How do you build cool sleetwheat/nosh bean farms?

[Stretchytall]

Obviously you build sleetwheat and nosh bean farms in cold biomes. But when I built a sleetwheat farm in a cold biome, the building materials themselves were hot enough to stifle the sleetwheat. But you have to use materials from warm biomes to build a farm. So how do you build farms that are cool enough for sleetwheat and nosh beans?

[Dschinghis Pan]

Just build it. The environment will cool down the farm eventually.
And at least sleet wheat also need water - which you need to cool down to below 5°C as well and which will in return cool down the farm if it is to hot.

[L37]

You do not need to cool water, all you need is to keep plant within its temperature range.
If environment is already fine build things out of materials with high thermal conductivity so that the cool down faster.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by L37:

You do not need to cool water, all you need is to keep plant within its temperature range.
If environment is already fine build things out of materials with high thermal conductivity so that the cool down faster.

Yeah you don't "need" cool water, but pouring it hot water is an easy way to ruin the farm.

[Clonefarmer]

Run some pipes behind the plants and into the farm tiles. Run cool water through the pipes and the whole farm should start to cool down. If it's really warm and not cooling down loop the end of the pipe back to the cool water reservoir.

To make a small cool water res build temp shift plates out of ice in a small pool of water. The ice will cool the water down.

For a more permanent solution you can use an aquatuner to cool the farm/water. An AT paired with a steam turbine can quickly drop the temps to where you need.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by Clonefarmer:

Run some pipes behind the plants and into the farm tiles. Run cool water through the pipes and the whole farm should start to cool down. If it's really warm and not cooling down loop the end of the pipe back to the cool water reservoir.

To make a small cool water res build temp shift plates out of ice in a small pool of water. The ice will cool the water down.

For a more permanent solution you can use an aquatuner to cool the farm/water. An AT paired with a steam turbine can quickly drop the temps to where you need.

For cooling the farm, pwater is recommended, as it has a freezing point of -20°C, while cooling with normal water runs the risk of freezing it inside the pipes, thus damaging them.

And for the AT it's important to build a reservoir to equilize the water temperature, as the AT cools water down by like 12°C, making it hard to hit a specific temperature.

[Clonefarmer]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by Clonefarmer:

Run some pipes behind the plants and into the farm tiles. Run cool water through the pipes and the whole farm should start to cool down. If it's really warm and not cooling down loop the end of the pipe back to the cool water reservoir.

To make a small cool water res build temp shift plates out of ice in a small pool of water. The ice will cool the water down.

For a more permanent solution you can use an aquatuner to cool the farm/water. An AT paired with a steam turbine can quickly drop the temps to where you need.

For cooling the farm, pwater is recommended, as it has a freezing point of -20°C, while cooling with normal water runs the risk of freezing it inside the pipes, thus damaging them.

The polluted water may be better at cooling. However if you are already cooling and piping fresh water why bother piping in a second type of liquid?

[cainboy]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by L37:

You do not need to cool water, all you need is to keep plant within its temperature range.
If environment is already fine build things out of materials with high thermal conductivity so that the cool down faster.

Yeah you don't "need" cool water, but pouring it hot water is an easy way to ruin the farm.

Just to elaborate on this, plants do not care what temp the water is, and has 0 effect on the environment. So long as the plant is in the ideal temperature range, they will grow fine.

The issue that most players *(myself back then included) run into, is that there is a small capacity in the Hydroponics farm tile to hold water. If it holds hot water, it will warm up its surroundings, heating up the sleet wheat.

But since this is how it works, you can actually use plants to delete heat. Use Valves to restrict just enough water to flow through into the farm through insulation pipes, so that no water pools in the Hydroponic tiles.
I've fed bristleblossom farms with 70-90 degree water without problems, *(specifically sleet wheat I've done 40-50, but was not stress testing it).

[Lantantan]

Originally posted by cainboy:

But since this is how it works, you can actually use plants to delete heat. Use Valves to restrict just enough water to flow through into the farm through insulation pipes, so that no water pools in the Hydroponic tiles.
I've fed bristleblossom farms with 70-90 degree water without problems, *(specifically sleet wheat I've done 40-50, but was not stress testing it).

That valve trick is neat! Cheers for that cainboy!

[Elevrai]

Build a metal tile underneath the hydroponic one and cool it instead of the hot water going into the plants. I'm currently doing it and it makes the whole thing far easier (closed loop, minimal automation, etc) to setup and maintain. Lead is plenty and great for that kind of project.

[GMC]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

Obviously you build sleetwheat and nosh bean farms in cold biomes.

I build them in my base.

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

So how do you build farms that are cool enough for sleetwheat and nosh beans?

Thermoregulator, radiant pipes, hydrogen. With the extracted heat used to warm up the Pincha Pepper farm.

Or you could build them in a cold biome with non-insulated tiles (but then you have to make sure the water doesn't freeze). Any initial heat from the building materials will dissipate eventually.

The temperature of the water doesn't matter directly, but you should use insulated pipes so that a) the water doesn't heat up the farm and b) the water doesn't freeze if the surrounding environment is below zero.