When setting up a temporary drilling fluid production at a bitumen seep, if the mixer is placed right against the natural gas derrick it's possible to pump drilling fluid into both the drilling fluid port and the bidirectional fluid port that exists on all four sides of the machine. Doing so will cause the the scripting to stop counting down after a handful of cycles, though the drilling fluid will still be produced/consumed by the derrick. It's possible to pump some (all?) of the fluid back out of the bidirectional port with a pump: but this is confusing to say the least.
Steps to reproduce
Place natural gas derrick on bitumen seep.
Place mixer against the derrick such that the ports align like below
Let it run for a minute or so, until the script stops counting down. The derrick will show a "target full" message, but the mixer will continue making drilling fluid
Mod source
Factorio Mod Portal
Operating system
MacOS
What kind of issue is this?
What is the problem?
When setting up a temporary drilling fluid production at a bitumen seep, if the mixer is placed right against the natural gas derrick it's possible to pump drilling fluid into both the drilling fluid port and the bidirectional fluid port that exists on all four sides of the machine. Doing so will cause the the scripting to stop counting down after a handful of cycles, though the drilling fluid will still be produced/consumed by the derrick. It's possible to pump some (all?) of the fluid back out of the bidirectional port with a pump: but this is confusing to say the least.
Steps to reproduce
Additional context
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Log file
factorio-current.log