Polluted Water Multiplies?

Did the polluted ice melt into polluted water?

I thought that was happening at first, but I looked around, not enough polluted ice to account for that much polluted water, unless I missed some. At any rate, I've done this several times before, without even close to as much polluted water before.

I would have thought that after 150 cycles of 2 sieves running (and probably ~50 cycles of 4 running), I would have cleaned a lot of it, but there is still tons of it. I wonder if the slime biome above it could affect it? Like if polluted oxygen or slime contributes to it somehow? I've been running under the assumption that polluted oxygen / slime doesn't affect clean water.

dripping water into pwater is actually causing the water to state insert below pwater and then become pwater, water surrounded on 3 sides by polluted water becomes polluted water, so yes, everywhere that is dripping water into your pwater is making more pwater from the water.

Hmmm, that must be a new feature then? I hadn't experience that before.

Not a new feature.

On 2017/12/31 at 12:23 PM, R9MX4 said:

It seems only happened when a tile of water is surrounded by at least 3 tiles of polluted water(right, left, top left).

And you can use this trick to convert water into polluted water easily.

Changed Status to Closed

It is the intended behaviour that small bits of clean water can become polluted when surrounded by polluted water.