Ripptor Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Good Evening! I haven't posted on here before, I usually just read and post on Reddit, but I wanted to share my recent designs on compact / efficient Power Plant designs! Carbon Power Room As fully automated as it gets, we cram in six Coal Generators, a Petrol Generator, and a Hydrogen Generator into one room that pumps out CO2 into the room and out the door and upper-left exhausts. The Polluted Water drips out below, into the pollutes power rooms. The only thing a duplicant needs is to work the Power plant, with the included Refined Metal receptacle to speed up the process. One question though, is there any way to fill the Coal Generators when the batteries are full? Even when set at 100% my auto-sweepers refuse to fill the coal gens until we get a battery drop. I just wanna feed the Slicksters! Polluted Power Room Seven NatGas generators are as full as a Power Plant room can get, with just enough room for the Power Station and a refined metal receptacle. When mage with Gold tiles and heavi-watt, the decor values of this room have some very good spots, which should keep most dupes happy. This design is stackable via swapping out the Power Station and receptacle placement, as shown below. Full-Stack Power Plant The bottom-most room will require a drip tray for all the polluted water, making it the ugliest room in the stack. This is cooled in the background via petrol radiator pipes, keeping it cool and dumping the heat into the (not pictured) polluted reservoir below. Compact Checkpoint Airlock And finally, my final airlock design! In this specific instance, the left side is a 'dirty' living area while the right side is a Chlorine-filled storage room. Any Chlorine gas will be reclaimed via the manual filter, and all other gasses will be compressed into a queue and released as large packets into a shared pipe out to my air purifier / recycler system, taking all the CO2 / PO2 / Flatulence out of the living area while re-introducing the O2. Without / Before the compressor design, the airlock would send out streams of micro-gram packets when near-vacuum, causing the shared pipe to block, then back-up and cause all my airlocks to fail. Now, these streams are combined and everything has been running smoothly! Let me know if there are any improvements you can make to the above designs, I'm always happy to tinker more! Thanks for reading! Imgur Album Reddit Thread Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arash70 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 All of these are very useful in the upcoming upgrade Thanks Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilalaunekuh Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Looks so nice, but not sure if your natural gas generators will survive the new update => Huge increase in emitted heat Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khullag Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 also the nerf to fert synths will make it impossible harder to generate so much NG (only via boiling oil ofc) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 59 minutes ago, Khullag said: also the nerf to fert synths will make it impossible harder to generate so much NG (only via boiling oil ofc) what nerf? the synth to gen ratio is 3:1 and that hasn't changed Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arash70 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Neotuck said: what nerf? the synth to gen ratio is 3:1 and that hasn't changed 46 minutes ago, R9MX4 said: Phosphorite will be a bigger challenge. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Arash70 said: Phosphorite will be a bigger challenge. ****! that nerf is way too much Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arash70 Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, Neotuck said: ****! that nerf is way too much I'm sure you can make something better than the old natural gas tower with a little bit of creativity. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Just now, Arash70 said: I'm sure you can make something with a little bit of creativity. True but I was a bit proud of my old power grid design that used slush geysers as fuel... back to the drawling board Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabrute Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 i've been hooked on hydro so long i'm not even going to notice whats missing, I'm just cheering that they finally organized a bit better Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 this also makes my dirt farm useless, if it now cost dirt to make fertilizer than no one is going to want to cook it into dirt again Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilalaunekuh Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 15 minutes ago, Neotuck said: the synth to gen ratio is 3:1 and that hasn't changed 9:1 now (10g/s output for each fert synthesizer and 90g/s input for a nat gas generator) 1 minute ago, Neotuck said: this also makes my dirt farm useless, if it now cost dirt to make fertilizer than no one is going to want to cook it into dirt again I feel you, just finished my own automated dirt cooker design^^ Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnis Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Can you also post your volcano oil cooker & refined metal source? Where is the 3.3litres of gas/sec coming from? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1043827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parusoid Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 @Ripptor Why are there metal tiles everywhere? arent the making whole place scalding? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1056938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZanthraSW Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/8/2018 at 10:59 AM, Ripptor said: One question though, is there any way to fill the Coal Generators when the batteries are full? Even when set at 100% my auto-sweepers refuse to fill the coal gens until we get a battery drop. I just wanna feed the Slicksters! Can you separate them from any batteries with transformers? Alternatively use a automation controlled power switch to disconnect the coal generators from any batteries if they are close to full. I don't recall if you would need a load on the same line as the generator to get them to start, but a ceiling lamp or floor lamp should work if you do. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1056954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOOK14 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 1 hour ago, ZanthraSW said: Can you separate them from any batteries with transformers? Alternatively use a automation controlled power switch to disconnect the coal generators from any batteries if they are close to full. I don't recall if you would need a load on the same line as the generator to get them to start, but a ceiling lamp or floor lamp should work if you do. If you just put a dot of wire on the gen, and don't connect it to any battery, that should work, otherwise just put a lightbulb or something on it and it'll have to keep running to power it. Basically, if the gen isn't connected to a battery of any kind, it counts as a permanently 0% battery. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1056967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisetwin Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 What a cool build, thanks for sharing, it has given me inspiration for my current base! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1057088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeinated21 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/8/2018 at 11:46 AM, Lilalaunekuh said: Looks so nice, but not sure if your natural gas genertors will survive the new update => Huge increase in emitted heat Oddly, in my integrated oil-boiler, slickster farm, NG powerplant, polluted water boiler, they natural gas generators stabilize around 75C. I don't understand why. I was hoping I could cool them with additional polluted water to just below the boiling point to increase the throughput of the system... Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/91554-compact-designs-power-plants-airlock/#findComment-1057133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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