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Rehydrator's weird behavior


sakura_sk
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I wanted to test the Rehydrator to see how it works but I noticed some weird behavior. When the save loads, it seems like the rehydrator spawns some rehydrated food that dupes take and move it to be dehydrated again. (Also, dupes stop taking food from the rehydrator after a while and complain about "unreachable food" but I'm not sure if that happens every time)

I'm not really sure what I'm looking at actually. It seems to me like dupes take food from rehydrator to load dehydrator when loading that save

 

test u50_rehydrator_2.sav


Steps to Reproduce

Loading the save file attached above, makes dupes take rehydrated food from rehydrator and put it to dehydrator

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Some more info:

1) Sometimes food rots inside the "dried food" packs. This is inconsistent, and can happen if the dried food is in storage or inside rehydrator.

2) The dried pack becomes empty if the food inside it rots. As a result, dupes can't take the food out of a rehydrator, and it becomes stuck.

3) If the rehydrator is stuck because it's full of empty dried packs, the only way to reactivate it is to reconstruct it and fill it with OTHER dry packs that still have food inside.

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Similar issues with the Rehydrator not functioning. It worked once, and then "food unreachable" even after deconstructing and rebuilding it. (Made for an exciting space voyage!)

In addition, I've found that if you place dehydrated food into the new storage blocks it doesn't behave consistently with other food storage. Specifically, it treats the storage block as a building rather than a storage container, so if the priority of the storage block is higher than the Rehydrator, dupes won't move the dehydrated food to the Rehydrator for use.

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Also having a similar issue, had a dupe die randomly on a rocket due to starvation. Food being "food unreachable" and not moving food from storage to the re-hydrator. Also not picking up dehydrated food off the floor and placing it into the re-hydrator. Randomly died after like 60 cycles of being in space. Reload and hasnt happened again.

From what i can gather its to do with priority. He was working on the Orbital data collection lab at a priority 5 and im watching his calories get down to 600, but continues to use the data lab. Changed the priority of the re-hydrator to 6 and suddenly stops working on the orbital data collection lab and goes and eats. Its also almost like the Rehydrator doesnt trigger when his hunger gets low enough unless his task has been interupted. Some unfortunate timing on his sleep cycle and he's not hungry enough to eat when he goes to the bathroom/sleep then basically works to death the next day because he didnt have any interuptions to trigger the rehydrator use.

This is strange since he has to stop to grab the plastic...?


This current dupe has Bottomless stomach as well.

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