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I thought they didn't get wet or exhale when in the lock because the jump is essentially a teleport.  They don't exhale in the waterlock because, as far as the game is concerned, they were never in the waterlock.

So I see four possibilities. 

  1. Jumps are not actually teleports and are some other mechanism so that they somehow they don't get wet and don't exhale while inside the lock.
  2. Jumps are teleports and flatulent dupes can break vertical waterlocks using weird gas physics when they exhale and fart at the same time.  But this could be prevented by making them unable to breathe around the waterlock.
  3. Flatulent dupes release natural gas in a tile next to them rather than a tile on them, which can break the waterlock while they are not in it.
  4. Flatulent dupes don't actually break these vertical waterlocks and we all just assume they do because flatulent dupes are the worst and break everything.

I bet the correct answer is 2, but does anyone know for certain?

14 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

I'm just putting it out there, the flatulent skill is a deal breaker for me when selecting dupes, I don't care how good the other stats are

I agree.  I was playing an "Accept all dupes" and got a group with 3 flatulent groups and reloaded rather than accepting one of them.  I think it should be removed from the game or reworked.  Maybe they release natural gas only while doing certain things.

9 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

What about if they removed the flatulent skill and instead it becomes a debuff every time dupes eat food that is 25% fresh or lower

If that is were thing, I want to be able to ban eating food at that level of freshness. 

8 hours ago, Saturnus said:

That will not work for very long.

Instead use this 4 step process that actually works.

1) Build a U bend. Insulated tiles are the one you intend to keep.

2) Pour in 3 different liquids. The bottom one, typically crude oil, have to cover the bottom tile and some of the 2nd tile. The amount of liquid in the top 3 layers doesn't matter. The order they are poured in doesn't matter either as they'll arrange themselves.

3) Put in the roof tile and deconstruct one side to let excess fluids run out. Mop. Repeat for the other side. Typically requires multiple mop order on both sides.

4) Finish roof, and you're done.

The point here is that the dupe cannot stand inside the liquid and breathe which will break the liquid lock due to CO2 moving one of the liquids away. That's why it's two deep so standing on the bottom would not allow the dupe to breathe, and the dupe will just jump the one tile gap instead.

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What volumes of liquids are we talking about for this?  I have tried using 800kg/500kg of crude oil, 500kg petrol and 500kg water.  When I get to stage 3, as soon as I mop, the column breaks and i'm left with less than 1kg of petrol and water.

If I don't mop, I end up with a bell shape covering 3 tiles wide in the gap, not the 1 tile wide column.

19 minutes ago, Craigjw said:

What volumes of liquids are we talking about for this?  I have tried using 800kg/500kg of crude oil, 500kg petrol and 500kg water.  When I get to stage 3, as soon as I mop, the column breaks and i'm left with less than 1kg of petrol and water.

If I don't mop, I end up with a bell shape covering 3 tiles wide in the gap, not the 1 tile wide column.

Tiny, usually less then 100 grams for the top two liquids.  It's basically the maximum amount of liquid that sits on a stair-step before spilling over.  For most liquids, it's like 40 grams and then it spills over to the next tile producing a spot of 30 grams and 10 grams on the next tile.

 

Only the more dense thicker liquids stack any higher, like liquid metals, magma, and Visco-gel.  And Visco-gel has the unique property of trying to stack upwards first (Seemingly), before spilling off to the sides. 

8 hours ago, Craigjw said:

What volumes of liquids are we talking about for this?  I have tried using 800kg/500kg of crude oil, 500kg petrol and 500kg water.  When I get to stage 3, as soon as I mop, the column breaks and i'm left with less than 1kg of petrol and water.

If I don't mop, I end up with a bell shape covering 3 tiles wide in the gap, not the 1 tile wide column.

That's why I wrote it doesn't matter how much you pour in in the top 3 layers. The two layers than form the liquid lock will only be grams when it's complete. And as long as you observe the correct build order and put in the middle roof tile before you mop there should be no problems forming the liquid lock.

On 10/10/2018 at 8:51 AM, Saturnus said:

That will not work for very long.

What’s changing?

On 10/10/2018 at 8:51 AM, Saturnus said:

That will not work for very long.

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What’s changing?

On 10/10/2018 at 8:51 AM, Saturnus said:

That will not work for very long

 

What’s changing?

On 10/10/2018 at 9:51 AM, Saturnus said:

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When constructing this, shouldn't the mop order not be there in particular?  Because mop mops water from the adjacent tiles too, so shouldn't it be separated by at least one tile?

Just now, Zarquan said:

When constructing this, shouldn't the mop order not be there in particular?  Because mop mops water from the adjacent tiles too, so shouldn't it be separated by at least one tile?

No, it's fine. Try it.

11 minutes ago, Zarquan said:

I have tried it with 1 tile corner waterlocks.  If I have them mop right next to it, the waterlock goes away, so I have them mop one tile away.

This is different. As I said: Try it! I've done this countless times and it have never failed.

5 hours ago, Soulwind said:

I haven't used it in a long time.  Does naphtha still stack upwards too?

No, that was removed pretty quickly.  There is a new Space Age material that does exactly that, though, and it appears to be it's intended use.

Here is another method. Use a valve to create a pipe with stream of 35g liquid, then break the pipe to get that 35g liquid (water, oil, Pwater, etc.), then stack those liquids normally on any ground, and they will stay on each other even without a roof tile.

Make sure the liquid emptier is higher than the liquid on the ground so that its nasal won't touch the liquids.

Note that dupes' breathing will definitely break those liquid doors.

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