Ep 35 : Strip mining some regolith, Extra hard : Oxygen not included



If we are going to build a sour gas boiler we are going to need a lot more ceramic. That requires us to get our hands on a lot more filtration material. We have 170 tons of sand but we need way more material than that. Time to go regolith harvesting.

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41 thoughts on “Ep 35 : Strip mining some regolith, Extra hard : Oxygen not included”

  1. ~ 02:00 – How convenient that I made myself a cold oxygen/clay factory for producing ceramic, fed by a cool slush geyser. Basically in its own room, vaccuumed out during inactive period, drips down to the offgas chamber, 3 layers of 18 deoderizers with clay/sand handled by automation. Deoderizers are on a mesh tile with crude oil, below that is the airflor tile, below that is the 1 tile high channel for pwater to offgas. The deoderizers can grab past the crude oil, and only oxygen is in the upper chamber. Incidentally, the cold oxygen is great making oxylite for rockets and keeps inside cool when bringing in hotter materials. You'll probably have a completely different method though, I'll wait to see what it is.

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  2. Is there a viable way to make refined carbon with heat from a volcano? Stopping it forming a tile is the block that I don't know how to get around. It needs to not form the block so 50% isn't lost. The mesh tile trick wouldn't work as it isn't liquid.

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  3. With your deodorizer setup, you could try ranching dense pufts by it, and get a ton of oxylite for rocket use.

    In my current save I basically have a massive sublimation area setup which just maintains 1000kg pwater over a few wide strips, and it all gets pumped into a wall of deodorizers and a puft ranch.

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  4. Not sure how much more regolith you're going to need but you could really automate a lot of that planet. Robominers/sweepers are the obvious start but you can use solid rocket port loaders to put the material into a rocket and then inside the capsule use conveyor loader fittings to pull the regolith right out of storage and dump it into an infinite storage vacuum in your capsule. I haven't tried that recently but you could probably use multiple fittings to speed things up. I did this once ages ago and it worked out well

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  5. I guess you've already sorted out your rocket exhaust issue. I always wondered if it would be better to use the electronic gates and use automation so that when rockets aren't landing or taking off the doors would be fully open and not blocking anything. I guess though if steel doors are melting that won't work. That said part of me wants to see if it would be possible to do that, but use steel radiant pipes with liquid aluminum as a "coolant" to extract heat from the doors before they melt.

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  6. ain't nothing wrong with pliers mod. I still use get full resource from mined tile. which I kinda want to turn off cause sweeping becomes a pain on the arse with so much stiff around. also use dupe edit. been practicing getting in all achievements and my early game speed flawless. and even with rerolli g and editing the best dupes they still try to kill themselves every cycle!! some times even gene editing doesn't help some.

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  7. To extend the series; since it has always brought you best views.
    1) all recreation buildings. Not just plonked down but setup nicely preferably in separate rooms or grouped up in correct setting.
    2) zoo on 1 of the planets with either all or most animals.
    3) every dupe has a bedroom and bathroom/dining. Could call it a home. This creates a ton of problems!! Ad suits to the mix for a real challenge…
    That's how i tend to build bases after the practical crap is setup. Either oni or rimworld. My pawns love me, slaves not so much…

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  8. That conveyor meter is really good, I normally use a timer hooked up to a conveyor chute on my volcano tamers, but it looks like the conveyor meter can accomplish the same thing more smoothly.
    Should also be good for melting ice.

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  9. You can exploit the range of deodorizers to continuously farm clay. Polluted water in liquid tiles, air tiles on top, water and deodorizer on air tiles. Throw this is space and you won't have excessive oxygen buildup in your base.

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  10. I believe you can avoid the need for robominers in your sourgas boiler if you put airflow tiles along that corridor instead (solid tiles won't form inside airflow tiles, after all)

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  11. Can't the water be off-gassed any other way that doesn't require you to go in there anymore? I am thinking a layer of pwater on the bottom with a hydro sensor and liquid vent. Whenever you are below 900kg, add more pwater.
    Edit: Depending on when the vent over pressurizes, the sensor might not even be needed.

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  12. Okay….
    I have played ONI for hours and hours (got me through "phase A" of covid!)…
    But I have NO idea how the dupes here were able to construct/deconstruct mechanical doors that were below a row of refined carbon tiles….from above the tiles?!…
    I'm def gonna try this out today…..
    It's not the diagonal trick…so how are they magically building/decon through "natural" tiles?…

    Again thank Francis John..
    Always fun and informative !

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