Gotta love how people (very probably from outside community) blindly downvote the post despite it being relevant to the community. Lemmy genuinely sucks in that regard because it makes it hard to engage with niche communities...
I couldn't make it look good so I decided to nuke this panel instead:
Same. I have zero clue how to use it but anything's better than windows.
Beat me to it as well.
No, this can happen in vanilla game. It's just that the mod is the only source describing the mechanic that I'm aware of.
What did it say?
I'm not sure how accurate this info from the modder is but this is how he describes it under his mod:
Experienced players can predict that the pipes will always malfunction 2 or 3 times, first time around 35%, second time around 70%, and maybe a third time after 90%. Generally, it's every 50-70 seconds (average of 60 seconds).
This simple mod shakes things up by randomizing when the pipes will break - while still maintaining the same average time between breakdowns. Now pipes can jam anywhere from 5 to 115 seconds between breakdowns (average of 60 seconds). So you never know what you're gonna get!
Mod: https://mod.io/g/drg/m/random-refinery-breakdowns
This is the only instance of it being described that I'm aware of because I was looking up refinery mods in the past. I tried looking up this info on the web to answer your question with more credible sources but I didn't find any and didn't bother spending too much time on that.
You will start caring when the other players will start crossing them and stacking them in a way where you will fall off of them at multiple points of the pipe. Refinery mission is my favourite mission in this game and I hate when other players ruin pipe riding. 😭
Here's an another example from a month ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25160087
That was my point, people pay no attention to where post was posted and just blindly downvote as I mentioned. The title clearly says that it's a minecraft retroscpect as well. It just pains me how the post was almost killed by multiple initial downvotes because I didn't summarize the entire video for them in the title. People constantly point out how people have too short of an attention span to actually read an article and just read the titles instead and the same happened to video just now. I'm not going to summarize the video in short digestible format and kill all the depth it had to it to cater to needs of people that don't care about the topic in the first place. This is why I said that it sucks to post to niche communities. And I'm not disappointed because "how dare people downvote me!" but because I've noticed how posts to niche communities that aren't catered to people outside the communities (aka mainstream) often get downvoted because they make no sense to the outside viewer. I'm sad because it kills those niche posts which lemmy desperately needs. This happens to any form of content, videos, articles, memes, etc. I don't believe that the video format here is the problem here like the others point out because of what I just described. I'm trying to look at the bigger picture but to people that just quickly pass through the post miss what I'm trying to point out and to them it seems shallow "oh no, downvotes!" which also doesn't help. I feel like the people straight up ignored any points rised in my comments simply because I pointed out the problematic downvotes which is a reflex that comes from other posts where trolls rightfully got the downvotes they're complaining about. I believe lemmy has a problem and I don't want to ignore it but I have no power to change anything anyway and it makes it all even more disappointing despite lemmy being a great thing for me and many other people.