Inconsistent liquid delivery by Auto-Sweepers

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What is confusing, though, is that old sweepers in the main save, built some time ago, still work and deliver liquid metals from pumps to emptiers just like they did before. But new built sweeper in the same game just ignores liquids.

Auto-sweepers delivering liquids is a mod. On an unmodded game, auto-sweepers can't do that. Are you sure you didn't use a mod on your previous save? Or maybe the mod you were using broke after an update?

2 hours ago, sakura_sk said:

Auto-sweepers delivering liquids is a mod. On an unmodded game, auto-sweepers can't do that.

No, it's not. After your words I've went to search again and found another hint to retest. So...

Sandbox, all mods off. Auto-sweepers ARE actually delivering liquid metals from pitcher pump to bottle emptier. Why do metal liquids have special treatment from them? Maybe sweepers should either deliver all liquids or no liquids at all?

I've updated topic title to reflect the changes. After all, it feels wrong when you have two pitcher pumps, two bottle emptiers and from all the list of liquids it works just with specific ones. Some consistent behavior would be great, I believe.

Edited January 14, 2023 by vladimmi
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9 hours ago, vladimmi said:

Auto-sweepers ARE actually delivering liquid metals from pitcher pump to bottle emptier.

Is there some specific build where sweepers can do that? I still can't see the sweeper delivering anything

(I also put copper and iron before making the puddle steel)

No, nothing special, it should work just like you did. Do you have auto-bottle enabled on emptier? In my game it works with liquid gold and aluminum, some tricky volcano tamer tutorials use it for niobium, etc.

Ye.. I'm sorry.. You are right. Game is dumb and I was too  
This shouldn't be possible though or, as you mentioned, it should be consistent: either sweeper being able to transport all liquids or none at all

 

Edited January 15, 2023 by sakura_sk

So far I've found several mentions of sweepers being "metal-only" but never seen any info on why is that. So no idea whether this behavior is intended for some reasons or just a bug/side-effect of metals still being treated as metals no matter solid or liquid.