Water condenser bug.

[Remo]

I cannot collect water from my water condensers. I put a filter on and it collected water. The water container didn't look visually full so I made the huge mistake of adding another filter and now I can't collect the water. the press 'e' option to collect the water is gone. I cannot pick up or delete the filter. Lastly, I cannot move the unit because the second filter has made it full. Hopefully, they'll make it impossible to put a filter on the unit when it's full or better yet make the option to collect the water from the condenser always available.

[Calico Beard]

Same problem here. two, side by side, stuck in place with no remedy

[crsmithdev]

I have this too! I wasn't exactly sure what I did to get it into this state but it's now stuck there on the side of my ship. Have another working one, but is there any way to get rid of the old?

[Mighty Pancake]

I can understand this is a sort of bug, but there are well 4 sides to the water condenser. Make sure you have the side with the outlet facing where you can reach it. figured this out myself before doing any hyjinx with it and doing a second one the same way.

Note to devs make sure there is an indicator of where the front is.

Note to players make sure to inspect the item before going ham and placing willy nilly.

[LoboFH]

Can you delete the catwalk below it?

[Remo]

Originally posted by Mighty Pancake:

I can understand this is a sort of bug, but there are well 4 sides to the water condenser. Make sure you have the side with the outlet facing where you can reach it. figured this out myself before doing any hyjinx with it and doing a second one the same way.

Note to devs make sure there is an indicator of where the front is.

Note to players make sure to inspect the item before going ham and placing willy nilly.

Not in my case. I placed these condensers and I was using them without any issues. When I put the second filter on, I was locked out of being able to remove water that was already collected. The developers should NEVER have disabled the option to collect water, while water is present in the condenser.

[kets]

Originally posted by Remo:

Originally posted by Mighty Pancake:

I can understand this is a sort of bug, but there are well 4 sides to the water condenser. Make sure you have the side with the outlet facing where you can reach it. figured this out myself before doing any hyjinx with it and doing a second one the same way.

Note to devs make sure there is an indicator of where the front is.

Note to players make sure to inspect the item before going ham and placing willy nilly.

Not in my case. I placed these condensers and I was using them without any issues. When I put the second filter on, I was locked out of being able to remove water that was already collected. The developers should NEVER have disabled the option to collect water, while water is present in the condenser.

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

[TH3xR34P3R]

Originally posted by kets:

Originally posted by Remo:

Not in my case. I placed these condensers and I was using them without any issues. When I put the second filter on, I was locked out of being able to remove water that was already collected. The developers should NEVER have disabled the option to collect water, while water is present in the condenser.

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under \steam\steamapps\common\Forever Skies\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

Are you sure that is the directory as I don't see a saved/savedgames folder in there all I see is Binaries, content, plugins and sentry-native

I found it under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames

[kets]

Originally posted by TH3xR34P3R:

Originally posted by kets:

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under \steam\steamapps\common\Forever Skies\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

Are you sure that is the directory as I don't see a saved/savedgames folder in there all I see is Binaries, content, plugins and sentry-native

I found it under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames

You're correct, thank you. That was the directory of saves from other branches, my bad.

[TH3xR34P3R]

Originally posted by kets:

Originally posted by TH3xR34P3R:

Are you sure that is the directory as I don't see a saved/savedgames folder in there all I see is Binaries, content, plugins and sentry-native

I found it under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames

You're correct, thank you. That was the directory of saves from other branches, my bad.

All good, gave me a chance to dig in and make a backup copy of the main save file to my NAS should it start having breaking bugs or get corrupted.

[crsmithdev]

So for me, if I approached it from a different side, I was able to empty it, then pick it up. And no, I could not delete the catwalk below it as it had something on it. So that fixes the issue for me.

Also, PLEASE enable moving things (boxes especially) when not empty, it is a big pain point that should be pretty trivial to fix.

Lastly devs: it has a few rough edges and obviously some growing to do, but this is a really solid start and I'm enjoying the game a ton, thank you.

