Will it work (Killing germs using heat)

[Owlie]

So I kinda made my entire colony sick, for recycling polluted water, so I'm thinking of running it to water heater first, but I'm kind of asking if doing this will kill all germs that passes trough it.

[ohener]

make sure you use the germs info tab when something is infected to figure out how to combat it. Food poisoning dies off if heated up to 75 degrees C which can be done with the liquid tepidizer. slimelung in water can only be killed off completely by boiling it or freezing it, so it's a good idea to store the runoff from your slime refineries in a seperate cistern until you are ready to deal with it.

Also, make sure you refrigerate your food, food poisoning germs muliply like crazy on unrefrigerated food items.

[Owlie]

Originally posted by ohener:

make sure you use the germs info tab when something is infected to figure out how to combat it. Food poisoning dies off if heated up to 75 degrees C which can be done with the liquid tepidizer. slimelung in water can only be killed off completely by boiling it or freezing it, so it's a good idea to store the runoff from your slime refineries in a seperate cistern until you are ready to deal with it.

Also, make sure you refrigerate your food, food poisoning germs muliply like crazy on unrefrigerated food items.

thanks for the tips, looks like imma have to start boiling water

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by ohener:

slimelung in water can only be killed off completely by boiling it or freezing it, so it's a good idea to store the runoff from your slime refineries in a seperate cistern until you are ready to deal with it.

You don't have to actually freeze water to kill Slimelung. It starts dying off at about 68 F.

Originally posted by ohener:

Also, make sure you refrigerate your food, food poisoning germs muliply like crazy on unrefrigerated food items.

Actually, the use of the "sterile environment" attirbute of non-Oxygen gases is more effective. While refrigerated, food still decays, just slower. Building a food storage area filled with CO2, for example, will allow your food to be stored indefinitely. Additionally, germs will die off on most substances when they are immersed in non-Oxygen gases. Bonus points if it's Chlorine, which kills germs all by itself.

[AquaX]

For food, just store it in chlorine fields. It will prevent decay and kill all germs stuck on it. For germs inside water, depends on which germs. Slimelung slowly dies in water while food poisoning multiples. I think you can clean the water so to speak by putting in a bottle and running it through an ore scrubber.

[Flydo]

Slimelung dies in oxygen (not polluted), try it. Just pump pure oxygen into a place invade by slimelung and you will see it rapidly dies

[ulzgoroth]

In my game I've got spots where a frozen biome has chilled neighboring slime fields enough to wipe out the slimelung germs...

[milkman_of_human_kindness2003]

Just to chime in here, I accidentally had someone "relieve themselves" into my pool of drinking water. In addition to this, the water purifier doesn't seem to kill germs so I was pumping "clean" water from my polluted water pool into my drinking water. Needless to say, Food Poisoning was growing quickly. I put in the thing that heats up the water, can't think of it now, with a temp switch and turned it all the way up. Killed those germs off quite nicely actually. Then the problem was what to do with a vat of heated water warming my base up?

[Jake Park]

Heres a tip... but liquid cooler and heater AWAY from each other they make everything break

[Bellringer]

Originally posted by milkman_of_human_kindness2003:

Then the problem was what to do with a vat of heated water warming my base up?

If it's not a huge reservior the simple low tech way would be to plant a couple wheezewort on airflow tiles above it, it'll take a couple cycles but it'll cool down. If you have plenty of power you could go with an aquatuner setup. Boil/sterilize some germ filled polluted water by immersing the aquatuner in it while cooling your main water supply.

Some folks pipe it through an ice biome for a bit, just need to make sure you don't freeze it and burst the pipes.... bit of a band-aid solution in the long run though since you'll heat and possibly melt the ice biome if you do it too much over time.