Glassyfo Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Why do slicksters voluntarily drown themselves? Every critter that can't swim avoids liquids but them. I nearly lost all my wild slicksters to this. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoma_Nosme Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Probably a Screenshot could help. Btw...title would be a cool band name! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xFADE Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I’ve never seen a slickster drown. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abud Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 They drown if there is no space to float. I never seen one that "voluntarily drown themselves" though. Even if I spawn them underwater, they just swim back up immediately unless I intentionally trap them underwater. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarquan Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 1 hour ago, bleeter6 said: Why do slicksters voluntarily drown themselves? Every critter that can't swim avoids liquids but them. I nearly lost all my wild slicksters to this. I have seen this happen. It is usually caused by a mix of liquids where the top two layers that do not have enough mass so the slickster doesn't float on it. Usually petroleum and crude oil are the culprits. If this is the case, try increasing the amount of petroleum and crude oil build a draining system that doesn't let either layer lose too much mass. I know 400 kg/tile works. Alternatively, you could keep them on mesh tiles. In the picture in the spoiler, I have a condensed slickster pen in the middle of the two normal ranches. I have a gravity sorting system that allows me to keep the petroleum and crude oil under them at high pressure while still letting it drain out with the lip at the ends of the spouts. Spoiler Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebbie Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I have seen slicksters drown when there is a place to float. Tends to happen when there's a long single-tile-high stretch of crude and only a bit of vacuum that's safe, they just will sometimes spend too long in the crude portion because they don't really seem to consider safety like a dupe would. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Smedstad Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 I've noticed that the wild slicksters in my oil biome regularly dunk themselves in the layer of water on top of the oil and show the "drowning" icon. However, they seem to come up for air often enough to survive. Hard to say if any are actually dying without constantly watching them. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethien Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Back when I got my first set of eggs from the printer those slicksters died because they drowned in the oil they produced. I dug out the initial area but forgot about them because reasons. So they didn't have the mesh tiles and collection pool under them. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJones Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 I've seen alot of slicksters stuck in oil, but I'm not sure how much of that has been recently. I have seen situations where a slickster is in a small pocket of oil with rock above him, acting like he's drowning... then when you dig him out he just stays there. Or else slicksters that don't come up as the oil level in a pool rises. Both of those might look like what you're describing. But again... I don't know that I've seen any of that recently. Is it possible they're freezing? Alot of us are playing on Rime, and that's too cold for slicksters. They'll act like nothing's wrong, but then they'll just *poof* dead. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Does saving and loading fix it? I had a lot of issues where pufts or shinebugs got stuck at the edge of water and didn`t move at all until i saved and loaded the game. Spoiler Notice there is no navifation possible for the puft. Might be a similar issue. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glassyfo Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 17 hours ago, SamuraiJones said: I've seen alot of slicksters stuck in oil, but I'm not sure how much of that has been recently. I have seen situations where a slickster is in a small pocket of oil with rock above him, acting like he's drowning... then when you dig him out he just stays there. Or else slicksters that don't come up as the oil level in a pool rises. Both of those might look like what you're describing. But again... I don't know that I've seen any of that recently. Is it possible they're freezing? Alot of us are playing on Rime, and that's too cold for slicksters. They'll act like nothing's wrong, but then they'll just *poof* dead. I'm playing on Terra and the biome is 90C. Temps aren't it and they're wild, which is why I assumed they drowned to death. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Smedstad Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 It appears all my wild slicksters died. I'm regretting not setting up a ranch. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDoroFF Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 20 minutes ago, Gus Smedstad said: It appears all my wild slicksters died. I'm regretting not setting up a ranch. You still can replenish your slicksters population from the printing pod, which spawn both eggs and larvas. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/110903-suicidal-slicksters/#findComment-1249851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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