Using corridors as insulation

[Sgt_Serge]

Just an idea although it's somewhat resource intense at the start. I've surrounded my building with a corridor which acts as an insulation against heat and cold. Rooms for 7 folks and extendable.
In the center is the workshop-room, right the kitchen and farther right the freezer room to which I'll upgrade the walls to bricks soon.

I need two fireplaces and a few heaters which are controlled by a thermostat.

Needs quite some time in the first year but is usually complete by end of fall. Never had serious issues with colds or pneumonias anymore.

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[kenknudsen2016]

it works even with 3 walls.. my house is like 5 degrees hotter/cold than outside.

[wcbarney]

You've still got the floor and roof, though. With your first good materials -- stone and wood -- the insulation is only "medium."

[kenknudsen2016]

its a good tip for the first year. Of course is a carbon house better ..

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by kenknudsen2016:

its a good tip for the first year. Of course is a carbon house better ..

Well, yeah; a carbon house is way better -- better insulation, way more durable. Problem is it takes awhile to unlock nanocarbon tubes, mine enough of it, and then get the house built. In my current game I am about half-way through the 4th year; have had nanocarbon tubes unlocked for quite awhile (couple of years), but have no incentive to ditch my wood house & build a carbon one. What with heaters and air conditioners I haven't had any problems with extreme heat or cold indoors. I moved all my fermenting barrels, oil presses, electric furnaces, meat dryers inside a long time ago.

[kenknudsen2016]

just did a full size cement house (12*16) with 4 walls as corridors and roof and floor in first year before the frost.. 20 censius inside with 2 stoves outside temp is like 6-7 minus.

[gizmo6023]

Seems carbon is at least twice as good for thermal resistance. The only building I have had the resources to spend it on is a carbon walk in cold storage unit 3 rows of shelving and 2 heat pumps set to 14F.

[Sgt_Serge]

Originally posted by kenknudsen2016:

its a good tip for the first year. Of course is a carbon house better ..

When I had the ability to mass produce carbon, I had no issue with power anymore, rather the contrary, so investing time to upgrade to carbon would only lead to even more energy not needed.

[NukeAJS]

You can use a similar idea with a heat pump working in reverse to make a very large walk-in freezer.

Make a 3x(xyz) corridor off your kitchen. Use the best insulating materials that you have. I used mostly wood but had enough bricks towards the end of the build. Put shelves along the sides and an air conditioner on the back wall. Make sure it's blowing hot air out. Set the temperature to -2C. Now you have a large freezer without needing to research fridges or freezers. In fact, I just skipped fridges/freezers on my last run so you gain 2-3 days of research. On the other hand, some people might just want to skip AC as it's not very useful unless you build everything with brick or better. It uses much less energy than the 2 or 4 freezers that would be needed to hold the same amount of stuff.

Downside? Solar flare turns off the AC for this "walk-in" freezer build but not for a normal freezer. I think it holds roughly the same amount of stuff. A freezer is 3 wide, and 3 square of shelves would be 6x3 or 5x3 storage spaces so 18 or 15 slots. Off the top of my head, I think a freezer has 18 slots.

If you can figure a way to put in a window, you can turn the AC off in the autumn/winter and save energy. Kinda goes without saying that you want the wall between the freezer and the kitcken to be made of the most insulating material you have.

[ejaksetic]

Try to make all buildings in wood (medium insulation), add a heating stove to every building, and keep a plentiful stock of sticks to fuel the heating stoves. It seems to work at keeping my characters from getting hypothermia and dying during the winter season.

[Martin]

Yeh getting the carbon is fairly easy, but you still need to make all the alloy..

[Sgt_Serge]

Originally posted by NukeAJS:

You can use a similar idea with a heat pump working in reverse to make a very large walk-in freezer.

yea that's to the right, the long room with the AC Units

[ADLER]

Get Ken on your team for Alloy, he is a good fighter & gets 2-3x the scrap from whatever he touches... I have never had to mine iron.

[ADLER]

If I was you, I would loose that corridor between the cold store & other rooms & point your AC backwards between those rooms, the AC will make the cold room cold & the other rooms warm... like 26'c warm, & put air grates from the room the AC vents into to your other rooms. I keep my whole place warm with just 3 aircons & I have a 15x15->22. Good idea on the corridors... I did it accidentally to give them a veranda to not get wet.

[Martin]

Originally posted by kenknudsen2016:

it works even with 3 walls.. my house is like 5 degrees hotter/cold than outside.

What do you do when you get an extreme heatwave? sleep outside?

[Walking_Wounded]

Originally posted by kenknudsen2016:

its a good tip for the first year. Of course is a carbon house better ..

I just tried to build a 16x16 carbon building in year one (The 'January2023' seed has lots of nearby carbon nests). NOT possible (at lest for me). The limiting factor for my map was alloy. for a building of this size you need almost 900 alloy. Each alloy node only gives 20 ore, which can be smelted to 20 alloy, so you would need access to about 50 ore nodes to pull it off.

Related question about insulating: Would going wood for the floor and walls but carbon for the roof yield any benefit? (as in, does the game calculate this such that there IS a benefit)