Atmosphere and Oxygen Harvester Empty

[FellishBeast]

I fuel up my harvesters and come back later and they have used up all their fuel and have nothing to show for it. Is this a bug? How are you supposed to use them? Do you have to sit and babysit them or else their storage deletes itself?

[Grimmslayer73]

Same here. If you leave the planet, go through a base gate or reload they will be empty when you return to them. They seem to be just as buggy as the AMUs which have similar problems.

[Xenomorph]

This is a long time bug :/ I find that the bug doesn't happen (at least that often) if you stay on the system.

[Captain Brendig]

Yeah, babysit them. Which is the main reason why I don't use them. Tip that I found was that if you split the stack and leave a little behind, they are less likely to glitch out and change resources.

[Chosen [Blood]]

this bug makes me not wanna play. fix it already

[Namaride]

This bug is new for me. I didnt had problems with the oxygen harvester before.

[Xenomorph]

Originally posted by Namasteride:

This bug is new for me. I didnt had problems with the oxygen harvester before.

Maybe you just stayed in system and did stuff, or teleported somewhere else? This is important information so we find a good workaround to this problem, besides babysit.

[Namaride]

Originally posted by Xenomorph:

Originally posted by Namasteride:

This bug is new for me. I didnt had problems with the oxygen harvester before.

Maybe you just stayed in system and did stuff, or teleported somewhere else? This is important information so we find a good workaround to this problem, besides babysit.

I warped many times. Like i said, its a new bug for me. Last time i played (couple of months back) i did the same without problems.

[Dzikus1r]

I'm trying to get nitrogen with my atmo harvesters.... Its very inconsistent, one time I left the system, warped around, did a MP mission and they were all fine except one only had 113 instead of 250 and no fuel left. Today I sorta babysat them, but theres not really enough to do on base to occupy an hour. I didn't leave system but went offworld to try and find sulphurine on the scorched world in my system, but came back and there was nothing at all in any of them. The time limit either needs to be lowered to that of oxygen harvesters at least or fixed so you can play the game while they do their thing. Never really had a major problem with oxy harvester, but I think their timer is quicker, because they're usually done after I've finished harvesting my farms and crafting and whatnot.

[Captain Xpendable]

Yeah, I ran into that with the oxygen harvester and recently found out the anti-matter reactor does that too. Fortunately, oxygen isn't that hard to come by, every plant that wants to kill you will give it to you, and I currently have enough chromatic and condensed carbon to craft all the anti-matter I'll ever need.

[stealthXG]

Originally posted by Dzikus1r:

I'm trying to get nitrogen with my atmo harvesters.... Its very inconsistent, one time I left the system, warped around, did a MP mission and they were all fine except one only had 113 instead of 250 and no fuel left. Today I sorta babysat them, but theres not really enough to do on base to occupy an hour. I didn't leave system but went offworld to try and find sulphurine on the scorched world in my system, but came back and there was nothing at all in any of them. The time limit either needs to be lowered to that of oxygen harvesters at least or fixed so you can play the game while they do their thing. Never really had a major problem with oxy harvester, but I think their timer is quicker, because they're usually done after I've finished harvesting my farms and crafting and whatnot.

You'll be better off making gas farms with the gas extractors that way you don't have to babysit them. Just go around looking for S rank gas hot spots, set up a base, plot down a few gas extractors, power them, connected them to supply depots and you'll be set. No more babysitting. My S rank nitrogen gas farm currently makes about 1800 nitrogen per hour and I'm only using 3 of them. The storage will fill up even when you're not playing the game.

[✿ Blinky ☻]

I think this bug might be related to the refiners as well. Same as for the harvesters, materials have a high chance of simply disappearing, namely when you leave the general area.

For example, if you're harvesting gasses or busy refining something, and then leave to explore the rest of the current solar system, there's a good chance any materials you left in them will disappear.

If you dare leave that solar system, it's practically guaranteed that anything you left in a refiner or harvester will be gone. Really hoping this bug gets patched sooner rather than later. Been dealing with it ever since I started playing in the Next update.

[stealthXG]

Originally posted by ✿ Blinky ♥:

I think this bug might be related to the refiners as well. Same as for the harvesters, materials have a high chance of simply disappearing, namely when you leave the general area.

For example, if you're harvesting gasses or busy refining something, and then leave to explore the rest of the current solar system, there's a good chance any materials you left in them will disappear.

If you dare leave that solar system, it's practically guaranteed that anything you left in a refiner or harvester will be gone. Really hoping this bug gets patched sooner rather than later. Been dealing with it ever since I started playing in the Next update.

I leave stuff in my refiners all the time and they never disappear.

[Dzikus1r]

Originally posted by stealthXG:

Originally posted by Dzikus1r:

I'm trying to get nitrogen with my atmo harvesters.... Its very inconsistent, one time I left the system, warped around, did a MP mission and they were all fine except one only had 113 instead of 250 and no fuel left. Today I sorta babysat them, but theres not really enough to do on base to occupy an hour. I didn't leave system but went offworld to try and find sulphurine on the scorched world in my system, but came back and there was nothing at all in any of them. The time limit either needs to be lowered to that of oxygen harvesters at least or fixed so you can play the game while they do their thing. Never really had a major problem with oxy harvester, but I think their timer is quicker, because they're usually done after I've finished harvesting my farms and crafting and whatnot.

You'll be better off making gas farms with the gas extractors that way you don't have to babysit them. Just go around looking for S rank gas hot spots, set up a base, plot down a few gas extractors, power them, connected them to supply depots and you'll be set. No more babysitting. My S rank nitrogen gas farm currently makes about 1800 nitrogen per hour and I'm only using 3 of them. The storage will fill up even when you're not playing the game.

Oh really? I knew you could find gas hotspots, but I wasn't sure if it would just be the same old problem anyway. So it goes straight into a storage container? That must be how it doesn't bug, like the harvesters. Not sure if I'd be willing to relocate this base, took me awhile to find a deep enough location, and then to build it all out. But that's good to know for my future bases!

[stealthXG]

Originally posted by Dzikus1r:

Originally posted by stealthXG:

You'll be better off making gas farms with the gas extractors that way you don't have to babysit them. Just go around looking for S rank gas hot spots, set up a base, plot down a few gas extractors, power them, connected them to supply depots and you'll be set. No more babysitting. My S rank nitrogen gas farm currently makes about 1800 nitrogen per hour and I'm only using 3 of them. The storage will fill up even when you're not playing the game.

Oh really? I knew you could find gas hotspots, but I wasn't sure if it would just be the same old problem anyway. So it goes straight into a storage container? That must be how it doesn't bug, like the harvesters. Not sure if I'd be willing to relocate this base, took me awhile to find a deep enough location, and then to build it all out. But that's good to know for my future bases!

It doesn't go straight into a 0-9 storage container, but it goes into a separate storage if you set it up. It's not bugged, even without the supply depots it will still harvest and save the gas until you retrieve it. You don't have to relocate your base. You can just make a new base at the hot spot and make a portal there. I have a nitrogen, radon, sulphurine, oxygen, and activated indium extractors all on different planets with portals at each and one of them.

Here's a pro-tip, I've read that the 3 hot spots form a triangle (tested it several times and they do). Meaning that gas, mineral, and electromagnet are always near each other. If you find a hot spot you want, make sure you place your base at like the middle between the hot spots that way you can build at each of them. This is very useful for using electromagnet for powering extractors.

[Dzikus1r]

That's awesome! thank you