Has anyone set up a practical Gulp Fish Polluted Water cleaning farm?

[lunazone]

I was curious on people's interpretation of one.

[Neotuck]

I think most people use them with a slush geyser and use sweepers to pick up the ice

[lunazone]

ahh, that's very clever

[Oozinator]

9 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

I think most people use them with a slush geyser and use sweepers to pick up the ice

Same here.

[0xFADE]

I had one I rescued from a pond that was too warm for it. Don’t think they should lay suicidal eggs like that.

It was pooping out ice which was pretty convenient. Then it turned right into a normal pacu.

If that lasted longer automation sounds like the best way as it is very easy to melt ice through conveyors. I’ve got a chest full of ice in my 40c base that has not melted for several hundred cycles. 

[PhailRaptor]

2 minutes ago, 0xFADE said:

I’ve got a chest full of ice in my 40c base that has not melted for several hundred cycles. 

When it does though....  instant swimming pool.  Hope you have your water wings ready.

[Neotuck]

Another thing they are good for is passively lowering the tempatures in a body of water

I discovered this when I let a bunch of wild pacu live in my main water tank which I filled with 26C water.

I noticed the whole tank would drop a degree every dozen cycles or so

[ChickenMadness]

Really easy to set up, just need a slush geyser. Unlimited ice, egg shells, sleet wheat water. It doesn't scale up very well though. If you make it too big the left side will start to turn into water while the right side is ice. But you might want that if you want to use the water for something else. It already started happenning in this screenshot because the left side of hte tank started to go above 0C. But I build ice sculptuers there to keep the temperature even across the room.

I send the ice into a second chamber to be melted and kept around 0C for the sleetwheat. (above the smelter).
Smelter comes on when temperature goes below 0C so the water in the tank doesn't freeze.

No other automation apart from the temperature sensor.

Also gives you unlimited ice to cool down other parts of your base with ice sculptures. Very useful.

[KittenIsAGeek]

2 hours ago, PhailRaptor said:

When it does though....  instant swimming pool.  Hope you have your water wings ready.

ONI physics is very quantum: Matter does not change state until ALL matter within a tile has reached the temperature necessary for change.  So.. 500 tons of ice sitting on a tile? Won't melt until that 500 tons goes above 5c -- and then ALL the ice will simultaneously change state to water.

[Nitroturtle]

While this isn't really a cleaning farm, I thought it was interesting and could possibly be used in one.  I set up a tank that I feed from my slush geyser and dropped in few wild gulp fish eggs.  A hydro sensor controls the valve, keeping the top layer above 500kg.  At first I was just getting ice, but as the pool warmed by the surrounding air above, I noticed the clean water was dripping out of the sides of the tank.  So I created the lower tank and it's been like this for hundreds of cycles.  In the screenshot, I had just pumped out all of the clean water, which is why it's nearly empty.  It doesn't produce water very quickly, but it it's free cold clean water which comes in handy.

[PhailRaptor]

8 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

ONI physics is very quantum: Matter does not change state until ALL matter within a tile has reached the temperature necessary for change.  So.. 500 tons of ice sitting on a tile? Won't melt until that 500 tons goes above 5c -- and then ALL the ice will simultaneously change state to water.

That....  was entirely my point?  *confused face*

[KittenIsAGeek]

11 hours ago, PhailRaptor said:

That....  was entirely my point?  *confused face*

I was agreeing with you and just pointing out the oddness of ONI physics.

[Neotuck]

It's not that odd, in real life we use to store ice in giant blocks before refrigerators we're invented.  The size of the ice block would keep it frozen though the summer.

[KittenIsAGeek]

3 hours ago, Neotuck said:

It's not that odd, in real life we use to store ice in giant blocks before refrigerators we're invented.  The size of the ice block would keep it frozen though the summer.

Yes, but there is still some melting on a continual basis provided any portion of the ice is exposed to temperatures above the melting point.  In ONI there is zero melting until the mass of the entire "ice cube" has been brought above the melting point -- at which point the entire cube melts all at once.  Where I grew up, we used to build ice houses.  The inside would warm up above freezing due to body heat and the surface would be wet, even though the temperature outside was -40c.  Using a thermometer, the outside of any given block would be pretty close to that -40c while the inside of the block where the melting would occur was always right at the freezing point.  In ONI physics, the entire block would be an average of -20c and feel dry instead of wet.

[Neotuck]

5 minutes ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

Yes, but there is still some melting on a continual basis provided any portion of the ice is exposed to temperatures above the melting point.  In ONI there is zero melting until the mass of the entire "ice cube" has been brought above the melting point -- at which point the entire cube melts all at once.  Where I grew up, we used to build ice houses.  The inside would warm up above freezing due to body heat and the surface would be wet, even though the temperature outside was -40c.  Using a thermometer, the outside of any given block would be pretty close to that -40c while the inside of the block where the melting would occur was always right at the freezing point.  In ONI physics, the entire block would be an average of -20c and feel dry instead of wet.

well that falls under the "one tile" rule that seems to describe most of ONI physics

[KittenIsAGeek]

... Yes.  Exactly.  Which is the reason I made the comment in the first place.  And now I'm repeating myself.  

[Neotuck]

Just now, KittenIsAGeek said:

... Yes.  Exactly.  Which is the reason I made the comment in the first place.  And now I'm repeating myself.  

sorry 

[KittenIsAGeek]