Conveyor belt eats material mid transport

[swiftdoll]

I have a puft farm set up, kept wondering why I am constantly out of slime until I realized the transport boxes kept randomly emptying mid way.

On the screenshot you can see the box on the top still having carried slime in it, while the rest of the boxes are mysteriously empty. They start full, I witnessed them repeatedly emptying in different parts of the rail for no apparent reason

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[SamuraiJones]

If you're seeing what I think you're seeing, then good news: It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Slime turns into polluted oxygen fairly fast, even when it's on a rail. so if your auto-sweeper tosses 500g of slime onto a conveyor, and it's emitting at 40g/s, then if it takes more than 12 seconds to arrive, it'll completely evaporate before it arrives.

I know of 3 ways to address it... first, get the pressure higher so it doesn't evaporate. put your sweepers on an pressure sensor. Second, send it in batches. Slime converts at the same rate regardless of how much there is, so put the conveyor on a timer and have it ship once a day. That way instead of sending 20 packets of 50g and having none of em arrive, you'll send 1 packet of 1kg, and maybe 900g will arrive. Third, convert it to algae on the farm, and keep the slime off the rails.

[The Queen Salis]

have the slime to algae convertion buildings in your puft setup with autosweepers.

[swiftdoll]

SamuraiJones it mostly happens in the very beginning of the rail, and also in mid wall, so I do think it's a bug. And I'm fairly sure I was loosing packets of several kilograms, not just few grams.

When I disable the conveyor belt I start to pile up slime reserves quite fast.

There seems to be something wonky going on in that area in general, I'm also constantly loosing eggs straight from the incubator stationed in the puft farm and next to the conveyor loader; instead of hatching into a baby it's suddenly just empty. I keep wondering do the Morbs snatch and eat the freshborn babies or what

But I'll check the numbers better if that seems to make sense.