Irrigation problems (with screens)

[nakoda]

My hydroponics tell me they lack irrigation, but I can't see why. Advice needed/welcome:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1827563628

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1827563600

[Bokonon]

You need to end the piping after the last hydroponic block. Using a loop, you give the water somewhere else to go and in the game it always will if it can. You need to have them filled which will never happen if the water has somewhere else to go.

[nakoda]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

You need to end the piping after the last hydroponic block. Using a loop, you give the water somewhere else to go and in the game it always will if it can. You need to have them filled which will never happen if the water has somewhere else to go.

Interesting.

I had added the loop because the water wasn't flowing. Right now, the water is on permanent loop within the irrigation (the bridges route water back to the irrigation)

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by kungfukappa:

Originally posted by Bokonon:

You need to end the piping after the last hydroponic block. Using a loop, you give the water somewhere else to go and in the game it always will if it can. You need to have them filled which will never happen if the water has somewhere else to go.

Interesting.

I had added the loop because the water wasn't flowing. Right now, the water is on permanent loop within the irrigation (the bridges route water back to the irrigation)

It has to build up in the hydroponic tiles, click one it'll show you how much water it's got.

[John Hadley]

There's clearly water flowing past the plants in your screenshots so I think Bokonon is correct about the problem. It appears that irrigation tiles do not have the natural priority (this cannot be changed) to consume the water travelling past in the pipe, so if it doesn't actually stop there they won't get any water. The one plant that is getting water at the top is getting it because two branches of water combine there so when the two branches have more water than can flow into one pipe then one line has part or all of the liquid in it paused in the pipe for a tick which allows the hydroponic farm which is second priority to try to consume the rest of the water.

[fluxtorrent]

click on one of the hydroponics tiles and check its contents. I've had a bug that occasionally has it collect the water BEHIND the tile instead of feeding the plant. While yours isn't an ideal setup those tiles should be getting water.

[nakoda]

I'll do some tinkering, thanks.

Prior to building the loop, the same error was present, so I built the loop thinking they weren't getting water.

I'll backpedal a bit and deconstruct some to show you. If I can improve the set up, I'm all ears too.

[gussmed]

It appears to be a basic plumbing problem, though that's a little difficult to see from your piping screenshot.

Pipes in Oxygen Not Included have a definite direction of flow, from green (output) to white (input) tiles. If there's any conflict, where the game sees green-to-white paths that flow both right and left, water tends to shuffle back and forth without moving.

In your case, this is true of the topmost row of hydroponic blocks. There's a right-to-left path, starting from the tank, flowing past the hydroponic blocks (which are all inputs), and ending with liquid bridge #1. There's a left-to-right path, starting from liquid bridge #2's output, flowing through the middle row of hydroponic blocks, continuing through the top row of hydroponic blocks, and terminating in the input of liquid bridge #2.

You need to eliminate one of those paths. Either eliminate the pipes from the left side of the middle row, so the only path is right-to-left from the tank to bridge #1's input, or eliminate the connection on the right side of the upper row to bridge #2's input, so the only path is left-to-right from bridge #2's output to the hydroponic tiles.

[Bokonon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1828023160

See how the polluted water backs up? This is what you want. Also look at the hydroponic Farm info screen, where it says Contents.

[Alenvire]

You don't need to have your hydroponics backed up. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1828038626

That happens to be part of my cooling loop too just so I can cool my plants with irrigation.

[Alenvire]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1828023160

See how the polluted water backs up? This is what you want. Also look at the hydroponic Farm info screen, where it says Contents.

What do I do to have my picture show like yours?

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by Alenvire:

What do I do to have my picture show like yours?

It's a slight pain in the butt, I use the upload feature from Steam, then go to my online library and click the one I want to post, click again to get it to open in a separate window and copy the URL from there. Maybe (hopefully) someone knows an easier, quicker method.

[Alenvire]

Originally posted by Bokonon:

Originally posted by Alenvire:

What do I do to have my picture show like yours?

It's a slight pain in the butt, I use the upload, then go to my online library and click the one I want to post, click again to get it to open in a separate window and copy the URL from there. Maybe (hopefully) someone knows an easier, quicker method.

Got it! Thanks.

[Alenvire]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1828052786

This is where my cooling loop irrigation starts.