greenhouse?

[QuadRonious]

is it possible to make a glass house or maybe a glass roof for a temperate zone?

[ZugZug]

You can make a greenhouse-ish building with a sunlamp and regular soil flooring. As for actual glass roofs and such.. Don't think so unless there's a mod for it

[Granite]

Use a sunlamp to grow inside; very good idea about the greenhouse however )

[Crimsony]

Originally posted by QuadRonious:

is it possible to make a glass house or maybe a glass roof for a temperate zone?

Step one build some sort of wall the matrial of the wall does not matter
Step two build sun lamps in the middle of your crops/farm
Step three build heaters and coolers so when it becomes cold or hot you can just switch the temperature to the right amount so that your crops dont die or stop growing because they're in the wround temperature.
Step four congratulate yourself because you successfully built a functial green house.
if game updates or mod comes out for glass and glass walls and such then just build walls out of glass and roof if glass roof exsist.

Hope I helped

[Eisenfell]

Originally posted by QuadRonious:

is it possible to make a glass house or maybe a glass roof for a temperate zone?

No , However~

-Build Sunlamp
-Hook it up to a Minimum of 2 solar Generators (own grid not the main grid) (they have to work at 50% which they will do 90% of the time to power the light add a 3rd generator if you got a wonky weathered map)
-Wall Sphere of Influence in.
-Smack a heater in the room (if in zones where it drops below 10°C) connected to main Power Grid.

Sun goes up , Sunlamp is Powered, Plants are Growing
Sun goes down, Sunlamp is off , plants are resting (which they do regardless of light between hour 22-06 every day)


Working Greenhouse without sucking 1600 watts for 12 hours out of your colony without any reason.

[QuadRonious]

ok but i have acold map where warmest avg is -10 and coldest is -120. no trees andsupply. i have a base set up but cant seem to get food set up

[JohnnyTheBoy]

On the cold maps you'll prolly have to get hydroponics since farmable soil is in a short supply, unless you are using mods that is.
Getting enough power is going to be your biggest issue, so make sure to do double thick walls and air locks in vital places so you can minimize the energy needed to heat up your base.

[Malthusians]

And use geothermal vents to ease the heating burden a bit, and multiple heaters, and campfires in an emergency, hopefully you've got the wood. Even if it's scarce, sometimes it's a choice between using scarce wood and losing a whole greenhouse...