Electrolyzer ignores air pressure when almost flooded

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hi, thanks for reporting this. This bug is due to some of the fundamental rules of the simulation and is unlikely to be resolved.

13 hours ago, Ipsquiggle said:

Changed Status to Known Issue

Hi, thanks for reporting this. This bug is due to some of the fundamental rules of the simulation and is unlikely to be resolved.

A few ways to solve this issue. I hope these could give you some hints.

 

1. High pressure liquid can break tiles, but high pressure gas can't. It's unresonable.

Suggestion: high pressure gas should also effect Grid.Damage

 

2. OverPressure funtion of electrolyzer will stop_at_solid and stop_at_liquid due to the paramaters of FloodFillFind. So if all 4 grids are occupied by liquid, no gird will be checked and OverPressure funtion will never be called. 

Suggestion: hydrogen and oxygen will be exhausted at left top grid of electrolyzer. At least this grid can't be occuied by liquid. Or electrolyzer should always be overpressured when all 4 grids are occupied by liquid/soild.

 

3. A building will be flooded when it IsSubstantialLiquid. 

element.IsLiquid && Grid.mass[cell] >= element.defaultValues.mass * threshold

Giving a threshold could avoid little mass of liqud causing buildings flooding. But it also allows building be submerged by layers of different liquids without flooding.

Suggestion

element.IsLiquid && Grid.mass[cell] >= element.defaultValues.mass * threshold && !Grid.IsLiquid(Grid.CellAbove(cell))

@R9MX4 Excellent feedback! I've only touched on the game code and feel that finding these calls/formulas is difficult. Question though, how would any of these suggestions impact the current exploit (good, bad, otherwise) of placing a vent in less than 2kg of liquid? Or is all of these suggestions just for the electrolyzer?

2 hours ago, yoakenashi said:

Question though, how would any of these suggestions impact the current exploit (good, bad, otherwise) of placing a vent in less than 2kg of liquid

bad news. almost no influence.

maybe the first suggestion can do something, but as you know, three layers tiles even won't be destoried by high pressure liquid. i can't find a way to totally prevent high pressure liquid/gas storage.

(but at least let doors and airfolw tiles can be destoried.

Edited January 6, 2019 by R9MX4