Magic(?) Base Water

[Occam Blazer]

I'm getting random water in my dupe habitat. It happens regularly in a place I don't have any pipes. It appears to be about 180kg. Maybe some other brains can figure it out. The source appears to be near the metal statues below the barracks. Any ideas where it's coming from?

[OxCD]

Salt water/polluted water/brine (wrong input) going into the Expresso machine ?

One is still a bit damaged on the screenshot, so might be it.

On a side note: are you a pepper bread cult ?

[Ntr1cate]

TL;DR check the pipe that sits in the tile above your freeze box if it is freezing the water

I presume it has something to do with the left coffee machine not getting used so the water in the insulated pipes eventually freezes from the chill seeped into the insulated tile that is connected to the water pipe.

I am a little weirded out by my own answer tho since the platform to the left of the coffee machine is elevated so idk how the water achieved a jump if this is the case.

[Saturnus]

There's only one condition that matches the evidence here. Note how you have water at A, B and C. But B is not connected to C because the water will spill out over the egde at the highlighted place B.

So the water comes from area A. What do we have at area that can output water? The vent! So you have steam in mixed in your oxygen supply.

The only other explaination is that by random chance your dupes will drop a chunk of ice at area A with regular intervals but that's exceptionally unlikely.

[Prince Mandor]

Looks Like your ventilation system brings steam from somewhere

[Occam Blazer]

6 hours ago, OxCD said:

One is still a bit damaged on the screenshot, so might be it.

On a side note: are you a pepper bread cult ?

Maybe. I'll repair the espresso machine and look for damage again. It doesn't explain the water above that point though. I suppose we are a pepper bread cult. Food doesn't go bad on pedestals ~ever~ so it makes for a great emergency backup supply.

 

6 hours ago, Zerohayven said:

TL;DR check the pipe that sits in the tile above your freeze box if it is freezing the water

I thought that too, but the pipe is 45 degrees and the tile it's in is 6. The espresso machine has 26% uptime over the last five cycles. It also, as you point out doesn't explain the higher water.

5 hours ago, Saturnus said:

So you have steam in mixed in your oxygen supply.

That's the most likely explanation. But I'm not sure how that happens. Here's the supply area. That line is fed by the two coldest gas pumps on the right, and immediately gets mechanical filtration when exiting the SPOM. I'll move the vent and see what happens.

[Occam Blazer]

8 hours ago, Saturnus said:

The only other explaination is that by random chance your dupes will drop a chunk of ice at area A with regular intervals but that's exceptionally unlikely.

It's exceptionally unlikely because the water always appears in the same place (-:

And I'm not sure how I can pump 180 kg of steam through one pipe - nearly a third of a cycle's worth of gas - and not get a scalding warning.

I could crack a few beers and just watch my base for a while I guess..... Probably better fire up the recording software at the same time.

[zach123b]

you could use the notification automation thing, hook up a hydro sensor to one and have it pause/zoom to location.  might help

[Occam Blazer]

I think I figured it out. The conveyor rail running through the recreation room carries plastic from my polymer presses. That area is below freezing so I'd wager steam produced by the presses froze and was swept onto the rail.

That doesn't explain water in this new area though.