Industrial ice factory - sleet wheat farm - fish farm

[ChickenMadness]

I always build one of these when I have more than one slush geyser on the map. Hits loads of resources that you need in one go and doesn't require too much tinkering with after it's set up.
I mainly use it for sleet wheat and transporting ice to areas that need cooling down.
Also free meat and eggshells.


The gulp fish turn the polluted water into water. The water turns into ice instantly. The ice is transporting into a second tank where it is heated up to the right temperature for the sleetwheat. I keep it around 0 degrees so the ice doesn't fully melt and start overflowing, and I can still use it to build ice sculptures that melt quickly. It's more manageable having lots of ice instead of water everywhere.

When the water gets too cold and starts turning back into ice the thermo sensor turns the metal refinery on and it pumps in 40C water in which melts the ice very quickly and evens the temperature out again.

Second screenshot is what happens when you turn the metal refinery off and forget to turn it back on. The water in the sleet wheat reservoir got too cold and turned into ice. The kiln is there as a backup if theres no water left for the refinery. Which is what happened just now after I turned it off and forgot about it.

I build ice sculptures and ice temp shift plates for bling factor.

[habuky]

On 14.11.2018 at 5:13 AM, ChickenMadness said:

Hits loads of resources that you need in one go

great...but where do you get all the dirt from, to fertilize the sleet wheat?

39*5= 195kg/c

[GrindThisGame]

Nice idea. I'm thinking of using a map with two slushies so this should be fun.

[ChickenMadness]

On 03/12/2018 at 1:07 PM, habuky said:

great...but where do you get all the dirt from, to fertilize the sleet wheat?

39*5= 195kg/c

sorry for late reply.

I never use dirt much in my colonies. Once I've made the transition from mealwood to mushrooms in the early stages of the game I don't use dirt for anything. I don't use fertlizer usually as I don't really see the point in it since you need massive amounts of dirt to create it and you end up running out. And dirt seems too valuable to be using it for that purpose.

So sleat wheat is usually the only thing I'm using the dirt for. And it's sustainable by just using dirt from compost piles. I usually hav 3 compost piles that are working at full capacity and the dirt is pretty stable. Alot of dirt comes from wild plants giving free rotting food etc.

If dirt became an issue at a much later stage in the game you could also start composting the egg shells instead of turning them into lime. Since you end up having a surplus of steel once you've finished building the space biome stuff and have nothing left to build. No idea if this would be sustainable as a closed system though. But the fish create a lot of eggs.

[habuky]

18 minutes ago, ChickenMadness said:

sorry for late reply

No worries!  It gave me time to build my own simte-to-dirt cooker   (pic). Although I did not need it yet, as there is still enough dirt around .  

But another question: how do prevent that the egg shells will end up on the compost? The only solution I see so far are door restrictions, right?

 

 

[ChickenMadness]

10 minutes ago, habuky said:

No worries!  I gave me time to build my own simte-to-dirt cooker   (pic). Although I did not need it yet, as there is still enough dirt around .  

But another question: how do prevent that the egg shells will end up on the compost? The only solution I see so far are door restrictions, right?

 

 

Unless something has changed in the MK1 update (I only started playing again today), I don't think preventing egg shells from becoming compost would be an issue because when I've been playing, the only way to make the dupes compost egg shells is by manually selecting the egg shells and clicking the compost option.

And if you ever get to that stage (because it's very tedious) the solution is sending all the egg shells into one container and them dumping them on the ground into one pile so you only have to click once when the container is full up.

But ye putting a door on the water reservoir and locking it would stop the dupes sneaking stuff out of there if that's happenning to you lol. You can automate it easily to send the egg shells away and a sweeper arm will load them up into a rock granulator straight away. (Also I'm pretty sure dupes will never take anything out of storage to be put into a compost pile either. Usually when I have polluted dirt in storage I have to empty it before the dupes use it.)

Also cool farm lol.