About natural gas generators

[Sandwich-Anomaly]

so what this game is telling me is that this thing just leaks out polluted water and has no outgoing pipe attachment to it... just all over the floor. am i missing something here or has this been what it is ever since it was put into the game?

[Tseudonym]

I think it's always been that way.

[ghostrider]

it's the third tile from the left. which is a pain when you put them on opposite sides of your base. i'd give cash money for an output pipe

[SKull]

Well, it's meant to be a little challenging sometimes. Not exactly an enormous problem either, considering that the game does have mesh tiles and liquid pumps.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1720618283

The little extra here doesn't take long to build while you're setting the gens up. I usually auto the pump to run for a few seconds every day, but haven't gotten around to it here. The pump shuts off when out of liquid anyway, so no immediate hurry.

[GD]

It's a mess ... it was always like that ... but properly contained and hopefully without Slimelung in there or it turns into a Slimelung cesspool it is okay. The Polluted Water help with the cooling of this machines and collected can be further used somewhere else. You can actually make cold Polluted Water if the machines are cold (output PH2O has the temp of the device) which the Gulp Fishes can turn directly into clean water without heating/cooling mechanics and even the Water Sieve puts out 40°C (or was it 50°C?) degress water which is a tad too warm.

With the advanced materials Steel and above you might even cook the polluted water directly into water while you're at it just need to get the steam out and prevent overheating.

[TheSuit]

Publicado originalmente por Sandwich-Anomaly:

so what this game is telling me is that this thing just leaks out polluted water and has no outgoing pipe attachment to it... just all over the floor. am i missing something here or has this been what it is ever since it was put into the game?

It is more useful than you think.

You build a Large room with Mesh tiles below the Natural gas reactor. and a zone for the polluted water to accumulate. You can either Grow fish that swim in polluted water in there.

Or repurpose the Polluted water for cooling of high temperature areas like Batteries by dragging away excess heat to some other location.

Essentially it ends up being how creative you can be

[AlexMBrennan]

It is more useful than you think.

You build a Large room with Mesh tiles below the Natural gas reactor

If the generator had an output pipe then you could just build a liquid vent wherever you want; instead, I have to build an airlock to prevent the polluted oxygen from getting everywhere.

Or repurpose the Polluted water for cooling of high temperature areas like Batteries by dragging away excess heat to some other location.

So now I need to build an extra pump. Yay.

I really don't see how you could possibly think that having a building leak polluted water is more useful than having a polluted water output pipe.

[ghostrider]

not to mention all the real estate you lose. basically it's an entire floor or two

[Elidrin]

Better to stack your natural gas generators vertically. One small recovery tank with a pump lined up with the 3rd space of the generator will do. This will allow to instantly recover the P-water from all the tanks instantly and send it where you really want it. It should never produce any PO2.

[Tseudonym]

My question is why does the CO2 get piped out but the polluted water is dumped into the world.

[Sandwich-Anomaly]

Publicado originalmente por The | Suit:

Publicado originalmente por Sandwich-Anomaly:

so what this game is telling me is that this thing just leaks out polluted water and has no outgoing pipe attachment to it... just all over the floor. am i missing something here or has this been what it is ever since it was put into the game?

It is more useful than you think.

You build a Large room with Mesh tiles below the Natural gas reactor. and a zone for the polluted water to accumulate. You can either Grow fish that swim in polluted water in there.

Or repurpose the Polluted water for cooling of high temperature areas like Batteries by dragging away excess heat to some other location.

Essentially it ends up being how creative you can be

why cant they just stick a trash water pipe outlet so i can just pipe it directly to my water sieve. what happened to QUALITY OF LIFE mk3. now i have to build and destroy an entire section of my colony just to make this work. F*CK it... sandbox mode it is. the first time im ever going to use it

[Nekochan]

Publicado originalmente por Sandwich-Anomaly:

Publicado originalmente por The | Suit:

It is more useful than you think.

You build a Large room with Mesh tiles below the Natural gas reactor. and a zone for the polluted water to accumulate. You can either Grow fish that swim in polluted water in there.

Or repurpose the Polluted water for cooling of high temperature areas like Batteries by dragging away excess heat to some other location.

Essentially it ends up being how creative you can be

why cant they just stick a trash water pipe outlet so i can just pipe it directly to my water sieve. what happened to QUALITY OF LIFE mk3. now i have to build and destroy an entire section of my colony just to make this work. F*CK it... sandbox mode it is. the first time im ever going to use it

As you progress you will do a crap ton of rebuilding. For energy systems its best to put them off on the far left or right side and plan for multiple kinds of power generation. Once you do that you never touch it again.

[Sandwich-Anomaly]

welp seems the natural gas dream has died... the geyser has gone dormant and now i have no power... even with backups and the current tech ive got research. back to square one.

[Nekochan]

Publicado originalmente por Sandwich-Anomaly:

welp seems the natural gas dream has died... the geyser has gone dormant and now i have no power... even with backups and the current tech ive got research. back to square one.

Few questions which might help you.

Did you hook the generators up to smart batteries so they aren't running at 100%?

Did you create a pressure storage chamber or (a lot of) gas containers to create a buffer during over pressure moments?

Always keep a backup room of hamster wheels for everyone in the base, but other than something like that you should be using multiple renewable sources for energy so when one thing goes dormant the other can still run. Renewable resources for energy include geysers for natural gas, water, p-water or hydrogen you can also use heat from space or a magma/metal geyser.

If you are super tight for energy turn off energy consumers you can do without for awhile, hook them up to automation to turn off automatically, or find passive ways to do things, like you can pump water already in a system without pumps in continuous loops.

Smart batteries lose energy less than regular batteries, that is another drain.

[Sandwich-Anomaly]

Publicado originalmente por Nekochan:

Few questions which might help you.

Did you hook the generators up to smart batteries so they aren't running at 100%?

Did you create a pressure storage chamber or (a lot of) gas containers to create a buffer during over pressure moments?

Always keep a backup room of hamster wheels for everyone in the base, but other than something like that you should be using multiple renewable sources for energy so when one thing goes dormant the other can still run. Renewable resources for energy include geysers for natural gas, water, p-water or hydrogen you can also use heat from space or a magma/metal geyser.

If you are super tight for energy turn off energy consumers you can do without for awhile, hook them up to automation to turn off automatically, or find passive ways to do things, like you can pump water already in a system without pumps in continuous loops.

Smart batteries lose energy less than regular batteries, that is another drain.

many of the things you mention require me to have researched the tech that i need or have enough resources to build them or even thinking i know how to automate. my priorities were feeding the dupes, letting them breath O2, dealing with water (clean and waste) and cleaning up the messes they make while getting sick from all sorts of things.

by the time i had natural gas generators my dupes were suffering from slime lung just getting close to the geyser that had the nat. gas. so right now that colony is dead to me... im starting over again