Single player campaign dock with outpost and the reactor catches fire

[sarrowquand]

2nd time it has happened in this campaign (using the Orca). This time it managed to kill my captain character and it feels like a bug so that campaign is dead to me now.

[The Flaming Pike]

Hi, assuming that you don't have any mods that could provoke this somehow and that you didn't rewire anything within the sub, first I think you should have a look at your reactor. Fire coming from the reactor means it overheated. It's part of the game. The Orca is a vanilla sub and works 100% fine. It's a small sub and should normally only contain one fuel rod at a time. Adding more fuel rods and failing to handle the reactor's dials to maintain the power at an adequate level will cause the reactor to overheat and will cause fires.

Even with one rod, you have to make sure the reactor's dials are properly balanced so the arrows remain in the green area of the dials. It's possible that you somehow inadvertently put the reactor on manual and that its dials are not aligned correctly, causing overheat and fire. If you haven't done it already, the engineer's tutorial explains how the reactor works.

Since you are playing single player, I advice you to order your engineer to operate the reactor. Engineers are better than any other job at doing so.

I will move this thread to Help & Technical Support if you don't mind.

[sarrowquand]

I don't think I have any mods though there might be a couple of subs I downloaded from the workshop a while back. I'll double check.

It wasn't during a mission it burst into flames immediately after docking. I had given the engineer bot an order to power down the reactor right after docking, before I headed down and saw the flames (they were operating the reactor during the mission itself). I got the fire out and checking the reactor I could see there was a single Thorium rod in there (about 40% left on it) checking was probably my downfall because I then proceeded to be way to slow in getting an Oxygen mask on.

The engineer bot never actually came down to mess with the reactor because when I puppet possessed them to try and get a mask on my character they were at the outpost entrance :(

[sarrowquand]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2451693859

That's a screenshot of workshop content, none of it is currently enabled but perhaps I should remove it altogether...

I think the only wire change I made to the sub was to run a wire from the relay in the battery room up to the left most diving suit 02 tank for free refills at the air lock.

[Shiro]

igniting upon docking or even just round start is something that can happen even on vanilla subs sometimes. Specifically, had seen it on Orca before any wirings have been installed.

Easy workaround is simply have reactor turned off when you end the round. Use those nice "shut down" button at navigation terminal. If you need energy to dock, use batteries.

Installing reactor controller wiring should remove issue altogether, you may consider it a bit too advanced tho

[sarrowquand]

Originally posted by Shiro:

igniting upon docking or even just round start is something that can happen even on vanilla subs sometimes. Specifically, had seen it on Orca before any wirings have been installed.

Easy workaround is simply have reactor turned off when you end the round. Use those nice "shut down" button at navigation terminal. If you need energy to dock, use batteries.

Installing reactor controller wiring should remove issue altogether, you may consider it a bit too advanced tho

Seems like a good two part solution. Something I can do immediately and something I can set as a "learn to wirez" goal.

[sarrowquand]

I forgot to shut the reactor down the next couple of times before docking but no fire. Then in the misson I just did I pressed the reactor shutdown bridge button (Orca) before docking (and misjudged the inertia so I couldn't dock) and the bots reported the reactor was on fire.

After it extinguished I asked the bot engineer to power down the reactor, again fire.

Then I docked and went down from the outpost entrance and it was on fire again.

I checked and it was a single thorium rod in there.

[The Flaming Pike]

Is the reactor control on automatic though?

[sarrowquand]

I'm fairly certain it was. I have a bot that is ordered to mind the reactor, I think it says auto whenever I actually check in on it.