[Thermal Update]Offscreen Liquid Consumers Stop Working

I updated my original post

Edited March 17, 2017 by DarkD
no longer pertinent.

The valve only limits flow, not the size of the pipe on the other end. If it backs up it will climb back to 10kg.
 

Yea I get that, I was trying to demonstrate that the liquid consuming buildings would stop working whenever you stopped looking at them.  Because the water would back up.  

15 minutes ago, DarkD said:

Yea I get that, I was trying to demonstrate that the liquid consuming buildings would stop working whenever you stopped looking at them.  Because the water would back up.

Which water consumer is causing you trouble?
 

Electrolyzers and water purifiers. I'm certain of how it works because I have a really long pipe connected to the water purifiers.  I can literally have the pipe on screen while the water purifier is offscreen and watch the water stop flowing.  Then the moment I look at the purifier again, it starts flowing again.  

I'll have a video capture of the problem in a moment, just need to wait for mediafire to finish uploading the damn thing.  a minute of video made a 400 MB file...  wtf...

Edited March 17, 2017 by DarkD

http://www.mediafire.com/file/04a5lqevya5icoi/WaterPurifierExample.rar

Tell me if that works for ya.  The water purifier is in the bottom left corner of my base.  

The Electrolyzer is one of many buildings affected by a bug where they require something waiting at the intake.
It also stops working if at max gas pressure so it's very likely to have a line of water waiting anyways.

Are you sure the water purifier wasn't waiting for a delivery of sand?
 

I have the pipe long enough to be certain.  I can literally turn it on and off like clockwork.  I stop looking at it and it stops working.  If you look at the video, proper operation of the purifier should be patterns of three globs of water.  If I stop looking at the water purifier, it changes to no globs of water.  Then I look and all of a sudden it's got like 50 globs of water coming out all at once.  All at 10kg/s which shouldn't be the case since I have a water valve on there set to 500g/s.  

This is why I posted the video.  Is there simpler video maker?  One that isn't going to make a 1GB file over 50 seconds of footage?

If you could just upload your save file that would make things easier.
 

I can confirm this bug. Water purifier is lazy and when noone sees it stops working.

Keep the water purifier selected and move the screen away and you will see all the status messages disappear.

 

EDIT: Also you can see on the water purifier info panel that its polluted water storage fills up to 10kg and the water output stays on 0.

Edited March 17, 2017 by Blas88

17 minutes ago, Blas88 said:

I can confirm this bug. Water purifier is lazy and when noone sees it stops working.

Keep the water purifier selected and move the screen away and you will see all the status messages disappear.

Just tried this and I can see the storage changing as it should?
Definitely going to need a save that exhibits this behavior.

If you mean all the accumulator statuses, they were completely broken when they removed the whole "g/s" thing.
 

Edited March 17, 2017 by Risu

@Risu You are right. There are another requirement.

Need staggering water input so the purifier stops when no water input, and when its offcreen it cant refresh from empty status.

Water purifier stops refreshing.sav

21 minutes ago, Blas88 said:

@Risu You are right. There are another requirement.

Need staggering water input so the purifier stops when no water input, and when its offcreen it cant refresh from empty status.

Water purifier stops refreshing.sav

Ahh yep. I can see it there. Must be the state machine getting hung up on removing the status items but not transitioning to waiting for operational status to change, which starts the conversion.

Actually I did notice something strange.
They added the fix for the hydrogen generator to the water purifier where it states the conduit consumer is always satisfied.
Seems to be unnecessary so I'll try removing that.

Nope. Still does it after removing that. Gotta be a bug with the state machine then.
 

Edited March 17, 2017 by Risu

Would it be possible to get a video of this?

I seem to be trying to reproduce this differently but using the thermal_upgrade_preview branch and the save file posted I can't figure out how to get the water purifier to stop working, mine just seems to work whether it's on or off the screen.

17 minutes ago, JLK said:

Would it be possible to get a video of this?

I seem to be trying to reproduce this differently but using the thermal_upgrade_preview branch and the save file posted I can't figure out how to get the water purifier to stop working, mine just seems to work whether it's on or off the screen.

Open the water purifier before unpausing the game, move away from it, and then unpause the game.
You'll see the intake fill the storage as it should but it won't turn on until you look at it again.
 

Ah, moving it offscreen before starting everything up did the trick. Thanks.

Woot, first reporter of a major bug.  

Please tell me this will be in the next hotfix.  It's really making the game annoying.  

Also, was my video upload not working?  I was thinking about just recording all my playthroughs and uploading them to youtube next time.