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Furry Eskimo Aug 27, 2017 @ 8:50am
Oxygen (can't refill tanks)
I know a lot f people have posted about issues with oxygen, but I can't find someone asking about my issue specifically.

I have 6 oxygen farms (on)
Two oxygen tanks (on) (95%)
One oxygen generator (on) (auto-refil)
All are connected with a conveyor (conveyor junction at each connection point)

It seems like no oxygen is being added to the tanks from the farms,
And no oxygen is being drawn from the tanks to refill containers in the oxygen generator.
BUT, the generator can add oxygen and hydrogen it processes to storage.
Why the hell then, can't I simply refill my personal oxygen tanks, and why aren't my farms doing Anything?

If anyone knows, I'd really like to get this sorted out.
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Pembroke Aug 27, 2017 @ 10:07am 
Oxygen generator fills personal O2 bottles from its ice reservoir. If you want to fill them from the large grid O2 tank place them into the inventory of the large grid O2 tank instead of the O2 generator. There's a manual "refill bottles" button in the O2 tank control panel as well as an auto-refill check box.

Don't know about the farms.
Furry Eskimo Aug 27, 2017 @ 10:13am 
That's so.... Weird. But ok..
Place them in the large container to refill them. Thanks!

Any ideas on why the farms arn't feeding into the storage tanks?
Pembroke Aug 27, 2017 @ 10:33am 
Do you have enough sunlight?
Soloquendi Aug 27, 2017 @ 10:34am 
Some blocks bork out after an update. Try disassembling them and rebuilding. I've had to do that with connectors before.
Furry Eskimo Aug 27, 2017 @ 2:37pm 
Pretty certain I have enough sunlight. (It rotates and I have Six farms for just me)

And idk, maybe removing the conveyor would help? But it's the only thing holding these farms to my base, so removing the conveyors could be tricky.
Soloquendi Aug 27, 2017 @ 3:52pm 
Use unwelded steel blocks as a scaffolding to hold them in place.
Neon Photon Aug 27, 2017 @ 8:32pm 
i hope you have everything connected to the conveyer system and also the oxygen farms may be feeding oxygen into your tanks they are just very very slow i have a system using like maybe 40 oxygen farms and its mindnumbingly slow also make sure your farms aren't covered by glass or anything or they won't work or at least i dont think they will
Last edited by Neon Photon; Aug 27, 2017 @ 8:35pm
Gorgeous Aug 27, 2017 @ 8:39pm 
Post screen shorts to make life easier for everyone and cut out a lot of guesswork about your setup ;)
Furry Eskimo Aug 27, 2017 @ 9:03pm 
40??
I heard three was enough for a player.
Neon Photon Aug 27, 2017 @ 9:04pm 
it is but its still super duper slow
Neon Photon Aug 27, 2017 @ 9:12pm 
just look at the % it should show like up to 3 decimal places see if those are changing if not theres a problem if so that's how slow it is

Neon Photon Aug 27, 2017 @ 9:13pm 
oh and make sure the correct side is facing the sun download my grid the eclpise it'll show you how to properly hook everything up and how effective it is
Furry Eskimo Aug 28, 2017 @ 2:08pm 
All six get Direct sunlight (4/4 lights)

I added a new oxygen tank and it took a while to get even 0.0001%

That's crazy!!
How much do these hold??
Neon Photon Aug 28, 2017 @ 2:11pm 
considering its gas and you can compress the hell out of it a lot
Furry Eskimo Aug 28, 2017 @ 5:27pm 
Sure, but I've left these running for Houuurrrs and it never seems to change.
Maybe I'm just collecting at a rate Soo close to what I'm consuming I don't notice a difference, but I really thought they held,, less.
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Date Posted: Aug 27, 2017 @ 8:50am
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