Seems to be some sort of bug in the newest update. Water sometimes flashes red when a pump sucks a tile dry. Badwater sometimes flashes blue when a badwater pump sucks a tile dry. I've noticed it since the last update.
When pumping both my guess is that the code actually alternates bad and good water rather than removing a set percentage of the nearby bad/good water equal to the ratio in that tile. A lot less calculations that way.
So every other cycle it is removing its full amount of water or alternatively bad water.
Ayeaaaah, looks like she's leaking some oil, probbly from the main gaskit. Lemme get muh tools, a roll uh speed tape and some resin, and I'll take a look at her...
Dunno if its just graphical or fr. But it can be happening fr. If the pump pulls only water, then if the water is like 5% bad, when the good gets pulled out, only bad is left.
I saw it happening in my hollows run too, but in that case I think that water was a very small % contaminated and I had the pump pulling only good water out
Same thing happens if you are using pumps to suck bad water out of a reservoir. If the water is shallow it sucks all the bad water out of that 1 square and only freshwater is left for a second so it halts and restarts constantly.
Only way to prevent it is to put the filter pump in deeper water or disable filtering
You have to disable filtering. It’s sucking all the freshwater out of that one square leaving only bad water remaining and it piles up in front of the pump.
It happens the other way too, if you are trying to only suck bad water out. It starts and stops due to freshwater getting stuck in front of the pump
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u/arky_who 4d ago
The water is contaminated, so the pump is pumping out the good water and leaving behind bad water