disappearing liquid

[Majestix]

Do any of you knowledgeable people know why when I pour small (300-400g) packets of crude oil out of the bottle emptier, it just disappears?

Spoiler

I was trying to make a 3 layer liquid lock and vacuum out the space between that and the little oil blob, so that I only cool the food down to -20 and not the rest of the base.

[Red Shark]

I do not know the precise mechanics why, but it has to do with where the liquid is falling onto.

In this case I'm almost positive that the tile it drops into is carbon dioxide. But worse than that -- it's carbon dioxide that can't be displaced anywhere. (Oxygen is above it, and CO2 will never naturally rise above O2)

So what happens is -- crude oil packet tries to spawn in the tile with CO2, CO2 can't be displaced, crude oil winds up deleted.

 

The simple solution for your situation? Make the tile the bottle-emptier is on into an airflow tile. The oil will displace the CO2 into that, and any oxygen in the airflow tile will displace upwards without issue.

[Majestix]

Perfect, thanks! Strange that I have never encountered this before. The way you describe it, it should not be such a rare occurrence.

[Neotuck]

one thing about making layered liquid locks is you will need a wall next to the lock as you build it as well as an open area for the extra to spill away.  Once you have enough layers you can remove the wall

Also make sure to go in order of heaviest liquids to lightist or the heavy liquids will displace the lighter ones forcing you to start over