Water feels awkward on the new map

[larsonco]

1. There is a lot of water everywhere on the new map
2. ice and snow are in abundance, and are renewable from meteor showers and nectar
3. None of the new foods require water
4. None of the new plants require water
5. Cold water from the slush geysers isn't cold enough to use as cooling.  The plants require temperatures below -14 C, (except the Idylla flower) the geysers emit at -10 C
6. You don't need water for oxygen. I tried using the new plants for oxygen. It took me a long time, but I got it working pretty well after I set up a shipping lane with mechatronics engineering.
7. Now I  have an issue with polluted water accumulating from my ethanol-powered petroleum generator (and eventually with plumbed bathrooms), and no real way to use it, without setting up an electrolyzer oxygen set up, making my oxylite-based oxygen obsolete. which feels bad, since I spent so long making a system that works with the new plants.
8. Traditional polluted water sinks like thimble reeds aren't practical or necessary since thimble reed doesn't grow at temp, and plenty of reed fiber is generated from the bammoths.
9. Steam power is slow to get going since there is no source of coal on the starting asteroid.

Despite the points above, it feels like there is an ABUNDANCE of water sources on the map (my current map has two cool salt slush, a salt water, and cool slush that I've found so far.)  Is the map designed this way intentionally? I want to play with the new stuff, but it feels like it's at odds with the map.

I think a new snow geyser or snow machine (or both) would be more thematic and practical than the default-included cool salt slush geyser, since the trees require so much of the stuff.  And a snow machine could serve as another way to use up the water that you inevitably accumulate.  (Imagine pairing this with a snow-code food item that uses sucrose and snow)

[beta091]

The abundant geyser water isn’t useful for directly cooling the base, but it’s great for cooling an

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AT submerged in liquid mercury, and using ethanol for extra heat deletion.

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Using Nectar as coolant for the AT is perfect too because of its rather low freezing point.

Doing that you’re able to create an insulated warmer section of the base with a more traditional setup to consume the normal temp water.

 

Adding a machine or mechanism for renewable snow in mass quantity would be handy, or lower the 100kg per cycle that the gourds require.