Heating tower: don't flash the "no fuel" icon when at max temp

Tinyboss · Post by **Tinyboss** » Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:04 pm

TL;DR

When the tower is at its max temp, don't show the no-fuel warning icon. I'm likely using it as a trash burner and not as a heater, so running out of fuel is expected in normal operation.

What?

The warning is always present and isn't meaningful in this situation, where I'm using the heating tower to dispose of spoilage, but I'm not consuming any heat from it:

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Please don't judge my setup, it's my first hour on Gleba

Why?

So we won't have to look at an irrelevant warning! It shouldn't compromise situations where we ARE using the heat, either, since the instant it goes below max temp, the warning would reappear.

BraveCaperCat · Post by **BraveCaperCat** » Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:08 pm

You could be able to change the threshold for how much heat is needed to stop showing the "no fuel" warning.

Tinyboss · Post by **Tinyboss** » Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:23 pm

BraveCaperCat wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:08 pm You could be able to change the threshold for how much heat is needed to stop showing the "no fuel" warning.

Sure. But is there a use case?

Karamel · Post by **Karamel** » Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:06 pm

Or, since trash burning to get rid of wood comes up even in base game, maybe a checkbox to enable or disable the icon for a particular burner entity of any kind entirely?

BraveCaperCat · Post by **BraveCaperCat** » Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:20 am

Karamel wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:06 pm Or, since trash burning to get rid of wood comes up even in base game, maybe a checkbox to enable or disable the icon for a particular burner entity of any kind entirely?

You mean for a specific machine/furnace/heat tower, right?

Karamel · Post by **Karamel** » Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:44 am

BraveCaperCat wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:20 am
Karamel wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:06 pm Or, since trash burning to get rid of wood comes up even in base game, maybe a checkbox to enable or disable the icon for a particular burner entity of any kind entirely?
You mean for a specific machine/furnace/heat tower, right?

Yes.

Stargateur · Post by **Stargateur** » Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:06 am

Tinyboss wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:23 pm
BraveCaperCat wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:08 pm You could be able to change the threshold for how much heat is needed to stop showing the "no fuel" warning.
Sure. But is there a use case?

Saving fuel on aquilo for example

jrob · Post by **jrob** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:44 pm

I also would like a way to disable the flashing warning. I am using the heating tower as a trash can and really don't want to see the blinky icon.

juggling_pro · Post by **juggling_pro** » Thu Apr 03, 2025 12:27 pm

Agree here as well. I definitely started using these to burn wood and seeds, and the icon can get annoying if its located in a central area of my network. A single toggle on each machine would be nice, but I can't think of anywhere this is currently done so a global setting would be nice too.

Kyralessa · Post by **Kyralessa** » Thu Apr 03, 2025 5:30 pm

Though the icon will still show up, you can stop it from flashing...

Uncheck the option below.

I agree, though, it does seem a bit silly that the heating tower is always warning about lack of fuel when it's by design that sometimes it has no fuel. (The nuclear reactors do the same thing, as I recall.)

Maybe it would make more sense if buildings like this warn when they're not producing heat rather than when they're out of fuel.

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