How to rinse the mop without contaminating the water channel

Rinse in the cleaning bucket

When the mop gets dirty, return to the bucket to wash it. Keep the mop out of the potato water. Players report that touching the channel with the dirty mop during a cleaning order can trigger a punishment even while aiming to clean the adjacent floor. Return to a patch in the center of the room and check the cleanup objective as you mop.

Watch the order as the floor clears

Work the main floor first and read the objective after each patch. Players report that reaching the required percentage completes the mandate. Check whether the page advances before attempting narrow strips along the edge. If you keep getting punished at the edge, pick another dirty patch with room for the mop to swing.

When the drain or a finished save changes the routine

During an active shift, the Floor Drain collects shavings and ends the cleanup task according to hotfix 1.0.3. Check the terminal for the drain if repeated cleaning is interrupting machine work. On a completed save in 1.0.4, the studio separately removed forced floor cleanup. Look at whether you resumed a finished shift or started a new one when comparing two saves.

Use the drain for shavings and a pickup tool for loose potatoes

Look closely at what fell. The Floor Drain added in 1.0.3 removes the shavings and ends the floor-cleaning task. A whole potato lying beside a drum still needs to be picked up. Use your hand, bucket or the Potato Vacuum to recover whole pieces, then take raw ones to a clear receiver and finished ones to the inlet. This matters if you bought the drain to clear an output jam. Check whether the water is moving after the whole potatoes have been collected.

Steam player or developer comment on the patch discussion ↗

Studio notes for hotfix 1.0.3 ↗

Steam player review ↗

Recognise the temporary cleaning meter while an order is already active

In the illustrated shift, an area-cleaning instruction and a percentage appear while the Bigger Hands order is still pinned on the left at assignment 8/24. Look at the label over the percentage before interpreting a sudden zero. Deal with the cleaning request using the mop and water nearby if that is the bar you want to move. To check buying or carry progress, reopen the Journal and read the original order, which remains visible during the interruption.

Reach a dirty strip along the wall

If the centre of the floor is clean but the mop is missing a strip beside the wall, try the positioning described by a Steam player. Aim low where the wall meets the floor and step backwards slowly while sweeping. The player found the mop head spread out better while backing up and swept farther to the right. Reposition so the fibres cross the dirt, keeping your aim over the floor when you approach the channel. Stop if the channel warning appears.

Return the mop after the cleaning quota is met

Check the objective first. If it has reached its requested amount, carry the mop back and put it away, then look at the remaining marks. One player reports the residual floor cleared on returning the mop after the mandate was met. If the counter is still short, sweep a broad dirty patch and recheck before trying that finish. This is especially helpful when the last visible marks border the water.

Mopping is broken ↗

Use the loudspeaker warning to identify the right cleaning water

A Chinese-language player screenshot catches the loudspeaker after the mop went near the food channel. It addresses worker 42, says to use the bucket, and warns that there will be no second warning. On that first message immediately remove the mop from the delivery trough; locate the separate bucket and rinse there before touching the floor again. The red exclamation mark and new percentage describe the floor task, not an instruction to dip the mop into the blue channel next to the board.

Steam discussion: My ideas and game flaws / Мои идеи и недочеты в этой игре ↗

Locate the shaving pile when the board seems tidy

Stand up and look over the front rail with the checked towel. In the camera footage the scraps lie below that rail in a circular patch on the floor, outside the tray even though the cutting surface is nearly clear. For an issued mopping task, begin at that patch and check the cleaning meter as you move to the next visible marks. If you already own the floor drain, inspect the active task again before looking for whole loose produce to mop.

Camera looking straight down at peelings underneath the apron rail ↗

Golden Horn Studios: Hotfix 1.0.3 ↗

Choose a facility improvement when repeatedly sweeping the bench

A Steam reviewer wanted a way to speed up the mop and bucket. After the 1.0.3 change, the Floor Drain is the facility improvement to look for when gathering bench shavings keeps interrupting work. It removes the shavings and ends the floor-cleaning task. Before you can obtain it, rinse the mop in the cleaning bucket and continue on the dry side of the channel. Expanding the transport bucket gives raw potatoes more capacity but does not make each mop stroke clean more floor.

Player’s firsthand Steam review ↗

Developer 1.0.3 notes: floor drain, weather and machine switches ↗

A shut door does not cancel the mop incident

A player described the sniper consequence firing inside the shut bunker and suggested requiring an open door in a future version. Once the order has fired, closing the door is not a supported escape route. On the next attempt keep the mop by its rinse bucket, work toward the center of the floor, and stop when the cleanliness objective registers. Keep the mop head away from the water channel even when the worker's feet remain on dry floor.

Steam player discussion: My ideas and game flaws / Мои идеи и недочеты в этой игре ↗

Steam player discussion: Mopping is broken ↗

Related field notes

• Measure drum throughput and predict when a hopper will fill
• Peeled potatoes piling up at the water-channel bend