Is the water filtration machine broken in Below Zero?

[zOldBulldog]

Reading the description it should be MUCH faster than it is, producing water and salt from the outside water.

- Mine seems to take well over an hour of real time to produce one water and it never shows the salt available even though it says it is a 100%.

- Also, the instructions say that a water purification tablet + a snowball placed in the machine should produce water. But it does not let me put either in.

Is it broken or am I using it wrong? If the second, how do you use it right?

[Coops]

Snowball plus water purification is done in your inventory on the spot. Just drag one to the other and you get a 30 ml bottle of water.

For the machine, what are you using for power? if its solar cells, they shut down at night and the purifier will not be working.

[Huillam]

I just checked in creative mode and they were producing salt. They're also supposed to produce water at a lower rate and no salt if built above sea level if I remember correctly.

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by Huillam:

I just checked in creative mode and they were producing salt. They're also supposed to produce water at a lower rate and no salt if built above sea level if I remember correctly.

Aha! That might explain it although I have no idea why anyone would design it that way.

My base is 70% below the water level and 30% above. The machine might be interpreting it as being above water.

[cwsumner]

The filtration machine definitely uses seawater, I am not sure it will produce anything when out of water.

Also make sure to remove the salt, it seems to stop the water it it has two salt already.