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oxygen compression rate due to weight of oxygen?


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I'm not really finding any topics on this.

 

I'm trying to figure out how many floors I should have before I put an airlock to keep my oxygen pressure normal.

But I'm having a hard time finding out how much a given gas will compress over a set height due to the weight of that gas.

Anyone have a chart for something like this?

This real life mechanic is not currently in the game.  Gas won't compress because of height.  It will continue to expand, practically ignoring gravity, to try to reach equal pressure throughout.

2 hours ago, Tontow said:

Anyone have a chart for something like this?

You won't find one, as the mechanic is not implemented in game.  Maybe in a DLC someday, with gravity fully developed?

5 hours ago, mathmanican said:

You won't find one, as the mechanic is not implemented in game.  Maybe in a DLC someday, with gravity fully developed?

Let's hope not or it's going to be a really short game with all that neutronium (degenerate matter that cores of white dwarves are made of) around. :D

Start the game. Unpause. Splat. Everything on the map compresses to become a thin layer on the netronium tiles. Colony lost.

On 4/25/2019 at 9:07 PM, mathmanican said:

This real life mechanic is not currently in the game.  Gas won't compress because of height.  It will continue to expand, practically ignoring gravity, to try to reach equal pressure throughout.

You won't find one, as the mechanic is not implemented in game.  Maybe in a DLC someday, with gravity fully developed?

 

Really?  I thought it was a thing as the top of my base has about 50kg of air, but the bottom has about 18000kg and no airlocks to block the flow.  and if it didn't try to sink then it should be about the same all over my small 10 floor base.

 

Maybe it is because I always start with the air production at the bottom of the base that gave me the impression that the oxygen will compress.

3 hours ago, Tontow said:

Maybe it is because I always start with the air production at the bottom of the base that gave me the impression that the oxygen will compress.

Oxygen (and all gasses) have trouble moving through tight openings. If your base has multiple floors and only 1 tile wide ladders to allow gas flow you might end with the top lacking oxygen. Best way to fix that is by using airflow tiles to allow gas to move around easier. Try building 3-4 airflow tiles per floor. It should help the oxygen levels to balance out.

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