Sustainable Sand Use?

[Red Oolong]

I'm about 400 cycles into a game of Spaced Out, and I'm finding that my sand reserves are starting to get a little bit low. Without regolith, is there any to produce more filtration media? Or am I going to have to make a pollute water boiler on every planetoid to keep bathroom loops running?

[Pyrex042]

There are a few ways, but none that are easy/high-volume.

The easiest way is to ranch Pokeshells and feed them polluted dirt, but that doesn't produce very much sand (70kg/Groomed Pokeshell/cycle, which will feed roughly one Deodorizer per Pokeshell).

The high-volume way is to heat up a steam room to ~350C, run Dirt through the room on Conveyer rails, and when it cooks to Sand you use Thermium Robo Miner to dig the tiles and load the sand onto a 2nd rail to take it out of the oven.

[Steve8]

You can crush rocks into sand, but it's pretty labor intensive

[SharraShimada]

6 minutes ago, Steve8 said:

You can crush rocks into sand, but it's pretty labor intensive

But you dont need that much sand. Glass, sieves and deodorizers. Did i forget something? And if you encounter an volcano, the ressource is unlimited.

[Gurgel]

Well, I let some deodorizers run and now I have 150t of clay...

I think long-term, volcano-taming and crushing the rocks you make is the way to go.

[JRup]

Don't forget table salt... Making it does free sand from the regular salt.

Mad scientists will have noticed table salt melts back into regular salt ...

[NewWorldDan]

Use a volcano to cook dirt into sand.  It converts at 326C.  Granted, I never do this intentionally, but it's happened a few times when I've built a volcano tamer with polluted water.

For polluted water, I use an aquatuner/steam turbine to make a water boiler.  Produces dirt as a byproduct.  Kind of an awkward build, you can realistically only get about 4kg/s on the output until you get supercoolant, but arguably well worth it because it becomes a zero labor device.

[n_t_p]

Cooking dirt works well with arbor trees. You need to cook the pDirt anyway to avoid the dupe labor of compost flipping, so you may as well bring it up a few more degrees to make much more useful sand. Potentially labor free.

[tnankie]

chlorine vent -> dasha salt vines -> salt -> table salt -> sand

[cpy]

18 hours ago, tnankie said:

chlorine vent -> dasha salt vines -> salt -> table salt -> sand

How you get sand from table salt? You get like 5g of salt or so.

[yopyop6]

32 minutes ago, cpy said:

How you get sand from table salt? You get like 5g of salt or so.

it's salt -> sand. 100kg salt gives 100kg sand.

[M4ndatory]

Build a polluted water boiler...

Pw + heat -> water + dirt

You can cook dirt back into sand

[cpy]

46 minutes ago, yopyop6 said:

it's salt -> sand. 100kg salt gives 100kg sand.

I was wondering about that, because table salt is pure salt deletion.

How the hell you get sand from salt? I don't see it.

[sakura_sk]

8 minutes ago, cpy said:

I was wondering about that, because table salt is pure salt deletion.

You get 100kg sand + 5g table salt

Spoiler

 

[cpy]

Heh i thought it just deleted it all. So it gives sand. This is new?

[sakura_sk]

15 minutes ago, cpy said:

This is new?

Nope.. 

Spoiler

https://oxygennotincluded.fandom.com/wiki/Rock_Crusher

 

[Gurgel]

14 hours ago, cpy said:

Heh i thought it just deleted it all. So it gives sand. This is new?

It became a lot more relevant after cool salty slush geysers were introduced.