Idea for asteroid exploration

[tashablank]

I've found that it's very difficult to explore far from the home base without the duplicants suffocating.  At this point, with resources being so scarce, in order to gather more resources the duplicants are having to go further and further from base, often times through contaminated oxygen, hydrogen, or chlorine gases. I don't ever have the resources to oxygenate where the duplicants are going to gather more resources, so they all end up either suffocating to death while gathering more resources or suffocating to death in base because their aren't enough renewable resources to keep the base oxygenated. It would be helpful if there was some sort of portable oxygen equipment that could be researched, like an O2 tank or a re-breather or something of that nature.  I think it would encourage asteroid exploration, in addition to making it a little easier to keep a supply of essential resources in stock.

[TheMetalMan]

Yes, or maybe a space suit of sort.

It could have it's own building that you assign dupes to. They have to take off the helmet to eat and return the suit before the dupe goes to sleep. So you could have the suit next to their bed so they loose less sleep. And it has to be recharged with oxygen every now and again so it can't be worn all the time.

[HumanSheeple]

Or just select dupes with athletics of 7+ and above with divers lungs perk

[EmielRegis]

Just now, HumanSheeple said:

Or just select dupes with athletics of 7+ and above with divers lungs perk

Could work, but kinda breaks immersion.

[LeMecAigri]

Space suit in space better idea than run into vaccum

[Ystogan]

I wanted to kill one of my duplicants, but he kept staying alive... so i made him dig all the way to the left untill i couldn't go any further.
Was surprised you could actually do that. If i had a good basic base that was like 95% renewable i could have gotten a lot of profit out of that.