Please help. Why is my airlock not working.

[Tom Nook (he/him)]

I'm new to this game and boy have I experienced a learning curve. I'm about two days into this game and I'm yet to make a functional air lock. I've followed many videos, made sure to do the power, piping and sensors correct. It depressurised and lets me out just fine, but when I'm trying to go back inside, the bar on the left only fills to 83kPa and stops there. Its stuck on pressurising and the door wont open. I've tried more pipes, more kPa inside, I've made sure the right doors are picked in the data disk, I've looked up so many guides and videos but I seem to be doing something wrong.

I dont know how to troubleshoot this further. Please help :(

[Timothi' Graggle]

Planet? adv airlock or regular?
If its advanced you need to program the adv airlock with the disk to match the inside air pressure. I usually just set it a few KPA below so that it dont struggle the last few.

[Tom Nook (he/him)]

Originally posted by Timothi' Gragle:

Planet? adv airlock or regular?
If its advanced you need to program the adv airlock with the disk to match the inside air pressure. I usually just set it a few KPA below so that it dont struggle the last few.

Thanks for replying. It just says airlock. I landed with it on the moon. I have used the disk like it said in all the videos I watched about this. I did however add a passive vent on the inside, and now it seems to be working.

[God, owner of the Universe]

Originally posted by Tom Nook:

Thanks for replying. It just says airlock. I landed with it on the moon. I have used the disk like it said in all the videos I watched about this. I did however add a passive vent on the inside, and now it seems to be working.

Turn on the Console (Turning it off is fine, airlock keeps working, and saves you 50 watts, but you need it right now.) and click Abort or Cancel or what the big button says.

The airlock is trying to fill up with 101 kPa of gas. This needs to slowly stream into the passive vent that you probably installed on the inside (connected with pipe to the Active Vent), and that takes time, even if you have high indoor pressure. If you have no pressure at all inside yet, then it would never complete. Anyway, just cancel it so the door opens without repressurization.

There are various ways to solve this, the most synergetic of which is to print the Advanced Airlock chip, install the thus necessary 2nd Active Vent that would pump *towards the outside*, install the chip, and select "0" in both boxes at the top which the standard Airlock chip does not have. ---- Now you can Arc Furnace away next to your airlock without crap getting into the base, and the repressurization cycle is entirely skipped. Don't forget to turn off the console to save energy now.

[suku gamer]

personally, i'd suggest watching recent let's plays rather than tutorial videos, unless the tutorial videos are very recent. early game is more or less the same for most cases, but there's been lots of updates throughout the years making older video obsolete. anything older than a year i wouldn't recommend watching at all.

[Tom Nook (he/him)]

Originally posted by suku gamer:

personally, i'd suggest watching recent let's plays rather than tutorial videos, unless the tutorial videos are very recent. early game is more or less the same for most cases, but there's been lots of updates throughout the years making older video obsolete. anything older than a year i wouldn't recommend watching at all.

Yeah thats what Ive found. A lot of the machines dont look the same nor function the same. I like figuring things out, so Im mainly looking things up for some guidance when I get really stuck. This game sure is something!
The letsplay videos have been very helpful so thank you for that tip!

[Tom Nook (he/him)]

Originally posted by God, owner of the Universe:

Originally posted by Tom Nook:

Thanks for replying. It just says airlock. I landed with it on the moon. I have used the disk like it said in all the videos I watched about this. I did however add a passive vent on the inside, and now it seems to be working.

Turn on the Console (Turning it off is fine, airlock keeps working, and saves you 50 watts, but you need it right now.) and click Abort or Cancel or what the big button says.

The airlock is trying to fill up with 101 kPa of gas. This needs to slowly stream into the passive vent that you probably installed on the inside (connected with pipe to the Active Vent), and that takes time, even if you have high indoor pressure. If you have no pressure at all inside yet, then it would never complete. Anyway, just cancel it so the door opens without repressurization.

There are various ways to solve this, the most synergetic of which is to print the Advanced Airlock chip, install the thus necessary 2nd Active Vent that would pump *towards the outside*, install the chip, and select "0" in both boxes at the top which the standard Airlock chip does not have. ---- Now you can Arc Furnace away next to your airlock without crap getting into the base, and the repressurization cycle is entirely skipped. Don't forget to turn off the console to save energy now.

This is really great information, thank you! I'll be coming back to this once Ive gotten advanced airlock.

[Bullett]

Listen to God... He's always right!

[Timothi' Graggle]

I highly recommend watching someone like flipsie ( splitsie on twitch) on YouTube as well. Not really guides but you get to watch as he himself is problem solving, Really help you wrap your head around things in other ways.

Cows are evil is another good one, i just cant listen to him long, Sorry cows. But he is dang smart.

