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B42.12 generator guzzling fuel
At 6 in the morning I've refilled the generator to the brim and now at 8pm it's down to 20% already.
There's a fridge, two halves of the popsicle freezer, three gas pumps and nine lights connected.
All together it's about 0.2 litres per hour.
Also, I've set the fuel burn rate to 50% using the sandbox option.

The patch log said something about generators being bugged for already existing saves.
This is a new save, though.
Is any one else experiencing this?
Originally posted by namorufa:
0.2 l/h does sound like the generator fuel consumption rate is 1.0, you can use debug mode to change it to the current default of 0.1 from sandbox settings -> meta -> generator fuel consumption. No idea why the new save uses that value, 0.1 should be the new default value.
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probably used a custom preset for sandbox options where the fuel rate was still set to 1.0
the new default value is 0.1, change it to that
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0.2 l/h does sound like the generator fuel consumption rate is 1.0, you can use debug mode to change it to the current default of 0.1 from sandbox settings -> meta -> generator fuel consumption. No idea why the new save uses that value, 0.1 should be the new default value.
Thanks both of you.
My custom preset had the fuel consumption set to 50% so I just assumed it would work for new saves just as before.
I've set a more reasonable value using debug mode now.
Let's see if that fixes the issue.
Ahh, thanks for this. I have 2x pop freezers, a white fridge, and a couple lights, yet I'm burning through a ridiculous amount of power. I hooked 3x generators up, and still blowing through full tanks in 24 hours.

It's a save from shortly before this patch, so much be the problem. Will mess with sandbox/debug settings, thanks
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Date Posted: Sep 30, 2025 @ 8:43am
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