About drywalls, tempshift plates and a little bit more.

[Relican]

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Tempshift_Plate

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Drywall

So basically tempshift plate is a beefed up drywall. They are used to average and balance temperature... between liquids and gasses that occupy same space, as long as they're touching any, yes? They don't exchange heat with neighbouring(vacuumed) plates/drywalls, do they?

 

So the only thing that is VERY useful in space is practically useless there?

I tried googling simple space building guides but the ones that are simple don't explain how not to melt everything and the ones that do work are borderline glitching/cheating. That's why im making this thread. I think there should be something done about this.
https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Guide/Temperature_Management#Thermal_Conductivity
This guide gives calculations for exchanging heat between 2 objects. In the game there usually are more objects exchanging heat at the same time.

For example- a tile of gas/liquid exchanges temp with neighbouring gas/liquid and (occupying the same tile) radiant pipe filled with water/gas+a heat generating building+temp. plate+ dropped item. There's a lot of math here. Surely making drywall work in vacuum can't be that difficult

[TheMule]

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Surely making drywall work in vacuum can't be that difficult

It's isn't difficult. So what? It's a choice, not a bug. Objects in some layers do not interact. Like pipes. There no thermal transfer between two adjacent pipe segments. By design. Likewise there's not thermal transfer between adjacent drywalls. Again by design. Buildings don't interact with background buildings. Sometimes building contents interact with tiles the building is sitting on, but not with the building itself, nor does the building interact with them.

What has difficulty to do with choices?

[BaZERGer]

Tempshift Plates can exchange heat with tiles and closed solid doors, so they can be used to transfer heat even in a vacuum, and pipes can exchange heat with tiles they're running through.
Tempshift Plates also keep working when something like regolith falls on top of it, despite the entombment icon.

It's also not very hard to have liquid in space, the tricky part is to keep it if you're letting regolith drop on top of it.

[MarcinW]

I use Tempshift Plates to cool my mining lasers and buildings. Trick is, to have gas vent on them and be placed next to building and they should not have any wall around them (which are usually hot from regolith). Works well

[Gurgel]

On 4/2/2020 at 5:51 PM, MarcinW said:

I use Tempshift Plates to cool my mining lasers and buildings. Trick is, to have gas vent on them and be placed next to building and they should not have any wall around them (which are usually hot from regolith). Works well

Interesting. Does the amount of gas matter? I currently just place my auto-miners on insulated tiles with drywall behind and above and trickle 4g/sec of 30C or so water on them, so I do not really need something else, but some variation may be nice.

[beowulf2010]

1 hour ago, Gurgel said:

Interesting. Does the amount of gas matter? I currently just place my auto-miners on insulated tiles with drywall behind and above and trickle 4g/sec of 30C or so water on them, so I do not really need something else, but some variation may be nice.

1g/s of oxygen has been enough to keep 4 autosweepers and a mining laser cool in my overstock shove vole "ranch" for over 200 cycles so far. 

[Gurgel]

1 hour ago, beowulf2010 said:

1g/s of oxygen has been enough to keep 4 autosweepers and a mining laser cool in my overstock shove vole "ranch" for over 200 cycles so far. 

Thanks. Maybe I will try gas-cooling next colony.