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Emptying pwater where they shouldn't.

wookietoucher

By wookietoucher

    • Branch: Live Branch Version: Windows Pending

This may be less of a bug and more of an oversight. Regardless, something is definitely not working as intended. My dupes keep dumping polluted water into my clean water storage. This is due to the inability to filter out materials you haven't acquired yet.

When you first start a game, one of the first things you do is set up a latrine with an outhouse and a washbasin. This is pretty universal. I create a place to dump the pwater,usually a small hole next to the last outhouse with a bottle emptier. Now, since we haven't "discovered" pwater yet, this has no filters applied and won't be used. I also create a bottle emptier next to my clean water storage to dump any spilled and mopped up water. I set this second emptier to water but due to the way filters work this will auto-default to all liquids since water is the only one currently "discovered." 

Now, if you don't pay attention and catch it in time, as soon as your dupes empty the washbasin the first time then the bottle emptier automatically starts accepting polluted water and it gets dumped into your clean water. Now. its hard to get out in early game plus it completely infects your clean water with food poisoning germs. I know this has no effect on actual gameplay at present(I think)but it is still unintended behavior and annoying as hell.

Steps to Reproduce
Start new game. Build latrine with washbasin. Build pwater storage with bottle emptier.(set to none since we haven't"discovered" pwater yet) Build bottle emptier over clean water storage for spill disposal. (set to water but will default to all liquids since water is only one "discovered") Wait for dupes to empty washbasin for first time(thereby discovering pwater when you aren't paying attention to your latrine) Suddenly discover that your dupes have dumped pwater with food poisoning into your clean water.
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DapperLaputan

Hi, I have this same problem too. I built a bottle emptier and set it to empty clean water only but I hadn't discovered polluted water yet. Later on I discovered polluted water and before I could catch it, my dupes had emptied dirty water into my clean water reservoir. I think this is happening because when you select clean water in the element filter of the bottle emptier, it goes ahead and selects the "All" category (because clean water is all you have discovered at the moment). Later when you discover polluted water, the "All" category is still selected, and so the dupes immediately dump polluted water in.

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