Oxygen Not Included
Cycle 50ish.
Duplicants: 12. I like having 12.
Bathrooms: Check. Producing polluted water. Considering building a shower.
Oxygen: Check. Contained in the box. I've built two boxes -- one that is cold and has oxygen, one that has oxygen and a lot of electrical equipment. Like the Kitchen.
Food: Check. About 50,000 calories, with 30,000 in pickled meal that no one is allowed to eat. Have not yet produced the zone I really want, but have it setup. I just need more seeds, and I'll have an area with free lights and hydroponic tiles that produces crops with minimal effort.
Shine bugs: Check. Two areas, feeding them gristle berry so they'll produce better bugs. If I can get to Royal bugs, that'll be awesome for everything. Maybe even vital, but that requires peppa bread.
We're also eating all the shine bug eggs, but not the sunny shine bugs. Gosh, that sounds like eugenics. Is selective breeding better?
Power: 3 coal power plants, a half dozen batteries including one smart battery to regulate. Walled in with abyssalyte. Two small power transformers, making two grids. Each has about half the oxygen generators, among other things. While max power would be more than 1,000 ... I'm not worried about peak.
Water: Check. I have plenty, but ..... this is where it gets interesting. I've found a cool steam vent and, just below it, a cold zone. I want that water.
Plan: Build a reservoir in the cold zone, with a water pump. Dump the hot water in. Cycle it into a storage container held in a small room with a wheezlewort. Bring that water into the base, but only if it gets to under 25 degrees.
Reasonable plan?
This is what has caused colony collapse before, so I really don't know.
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Sounds reasonable to me. Good luck! I'll be fascinated to hear how it goes.
ReplyDeleteThe only bit that gives me pause is how you're planning to use the cold zone for part of your cooling because its cooling ability is finite; long, but finite. If you can get the cooling you need from just wheezeworts, they're not finite.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Newman Agreed. But hey, as I've never successfully cooled down steam water into useable water, I'd call it a success.
ReplyDelete... Besides, over time I'll get more wheezleworts and can make that cooling room all the better. I'll also eventually produce hydrogen and oxygen, and can use the hydrogen to do the cooling.
Eventually. First step: Build the infrastructure for the water.
Yep. Do you have radiant liquid pipes and thermal shift plates? (I'm struggling to remember the tech tree now!)
ReplyDeleteI have complicated feels about how the game prompts me (short-term) to the same loot-and-pillage mentality as colonial settlers. "Why would that ice biome even be there if it weren't meant for me to dump my waste heat into?"
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch I'm not too worried about that; I figure the asteroid is damaged and we're the repair crew, here to solve it for (likely) cryosleeping passengers.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Newman Probably, or at least soon. I've used radiant piping before, but never thermal shift plates. It'll be a new experience!
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols : Yep, that's exactly the mind-set toward which I have complicated feels. But I remind myself it's a game.
ReplyDeleteStrangely (perhaps) I instinctively try to preserve cold zones rather than dump heat and melt them. Slime, less so, because I tend to snaffle all that water asap.
ReplyDeleteWhy, Alexander Newman?
ReplyDeleteI guess because I see the cold as a precious resource to hoard jealously. I may have had some bad experiences with metal volcanoes in the past.
ReplyDeleteEveryone can or will use a mask comfortably, an alternative choice is the nasal cannula. This is a device that features two prong-like output ports that fit directly into the patient's nose, and is fitted with a long, lightweight tube that can be attached to nylon tubing from any oxygen machine. Using a nasal cannula also means more freedom of movement, less stress on the neck and shoulders, and with up to 100 feet of tubing available for attachment, moving about the home is so much easier. The cannula can also be easily attached to portable oxygen supplies for use outside the home. Oxygen sensors
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