Is Water Sieve+Carbon Skimmer bugged?

[Dopey Shepard]

Basically I got a 100% operational water sieve, and as you know it produces 5 kg water/second, which means that it can supply up to 5 carbon skimmer at the same time

however, my water sieve + 2 carbon skimmers don't seem to work at all? Only 1 carbon skimmer is operational while the other one has "pipe blocked" red thingy in the bio

The ACTUAL output pipe of carbon skimmer is NOT blocked, and 2 carbon skimmers connected with one single pipe go into outer pipe

The problem is that my 2nd carbon skimmer just stays still and won't budge, no matter what I do, the water pipe that I extended to Liquid Vent just stays there, full in the pipe, it won't move for some reason. Why is that? A pipe basically transports 10 kg water/second, right? So 2 carbon skimmers taking in 2 kg/sec vs a 5kg/sec Water Sieve make 3kg/sec overflow/spare water that can travel to a vent, but the pipe after the 2nd skimmer is just stuck, it's full and won't ever move

Is this a bug in the game or wtf? Why won't the spare 3kg/sec water just move to where I tell it to? I know for a fact all of the pipes ARE connected, with no gaps between them. Please help)

p.s. before I forget, yes it IS immersed in CO2, and yes there is power connected to it

[AlexMBrennan]

Hard to say without a screenshot of your pipes.

My first guess is that the game picked the wrong flow direction for your pipes, which means that you need to fix your pipe layout.

If it's a closed system then the pipe loop might be overfilled - try if emptying one pipe segment fixes things.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Hard to say without a screenshot of your pipes.

My first guess is that the game picked the wrong flow direction for your pipes, which means that you need to fix your pipe layout.

If it's a closed system then the pipe loop might be overfilled - try if emptying one pipe segment fixes things.

No loops, just 1 single pipe going from the output of both skimmers to the liquid valve, nothing else. It's not 1 main pipe and those 2 small pipes connecting to the main pipe (although I tried both variations), but it's just 1 pipe (horizontal line between the outputs of skimmers, nothing more) and the skimmer after the first one just doesn't work. Like wtf, I heard there are some bugs with pipes, at least it was like that a couple of years ago? How come these same bugs are still in the game?

[gimmethegepgun]

A picture speaks a thousand words.

[Strygald]

You made a mistake somewhere... without a screenshot nobody knows what you did wrong.

[Athor]

It won't fill it unless there is space for the liquid to go, you need to build a liquid bridge over the output port second carbon skimmer to connect them and disconnect/rebuild the pipes.

[AlexMBrennan]

No loops, just 1 single pipe going from the output of both skimmers to the liquid valve, nothing else. It's not 1 main pipe and those 2 small pipes connecting to the main pipe (although I tried both variations)

That doesn't help - earlier you mentioned a liquid vent, and now there is a liquid valve.

Which of these different objects did you actually build? If you did build a liquid valve then check its settings because its purpose is to limit liquid flow.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

No loops, just 1 single pipe going from the output of both skimmers to the liquid valve, nothing else. It's not 1 main pipe and those 2 small pipes connecting to the main pipe (although I tried both variations)

That doesn't help - earlier you mentioned a liquid vent, and now there is a liquid valve.

Which of these different objects did you actually build? If you did build a liquid valve then check its settings because its purpose is to limit liquid flow.

All these questions and more, even the ones no one thought to ask, could be answered with some screenshots :)

[Hedning]

If liquid is stuck in a pipe that can only mean it can't flow to the output. Pipes are unidirectional, ie they can't sometimes flow one way and sometimes another, so that could be one issue. Another issue is that the thing they flow into is actually blocked, whether that be a sieve, valve or vent.

Follow your pipe from the skimmer output and follow every branch. If there is another output on any branch you could have a problem with the pipe having an ill-defined direction, otherwise if everything leads to an input then check all of the things those inputs belong to and make sure they are all working as intended and that their outputs aren't blocked in turn.

[John Hadley]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Hard to say without a screenshot of your pipes.

My first guess is that the game picked the wrong flow direction for your pipes, which means that you need to fix your pipe layout.

If it's a closed system then the pipe loop might be overfilled - try if emptying one pipe segment fixes things.

No loops, just 1 single pipe going from the output of both skimmers to the liquid valve, nothing else. It's not 1 main pipe and those 2 small pipes connecting to the main pipe (although I tried both variations), but it's just 1 pipe (horizontal line between the outputs of skimmers, nothing more) and the skimmer after the first one just doesn't work. Like wtf, I heard there are some bugs with pipes, at least it was like that a couple of years ago? How come these same bugs are still in the game?

You have described a water output that has not worked for me typically in the past. You can't put multiple output porrs (green) on a single pipe with one input (white) on the other end. Each output needs its own branch that merges into the main output pipe so that you can draw a line from the output (green port) to the input (white port) without travelling through any green ports unless those ports happen to be bridges because bridges create their own unidirectional flow which the pipe AI will never send in the other direction. The line you draw from the green to the white can go through multiple whites, but may not pass through additional greens unless those greens are the output of a bridge which have their own built-in directional control so they will never flow in the wrong direction. Inputs (white) can be on the same main pipe and will take water on a first-come first-served basis from the main pipe. If you send enough water to give them all water they will all get it but if it runs out before the last consumers those consumer just won't get any water. If you make branches in your pipe then the water from the input branches is divided equally between the output branches at each intersection unless a branch is already full which will allow another branch to take the rest of that water packet.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by John Hadley:

You can't put multiple output porrs (green) on a single pipe with one input (white) on the other end.

You can do that. I do that all the time. You have to be careful putting multiple inputs and outputs on the same line, but as long as you follow the rules it works.