Atmospheric harvester bug?

[Harry Sack]

So, I've dropped trios of harvesters on seven planets to gather radon.

But when I go back around the circuit of planets, at least half of them will have used up all their fuel, but there is no radon waiting for me.

I always place three harvesters. And often one of them will have a tank full of radon, while the other two are empty.

Has this happened to anyone else?

[Ddoge]

Haven't seen that one. My Dioxite auto-miners churn out a nice stream of copper tho....

[MechWarden]

I've seen a few threads talking about the gas harvesters coming up empty.

I haven't had that happen, but I haven't been heavy into gas collecting. If anything, I gained extra gas one time by pulling what was collected before it was done, and then come back a short time later after the fuel emptied out with it full of gas, as if I didn't collect any in the first place.

If I had to guess from that, there are some halfway patched bugs regarding this, using extra functions to compensate for the error.
(as opposed to spending extra time to fix it; and time isn't something HG has a lot of to spend)

[puckhead]

I have a nitrogen unit and it seems like it will be empty unless I watch it collect the first 1-2 and then I come back later and its full. Could be anecdotal, but it seems like thats the case although I havent really tested my theory much.

[Uueerdo]

I've been seeing the same problem since experimental was updated last week. At first I though it was because I had recently added a fourth oxygen harvester, but deconstructing it did not fix the issue.

Also, seconding the continuing miner switching issue; last I checked, the autonomous miner I had on a silver node was filling with Indium... I'm not even sure the system has a blue star.

[Roborat]

Oh, I have been having that happen too. I assumed I was forgetting to fuel them, or someone was taking it.

[Gal Kraft]

Originally posted by puckhead:

I have a nitrogen unit and it seems like it will be empty unless I watch it collect the first 1-2 and then I come back later and its full. Could be anecdotal, but it seems like thats the case although I havent really tested my theory much.

I think you have something there. I'm pretty sure I noticed this too (but with the auto miners)

[Uueerdo]

Originally posted by Gal Kraft:

Originally posted by puckhead:

I have a nitrogen unit and it seems like it will be empty unless I watch it collect the first 1-2 and then I come back later and its full. Could be anecdotal, but it seems like thats the case although I havent really tested my theory much.

I think you have something there. I'm pretty sure I noticed this too (but with the auto miners)

I thought maybe that was the case as well, but it didn't seem to fix my o2 harvesters emptying themselves.

[JTracx]

I was going to try these shortly. I assume you are using Condensed Carbon instead of Carbon each time.

[soulguard]

Yea, I've noticed that. Atmo harvester does seem wonky. I have 1 on my radiated world. I fill it with fuel and sometimes when i return its empty, but fuel is gone.

I've given up on auto systems till they start tweaking balance. I like them, just don't like the output quantity and time.

[Angelo Dante]

Yeah i have that at times as well. Normally saving, exiting, and reloading gets them working again for me.

It also fixed my copper-producing paraffinium auto-miner, getting it to produce the correct resource instead.

[Brilhasti]

My atmosphere harvesters are asolutely f*cked. I load them with condensed carbon, come back later, carbon is gone and no gas. Happens all the time on multiple bases.

[Windman]

It's post-Beyond release and almost a year since this thread was created it still exists. WTH

[eLyrin]

Before 'Beyond' I did not have this issue. Since Beyond all my Oxygen- & Atmosphere Harvesters don't work any more. They use fuel but don't produce anything. They also produce a buggy sound when interacted and the Oxygen harvester lost the spinning animation (to indicate that it's 'running').

Hoped it was a Beyond bug which would get fixed quickly. But it seems to be an old Bug :-(

[ShadowMystic]

Try saving before leaving after loading your harvesters. I was experiencing this then tried saving before teleporting away. I haven't had anymore disappearing fuel.

[LiichBlitz]

This problem is still alive.