Lack of Ice

[Yousek]

I got big water consumption due the size of the ship but i can't get enough ice to melt it. 3k ice remains like 5min. There's a better way to get water in space?

[GAMING_Alligator]

Messaggio originale di Hurkyl:

Messaggio originale di GAMING_Alligator:

Nauvis orbit is a pain for these. Your best bet is to buffer a bit of fuel, then set out for somewhere else for a "shakedown cruise" and wait there to fill up your tanks. By the time you come back, you'll have full belts of ice.

I'm contemplating the merit of creating a small stockpile of asteroid chunks on Nauvis, just so they can be sent up to newly created platforms to accelerate the initial launch. Or, I suppose, the processed resources.

Like the poster above, I usually include a single assembler on my platforms that can unbarel water that I send up from the surface to accelerate startup (an yeah, jeet the empty barels over the side, which is somewhat cathartic to do).

Haven't thought about stockpiling actual asteroids, but sure that seems like something that could be fun to try too. Only issue I can see is that for nuclear (if/when you decide to use it), you need to get that initial kick of power, and you'd need a lot more non-nuclear power (read: solar panels, which take up more space) to get asteroid processing online for it, vs. simply pumping a ready-made water delivery straight into the steam generators.

[Ghevd]

There is a tech that helps you convert one asteroid type to the other. Personally I make all my asteroid collectors specialize in one particular type and I use belts for storing surplus since their stack size is only 1.