HALP! Toxic clouds in the weed basement!

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One of those toxic fat sh*ts just exploded in my basement as I was occupying my new base. Now the toxic cloud is obstructing half my basement and wont go away. Open doors and windows upstairs dont help.

HALP!

[Coolthulhu]

Wait it out. It will take a while, but once it all turns into “hazy cloud” it stops spreading and just hangs in the air. After a while it disappears.

[Azrad]

An hour waiting in the area should do. Wear a gas mask if possible.

[Belteshazzar]

Just to let you know, almost nothing done upstairs will affect downstairs so you can close your doors and windows (hell, I can’t even recall if that would help if the cloud was upstairs.)

Z-levels might as well be separate, non-intersecting dimensions you can portal to with the use of stairs (and occasionally traps.) There’s the odd clever exception like monsters following you down a flight of stairs ,but that’s just a range/line of sight check with a timer attached after you make it down as I recall.

In short, for the cloud to clear you have to be downstairs and waiting as the reality bubble is more like a flat circle and doesn’t extend upward or down.

[DooMJake]

Jepp it helps to open windows/dors if the cloud is in the same z-level. The same applies to smoke.

[Azrad]

One thing I noticed with the experimentals that there’s smoke on the first floor around the stairs, and in the basement there’s a smoker standing there as well.

[TheWumpus]

You don’t have to wait in the same basement for it to disipate. Find a nearby basement in the reality bubble on the same z level and wait there if its safe, it should clear out.