Max Gas Pressure

[StevoP80]

Unless I constantly expand my base, and tap into any vacuum areas I can find, I run into issues where my electrolyzers will not run because the ambient gas pressure in the base is at max.

Are the hydrogen generators the only way to consume a gas in game? With algae farms producing O2 from a non gas source, and electrolyzers generating O2 and H from a non gas source, only having a hydrogen generator as a gas consumer presents problems.

Is freezing gases into solids a possible solution to this? Are there any other options for dealing with max gas pressure?

[Zuluknob]

Thhere was a void tile i found once inside the roid and that let the gas escape into the void. Other than that as you say, freeze the gas into the ice biome so it has a good chance of staying frozen.

[StevoP80]

Originally posted by Zuluknob:

Thhere was a void tile i found once inside the roid and that let the gas escape into the void. Other than that as you say, freeze the gas into the ice biome so it has a good chance of staying frozen.

I've never seen a void area. Are these still in the game?

[Pvt.Pancake]

That's where the CO2 scrubber coming in.

[Nina]

CO2 scrubbers are your friend. they will turn that CO2 into O2.

[StevoP80]

I get that. I am still curious if there are other methods of consuming gas. We can create it from non gas substances. We can convert one type to another. But, with exception to the hydrogen generator, I am not aware of any other methods to consume a gas. If this is the case, there will always be a max gas pressure issue.

[Kellis]

One thing to remember is that a Dupe exhales a lot less carbon dioxide than they inhale oxygen...not near my PC, at the moment, but I want to say it's something like only 1/20th the volume?

[Hexxus]

Originally posted by StevoP80:

I get that. I am still curious if there are other methods of consuming gas. We can create it from non gas substances. We can convert one type to another. But, with exception to the hydrogen generator, I am not aware of any other methods to consume a gas. If this is the case, there will always be a max gas pressure issue.

The only things that delete gas from the air are: hydrogen generators (turns hydrogen into power), scrubbers (removes carbon dioxide and turns it into polluted water, however DOES NOT replace it with oxygen) and freezing temperatures which turns gas into liquids and solids.

If you are wondering if you will have to continually increase your base size, then the answer is simply no.

If you have a single hydrogen generator deleting the hydrogen that is created by your electrolyzers, and a few scrubbers cleaning the carbon dioxide: then all that will be left in your base (ideally) is clean oxygen. At that point, who cares if your pressure maxes out? You will be maxed out with oxygen, so no dupes will die. They electrolyzers will just pause their production until gas levels go down, and then they will resume production.

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Cheers!

[CoolNitro]

I am guessing you are trying to run completely on hydrogen generators which is why you need to dump your air but if that is the case you are looking at hydrogen generators as a powersource that it was not intended to be or at least in the current build impossible to sustain.

The power generated I doubt is enough to counter act the byproduct in your case of too much O2, even if you went to the extremes of
A: hollowing out the entire map, you would eventually hit pressure limits.
B: Maxing consumption of O2 via dups and removing CO2 with scrubbers, power requirements would be the issue.
C: liquifying O2, again power requirements.

It's simply not viable to use hydrogen as a stable powersource currently if that's what your main issue is.

[Cryten]

Frankly you should be glad that you are reaching max pressure because that means you only consume power in making enough oxygen that your dupes need and no more. If you need more power just recruit a new duplicant for the hamster wheels, its free energy and you can keep dupes fed on berries and water (fresh water->polluted water->fertiliser).