Polluted Areas vanish?

[Elrigh]

I build right next to a polluted area, now it´s gone. I stand at a place, where I almost got killed because the pollution was very high, but nothing. Is that intentional or a bug?

[Elrigh]

Just logged in again and the pollution was back. Very strange. An hour ago I stand at the exact same spot without getting damage.

[TwoDucksOneAnus]

Originally posted by Elrigh:

Just logged in again and the pollution was back. Very strange. An hour ago I stand at the exact same spot without getting damage.

Had this exact thing happen to me a couple days ago and closing the game and relaunching it fixed it. Was so goofy because my friends would come to my base and I could watch their Insanity meter build while their health dropped but the game treated me (and my water pumps) like nothing was wrong lol.

[Elrigh]

I am not sure but is pollution tied to certain Elite Mobs? There is one nearby and I am not sure if it was when the pollution was gone. So maybe someone killed it and until respawn the pollution was gone?

[TwoDucksOneAnus]

Originally posted by Elrigh:

I am not sure but is pollution tied to certain Elite Mobs? There is one nearby and I am not sure if it was when the pollution was gone. So maybe someone killed it and until respawn the pollution was gone?

I don't think mobs have anything to do with it (the only things near my base in a polluted zone are bears.). I'm not sure what exactly is going on to cause the issue, but if I had to guess, it has something to do with how territories occupy space in the world. I make that guess, because it would coincide nicely with the other issues involving floating or shifting bases that break their own territory bounds. It might be that the game temporarily views your base outside of the pollution zone, and reloading forces it to reconcile with its actual position.