Snow and Ice usuage?

[Woof]

What to do with this in-game. Should i wait and melt it first or will dupes use it as normal water in machines or is there a way to turn it into water after mining it?

[vindicar]

I do believe those melt inside storage compacters, too, if it's warm enough.
So you can mine those, designate a priority-9 storage for ice/snow only, and then watch a puddle appear underneath. It's a good way to saturate water farms without setting up a pipe system.

[Woof]

Oh Nice, Thanks for the Info!

[AquaX]

U can use it to melt a puddle around machines that overheat to keep it cool.

[SakuraKoi]

Originally posted by vindicar:

I do believe those melt inside storage compacters, too, if it's warm enough.

Rather, if you have enough time... took like 50 cycles to melt 2t @ ~13°C for me, first it was on "room temperature" or rather slightly above, maybe 25°C to 30°C rather for long and then next to a steam geyser.

I placed it outside thou' and at relatively abnormal atmospheric pressure, rather than 1,8kg of oxygen my base has been flooded for long with 2,5 to 3,5kg of polluted oxygen per tile, Incidentally, the air did not really cool either.

[Baelorack]

I have ice sitting in warm water. The ice is -26 degrees. The water is 46 degrees. It's been like this for multiple cycles already.

What is heat exchange????????????????

[Baelorack]

Also, tryhing to heat ice with heaters is pretty much impossible. They shut off below 40 degrees somewhere. And the ice just doesn't melt.

Given this is an alpha, the heat interchange definitely needs more work! I don't care how cold something is - it will start to melt when heated, surely?

[AquaX]

Yes and the reverse should occur also but I would guess this update is like 20-40 pct functional.

[bluemoon2323]

I got a warm water tank fueled by a pipe connected to a geyser. I made a little mid-way platform between the pipe's end and the tank, sothat the platform is constantly immerged in some warm water at 35°C but accessible for duplicants. On this platform i made a container that i filled with ice and snow (and not polluted ice of course) and i dropped the items on the flooded floor.

Big mistake: the perfectly normal "ice" and "snow" became polluted water ^^', but at least it melted well at 35°

So...i suppose that "snow" contains polluted oxygen too, or maybe "ice" contains both polluted and normal water regardless of the name.

[New Fish]

seems that only polluted ice melts naturally because its a pain in the arse. I load the ice/snow into storage containers over my clean water tank and then dump it into tank ... take forever to melt but an extra 20,000 kilos of very cold water every 30 cycles is nice to have.

[TimeWastingEnjoyer]

I use it for magic.

[Hexxus]

What I use to do, before I built a hydrogen water cooling system, was store a full container with ice. It's very easy to stack 30,000kg of ice. The container would be over my water collection pool. I then dis-allow that particular container to contain ice/snow. The container would then expel the ice/snow into the pool. It would take 30 or so cycles, but it would give you 30,000kg clean water.

Again, a proper hydrogen water cooling system is much quicker, but this was extremely helpful between cycle 150 and 250 (when water was mainly coming from hot geysers).