Methane production ceased?

[Dimensional Traveler]

I've gotten to breathable atmosphere but am still on T1 Gas Extractors. They went from producing almost nothing but methane to producing lots of nitrogen and some oxygen but NO methane anymore. This is a big problem because I can't make T2 fertilizer and mutagen without it to increase my biomass production. Any help or suggestions?

[Phoenix Cat]

Originally posted by Dimensional Traveler:

I've gotten to breathable atmosphere but am still on T1 Gas Extractors. They went from producing almost nothing but methane to producing lots of nitrogen and some oxygen but NO methane anymore. This is a big problem because I can't make T2 fertilizer and mutagen without it to increase my biomass production. Any help or suggestions?

Do you have the T2 Gas extractors? You get to pick the gas you want.

[Coops]

I noticed the same thing on Humble. I am into the fish stage.
Two gas extractors sending O2, Methane and Nitrogen to their respective storage boxes with drones. Nitrogen storage is full but O2 and Methane are no longer being produced. I empty the extractors of four N2 each time and they refill with just N2 and none of the other two.
Three solutions.
1. wait for the T2 gas extractor.
2. Maybe try deconstructing and moving them. (don't know if this will work)
3. (Humble only) A convoluted chain using serena larva (plentiful on the beach on Humble) recycle them to get rare larva, T2 mutagen and fertilizer, then recycle the T2 to get mutagen, sulfur and methane.
You can automate the recycling by using an ore crusher instead of a recycle machine.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originally posted by Phoenix Cat:

Originally posted by Dimensional Traveler:

I've gotten to breathable atmosphere but am still on T1 Gas Extractors. They went from producing almost nothing but methane to producing lots of nitrogen and some oxygen but NO methane anymore. This is a big problem because I can't make T2 fertilizer and mutagen without it to increase my biomass production. Any help or suggestions?

Do you have the T2 Gas extractors? You get to pick the gas you want.

"but am still on T1 Gas Extractors."

[Coops]

Update: Just went back in and methane started popping up again. Maybe just restart.

[avatar.zero]

Which gas gets pulled for each bottle is fully randomized. Sometimes you get a long string of the same RNG result or apparent pattern. Nothing wrong, just an unfortunate reality of how things work.

[Coops]

I can see it happening once or twice. But this was two machines three times. 24 nitrogen in a row. Each having a 33% chance. That's not random.

[flint74]

Originally posted by Coops:

Update: Just went back in and methane started popping up again. Maybe just restart.

Sounds like a variation of the 'no larvae spawning' bug, especially if a game restart got things working as expected again.

Originally posted by Coops:

That's not random.

I do not think that word means what you think it means. :D

For something to be truly random implies that anything, no matter how unlikely or bizarrely otherworldly it appears to be or not, could happen with each new step in a process; this does of course include the possibility of a scenario where one or more gas extractor(s) in a game each suddenly produce only 1 of 3 possible gases in a comparatively long uninterrupted series.

Of course, as mentioned above, in this case it seems like it's just a simple bug where the extraction process got itself caught in an infinite loop for some unknown reason, a loop that could only be broken by emptying the gas extractors and then restarting the game.

I'm sure the devs are probably already well aware of this particular bug, but it'd still be worth reporting it to them via the in-game F8 bug reporting tool.

[Percale]

Originally posted by Coops:

I noticed the same thing on Humble. I am into the fish stage.
Two gas extractors sending O2, Methane and Nitrogen to their respective storage boxes with drones. Nitrogen storage is full but O2 and Methane are no longer being produced. I empty the extractors of four N2 each time and they refill with just N2 and none of the other two.
Three solutions.
1. wait for the T2 gas extractor.
2. Maybe try deconstructing and moving them. (don't know if this will work)
3. (Humble only) A convoluted chain using serena larva (plentiful on the beach on Humble) recycle them to get rare larva, T2 mutagen and fertilizer, then recycle the T2 to get mutagen, sulfur and methane.
You can automate the recycling by using an ore crusher instead of a recycle machine.

Have found that deconstruct and reconstruct (don't need to move) resolves the issue.

[Coops]

Originally posted by flint74:

I do not think that word means what you think it means. :D

Inconceivable!

OK it could be random but the probability is very low.
24 coin flips all giving heads (with a 33.3% chance of landing heads) is 280 billion to one. and it happened to two different people that we know of.