I'm playing SP on starter planet (lasta). There are a whole bunch of "Smuggler's Barges" and wrecks that have oxygen tanks with O2 still in them. (I think it also happened on dry land in a raid on a POI) In the past I'd withdraw the O2 before salvaging or retrieving the tank, but in THIS game I have yet to succeed in pulling the O2 out, it just does nothing. FUEL tanks work fine but O2 tanks ... nada. The only thing I can think of it's because I'm underwater??? But I think it happened on land, IIRR. Any thoughts?
If the quantity of O2 in the tanks is less than 250 you won't get anything because that is the minimum required to produce a single Large (blue) O2 Bottle.
As @jesterjunk sugegsts, perhaps the level is too low to fill a Large O2 Bottle? I think they're like 300 units of O2 aren't they? I do recall those POI's - and others with O2 tanks - sometimes not having enough to recover anything. Perhaps just bad RNG luck. Double-check the amount of O2 shown in the tank, then confirm the capacity of of the large O2 Tank to be sure. Note: O2 can only be withdrawn in the form of a Large O2 Bottle, the same as Fuel and only be withdrawn in small Fuel Packs. Scoob.
Thanks to both of you, I KNEW that but it must be I missed when I looked at the amount. {Sigh} There are so many little details in this amazing game. If you see my brain, send it back to me. It's dented and weird but I've grown accustomed to it ...
No worries, lots to learn and many things are not so intuitive until you're more familiar with other aspects of the game Scoob.
I have noticed a delay when extracting or filling Oxygen and Fuel tanks as well, not a little one, but a notable delay.
Yeah I just did a thing with a Fuel tank that was just shy of being able to extract the fuel and used a single fuel tank (Bio fuel Jerry Can) to top it up and got fuel cells back. Woot!. I recall reading somewhere someone said to make fuel cells in the early game to out bio fuel in a tank then extract it. I think I read they fixed that "cheat" but it just worked on v1.1.6, so ... Too bad you can't use the little oxy bottles for your suit to do the same for low oxy tanks ...
Yes you can. Small O2 bottle = 75 Large O2 bottle = 250 So if the O2 tank has less than 250 units of O2, adding small bottles into the tank until it is 250 or greater will allow you to extract large O2 bottles.
That's still a thing, and it's not really a cheat, as fuel tanks work the same way as oxygen tanks - the minimum you can extract is a small cell's worth, so you're really just converting the storage medium for power. The only real exception to this is Pentaxid tanks, as they're simply containers.
