making earth airtight

[Nevasith]

Is there a plan to make earth (soil) airtight? That would be really spectacular to be able to just drill a base in a rock and pressurise it without building walls and just airlock entrance.

[piddlefoot]

Not that I know of, but I dont think its a bad idea, probably just got bigger things to do for a while yet before little things like this.

[Nevasith]

Originally posted by piddlefoot:

Not that I know of, but I dont think its a bad idea, probably just got bigger things to do for a while yet before little things like this.

Obviously it would be a big thing to develop (get an efficient way to check for "air-tightness") but would be really spectacular for underground bases or to establish a makeshift outposts in natural caves once those are in place.

[BlazeD]

Earth isn't airtight IRL. You gotta coat it with something to seal it. Maybe a coating can be applied with the texture gun to seal dirt....

[Sinsling]

Originally posted by BlazeD:

Earth isn't airtight IRL. You gotta coat it with something to seal it. Maybe a coating can be applied with the texture gun to seal dirt....

While it wouldn't be truly "airtight", dirt can provide a barrier against temperature at the very least. Perhaps even allow a dirt hovel with a ventilator to remove radiation.

[Nevasith]

Originally posted by BlazeD:

Earth isn't airtight IRL. You gotta coat it with something to seal it. Maybe a coating can be applied with the texture gun to seal dirt....

Not dirt, but soil. Dense material we can build structures on in the game. Also, sufficient layer of soil will be airtight - else people burried alive wouldn't suffocate but starve/dehydrate to death ;)

Jokes aside, it's easier to just make earth airtight than to make programical difference based on weather it's rock or soil.

[Cybes]

Originally posted by Nevasith:

Also, sufficient layer of soil will be airtight - else people burried alive wouldn't suffocate but starve/dehydrate to death ;)

There's a difference between 'airtight' and 'insufficiently leaky'. ;p Humans just need more air (oxygen) faster than can permeat through the soil.

*Rock* would be airtight assuming it was devoid of fractures... Kinda depends on the timescale you're using, though - even steel is leaky over astronomical periods.

[Sinsling]

Ironically we know for a fact concrete IS NOT "airtight". Biosphere anyone?

[gerosaxt]

Make airtight playermade soil/rock blocks.

Want my own asteroid

[ravien_ff]

The tech is already in to make airtight voxels, at least in space. Playing around with making custom POIs and I found out asteroids are airtight when spawned as an alien base.

[piddlefoot]

Solid rock blocks, erm, like concrete you mean !

Solid, airtight, paintable, textureable, flat and easy to move around on, can have doors attached to it and all other devices, concrete pretty much fits that mould in this game, and you can lay whole lines of blocks into the ground so you can create sealed rooms that appear to have rock walls not concrete, thats behind teh rock, I have many bases like this in orbits, also you can, if you have lots of time, use the filler on multitool and fill rock back in to cover concrete walls.

[Sinsling]

Originally posted by piddlefoot:

Solid rock blocks, erm, like concrete you mean !

Solid, airtight, paintable, textureable, flat and easy to move around on, can have doors attached to it and all other devices, concrete pretty much fits that mould in this game, and you can lay whole lines of blocks into the ground so you can create sealed rooms that appear to have rock walls not concrete, thats behind teh rock, I have many bases like this in orbits, also you can, if you have lots of time, use the filler on multitool and fill rock back in to cover concrete walls.

The filler rock color can be gawd awful sometimes.

And:

Originally posted by Sinsling:

Ironically we know for a fact concrete IS NOT "airtight". Biosphere anyone?