First Time 150+ Cycle Plus - Getting Into Base Temperature & Long Term O2 Production

[Loomiss]

Good Morning all,

I've had this game since before ranching, and put it down about that time. I have since gotten back into it and have cracked the mid game. I am still fairly new to this stage, but know there are a few things that are knocking on my door - the biggest being Stable long term O2 creation & temperature management.

I have attached a few screen shots - I am in the process of cracking into the natural gas geyser, I also attached the Nat Gas analysis. I also capped off the CoolSlush geyser, and added its' analysis. I have 9 Dupes running on 3 shifts. I have 114KCAL of food - not in the best storage - but it's holding for now. I have not gotten a metal refinery going yet - I have been apprehensive about it - mostly due to the temperature output and not being 100% sure how to deal with it. I have about 30T of algae left from hollowing out a couple of big pockets, and I feel like that might be my 'clock' for getting stuff set up.

I think my current flow objectives would be to secure the pH2O in a holding tank and begin to Sieve it into clean water. I created limitless tank for clean water early on - that is in the heart of my current base, and it has about  100,000KG sitting in it. The current base is still nominal temperature wise, but it's starting to get to about 30C. It's also a bit of a cluster jam, so I figured that I would create a better lay out while incorporating ExoSuits, getting my long term oxygen figured out, and getting the temperature management figured out. 

At this stage - I feel like an electrolyzer set-up is the correct course of action, I am just not sure the best method for cooling the oxygen that it creates. I know there are a few methods for creating a closed loop for pH20 - but I also a bit nervous about the power needed to run an aquatuner - which is why I want to try and start tapping into that Natural Gas geyser. 

Sorry - this post has been kind of all over the place. I have never been this far, and in this stable of a position. Any help / guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

Also, thanks Klei for the great game. And thanks to the community - you guys are great. And your ability to create some of the stuff you do and break this game in ways that you do is unfathomable. Absolutely insane. 



 

[Jann5s]

A few tips, I’ll let some of your questions open for others.

 

1 ) nat gas geyser is not a very good energy source, try to go solar or coal gen + coal from hatch ranches.

2) dont worry to much about aqua tuner (AT) consumption, worst case it will run out of power not a big deal. But to make a AT+ST (steam turbine) setup you need 1200kg steel and 200kg plastic, start working on those

3) bases usually heat up, so release the cool slush and use it to cool your base, feed the excess into bog buckets or reed fiber

[Yobbo]

You can use the nat gas geyser for a lot of reliable power while it's in its active period. If you use that power to cool down a large pH₂O reservoir you can use that as a heat buffer. The geyser you've got will fully power 2 nat gas generators for the entire non-dormant period.

It is a bit more of a pain to store the 4500kg of gas you need to buffer in order to turn it into a continuous power source. Better to find one-off uses (such as bulk refinement), or uses that can accommodate the 60 cycle dormant period (such as a large heat buffer).

You can use the cool slush geyser to cool pretty much everything. Use it in your metal refinery before sieving and sending to the electrolyzer. You can create a simple chain: Slush geyser → cool O₂ via piping → refinery → water sieve → electrolyzer / base water supply. That should last quite a while, and give you water at a reasonable temperature. The H₂ from the electrolyzer can power a pump or two, either for water or ventilation or both. Depending on what you refine, you can even do two loops with the coolant and send 70° water to your electrolyzers. The O₂ output temperature is the same either way.