Toxic Sludge?

[Tassit]

I can't place the decontaminator anywhere, nothing else seems to remove this stuff?
What gives?

[Darman Sejuk]

decon is to go onto the toxic sludge. my issue is getting the airlock built do peepes can go decontaminate

[chiefmonkey]

1) The Decontaminator needs to go on top of the Toxic Sludge tile, but *also*
2) The Decontaminator needs to be placed next to a road

Airlocks and Protective Elevators are basically the same thing, except that the Protective Elevator requires a height change the the Airlock requires flat ground. In both cases you need to place them on the border between Wasteland and normal ground, but *also* next to a road

I hope that helps! If not, if you're able to post screenshots of what you're seeing or more description, that would be really helpful

[Darman Sejuk]

That isn't the issue. I've got the airlock building but even though I've got the materials to build it in my warehouses the is no progress made on building it.

[chiefmonkey]

Can you post a screenshot with the Airlock construction site selected, and/or your saved game? Saved games can be found at C:/Users/<USER>/AppData/LocalLow/Balancing Monkey Games/Before We Leave/Saves, and we just need the game_26.dat file from the appropriate folder

[Monarch]

Sorry to invade this thread.

My problem is - I can build the airlocks, but I still can't get rid of the toxic sludge / wasteland.
I looked online, and supposedly I need to build Toxic Sludge Extractor? But I don't see an option for that under the decontamination research tree.

I do have a build option for - Decontaminator. But I can't put it ANYWHERE.

[Yuna0624]

Hello, I also have a problem with the toxic sludge: my peepes do not build the decontaminator...

[chiefmonkey]

Can you post a screenshot with the Decontaminator selected? Off the top of my head, you might be missing a required resource, or the Peeps might not have access to the construcction site, or there might not be enough Peeps on the Island

[Monarch]

Update:
Finally I was able to place the decontaminator. So turns out, the missing "requirement" was road leading to it. Which I thought there was one.

It's very hard to see through that thick purple effect.
But once the road was placed, decontaminator was able to be placed on the yellow toxic sludge, clean up was finally able to begin.

[Yuna0624]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787076739

[chiefmonkey]

Originally posted by Yuna0624:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787076739

The only Elevators heading up to the area with the Decontaminator are normal ones, not Protective Elevators. This means there's nowhere for your Peeps to get into their protective suits, so they're not going to work constructing the Decontaminator. Demolish one of the Elevators and replace it with a Protective Elevator and you should be all good!

[Yuna0624]

Problem solved, thanks very much

[My Epic Cat LUNA]

Originally posted by chiefmonkey:

1) The Decontaminator needs to go on top of the Toxic Sludge tile, but *also*
2) The Decontaminator needs to be placed next to a road

Airlocks and Protective Elevators are basically the same thing, except that the Protective Elevator requires a height change the the Airlock requires flat ground. In both cases you need to place them on the border between Wasteland and normal ground, but *also* next to a road

I hope that helps! If not, if you're able to post screenshots of what you're seeing or more description, that would be really helpful

I cannot place the Decontaminator too - with or without roads. And please think about this annoying microorganisation of things, its quite too much. Its not enjoying. The toxic sludge is on top of a hill and its also not a natural thing where to place the other two buildings in my opinion.

This issue is really destroying the game for me completely and I can't give a positive review because of this.

[Tom P]

I'm having a problem clearing toxic sludge: A wasteland has appeared but I can't see any Toxic Sludge tile from which is has been created, is there a way to find it?

[Tuddel]

I'm having the exact same issue. There is no tile with the yellow toxic sludge origin. So it's just a random guessing and testing evey tile for the decon...

[chiefmonkey]

There is a known bug that causes the yellow-goo model not to show up sometimes. We're working on a fix! In the meantime, if you can locate the tile where the goo *should be*, you should still be able to place the decontaminator on it. From memory I think that if you click on the tile, the tiles card might tell you if it's the Toxic Tile?