Oxygen Not Included, cycle: The 60s.
We're dying.
Not everyone gets to eat today, and a few of us may die of starvation. We're out of algae. The Bloom Blossoms that had sustained us for so many cycles are not growing, as they are too hot.
Solutions, short term and long:
1. Microbe Musher. Hate to use it, but we need calories like yesterday.
2. Slime into algae. Do it in the cold zone.
3. Move the plant that makes things cold to where the overly hot plants are. This'll mean fewer plants, but should help.
4. Rewrite water, plant more crops.
5. Find more ways to move heat away from crops.
Lessons learned:
1. Oxygenate less area to conserve algae. Use more airlocks, and keep many buildings outside the base. These produce heat, too, so that's another good reason to have them outside the base.
2. 18 duplicants is too many. I'm having to find make work for them, but at that it does mean things get done quickly.
3. More crops than that. No, more than that.
4. Make more water. More than that. Don't stop turning polluted water into good water. Do this outside an airlock.
5. Exosuits are neat.
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Wow, exosuits by cycle 60? You must have resourced your research branch like whoa.
ReplyDeleteCheck the temperature of the water you're feeding to your plants. That has a major effect on temp than the rooms temp.
ReplyDeleteI shoot for 5 dupes then wait for calorie generation to catch up then shoot to 10 dupes and stop. I do eventually plan to get more but I've never gotten my base to stabilize enough for me to feel good about going past 10 dupes.
So, is "cycle" a turn thing? A day/night cycle? A iteration of starting from scratch?
ReplyDeleteMatt Johnson Essentially a day/nght cycle, yes. You start at cycle 1 (possibly 0, but I think it is 1-indexed). Survive as long as you can.
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch I've got one scientist and maybe one research assistant out of a group of 18 dupes. I'm not sure about that second one.
ReplyDeleteThe scientist is at 100%, so he can become a very unhappy tentured scientist at any time. I may want to do that so he can go study the steam vent over in the cold zone.
Aaron Berger Interesting. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI've got plants that cool things down. I'm using water to cool down the opxygen that I am creating from water. (I know, it's messed up). I may move the plant into that area, to cool down the water so there's more coolant effect.
I could them swap around and use that water (now cooled) as the water for the plants -- currently I use water out of a water cleaner thing. The thing that turns waste water into good water.
William Nichols The water coming out of the Water Sieve is probably too hot. +20W of heat on top of w/e the resting temp of the polluted water your feeding it. You could try to make your polluted water very cold so the sieve doesn't matter much or you can run the water through a cooling room after it leaves the sieves.
ReplyDeleteFor cooling rooms I try to make an airlocked room with hydrogen and chill worts. Then I snake both gas and liquid pipes through the chill room in zig zag fashion, so they have time to soak up the chill.
This is only really a temp solution. Later on the cooling required is on a whole other tier that i've yet to figure out.
This game has a way of worming into my brain so much. I can feel the urge to do another playthrough, but i'll probably wait till the next update.
I wasn’t going to mention the water temp thing (let you discover on your own) but Aaron is very, very right. It’s about heat content and mass. Even if water took the same joules per gram to heat as air (which it likely doesn’t) a block of breathable air is 1kg. A block of water is 10. Put a block of 20C air next to a block of 40C water, they’ll hit equilibrium at 38C (a.k.a. way too hot)
ReplyDeleteI've been monitoring the temperature of the water that I pump ar through, and in particular the temperature of the oxygen going through it. That oxygen cools down considerably (like to ~24), but the water is no longer cold.
ReplyDeleteI may start over with new lessons learned.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to talk about this game without giving away some discoveries. But i do love reading about people's attempts.
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