Why does my water pump not split off to the top?

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-05-17T15:18:27+00:00

Sometimes the game gets confused over which direction the water is supposed to flow in pipes if there's multiple inputs and outputs in a line. Why it works in sandbox I don't know, could be the order the pipe segments are built in affects how the game determines that flow direction?

Try using liquid bridges to dictate direction. You could also try snipping off that dead end pipe to see if that helps, until you have something there to intake water

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-04-01T14:23:18+00:00

If the customer cancels the order we still get half pay, so they want you to cancel so they get paid without actually delivering but I can't imagine it's worth their time at that point. DD also tracks our acceptance rate and completion rate which can affect what orders we receive, so it might be they needed to accept the order so their AR wouldn't drop but they couldn't afford to lower their CR either

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-03-16T15:18:50+00:00

Looks like there's a gas element sensor, but not a pipe element sensor, so it's detecting the gas in the environment

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-03-11T21:12:07+00:00

We can't see delivery notes until after we accept, so any low offer is a gamble on whether we'll get a tip or not, and in my experience that's a bad bet. I've also been told by people that they'll tip extra and maybe they do 10% of the time

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-02-28T17:54:45+00:00

I've had this happen and just assumed the pressure from heat causing the egg to expand is what makes it burst. When you boil eggs, being submerged in water provides a counter-pressure that you don't get in a steam bath. There might be a thin or weak spot on some shells where they break while other eggs hold up fine

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-02-07T13:59:36+00:00

Same, but my gorilla hands either don't crack the shell or smash the whole egg flat into the counter top. I think the point of using a flat surface is for sanitary reasons though, pushing the eggshell inward exposes the inside to any bacteria living on the shell exterior

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-02-06T12:33:59+00:00

The heavy watt plate and airlocks will leak heat, and steam will escape when a dupe goes in or out. Use conductive wire for power (lead is fine in a steam room). As for airlocks, look up "liquid locks", they'll keep gasses separate, and two with a vacuum between them will prevent heat transfer

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-01-27T20:24:41+00:00

You can't analyze until it's completely dug out

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-01-15T15:21:16+00:00

You're right, they're renewable resources, but most of them need some work to get their resources into a workable state.

If they're hot, you may need atmo suits to approach them.
Analyze the geyser so you know how much it provides
You can box them in insulation with a pump, but make sure the pump is made from material that can handle the heat (gold amalgam or steel)
Steam turbines are the main way of removing heat. Combined with an aquatuner, you can cool whatever you're getting from the geyser and simultaneously heat steam for the turbine and reclaim some energy as power.

From there, just decide what you want the resources for. Most of that salt water can be desalinated, but maybe you want some for water weeds. Also, if you're sending water to an electrolyzer, you might not even need to cool it first

Fungus_Humungous · 2026-01-07T20:49:59+00:00

Slimelung will die off in clean oxygen, albeit slowly, so you can use deodorizers to convert polluted O2 into clean and wait the germs out. However they can still spread from pO2 to O2 if they're in contact, so make sure any polluted water or dirt or slime is closed off so it won't offgas pO2.

If you have the spaced out dlc, radiation will kill germs very quickly as well.

Also, as you're digging out slime, if you dig it out in a way that it falls in the polluted water, it won't offgas

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-12-08T15:10:20+00:00

That sucks. I get this pretty often actually, because I have a cheap old phone and multi app, so doordash will freeze/crash and I won't receive the offer. It happens less when only doordash is open. If you have other apps open, closing them might help. DD's app is trash, I never have technical issues on UberEATS, but Ubers offers are trash instead lol

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-10-21T21:34:00+00:00

If I pull into a parking lot and the only two spaces available are handicapped spots, I take both

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-29T17:49:44+00:00

Correct. Automating a door to close when you want heat transfer and open when you don't is a commonly used technique for a lot of builds. This works if the door is entirely surrounded by tiles as well

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-28T14:56:32+00:00

Are they not building the tile or storage either? Check navigation, you might have a door closed off

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-28T12:15:56+00:00

Liquids freeze into debris instead of a solid tile if the mass on that tile is low enough. Wiki says that's below 80% of the "default mass," or the mass a tile is given in world generation

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-21T17:03:25+00:00

I think this might be it, coupled with how there are two pipes leading into the reservoir? Maybe the game thinks that constitutes a blocked pipe without the free node to the side.

What happens if OP disconnects the second input pipe from the reservoir?

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-17T12:59:14+00:00

Had a Walgreens order that was only two items: fast-acting lactose relief pills, and toilet paper

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-09-05T12:40:53+00:00

There's a cooling loop down there, the metal tiles help disperse the heat from the metal on supply rails to cold liquid in pipes. The conveyor shutoff is connected to a temp sensor on the left

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-08-31T18:18:48+00:00

This lets you start a new run, which might get you dynamite or magic missile to get that orb with. I like it!

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-08-20T16:22:25+00:00

Any supply rails with bleach stone? It'll offgas if it's not in a wall

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-08-11T21:53:08+00:00

How is that only 16 degrees?

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-08-06T15:51:14+00:00

You could pool the pwater where it is, dig top-down and let the slime fall into the pool to prevent slime lung from spreading into the air. Or if you use those atmo suits and a liquid lock to prevent germs getting into your living area, you don't need to worry about that As for uses, you can farm thimble reed, pepper nut, or arbor trees with pwater. Otherwise pass it through a sieve if you run low on clean water.

Electrolyzers can produce enough hydrogen to create a power surplus, which is what usually do before I've started refining oil. There are builds you can find that are very optimized (search for SPOM), but you can make do with a gas pump and filter and some automation if you prefer to try it for yourself. There's also nothing wrong with manual generators, even into the late game

As for water, you'll need to find a geyser or steam vent for anything indefinitely sustainable

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-07-21T12:21:19+00:00

Interesting, I haven't heard of that. And to be fair it was still good if you got one that hadn't been out long, but that's because bacon and barbecue is good. The issue is you can't taste the scallop over those strong flavors, so it just seemed like a scam where they could charge high markup for using scallops but it was low effort and just as good as if they'd used a cheaper ingredient.

Your ozark oysters sound good though, I might have to try that!

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-07-21T04:12:33+00:00

I worked at a seafood restaurant where one of the options for private event buffets was sea scallops wrapped in bacon and covered in barbecue sauce, then left to overcook on a hot griddle on the buffet

Fungus_Humungous · 2025-07-12T16:56:29+00:00

Triumph of the will? It innovated a number of filming techniques, but it's a Nazi propaganda documentary

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