Pipeline Floor Holes Not Working

[RustyAndroid]

I just finished building my first coal plant, and plugged it into my grid to get it started. The coal is moving around as expected, but the water won't go through the pipeline floor holes. I even added extra pipeline pumps just to be sure it was getting enough head to make it to the second floor, but the water still won't make it up through the floor holes. Is there a known glitch that's causing this? I'm certain I've connected everything correctly, so the only issue I can think of is there's some kind of glitch with pipeline floor holes.

[NocheLuz]

Yes, there is a bug with the pipe floor hole. Try deleting the pipe floor hole and any section connected to it and rebuilding it should fix the issue, for now.

[anmana]

If you use the holes for decoration purposes only you can first connect the pipe to the coal plant and then clip the floor hole over the pipe afterwards. It looks like you use the floor hole but you don´t have to worry about the bug (several posts on https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ regarding this one)

[kLuns]

Don't build stuff on existing pipes, it's broken.
Nudging a wall/ floor hole over a pipe doesn't attach to the pipe and works.

[Fenix]

I’ve been using a stand pipe support rotated down. To make it flush with the foundation, I place another foundation 1m below the current one, place and rotate the support down then, remove the temp foundation and replace the real one.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348605207

[Timicro]

there is some weirdness to them. tho, ive gotten them to work by going from the floor hole, to the next connection, not the other way around.

[Arch]

Pipe floor holes have had bugs listed on the QA site for a very long time. I can't imagine why they haven't fixed it by now.

I've seen two work-arounds (often used in combination) for the problem: (1) delete and rebuild any pipes having the problem; (2) Build the pipes from higher elevation to lower elevation.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Arch:

Pipe floor holes have had bugs listed on the QA site for a very long time. I can't imagine why they haven't fixed it by now.

Because the very definition of a bug is that it needs to be reproducable. I haven't experimented with floor setups myself just yet (went onto my todo list), but I know of several players who have been using these very same mechanics without any issues.

And if they don't have issues... there's a chance the devs also didn't spot any.

You can't fix bugs which you can't see or reproduce.

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by Arch:

Pipe floor holes have had bugs listed on the QA site for a very long time. I can't imagine why they haven't fixed it by now.

The issue is that the problem is extraordinarily unpredictable. You can go your whole save file without encountering the problem once. Or you could have it happen every 3rd floor hole you build in a facility.... but only that one facility, not others on the map. Or you might have a single floor hole in a giant oil plant that refuses to work no matter what you do. You could have the problem crop up a couple times while building, but by deconstructing and rebuilding it does not repeat.

And that's just the in-game aspects of the problem. It could be hardware related, which will vary wildly from player to player. It could be a software configuration issue, which is another whole tier of possibility as to why it's not working properly.

There's ghosts in the code, man...

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Because the very definition of a bug is that it needs to be reproducable.

That's... not how you define a bug.
Sure, it makes it nigh impossible to figure out how to fix it, if that's the case, but it's still a bug.