Obsolete Exploits
This page is a list of obsolete Cheats or Exploits that used to be in the game. They have been fixed and can no longer be reproduced.
This list isn't exhaustive, it's mostly a way to keep a memory of exploits that used to be on the main Exploits page.
No mess Polymer Press
The Polymer Press outputs Steam and Plastic on the cell directly left of the building, one cell above the floor, when in regular orientation, and the cell directly right of the building with a reversed orientation.
By placing a solid tile there, shown by (1) on the screenshot, Steam and Plastic are ejected one cell further, shown by (2) on the screenshot. This allows having the Steam and Plastic in a separate room from the Polymer Press.
By placing a solid tile on that second location (2), Steam is deleted, as it has nowhere to go. With a regular orientation, Plastic is stuck inside the solid tile, but in reversed orientation, like shown on the screenshot, Plastic is ejected one cell further, shown by (3) on the screenshot.
Flopping Pacus to avoid Overcrowded
Fixed by Fast Friends update Original thread • Unanswered bug report • More details
Pacus aren't overcrowded when they are flopping. This means if you periodically ensure they are in liquid to feed themselves and lay eggs, they can be happy while flopping the rest of the time.
This allows creating very compact fed Pacu farms, though that comes at the cost of a lower egg output per Pacu. The exact output depends on number of Pacus inside the farm, your game performance and possibly other factors.
The main reason to create those farms is eggs production, which can be left to crack into Conveyor Receptacles, then the Raw Eggs cooked with heat into Omelettes, the highest calorie dense food that can be produced without Duplicants intervention.
Care Package duplication
Fixed by Fast Friends update Bug report
When a Care Package is selected in the Printing Pod, there is a slight window of time during the Care Package delivery animation when both the Care Package and the delivered item are present in the world.
By saving and reloading during that window, you will keep the already delivered item, but the Care Package will restart its animation, delivering a new copy of the item.
It can be chained by saving/reloading to deliver an infinite amount of the same item.
Give Duplicants unlimited skill points
Fixed by Fast Friends update Bug report • Original thread • Reproduction of the bug
By making a Super productive Duplicant excavate Neutronium, they have a 10% chance to mine it, despite Neutronium being Impenetrable. To be able to mine Neutronium, a Dupe needs the "Hazmat Digging" skill, which is only available on Spaced Out! This exploit is no longer possible on Vanilla.
When a Duplicant succeed, they will be rewarded with the maximal possible number of skill points.
Mopping beyond limitations
This stopped working since Sweet Dreams update.
Liquids can't be mopped directly if above 150Kg or if not on a floor, however dropping another liquid that settles to the bottom (on floor) will enable mopping it inside the pool, which instead will also mop adjacent tiles and not stop when the original liquid was mopped. This can be used to bottle up pools of liquid to be moved elsewhere, especially useful in singling out certain pools when multiple pitcher pumps for the same liquid to be moved are available and thus singling the pool is unavailable except perhaps disabling all other pitcher pumps, which would instead interfere potentially with normal operations (e.g. irrigation)