Tropical Rainforest Trouble

[AllmightyBrandon]

So I'm having trouble keeping my food refrigerated. I started with a 12x10 wood building and it hardly keeps anything frozen with outside temperatures above 30C. I heard that stone walls insulate better so i built a new freezer in a cave with the thinnest wall being 3 thick, still wouldn't do it. I added a second cooler and still no dice. Help?

Notably the weather stays hot and my people end up hanging out in my freezers during heat waves. It's my first time playing this zone and malaria is no joke. Any help appreciated.

[LordRick]

You need more air conditioners. In a room 11x11 it takes 4 air conditioners to keep it frozen if the temperature gets above 45C outside. I keep my temp at -9C.

[Grimelord82]

Good luck with that. I don't know about materials, but double wall is superior to single for insulation for sure. AC units MUST have an open space to dump heat into.

Dusters and Cowboy hats are the default hot weather equipment. Medieval Times has Tabards which stack with those. Use Alpaca or Camel wool for these items when you can.
Fashion Rim"something" has some desert clothing, but I haven't tried it.

Get a comms console and some penoxycyline ASAP for malaria and plague, since it could wipe you out. One dose of that will generally put someone in the safe zone even with very little bed rest. If you have the Vegetable Garden mod, grow Aloe and harvest berries to make Antibiotics.

[Lawlzer]

Personally, I find tropical rainforest to be harder than sea ice. No joke, LOL.
Malaria on tropical rwinforest is super common, I'd reccomend doing a different place, and it gets really hot there, so you need an insane amount of freezers. I like tge light green area (forgot name), I rarely get any diseases, no impossible amounts of diseases if I do get them, the temperature is perfect, etc.

[AllmightyBrandon]

It's been a rough map. I started with the three crash survivors and I'm up to 5, but the 5th guy is worthless(just an artist with no dumb or smart labor!) and my doctor/researcher caught malaria. I was able to reload and keep him from dying after I looked up ways to boost immunity, didn't have drugs researched, go figure. I didn't have him in a medical bed due to room shortages, doh!

I'll try the 4 coolers thing, I was about to research passive coolers, but I don't believe they are terribly effective? Not sure. Thanks for the tips. My colony is running on empty as far as it goes because it's stretched a little thin.

[Grimelord82]

Passive coolers will still help take a room temp down and don't need an outlet. Wood usage is high though, so uninstall them if you don't need them. That's a good idea we forgot to mention.

[Ele]

You might want to reduce the size of your freezer room for now. With only 5 colonists, you shouldn't need such a big space. And I'd definitely research the passive coolers--they aren't great, but they are very easy to build and should at least keep your people cool enough so they aren't getting heatstroke.

[Super Arthritis ⁧⁧ ⁧⁧Man]

Why is your freezer so big?
On my colony with 8 people, I still manage with a 5x5 one.
You do know you can make stockpiles that are only food right?

[Mytheos]

@OP

Try a smaller freezer and more AC.

I'm playing on a desert currently, and I am using a 11x11 sized room split into halves...one for the freezer, one for the kitchen.

It takes 2 AC to maintain the temp, and during heat waves and 135 F temps, I have a 3rd one installed that I flip on...

[AllmightyBrandon]

Yeah I suppose I could block off half the room for later, I was trying to build ahead and I'm used to playing on maps with short growing seasons. I did have a bit of trouble early on since my colonists mostly just had sleeping spots on my stockpiling room and production room. They finally have some apartments. I think at worst the heat wave got up to 53c, though my indoor temp was manageable.

Next issue I have is I caught a prisoner with great skills, but a 98% conversion resistance, normally I would execute or release them, but I need good manpower right now. Plus it gives me a way to level my socials.

If I could get some crops in regularly maybe I can knock out some cooling clothing.
Great suggestions.

[Harry_Robinson1]

More coolers, and 2 wide walls.

[CellNav]

Why do you guys have only ONE freezer? ... More "refrigeration" units to lessen the inherent problem of humans opening and closing the door ever two seconds. Also, food managment helps as well. Backup your freezers with batteries.

Refrigerator ... large storage that keeps the temp above freezing (40-50F). Use it to store meals and vegetables (short term eat-now rule).
Veggie Freezer ... Only vegetables.
Meat Locker ... Only meat.

Use the "bills" to create ... (1) simple "veggie" meals (2) fine "meat/veggie" meals. Store the meals in different "freezers" and use the "forbidden" toggle to micromanage food taken from the "refrigerator" or the "freezer" (more forbidden from the freezer).

And lastly ... have only one cook and grow lots of berries ... :p

EDIT ... What we need is a piece of furniture about 2x2 that is actually our refrigerator, like an "equpment rack" type of deal, for now, make a 5x5 frig with smaller 2x2 "freezers".

[Mytheos]

CellNav eredeti hozzászólása:

Why do you guys have only ONE freezer? ... More "refrigeration" units to lessen the inherent problem of humans opening and closing the door ever two seconds. Also, food managment helps as well. Backup your freezers with batteries.

Refrigerator ... large storage that keeps the temp above freezing (40-50F). Use it to store meals and vegetables (short term eat-now rule).
Veggie Freezer ... Only vegetables.
Meat Locker ... Only meat.

Use the "bills" to create ... (1) simple "veggie" meals (2) fine "meat/veggie" meals. Store the meals in different "freezers" and use the "forbidden" toggle to micromanage food taken from the "refrigerator" or the "freezer" (more forbidden from the freezer).

And lastly ... have only one cook and grow lots of berries ... :p

EDIT ... What we need is a piece of furniture about 2x2 that is actually our refrigerator, like an "equpment rack" type of deal, for now, make a 5x5 frig with smaller 2x2 "freezers".

You really only need 1 well designed freezer, unless you really need to store multiple years worth of food.

Your whole base should have backup batteries on a switch...

Meat is the main thing you need frozen, rice and potatoes can last years with just a roof...and if food lasting 2 years isnt enough, you have too much food in storage, lol.

Just dont see any practical advantage in separating it out and using a bunch more space and power.

[Yaldabaoth]

CellNav eredeti hozzászólása:

EDIT ... What we need is a piece of furniture about 2x2 that is actually our refrigerator, like an "equpment rack" type of deal, for now, make a 5x5 frig with smaller 2x2 "freezers".

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=780996548