[Phooenix]

I got the opposite problem, i have made an advanced and it's working when going inside (tweaking the pressure option to match the station pressure) But when cycling to go outside not everything is venting, there is always some miniscule amount of gas left (around 100PA - 1kPA). And i made the airlock exactly like God, creator of the universe on youtube. Okey not exactly, mine is 2 blocks long instead of one, to be able to more easily take stuff with me in and out.

But it worked perfectly when i had just the basic airlock.

[God, owner of the Universe]

Originally posted by Phooenix:

Okey not exactly, mine is 2 blocks long instead of one, to be able to more easily take stuff with me in and out.

But it worked perfectly when i had just the basic airlock.

2 boxes. The vent is pumping air out from box A. The sensor is also in box A. Box B will still have air, yet the airlock will open because it has no clue. You need to install the sensor in the respective other box instead, or I think you can even install (and assign) multiple.

[Phooenix]

Originally posted by God, owner of the Universe:

2 boxes. The vent is pumping air out from box A. The sensor is also in box A. Box B will still have air, yet the airlock will open because it has no clue. You need to install the sensor in the respective other box instead, or I think you can even install (and assign) multiple.

It's just that it worked with the basic airlock and that setup also had 2 boxes, the same exact room except just another vent, cables, pipes and a pipecowl. So i would guess that the sensor works the same at detecting in that script.

But i will try to have one sensor in each box, pretty easy thing to try. It's not that optimal to loose O2 everytime i cycle the airlock, (although it is only small amounts, but 100 PA of O2 in a room could be like a whole canister of oxygen, so i should have it fixed since i am releasing that outside every time.

I only watched like 1/3rd of your atmospheric video after the beginner turbo video, maybe you are covering some of these stuff there in that video. BTW i'm that random person that made the timestamps for your video.

[God, owner of the Universe]

Originally posted by Phooenix:

It's not that optimal to loose O2 everytime i cycle the airlock, (although it is only small amounts, but 100 PA of O2 in a room could be like a whole canister of oxygen, so i should have it fixed since i am releasing that outside every time.

I only watched like 1/3rd of your atmospheric video after the beginner turbo video, maybe you are covering some of these stuff there in that video. BTW i'm that random person that made the timestamps for your video.

:D
Hello, kind stranger!

Uhm, did you make sure that your vents are assigned correctly? I.e., the vent that is supposed to pump the airlock content back into your station is NOT accidentally the one that pumps the airlock empty towards the Moon?

If you didn't make that mistake, then I can only imagine that the airlock chips are programmed differently and the SIMPLE one maybe "overshoots" - it maybe pumps one game tick longer than it needs to, so that may solve the problem of remaining air, while the ADVANCED one works properly. I'm just thinking out loud. There has to be an explanation.

[Phooenix]

Originally posted by God, owner of the Universe:

Uhm, did you make sure that your vents are assigned correctly? I.e., the vent that is supposed to pump the airlock content back into your station is NOT accidentally the one that pumps the airlock empty towards the Moon?

If you didn't make that mistake, then I can only imagine that the airlock chips are programmed differently and the SIMPLE one maybe "overshoots" - it maybe pumps one game tick longer than it needs to, so that may solve the problem of remaining air, while the ADVANCED one works properly. I'm just thinking out loud. There has to be an explanation.

Yes im sure that it pumps in the right direction, i labaled every object in the list before setting it up and double and tripple checked everything, and also looking at the lights on the vents tell me that it works correctly.

But it also have the problem that it doesn't pump out everything when going inside, so i think what you said makes sense as an explenation for this aswell, i tried now to dump my co2 in the airlock, then start. It pumps out one of the "cubes" where the sensor is, but the other cubes still have contents in it, that's why i still got a little pollutants from my solid fuel burner even after installing this. Now it all makes sense!

Yeah the advanced is probably just waiting until sensor reads 0 and then instantly goes to the next step. Adding a 2-3 second delay or collecting data from a second sensor would maybe be something simple to change as my first scripting problem to solve :)

EDIT: Added a second sensor now but it didn't help, but maybe i need to re-initialize everything so unselect and select again, in case it has another function that works with more sensors, and needs to be reinitialized to work properly or something.

[God, owner of the Universe]

Originally posted by Phooenix:

EDIT: Added a second sensor now but it didn't help, but maybe i need to re-initialize everything so unselect and select again, in case it has another function that works with more sensors, and needs to be reinitialized to work properly or something.

Wait, uuuh ... you DID also select that new gas sensor in addition to the other in the configuration, yes?

[yellowredfox]

do you have the air to fill the airlock to the 101 if it stops at just above 80 i use a small tank and 2 active vents 1 to to fill the airlock 1 to pump it back to the tank. hanger door or big hanger door i use 4 and 3 console my airlock also has a red light en 2 flashing lights that go on when in cycle. still have to find out how do do sound. yes its a lot to find out but thats half the game ( make also a creative world to find out how to build up a system just a tip) great game and good luck to all stationeers