Heating tower base heat range bug?

[Warlord]

I'm working on Aquilo right now, and I seem to have found a bug regarding the distance that the heating tower melts snow around it. When I first arrived, it appears to be able to thaw anything within 2 squares of it, which was handy at first but I never took advantage of it until I almost finished setting up science.

I wanted to use a tower to heat up a load of inserter->chests taking from my landing pad, but I noticed that a new tower I placed down doesn't seem to thaw items 2 squares away. The snow on concrete melts, but the items themselves show as frozen and won't work. Am I insane?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3359579418

[Fel]

Could the fact that it is out of fuel possibly be connected to this?

[jagholin]

I've not reached Aquillo yet, but Im pretty sure I've seen Nilaus discover the same thing recently. The tower heating has range of 1 (ONE) , but the snow melts on the ground in range of 2. Whether it's a visual bug or not, the heat radius of the tower is what's important here and it's 1.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Fel:

Could the fact that it is out of fuel possibly be connected to this?

I thought so, but when I put in fuel it still didn't heat up the belt. The gap between those belts shows the snow melted, but the belt itself not thawed.

Anyway, I'd say I found a bug. Either the thaw-range is supposed to be 2 but isn't (bug), or the snow melt range should be 1 but isn't (bug).

[Chindraba]

Melting the snow might for 2 might be the effect of the snow and tile at 1 being thawed out. The stuff at 2 is still frozen, but the surface snow melts from the little heat radiated in the concrete from tile 1.