I need advice on a pressing matter (literally)

[dwarftopia]

As you can see from this pic I have a pretty active geyser very close to my base in a big slime zone. some 17-18 cycles ago the geyser's water broke the (I assume slime) layer that separated it from a polluted water pool.

Now, my question is: since my colony is running out of water, should I try filtering that big body of polluted water or should I wait until I have the means to counter the geyser as well? From what I've gathered, a water filtration machine will output clean water at standard temp no matter how cold or hot the polluted water it's taking is, so temperature shouldn't be a problem. BUT, the danger of the geyser remains. Note that I am currently researching Percolation and the only research I have left is Temp Modulation and Insulation, so I don't have insulated tiles yet. I also haven't mined any Abyssalite yet so I don't have that either, and I am also missing Gold Amalgam because to get that I'd have to enter the slime zone and there's another geyser (not shown here) right in front of the outer rim.

 

P.S.: look at all that slime O_o

[Masterpintsman]

Just go in there, box it in close with two layers of tiles an come back later when you feel like it...

[dwarftopia]

1 hour ago, Masterpintsman said:

Just go in there, box it in close with two layers of tiles an come back later when you feel like it...

Do the tiles need to be insulated?

[Lifegrow]

Insulated tiles will stop so much heat radiating, but you could use normal tiles if your base is, for example, surrounded on all other sides by frozen biomes. 

Normally people use insulated tiles, or if you're feeling especially cheaty - air locks.

[dwarftopia]

But can I start filtering the Polluted Water or do I have to wait until I get insulated tiles?

[Kasuha]

11 minutes ago, dwarftopia said:

But can I start filtering the Polluted Water or do I have to wait until I get insulated tiles?

Heat does not spread that fast and if you concentrate on research, you'll have them before you'll start having serious problems. Just dedicate one or two guys to research only and you'll have all tech in no time.

By the way, you have plenty of water in my opinion, you're just wasting it. Get rid of all the algae terrariums up there in the clean oxygen and put one or two into the pool of CO2 that formed above your water reservoir. They'll be done with it in no time and use way less water than what you need at the moment.

[AlexRou]

If you box the geyser with this shape you can avoid risking your pumps getting damaged since the steam will never touch the pump. But you still need to use something with +50 C overheat cuz the water is pretty hot. You can just box it in and deconstruct one tile once you mined gold amalgam. If you used normal tiles (not abyss) there is the issue of heat but you would last until you mine enough abyss. 

It doesn't matter if you used insulated or normal if the material is abyss. And abyss normal tiles is better than non abyss insulated tiles.

The overheat temp of a normal liquid pump is 75 C, if you boxed in the geyser the polluted water should still be cold enough to use a normal pump based on the temp on the screenshot. So yes you can use it assuming it isn't too hot. 

But filtering polluted water is a waste of time and resource, it makes more sense to mine gold amalgam and take pure water directly from the geyser and then once you mined some abyss then replace the tiles with new abyss ones.

Once you have geyser water, polluted water is only useful for making fertilizer. 

 

[dwarftopia]

2 hours ago, Kasuha said:

Heat does not spread that fast and if you concentrate on research, you'll have them before you'll start having serious problems. Just dedicate one or two guys to research only and you'll have all tech in no time.

By the way, you have plenty of water in my opinion, you're just wasting it. Get rid of all the algae terrariums up there in the clean oxygen and put one or two into the pool of CO2 that formed above your water reservoir. They'll be done with it in no time and use way less water than what you need at the moment.

Ok, I'll do that, but how about oxygen generation? Do I just start using electrolyzers?

Also I have done very fast progress on the research, I am almost done with Insulation now so I think I can start filtering.

Btw for now do you think it's best if I use Hydrogen Generators to get rid of hydrogen?

[Kasuha]

2 hours ago, dwarftopia said:

Btw for now do you think it's best if I use Hydrogen Generators to get rid of hydrogen?

Depends on how much of it do you have. I found it best to dig large enough collection space for hydrogen at the start, and build a pump + filter + generator combo when it starts filling up.