Moving water or honey that disappears

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

Why do I have issues where large amount of moving liquids suddenly disappear? I remember reading some where that there is a bug or a screen refresh issue. Any one know of this?

[daddy seahorse]

you need a better computer

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

Hmmm. While a better computer would be nice the one I have isn't bad. I custom built it two years ago and maxed out almost every thing. I have no problems running any other game.

[Metabyte]

I think that just has to do with the game engine. What I personally experience when I am moving TONS of water is that eventually its movement completely freezes after a while of moving very sluggishly, and then generally after several minutes it all warps down to where it would eventually rest if it was moving.

I don't know if that is what you are talking about, but I only have this issue when I am moving extremely large amounts of water very long distances, like digging a tunnel to the underworld.

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

That sounds like my situation. It moves sluggishly then actually will stop for a little bit then every thing disappears.

And I'll assume you are moving the same amount of liquid I am? I'm building holding tanks which are larger than the screen x 100.

My goal has been to flood Hell completely. However my first attempt to do it with water failed because it evaporated too quickly. I'm hoping that honey will last longer or forever.

[Not Bubba]

Can't flood hell, used to be able to. They fixed it.

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

Even with honey? I would think that I could turn the lava all in to crispy honey blocks.

[Not Bubba]

I've never tried with honey, didn't really seem worth all the time it'd take to dupe up all that honey.

[Celator]

According to the wiki, honey doesn't evaporate in the underworld.

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

Cool. Well I have three screens full of honey so I'm going to give it a shot.

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

I successfully flooded hell with honey this morning. I created a pool of honey five screens wide then created two continuous paths straight down to hell. I then logged out of the game and then back in to it so that the liquids would settle.

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

Seriously? stop putting salt in the water.

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

No, I'm kidding. :)

[vakori]

Damn I have to try this as well :P

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

When I built the pool I put a pyramid above it with a small pump house. The pyramid was really large, taking up almost an entire screen. The pump house had two outlet pumps. The two inlet pumps were directly below the pyramid. I then used the crab statue with pressure plates. As the honey grew in quanity I made the pool larger allowing the smaller pool (which had the two inlet pumps) to over flow in to the larger pool. It took a while, but eventually it filled up.

One thing I learned quickly was that I needed to stay on the screen to keep the crabs running the pumps, but I had to stay below ground because I would come back and find myself dead. Apparently the "dragon" shows up every once in a while and was killing me.

[J. R. "Bob" Dobbs]

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