[2ugly]

Got this same issue.

Also tried removing the floor piece below the condenser which couldn't be done due to attached condenser.

I'll send my save also.

I think it occurs if you don't remove all the water from the device, it will allow you to add a filter... then it doesn't work at all (just a guess). Though once it occurs you are stuck not being able to build beyond the glitch.

[TH3xR34P3R]

Originally posted by 2ugly:

Got this same issue.

Also tried removing the floor piece below the condenser which couldn't be done due to attached condenser.

I'll send my save also.

I think it occurs if you don't remove all the water from the device, it will allow you to add a filter... then it doesn't work at all (just a guess). Though once it occurs you are stuck not being able to build beyond the glitch.

When empty the condenser spins up until it used up the filter when that filter is used then its full, it won't spin up again with a new filter until its emptied, this is why you want to make sure you can access the front of it when placing it (the front is the side with the panel on it).

If you make the mistake of putting it where you can't access the front but its facing a wall you can interact with it through the wall when its a glass wall. Just make sure not to place anything blocking that area on the inside until you move it to better access it.

[IronGoat]

Originally posted by kets:

Originally posted by Remo:

Not in my case. I placed these condensers and I was using them without any issues. When I put the second filter on, I was locked out of being able to remove water that was already collected. The developers should NEVER have disabled the option to collect water, while water is present in the condenser.

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

to replicate
1)have a condenser run a full cycle till the membrane disappears
2)make sure it has the E prompt to collect water
3)put a membrane in your inventory ( may have to be hotbar)
4)go to collect water by pressing E
membrane will be applied water not collected
MAY be because no empty bottle for water so game engine defaulted to filter replacement
hope this helps
ive done it twice now..


OK so i sorted it sorta
its the panel thing COMBINED with the E prompt being available from any angle WITHOUT a membrane on and then it ONLY being visible if you go look at the panel WITH a membrane on ( which in my case was facing the wrong way) once i wiggled to get get access to the panel i just drank the old water and the condensers sprang into action un bugged

its an issue of the user not knowing there is a "front" to the condenser they need access to

[2ugly]

Originally posted by IronGoat:

Originally posted by kets:

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

to replicate
1)have a condenser run a full cycle till the membrane disappears
2)make sure it has the E prompt to collect water
3)put a membrane in your inventory ( may have to be hotbar)
4)go to collect water by pressing E
membrane will be applied water not collected
MAY be because no empty bottle for water so game engine defaulted to filter replacement
hope this helps
ive done it twice now..


OK so i sorted it sorta
its the panel thing COMBINED with the E prompt being available from any angle WITHOUT a membrane on and then it ONLY being visible if you go look at the panel WITH a membrane on ( which in my case was facing the wrong way) once i wiggled to get get access to the panel i just drank the old water and the condensers sprang into action un bugged

its an issue of the user not knowing there is a "front" to the condenser they need access to

That's it...... good find.

Now.... what TH3 says.... actually makes sense.

[Remo]

Originally posted by kets:

Originally posted by Remo:

Not in my case. I placed these condensers and I was using them without any issues. When I put the second filter on, I was locked out...

Could you please send us your save file to [e-mail]? It's under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\SaveGames. We've tried to reproduce this issue, this might be a more complex problem so the save would really help. The option to collect water should not be disabled, this wasn't intended.

I've made a few attempts but couldn't find a way to access the save files. My problem is that I can only play the game on GeForce Now so the saves files aren't stored locally on my computer.

I did stumble into a fix by accident. While making my way back to my ship from "The Dust" I noticed that my ship wasn't flush to the ground. I had landed on some crates. This elevated the ship to waist height. Normally, I'd hold down the "E" key to climb aboard. When I did that I instead drank the dirty water from the condenser. I climbed aboard my ship and I couldn't access it. When left the ship the condenser was eye-level, that's when I got the "E" menu to remove the dirty water.