

but when i click scan on an item nothing happens

 

It pretty much only works on furniture. And you need enough pixels to do it.

 

a pixel price has now shown up with furniture but it still doesn't do anything when i click scan

 

Something should appear in the left side giving you the ability to craft it. To be honest though I've only gotten the scanner to work once with a Royal Chest from a Glitch castle. Anything else and it either can't be scanned or crashes my game.

 

I have about 150 objects scanned in my pixel printer and can confirm that it does indeed work, though it has a few bugs.

First, make sure you have enough pixels to scan the object (25% of the price to print the object)

Bugs that may be affecting you:
-Scanning an item that you already have a recipe for (crafting table recipe, etc.) will not work,
-Scanning certain items (like the Ice Bubble chest) will delete the item, but it will not appear on the list.
-Seeds cannot be printed anymore ( ), but can still be scanned.
-Certain objects will conflict with each other and not allow you to scan similar objects (example: Large Wooden Crate can conflict with certain smaller Wooden Crate objects)

 

so clearly the printer needs to be fixed

 

Well, in my opinion, every item in the game needs to be scan and printable, and not only that, but recyclable into pixels. It is so painful to drag a thousand dirt into that trash icon, knowing it will be gone forever. Even at 1 pixel for every 10 dirt, it's worth it to be able to throw those useless items and crafting materials into the same place that makes them for you, knowing you'll get something of value in return.

 

that is what the wiki says it does.. but it doesn't do it

 

Well I noticed when I scanned certain things in the 3D printer that instead of it appearing in the list I instead got the crafting recipe for it, e.g - I put my rainbow chest in the 3D printer and I got a recipe in my crafting table list for it which needed pixels and rainbow wood.
So before you start saying they disappear look at your crafting stations and you might see them there, except seeds, I believe those disappearing our even being usable in the scanner is a glitch.

 

Moved your thread to Beta Discussion, un-caps'ed the topic and merged some double-posts.

 

Welcome to beta.

 

Well, for me when i upgrade the engine of the ship to go to other sector (beta, gamma), the list of items who was scanned reset ...

I take it with a smile It's not a bug, it's a feature

 

I've found I can only scan items that have a pixel price.

 

Yea it doesn't work on every item guys, like it won't work on weapons/armor or anything like that and and certain furniture hasn't been added to the 3d printer database yet. I'm sure if you go through the game files you could add exactly what you wanted to duplicate to the list if it's not included.

Afterall the game is freely moddable. Don't like something about it? Try to fix it yourself =-p

Like I fixed all the armor value problems so I don't get 1 shot by anything anymore, added diamonds to the ore distribution, fixed platinum being way more rare than it should, I also got a mod from nexus that replaces pickaxes with matter manipulators.

 

I think in the future they should make everything scannable, even the ones without a pixel value. Maybe they should cost 1 pixel to actually craft after you scan them or something.

 

The real question is ... why are you playing the B E T A if at the first missing feature you run here to complain with that tone ? Seriously. Unistall the game and try to wait a month, because you're one of those guys that just spam threads over threads complaining of broken things, missing features and so on. Do a favor to us and you; stop posting such threads until you damn get what a BETA is. Thank for your attention.