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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 2:43am
How do I fill a room with oxygen?
Hi!
I have a base, and made a room on it.
Now I have made an air vent, put it to an oxygen generator and put that to a oxygen tank.
But when I turn everything on, I get no oxygen in the room. WHY?!
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error1440 Aug 6, 2015 @ 2:44am 
The room needs to be enclosed entirely with blocks. It cant have an open side that uses the asteroid as a wall.
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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 2:46am 
no, It has only light armor blocks, and a door (that is closed), and a hangar door (that also is closed)
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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 2:47am 
so it is enclosed entirely with blocks!
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error1440 Aug 6, 2015 @ 2:49am 
Alrighty...

The air vent, is it ran into the room with a conveyor tube, or the box looking conveyor block?

The tube is not airtight, the block is
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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 3:09am 
I only have an air vent connected to the oxygen generator, which is connected to an oxygen tank!
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casualsailor Aug 6, 2015 @ 3:09am 
Originally posted by Vuuke:
Hi!
I have a base, and made a room on it.
Now I have made an air vent, put it to an oxygen generator and put that to a oxygen tank.
But when I turn everything on, I get no oxygen in the room. WHY?!

First things first. Open the Control Panel and look at the Air Vent. If Room Pressure says "Not Pressurized" then you have a hole in your room somewhere. If it says 0.00% then you have a simple plumbing problem.


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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 3:12am 
hmm... It says "not pressurized".... But I don't see a hole... I have to check after a hole somewhere!
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Vuuke Aug 6, 2015 @ 3:19am 
Haha, we had a connector instead of light armor block at one place (to connect our ships on), and that was where it leaked! THANKS!
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casualsailor Aug 6, 2015 @ 3:25am 
Originally posted by Vuuke:
Haha, we had a connector instead of light armor block at one place (to connect our ships on), and that was where it leaked! THANKS!

Yw, when you start to build airlocks, check out youtube for Smart Airlock. When building one the o2 tank you use to depresurize the vent CANNOT be conneted to a conveyor system which has access to O2 generator. If it does, it will fill the tank with O2 and there won't be room to store the airlocks O2. This can be rather confusing. But simply put a vent in the airlock connected to a separate O2 Tank and use it to suck the air out of the room and put the air back in.

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dakota_hoffmann Aug 6, 2015 @ 6:37am 
To create a room in which you can both pressurize/ depressurize.

First add your O2 generator.
Run conveyors from 02 generator to an O2 tank.
Run conveyors from 02 tank to air vent/vents
Group these air vents in the control menu
Add depressurize action to a button panel for the group of air vents

Add second/ second set of air vents
run conveyors from these air vents to a separate 02 tank.
In the control menu link one of the previous air vents using setup actions with the second set of air vents.
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Joe Stracke Aug 6, 2015 @ 7:51am 
The question I've always had is: Why would you *want* to fill a room with oxygen in the game? Do they plan to integrate televisions you can watch, or books you can read? That is to say, the game really does not lend itself well to being relegated to a single room or facility.
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Romalisk Aug 7, 2015 @ 1:08pm 
Joe: It's for immersion. Or, just so you don't run out of oxygen when you are piloting a big ship. You can take off your helmet and pilot and never need to get out of the seat.
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Kilroy Aug 7, 2015 @ 5:44pm 
Ask ksh to add a particle effect to the areas where oxygen is leaking or some form of o2 debug view to make solving these type of problems much easier.
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BaneBlackGuard Aug 7, 2015 @ 6:01pm 
Originally posted by Kilroy:
Ask ksh to add a particle effect to the areas where oxygen is leaking or some form of o2 debug view to make solving these type of problems much easier.
that would be awesome. really like that idea.
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Namdoolb Aug 7, 2015 @ 6:30pm 
Also, you may want to look into the conveyor sorter block if you're planning on pressurising or depressurising a room.
There's no options for regulating oxygen passage through the block, but I believe keen may have fixed oxygen to respect the sorting block in one of their stealth updates...

I mention this because I experienced something on a recent ship build: An air vent on the wrong side of a sorting block refused to pressurize a room until the sorting block was replaced with a regular conveyor tube, at which point the vent starts working.

In theory you could now create a "dump tank" for your rooms to vent into while still allowing oxygen from that tank to flow back into the main network.

Have a play around with the sorting block, see if you can replicate what I described. If I am correct then there's probably a way to improve our existing oxygen systems with it.
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