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How to stop food rotting during solar flare?
I have a wind turbine and solar panle they ar econnected to 3 batteries that are inside. There was a solar flare, my refrigiration room went from -12 to +50 degrees and my food rotted rapidly. What can I do to stop this from happening again.
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Publicado originalmente por Cactuskiller:
Just keep enough batteries aorund and you will be fine during a Solar Flare. Everytime i get one, I just make sure that my Freezer room is filled with stuff, then I trun off EVERY other power consuming thing in the colony (also lights and heaters)


Publicado originalmente por AlexMBrennan:
Just keep enough batteries aorund and you will be fine during a Solar Flare
Great plan, except for the tiny detail that solar flares knock out *all* electronics.

Yep, pretty sure my batteries just stopped even though all thre were half full. Plus the solar flare lasted days
Brassqund 16 ENE 2017 a las 10:34 
1. Got multiple layers of walls for your freezer
2. Keep your freezer cold enough. If you keep it at -1 C, it will work, yes,
but the room will heat up above the "refrigered" temperature pretty quickly on
solar flare.
3. Use multiple doors and reduce how often people go in.
For example, if you got plenty of meal, stop your cook to cook.
Each time someone open the door, you heatup the room.
4. Keep your kitchen and rooms linked with your freezer cold enough help.

Passive cooler can't reduce temperature below 15C which is not enough
to to give any bonus on food conservation buuuut, having some in the
kitchen will help to keep it cold enough to reduce how the freezer
heat up when people open doors.
(if the freezer door lead to a 100C room, it will heatup more vs a room at 15C)
Última edición por Brassqund; 16 ENE 2017 a las 10:35
BoogieMan 16 ENE 2017 a las 11:39 
It sucks that they basically instakill your hydroponics in a such a silly short amount of time.

The best way to deal with it is to have as little raw food as possible. Generally, anything that is prepared will last through it alright.
Cactuskiller 16 ENE 2017 a las 13:54 
Publicado originalmente por THE BLiCK PRiNCE:
Publicado originalmente por Cactuskiller:
Just keep enough batteries aorund and you will be fine during a Solar Flare. Everytime i get one, I just make sure that my Freezer room is filled with stuff, then I trun off EVERY other power consuming thing in the colony (also lights and heaters)


Publicado originalmente por AlexMBrennan:
Great plan, except for the tiny detail that solar flares knock out *all* electronics.

Yep, pretty sure my batteries just stopped even though all thre were half full. Plus the solar flare lasted days
Woops, though we were at Eclipse, not flare O.o my bad ^^
Publicado originalmente por Cactuskiller:
Publicado originalmente por THE BLiCK PRiNCE:




Yep, pretty sure my batteries just stopped even though all thre were half full. Plus the solar flare lasted days
Woops, though we were at Eclipse, not flare O.o my bad ^^

lol, no worries.

Does anyone know if the thickness of roof makes a difference? Like if burrowing into a mountain stops any of the solar flare?
DreadZep 16 ENE 2017 a las 14:15 
have a steady supply chain as opposed to burst production style

another alternative is to have them under a roof but exposed to outside freezing temps....but actually im not sure if they will spoil like that or not

nothing u can do about solar flares, but they only last a short amount of time so shouldnt be too dramatic
Última edición por DreadZep; 16 ENE 2017 a las 14:18
BoogieMan 16 ENE 2017 a las 14:32 
Publicado originalmente por THE BLiCK PRiNCE:
Publicado originalmente por Cactuskiller:
Woops, though we were at Eclipse, not flare O.o my bad ^^

lol, no worries.

Does anyone know if the thickness of roof makes a difference? Like if burrowing into a mountain stops any of the solar flare?

Nope, nothing can be done to avoid the effects of a solar flare.. other than not using any power at all, of course.
Publicado originalmente por BoogieMan:
Publicado originalmente por THE BLiCK PRiNCE:

lol, no worries.

