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Haven't updated to 2.0.11 yet because of replay saving, but noticed this bug wasn't in any of the patch notes


What did you do?
Plomped down some boilers and steam engines, nothing special.

What happened?
The steam engines filled up with steam as you would expect, however once they were filled, the boiler kept running at max speed (see inserter in video constantly moving coal) but the boiler did not fill with steam. Where did the steam go? Only after a 5 second delay did the boiler start filling up.

What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
The boiler should be filling as soon as the engines are completely filled.

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
After noticing this, I kept an eye on it and has happened every single time since.

Logfile (Game is still open, so previous is more relevant): Save file (if relevant): Video of me reproducing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24xcbt2C4g

If this is intentional, my apologies.

Kind regards,
Niels

Thanks for the report. The steam isn't actually vanishing, it is however not showing in the tooltip until an additional 100 steam is buffered in the pipe connection at which point the boiler starts to show it in the tooltip.

Thanks for the reply!

Is this an “internal pipe” not visible to us? Because there is no pipes in between the boiler and the engine. It would make sense in terms of realism if there was however it is mildly confusing that there is no way to see or know so.

This is working as intended, but I agree that is is unintuitive. I am working on solutions.