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======Guide to Wiring======
=====Safety First=====
Before interacting with wires, ensure you are wearing IGloves.png Insulated Gloves. Attaching new wires to a live wire or cutting a live wire or hitting a wire with something conductive while not wearing insulated gloves will result in a shock. If there is too much power in that wire, you will die instantly.

=====Wiring Plating=====
Wires are directionally dependent on where you set them down. If you click empty plating, it will instead lay new cables with a knot on one end. The knot will always be on the plating you clicked, and will always point toward where you are standing.

=====The result of clicking surrounding tiles=====
You may also click the tile you are standing on. In this case, the knot will appear under you, and the wire will face out the direction you are facing.

If you click a completed wire (a wire that is smooth, not knotted), it is treated the same as clicking your own tile.

=====Dot wiring=====

Dot wiring refers to when there are knots in the wire. These are very ugly but carry a current. If you see knots in a wire, it either means there is an extra wasted wire on top of functional wires, or it will annoy perfectionists who argue curved and smooth cables are superior. You should have a dot wire is under some specialized machines (such as an emitter, APC, or SMES terminal).

=====Smooth Wiring=====
Clicking a knotted wire will result in smooth wiring. Smooth wiring conveys a current and should be used to connect wires.

Position yourself the direction you wish for the new wire to face, and click the knot from that direction. A smooth wire will be formed.

=====Interacting With Wire=====
Use wire cutters to remove placed wires. You can also use them on a stack of wires to separate it.

Use a multitool on wires to see the current wattage inside. This is useful for seeing if a cable is powered or not. If it's not powered, you can follow the cable with the multitool to find where it is powered.

Clicking a completed smooth wire with more wire is treated the same as clicking your own tile.

=====Rapid Cable Layer (RCL)=====
This device can speed up your smooth wiring, but may be confusing to use if you are not careful. It can hold up to three coils of cable (90), and allows you to quickly lay cables without clicking on plating as you move. It even wires space tiles, which is not normally possible. First, use cables on the RCL to add them. You can remove cables by using your screwdriver.

Once you are ready, click the RCL while it is in your active hand to turn it on. It will immediately begin laying cables, and will place wires on any possible plating or space tile until you click it again to turn it off. You can prevent it from wiring a tile without turning it off by switching to a different hand. Remember to start on the wire you wish to connect to.