Steam geyser

[Melissafdz143]

I have a question about this picture; this is my second map of having the steam Geyser in the slime bio. Does any once have this issue where the steam geyser keeps spawning in the slime bio? I really need water but I feel like I have to restart the map again because I just dont know how to deal with germs yet :/ 

[BlueLance]

This is a permanent spawn location for one of the steam geysers, IIRC the other will be in a caustic Biome.

The same is true for Natural Gas Geysers. There is only two "Formations" for each of those geysers, and the formation will always be that and always in the slime biome.

The easiest way to deal with those germs is to dig out the bare minimum, and store all of the material under water in a compactor, This will stop slimelung from spreading. The disease will not harm your dupes in smaller doses so doing this should be fine, Also the germs in a tile will not affect a dupe unless they;

1. Pick it up with their hands
2. Breath in the germs
3. Eat them either because the food is infected or because the dupe is and they pick up the food.

The solid un-dug tiles will not affect your dupes.

[MykeMyke]

Worst case - do all the construction you need to get a pump and wires in and a pipe out and then lock the door behind you. Even if you don't know how to handle germs you will get affected once and the impact decreases over time. No problems!

If you do want to handle it see Blue Lance's comments above, and add a wash basin at the door in to your base pointing inwards.

[blash365]

My first base went ill (literally every dupe) once i pinced into the slime biome the first time.

In my second base i approached the problem with caution and not a single dupe has falled ill yet. What i did was pretty simple:

Slimelung only spreads via Slime and Polluted Oxygen. So i simply dug out the biome with Slimelung in it cave by cave protected by an airlock and a sink, always cleaning out the polluted air by various methods (Deorizers, Pufts, Morbs), flooding it with clean oxygen eventually. Slime had to be dug out wherever possible and new tile walls were installed to seal of undugged slime. Slime was then stored in a storage compactor (or destiller) to avoid it from emitting new polluted oxygen. All polluted water was pumped, mobbed and put into a separate storage room (or filtered or comsumed).

I even went as far as digging out a 2-tile layer between my outer base tiles and the external slime just to prevent further spreading.

 

Maybe i was just overcautious and you get get around with less efford, but my method was definitely very successful.

 

So maybe you might want to dig out the slime around your geyser and then cement it with some tiles. No further germs should last long in a sterile environment.

[SBHink]

I stumbled onto making this design, which I've used a couple of times.  My apologies, if I'm not the first.  I add Weezleworts in the beginning but usually have to remove them after a while.

[AileTheAlien]

Do you mind explaining what's going on in that picture? Does the curve help with cooling? Does it just provide some places to put wheezeworts near a small amount of the water?

[SBHink]

Initially I had a wheezlewort a top a couple of the spikes of airflow tiles.  In this, the water is about 106F around the geyser and drops to 95F down first path and is down to 82F as it goes back up and then 62F in the last small area. The big pool of water is about 54F.

This was my first steam geyser and was just messing around but it ended up cooling down and I thought this cooling method seemed so much easier than some I've seen.  I used this on the other steam geyser in this seed and it works just as well.

In this second one the pool at the end is about 72F.

[Kabrute]

On second thought your actually managing to pull a slight drip cooling exploit here I think Thats whats really happening