Early farm cooling?

[Hardcore]

Hey. Playing Arido on hard diff settings and its kicking my ass. My farm burns up very fast. Cooling oxy ca 30c down to ca 20C and using radiant pipes is not very effective. Is pumping cold water through pipes, better? Have insulated the space. Or is there an better way? Ice maker/fan seems very ineffective too. Oassise was a piece of cake in comparison.

[Hedning]

You should always insulate that which needs a different temperature.

What are you farming? Dusk caps are perfectly fine at 30°.

For cooling get 200 plastic for a steam turbine and place an aquatuner below it in some water.

[Hardcore]

Mealwood. At cycle 20 they are toast. Plastic and Steam is not early game. Not for me at least :P

[Hardcore]

But I guess I could do a better job of insulating the place.

[Defektiv]

If you can deal with the heat from the ice maker and the dupe labor to run the fan, the ice-e fan is pretty effective and you get water back.

[Hardcore]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

If you can deal with the heat from the ice maker and the dupe labor to run the fan, the ice-e fan is pretty effective and you get water back.

Yeah, but it seems like a lot of manual labor. Piping cold air runs itself.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by Hardcore:

Mealwood. At cycle 20 they are toast. Plastic and Steam is not early game. Not for me at least :P

You should get some mushrooms then. You only need 2 skill points to dig through abyssalite. Get half of your dupes this skill and start exploring. Exploration is one of the main things early game and the sooner you get that oil the better. There's nothing but rock in between you and the oil. Maybe you'll also find a slush geyser.

You could also start ranching. If none of your dupes are skilled there's now a skill scrubber that lets you reset them but keep the skill points. Ranching isn't an instant fix though.

Insulation and some ice tempshift plates is the quickest fix.

[Hardcore]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Originally posted by Hardcore:

Mealwood. At cycle 20 they are toast. Plastic and Steam is not early game. Not for me at least :P

You should get some mushrooms then. You only need 2 skill points to dig through abyssalite. Get half of your dupes this skill and start exploring. Exploration is one of the main things early game and the sooner you get that oil the better. There's nothing but rock in between you and the oil. Maybe you'll also find a slush geyser.

You could also start ranching. If none of your dupes are skilled there's now a skill scrubber that lets you reset them but keep the skill points. Ranching isn't an instant fix though.

Insulation and some ice tempshift plates is the quickest fix.

"Insulation and some ice tempshift plates" ok, I'll try it. Thanks. Rofl, slush geyser would be the holy grail at this point

[Romeo Deluxe]

I saw a video with some different metal & heat spreading experiments. Gold and Gold Amalgam did really well so I use gold tempshift plates. Then an IceEFan or two and Ice Maker.

I'm on my first major colony still so don't know what your asteroid is like. It's a verdante(?) swampy one. Probably some ranching and fish tank is the way to go on yours to start.

[L37]

Honestly - i just used mush fry-s untill i could get waterweed seeds. Mushrooms were added later, as 35C limit was still problematic.
Felt like i will spend much more time and resources messing with ice makers and such, than if i just accept the penalty from using mush fry and explore as fast as possible, searching for options. Waterweed with its 65C limit moved question of cooling into late game for me, after all 30-40C are perfectly fine for everything as long as food works.
Also is it quite interesting playing this way. Once you stop worrying about temperatures entirely it frees a lot of time resources for other tasks.