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Unusual night time bathroom preferences.


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I'm running into an issue where my dupes only seem to use the outhouse when they wake up in the middle of the night. They'll pass by two perfectly functional flushing toilets to visit the only outhouse I have in the whole base.

The only reason I have this is in case there's a plumbing related problem. When morning comes, everything goes perfectly fine and all the toilets are used with none reporting issues. This only happens at night. and when this outhouse goes out of service, a tooltip comes up saying that there are no bathrooms built.

Meanwhile, someone is using one of the flushing toilets with no ill effects.

a notable feature of my plumbing system is that it uses several hydroponic tiles seeded with thimble reed to dispose of shower and lavatory water. this has been working well, but the plants stifle ( which I don't have a problem with unless it's due to temperature - and this is not the case with the current design ).


Steps to Reproduce
set an outhouse well out of the way of a few flushing toilets in a corridor such that they have to pass them by, wait for night, observe. it may be worthwhile to setup the effluent for said toilets into hydro tiles with thimble reed - this may be the culprit.
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Yeah this has been known for some time now, for some reason dupes will use outhouses at night but not lavatories.

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The outhouse chore isn't restricted to the Hygiene schedule block and the pee chore has higher priority than sleep chore.
The flush toilet has the schedule block set and therefore is off limits during the Sleep schedule block.
 

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Yeah i read somewhere that they wont use flush toilets because of the flushing sound... makes more sense now when Risu explains it.

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On 9/3/2017 at 2:29 PM, Risu said:

The outhouse chore isn't restricted to the Hygiene schedule block and the pee chore has higher priority than sleep chore.
The flush toilet has the schedule block set and therefore is off limits during the Sleep schedule block.
 

Seriously? this could be the problem behind "colony needs toilets" flashing for no good reason.

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