Probably Stolen Evaporator: Drying and Distillate

Decide whether you want drying or recovery

Drying concentrates or prepares what remains in the original container, while recovery concerns liquid collected elsewhere. Those are two results of the same machine that should be checked separately. The supplied wiki snapshot highlights the Evaporator's nightly processing role, and the detailed community page explains the distinction between removed liquid and captured vapor. Begin with the result you want instead of purchasing upgrades before identifying which of the two processes is causing the problem.

For a chemistry workflow, the next machine may care about the contents still in the input rather than how full the receiving container looks. For a recovery task, the missing receiver or its configuration can be the central issue even when the input volume changed. This page therefore does not use output volume as the only test of operation. Compare both containers before and after the night so that disappearance from one is not automatically mistaken for appearance in the other.

Check the supported liquids and container

The community reference names Water, Alcohol and Lipobond Agent as the liquids affected by the Evaporator. It describes the removed portion as coming from those eligible components, with other material remaining in the original container. That is not a rule that the machine removes every contaminant or purifies any liquid into drinking water. Read the batch composition before using evaporation to solve a problem that actually requires a different tool.

The water purification guide treats purity and contaminant removal separately for that reason. A drier container can still contain material you do not want, and a recovered mixture is not automatically a higher water grade. The collected evidence does not support treating the device as a replacement for every filter, purifier or testing method. Choose the process from what is in the container and what the next step requires, rather than from the general idea that evaporation means cleaning.

Understand what the nightly figure means

The machine reference lists 300 mL as its baseline nightly removal, rather than promising to empty any container in a single night. It also reports a Performance relationship that changes the amount processed. That distinction can explain why a large batch still contains liquid the next morning without the machine being broken. Compare the actual starting volume with the observed change before assuming that every remaining drop signals a failure.

Do not turn an upgraded figure from another player's machine into the baseline for your own. Installed modules, input composition and the intended process all belong in the comparison. The available sources do not establish a universal number of nights for every possible chemistry mixture. If the current machine description differs from the reference, keep that difference marked Pending confirmation (待确认) rather than presenting an invented one-night recipe as fact.

Give Quality a different job from Performance

Performance concerns how much eligible material the machine processes, whereas the reference describes Quality as controlling the share collected as distillate. These are different questions, so more processing speed does not by itself prove that the receiving container should be filling. The explicit zero-Quality warning is particularly useful when the input keeps shrinking and the output remains empty. Inspect the actual installed totals rather than assuming the presence of any module provides every benefit.

Efficiency has a separate relationship with power use in the general module system. Replacing one module with another can therefore change more than one part of the setup, especially when the item has a trade-off. The module guide explains why names and totals should be read instead of judging an upgrade only by its price. Make a controlled change and inspect the next batch so that you can tell which result improved.

Fit the receiving container to the task

The community machine page says the recovered liquid is added to what the receiving container already holds. That makes container choice part of the process, not merely a decorative inventory slot. If you are trying to examine the recovered portion clearly, avoid confusing it with an older mixture that was already there. Check capacity and contents before the overnight step rather than interpreting every unexpected composition as evidence of a new reaction.

The same reference identifies a specialised solvent-recovery module with a different collection behaviour. This page does not assume that its effect is present on every Evaporator, or that an ordinary Quality module is equivalent to that specialised part. Read the item installed in the machine you own. If your task depends on a specific recovered solvent, confirm that configuration instead of borrowing an output claim from a screenshot of another setup.

Connect evaporation to the complete workflow

The chemistry reference places evaporation between other operations such as blending, heating and finishing a product. It is therefore possible for this machine to work while a later step still refuses the batch. Check the material left in the input and the next machine's requirement before repeatedly adding more nights of processing. Drying, reaction conditions and final packaging are related steps, but they are not interchangeable explanations for every stalled production chain.

The official hotfix material also mentions a correction involving trace liquid and a finishing problem, which is a reason to attach the game version to a diagnosis. An old video can show a genuine problem without proving it remains present after the patch. Exact recipes not supported by the collected material remain Pending confirmation (待确认), rather than being filled with guessed temperatures or ingredient ratios. Use the chemistry guide to place the Evaporator in the chain and check both its own result and the next operation separately.

Compare the input loss with the recovered amount

The reference's Performance examples distinguish the baseline removal from faster processing, including larger amounts removed as the relevant statistic rises. Recovery still depends on the separate Quality effect and the actual receiving setup. Those two facts mean that input loss and output gain do not have to be identical for the machine to match its description. Measure both changes instead of assuming every missing unit is a newly discovered bug.

Also inspect what was already in the receiving container before attributing its final composition entirely to the current batch. The community reference says recovered material is added to existing contents, so a mixed output can be the consequence of the starting setup rather than an unexpected reaction. Keep a clean comparison for the next operation and identify the original batch in your notes. This gives you a concrete way to distinguish a collection problem from a successful drying step followed by a mistaken expectation about the second vessel.