Air Conditioning

[Herr Ping]

I'm in first Desertum-Game and this is the first time that I build an air conditioning, when I got the first night/day cycles jumping betwenn -10 and +30 °C. But it behave unpredictable.

My experience with heaters was simple: The room gets hotter, if you have not enough heaters or all windows open, then the temperature around the heater get's up and become colder and colder in the distance. I would expect similar for ACs.

But... after starting it made what it have to do: The room becomes warmer. Unexpected it became all the same temperatur in the whole room (like 2° when it was outside -8 or so), while the windows were open. Now, one day later, inside and outside are no difference. Sometimes it seems that smoke came out of the machine. But I get no error message.

Could it be, that the AC is overworked and strikes (one AC for a 10x10 room, I had not the goal to reach a comfortable temp, only to get out of freezing)?

Another thing I noticed before: It's the first time I build a stone room (no roof, just ceiling to stand up and shoot). When it becomes cold, it seems that inside the stone room it became codler than outside. For a stone building not strange, but as I did not found a notice of something like that I would not have guessed such "temperature simulation" is part of the game.

Does anyone knows more? Or is everyone using AC just as fridgy? ;-)

[Flin Fredstone]

The "smoke" coming from the AC on the outside means it's in use. I think standard the AC is set to 23-24 degrees Celcius ? You can adjust it for each AC. A 10x10 room is quite big for just one AC i think. So with standard settings it won't reach that temperature but will still raise the temperature as much as it can to compensate.

I don't know about temperature differences for stone buildings.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

The "smoke" coming from the AC on the outside means it's in use. I think standard the AC is set to 23-24 degrees Celcius ? You can adjust it for each AC. A 10x10 room is quite big for just one AC i think. So with standard settings it won't reach that temperature but will still raise the temperature as much as it can to compensate.

I don't know about temperature differences for stone buildings.

I tend to make "walk in freezers. with 4 rows of shelves in them, which usually make the room something like 7x8 I use 2 AC's for that set at -10... If there is a heatwave during summer, 2 is needed to maintain the temperature.

Brick and concrete buildings should be able to maintain temperature better afaik.

[Flin Fredstone]

I make freezer rooms too, even use it to store the prepared food in a section of the shelves near the door. I don't make many different food anyways.

On Desertum and Sobrius two AC's will do just fine for such a room. On Saltu with heatwaves jotting up the temperature outside to 54 degrees Celcius a few extra AC's on a powerswitch would be handy.

[Zep Tepi]

I rarely use air conditioning in any playthrough. Usually by the time I can afford it, I already have people wearing armor and then they don't care as much about the house temperature. Clothing is always more important than indoor temperature. For a heatwave, give them straw hats.

Before they get armor, I make them sleep in the coldest part of the morning and make sure each bed is within a square or two of a heat source. For heatwaves, I turn the heat off.

[starlight78sso]

I use the ac units all the time, 10x10 is too big for just one, I would put at least 2. I usually do 5x5 rooms for my people, and 1 is enough for that space. I do 4-6 for my 20x20 freezer rooms.

[Herr Ping]

Hey guys, thanks for the answers!

I played meanwhile a couple days, and after the first up and down the AC is now doing it's job: raising the temperature if it's cold, lowering if it's hot. The one seems enough for 10x10-room, not to reach the designated temperature but to keep the temperature in a comfortable range where the survivors and where they do not get a cold.
Maybe the AC needs some starting time to "boot up" correctly.

[injto4ka]

There is a mod for "Temperature overlay" which can prove useful in such situations to visualize the temperature.

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by injto4ka:

There is a mod for "Temperature overlay" which can prove useful in such situations to visualize the temperature.

Don't be modest :-D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3312345743

[Railic]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Originally posted by injto4ka:

There is a mod for "Temperature overlay" which can prove useful in such situations to visualize the temperature.

Don't be modest :-D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3312345743

Damn fine joke. Thanks for the laugh. :D

[Herr Ping]

I have no experiences with mods - is there something to do to start the mod? I took an "abonement" to it and steam downloaded something, but ingame nothing happens.

[Flin Fredstone]

Go to Mod Manager after you started up the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3315635255

There you can enable or disable any mod you have subscribed to.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3315635307

Some mods you can adjust in the options menu during or before gameplay by selecting them in the list.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3315635380

[Flin Fredstone]

If you downloaded that temperature overlay mod, you also need to subscribe to another mod.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3115193939&searchtext=SAD

[Herr Ping]

Thanks!