seawater pump: Can't copy/paste 3x recipe to other pumps

Set a sea water pump to 3x recipe (216 flow). Use copy/paste to another seawater pump does not copy the recipe (so second pump still 1x recipe). Also if you copy the pump and paste the pump, the 3x recipe is lost. If you create a blueprint with 3x, place the Blueprint, the recipe reverts to 1x. Save game and reload and the 3x recipe disppears and 1x is active which is probably the worst of all the above bugs

Reading this makes me wonder how the pump behaves when both recipes are active. I'd like to have the 3x recipe on top but the 1x recipe below, and if the water exits slowly the 1x recipe should be used.

Have to check later when I have access to my game again.

I would guess it works out to 1.5x power if you only set to 3x recipe since it would run half the time. Agree would be nice...but it does not know since the pump is backup until there is room and it does not know how much room so just makes more until it backs up again. Anyway, we need to be able to set and have the blueprint remember (it does this for the 2x steam recipe)

kayser_ [discord] wrote:

Reading this makes me wonder how the pump behaves when both recipes are active. I'd like to have the 3x recipe on top but the 1x recipe below, and if...

Both recipes are producing 18 water, the expensive one does it faster, so what you're thinking won't work.

They should have made the 3x one produce 3x as much in the same time

grimgaw [discord] wrote:

Both recipes are producing 18 water, the expensive one does it faster, so what you're thinking won't work.

Just checked in the code, that is in fact the case.

@Devs, if you’re reading this: Feature request to update the recipes so that both recipes can be set and the pump will use the 1x recipe if water exits slowly. E.g. set the recipes to take the same time but make different amounts.

Pressure regulated recipe. Kinda like that idea

Bottom Line....whatever recipe is selected, it needs to persist. Right now, the 3x recipe does not survive paste recipe, paste item, or Blueprints. Also, when you save and reload, the 3x recipe disappears too!

@kayser_ [discord] best to put feature requests either on the ideas page or as a separate issue