How to create a vacuum gate automation

[kuroko0820]

Hello, as title above, i remember few month ago someone sharing about how to create vacuum door by using three door but now i cant find it. can anyone teach me how to do this ?

[Djoums]

You can build it as shown in this post :

Don't overuse it though, it breaks pathfinding when the door closes for a split second.

[kuroko0820]

THANK YOU !!! this is the post i looking for

 

[Yoma_Nosme]

Here's another design I haven't seen in the ''airlock for aetn'' post

[kuroko0820]

41 minutes ago, melquiades said:

This still destroys gas isn't it?

yeap, but not much if compare to gas sent to space, i mainly use to contain temperature of cold biome, so it wont affect much

 

[Kabrute]

if you put the button under the door and have it set to command the door closed then open it will not destroy gas because it will push the gas out behind the dupe....

[Neotuck]

Here's an easier setup that won't break pathfinding

[Sasza22]

4 hours ago, melquiades said:

This still destroys gas isn't it?

Doesn`t the gas magically move outside since one of the last patches. I`m not sure where it ends but i`m pretty sure they made door no longer destroy gas.

[Grimgaw]

40 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

Here's an easier setup that won't break pathfinding

Maybe it won't break it for the dupe on the switch but it will for anyone running up to it.

[Neotuck]

5 minutes ago, Grimgaw said:

Maybe it won't break it for the dupe on the switch but it will for anyone running up to it.

only dupes running though the door will activate the switch, if the buffer is set to 10 sec and filter set to 11 seconds it never breaks

[Grimgaw]

If you have a dupe on other side of the map trying to run though that door it will break pathing.

[Neotuck]

4 minutes ago, Grimgaw said:

If you have a dupe on other side of the map trying to run though that door it will break pathing.

the door only closes for 1 second so the likelihood of that happening is very low

[Grimgaw]

2 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

the door only closes for 1 second so the likelihood of that happening is very low

Say your building something behind your setup. Every time someone passes through that door and it closes all other dupes trying to deliver or build there will drop the stuff/try to look for new task. Doesn't mater if it's 0.1s. It breaks pathing.

[Chipplyman]

3 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

the door only closes for 1 second so the likelihood of that happening is very low

Depends on busy the door is. If it leads into some rarely visited dead end room, no problem. If it's on a main corridor or an active build site, big problems. 

[Neotuck]

well the only time I use it is in a temperature controlled room like a sleet wheat greenhouse, so only the farmer assigned to it goes in or out

[Djoums]

Yep it all depends on how busy that route is. To the OP : if you intend to preserve an ice biome in order to gather wild sleet wheat, that's not going to be very efficient for that reason.

[Neotuck]

then how about this? it maintains an airlock and temp lock if the area in between is a vacuum

[Kabrute]

Superlocks bypass "wet feet" debuff because the dupes are jumping "past" the liquid....

[Neotuck]

I wonder if dupes "exhale" while jumping, that is the only thing that could break this lock

[kuroko0820]

7 hours ago, Neotuck said:

Here's an easier setup that won't break pathfinding

will try this tonight, currently mine facing path finding problem

the water airlock kinda tricky to use, cos the area is cold, water might freeze into ice

[Neotuck]

10 minutes ago, kuroko0820 said:

the water airlock kinda tricky to use, cos the area is cold, water might freeze into ice

Don't have to use water, can use crude oil, naphtha, and petroleum.  All have freezing points below -40C 

[Frater Bartmoss]

Depends on how often Dupes use the door. The easiest way is to add a clock timer to the middle door via automation to close the door once a day for a short time. 

[Flydo]

You can also use a design like this for the same effect and easy to build in early game (use a gas filter if you want to separate gaz).

 

[jfc]

6 hours ago, Flydo said:

You can also use a design like this for the same effect and easy to build in early game (use a gas filter if you want to separate gaz).

 

Pretty sure i tried this before and there' always some gas that manages to get in

[kuroko0820]

2 hours ago, jfc said:

Pretty sure i tried this before and there' always some gas that manages to get in

and need to setup power system just for that, and power wasted each time duplicant access.