ore scrubber

[Zawedcvg]

So i set up like 2 ore scrubbers and two hand sanitizers9or watever they are called) for entering into the slime biome. Even after slime is processed twice, The amount of germs is like 2 million. Is this normal?(and yes i am supplying chlorine)

[reprodukTOOOOOOOOOOOR]

Simply store slime in chlorine room, till germs are gonne, you dont even need scrubbers

[Zawedcvg]

What if i simply supply them to mushroom instead?

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by Martin Papp:

Simply store slime in chlorine room, till germs are gonne, you dont even need scrubbers

The chlorine storage room works great, but how do you route *only* the material from the slime biome to it, and *all* of the material from the slime biome going there?

Priorities do not seem to be enough. I am sure people have figured out a way by now.

For example:

- I must have the refrigerators used for duplicants food set to a higher priority (so that they have food available) than the biome local chlorine room. The result is that dupes bypass the chlorine room to go to the eating storage room.

- I also like to have storage near where it was picked up (to minimize travel, keep it at the same temperature as it was, and to decontaminate with chlorine rooms). Intuitively, having multiple storage units for each item at the right locations, all with the same priority, should do the trick and deliver items to the nearest storage that accept them. But no, I saw a dupe walk right past the chlorine room with a contaminated item to go deposit it on the other end of the base into a storage unit that already had some of those items. Good thing I noticed and gave an immediate decontamination order.

[Zawedcvg]

Why not for something like slime, have only one area designated to it

[dabba]

I set up a chlorine room very close to wear i am going to excavate slime, and I put two storage boxes in. One I set up for Slime and slime only, at a very high priority. The second one I set up as pretty much everything else that might come out, algae, granite, etc, sweep only, high priority. I then make sure only 2 of my dupes have permission to pass through the door into the slime area.

[Shrike Valeo]

To OP -
I had the same kinda issue. Realised why. The ore scrubber only removes 480k germs from a carried item.
If you mine something that has less its ok, but your dupe may pick up more of the same item, and the germs stack additively so you can end up with millions that just dont get removed.

the scrubber is pretty grim with that in mind, which is a shame considering the required chlorine feed, im sure most would agree - ideally we need a tweak to force dupes to use it until all germs are gone, and/or stop people taking contaminated items past a point.

My workaround is build a chlorine decontamination room with a water lock, block access, coat the floor of a slime biome with sweepers and go full ham. works well.

Another suggestion is to build a specific Priority 9 slime storage either in a chlorine room or under water and mine away. dupes will immediately take slime there, however youll need a sink by the storage or dupes will spread the slimelung they get on them, and the travel distance is pretty mad.

Hope it helps

[Defektiv]

Best thing you can do is to mine out all the slime and have it stored in a container underwater. I drop a container for it in my polluted water supply and set it at P6 so they don't waste time moving it. Exposed slime spreads germs but if you mine all of it that is exposed and seal it underwater until you're ready to deal with it then the germs will naturally start fading away on their own.

[reprodukTOOOOOOOOOOOR]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Originally posted by Martin Papp:

Simply store slime in chlorine room, till germs are gonne, you dont even need scrubbers

The chlorine storage room works great, but how do you route *only* the material from the slime biome to it, and *all* of the material from the slime biome going there?

Priorities do not seem to be enough. I am sure people have figured out a way by now.

For example:

- I must have the refrigerators used for duplicants food set to a higher priority (so that they have food available) than the biome local chlorine room. The result is that dupes bypass the chlorine room to go to the eating storage room.

- I also like to have storage near where it was picked up (to minimize travel, keep it at the same temperature as it was, and to decontaminate with chlorine rooms). Intuitively, having multiple storage units for each item at the right locations, all with the same priority, should do the trick and deliver items to the nearest storage that accept them. But no, I saw a dupe walk right past the chlorine room with a contaminated item to go deposit it on the other end of the base into a storage unit that already had some of those items. Good thing I noticed and gave an immediate decontamination order.

Dont know about you, but firstly I have my starting biome isolated, if I go to dig into slime, I have one exit from base directly to slime biome, so it doesnt interfere with other routes out, second if you have chlorine room, build storage and tick only slime, untick slime from other containers and set high priority for that containers,,, ta da dupes will now store slime into containers in chlorine room,later you can lock the room and use germ sensors, if you dont want to check for germs manualy

[Battleseed]

No longer use the ore scrubbers. Water locked chlorine room works much more effective. Room doesn't have to be big but should have only chlorine and be above 1500g so the slime can't off gas. Place high priority bin(s) inside the room and your set. Hand Sanitizer or sink outside the room would be a good idea as well. Change the priority of the bin(s) to have stuff moved in or out of the room.

[The Tempted Man]

Also keep in mind that chlorine isn't exactly Sonic. The process of de-germing takes ages, so be patient.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Also keep in mind that chlorine isn't exactly Sonic. The process of de-germing takes ages, so be patient.

1 cycle or less = ages? Sure thing. I'm sure the chicks dig that sort of thinking~

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by Smart&wOrkinG@GOoGlE:

Why not for something like slime, have only one area designated to it

For slime I do, and it all goes into the chlorine room. That is not a big deal.

But what about the other stuff you find in a slime biome that you also find elsewhere? The ones from the slime biome can have slime lung, the others no.

[zOldBulldog]

Thanks everyone for the ideas. I ended up doing something very similar, with the chlorine room being the only way into slime infested areas.

The pass-through corridor is above with clean oxygen and the room is below (entered from top via ladder) , and kept at the right level of chlorine with a minimum of automation. And of course, high priority.

[Romeo Deluxe]

No one mentioned the best weapon against slime: Deoderizers. Cheap and low maintenance. Eventually you will need clay. Lots of clay. Then you go through tons & tons of ceramics and soon are digging in slime looking for clay, sticking deoderizers all over the asteroid to get every little piece of clay you can possibly produce.

[ByTheNumbers]

I generally stick slime underwater initially until I set up a way to kill off the germs. I've taken a liking to using temperature to kill off slimelung from slime. The database says slimelung likes temperature from 50F (10C) to 212F (100C). It'll start to die off before hitting the 50F degrees. So if you have a cold biome someplace, it'd be a good spot to throw the slime in.

As for everything else, I toss 'em in storage. It is only slime and polluted oxygen that they propagate and will eventually die off without those two ways.