suggestion Add automation to geysers/volcanos once analyzed

[StormTAG]

It would be neat to be able to directly get automation signals from volcanos/geysers once they've been analyzed. The little spinny doohicky should emit a green signal when it's active and a red signal when it's dormant. This could more directly be used to determine if you need to activate cooling loops, auto sweepers, etc.

Not super urgent, since this can also be done indirectly by detecting the temperature/element type/etc. around it but that would need to update every tick while a direct signal from the geyser/volcano wouldn't need to check for updates except the specific times it changes from active to dormant and back again.

[Knurek]

[yoakenashi]

I also recently learned that you can align a geotuner to a geyser, but not actually boost its output. In other words the output doesn’t require require resources or increase the temperature of the geyser, you just need to set the geotuner to a low priority or otherwise ban duplicants from operating the geotuner after it has been aligned to the geyser.

[1moregame]

Does the geotuner align to a geyser when not in a lab?

[Knurek]

14 hours ago, 1moregame said:

Does the geotuner align to a geyser when not in a lab?

Yup it does, just tested it for you. Everything works outside of the lab except actual geotuning. 

[1moregame]

8 hours ago, Knurek said:

Everything works outside of the lab except actual geotuning

Thanks!  That is interesting.