Does anyone know if the thickness of roof makes a difference? Like if burrowing into a mountain stops any of the solar flare?

Nope, nothing can be done to avoid the effects of a solar flare.. other than not using any power at all, of course.

Ok, making that Pecimain stuff some other poster mentioned is probably my best option. Will stock pile it in a safe room then lock that room off until it's needed.
Brassqund 16 ENE 2017 a las 14:54 
In the medieval time mod, there is the ice box which can reduce the temperature
below 0 (you need to have enough of them).You need ice to make it work (logic)
which can be haverest/buy/crafted.

But, this mod also add a lot of other things like weapons, armors, buildable...
and medieval factions. And I don't know if you would like that.
Those factions are not like the vanilla one. You are not getting a couple
of half naked guy... but an army of people with steel armors and helmet.
Most of them are melee so you get swarmed pretty quickly if you are
not ready for that. (and those damn medieval grenades are damn annoying :p)
MightyFox 16 ENE 2017 a las 14:57 
Solar Flares should only be a problem for food if you're relying on hydroponics. That said, I feel the hydroponic plants die faaaaarrr too quickly. All other sources of food may suffer a little spoilage, but shouldn't begin to rot unless they were already close to that mark to begin with.

Try creating a food economy that doesn't rely upon frozen/refigeration, and you'll discover that fridges arn't as important as people think. (Though, it would help if there were more options for preservation, like jerky, and preserves)
josiphine 23 ENE 2017 a las 20:23 
Publicado originalmente por AlexMBrennan:
Just keep enough batteries aorund and you will be fine during a Solar Flare
Great plan, except for the tiny detail that solar flares knock out *all* electronics.

Yeah, are you playing another game or different version? The coolers stop working immediately.

My double walled mountain freezer has gone from -10 to +8 degrees Celcius in just 4 hours. My nearly 1000 pieces of muffalo meat (that I barely saved during an extreme heat wave) is going to go bad very soon.

I came to the discusion boards hoping to save my meat...only to find my goose is cooked.
Mytheos 24 ENE 2017 a las 3:45 
Publicado originalmente por josiphine:
Publicado originalmente por AlexMBrennan:
Great plan, except for the tiny detail that solar flares knock out *all* electronics.

Yeah, are you playing another game or different version? The coolers stop working immediately.

My double walled mountain freezer has gone from -10 to +8 degrees Celcius in just 4 hours. My nearly 1000 pieces of muffalo meat (that I barely saved during an extreme heat wave) is going to go bad very soon.

I came to the discusion boards hoping to save my meat...only to find my goose is cooked.


The solar flare wont last long enough to destroy your meat so long as it wasnt rotting in less than a day.
BoogieMan 24 ENE 2017 a las 5:21 
Publicado originalmente por josiphine:
Publicado originalmente por AlexMBrennan:
Great plan, except for the tiny detail that solar flares knock out *all* electronics.

Yeah, are you playing another game or different version? The coolers stop working immediately.

My double walled mountain freezer has gone from -10 to +8 degrees Celcius in just 4 hours. My nearly 1000 pieces of muffalo meat (that I barely saved during an extreme heat wave) is going to go bad very soon.

I came to the discusion boards hoping to save my meat...only to find my goose is cooked.

Hmm.. Maybe having a separate compartment just for the meat within the freezer, also behind a double door airlock would help? And perhaps locking all the doors the moment a flare hits so no one can enter the freezer (and let some of the cooled air out) at all will help the temperature stay lower enough to provide refrigeration.

I'll try this in the future..
MuchMucho 24 ENE 2017 a las 5:38 
I have all my veggies in a barn like rice and potatoes some of them take like a year to spoil uncooled, and since you can turn them into simple meals too I cant really c the problem just stock up on those or have indoor food planters
Nemund 24 ENE 2017 a las 5:52 
My advice, use the solar flare protection mod which allows you to build a structure to negate solar flares. It has large power draw and if indoors causes serious heat issues as well, so comes with some significant things to balance.
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