Is there anyway to disinfect the air?

[Gojak_v3]

Besides air locking off the area and filling it with chlorine gas. Like the dupes will disinfect objects, but not the air. I'm just wondering if there is another way, as the chlorine option would be a big undertaking.

I'm not even sure you can pump the oxygen in the room out without also pumping out the germs in order to lower the pressure so the chlorine can be pumped in.

[WillieSea]

Are you talking about the lung disease?

I heard that removing all polluted oxygen will kill it from the air slowly (dies in pure oxygen).
So a deodorizer?

[Monoxide]

Chlorine is the best/fastest - however if you are looking for something else then just make sure your air isnt polluted. Slime lung cannot survive forever in pure oxygen. It will die off eventually. The best option (in my opinion) is to just be careful how you mine. If you plan around germs (save food poisoning) its easier to control. IE - I usually dig out a wide pit, but chlorine will also settle on the outside of my base in a line across the map. This makes slime lung struggle to spread. You can also strategically place wash stations and such.

[Gojak_v3]

Yeah, lung disease. I air locked off the source area it's coming from, but not before it managed to infect several of my rooms.

[Monoxide]

Put deodorizers around and make sure they have sand. It will go away in time. Try to put deodorizers where you will have a bunch of polluted oxygen and slime lung.

[Hedning]

Just to be clear chlorine kills germs inside it. You cannot put oxygen inside chlorine so there is no way to use chlorine to kill germs in oxygen.

Like others have said germs die in pure oxygen but thrive in polluted oxygen, so the solution is to convert the polluted oxygen into regular and then wait.

[Crusader]

Same what Monoxide said, deodorizers in the room and make sure all pollutants on the floor is swept up.

[Zhorge]

You put the oxygen in a tank in a chlorine filled room. BUT it has to be in the tank for one full cycle. The basics are:

Each tank holds 150KG of air. Each normal dupe uses 60kg of O2 per day. So,basically, you need two tanks for every five dupes.

You pump the air in and and fill the tanks. Once you wait a day, you can start letting the air out, but you have to make sure the flow out doesn't drain the tanks too fast.

It's a pain in the ***. It's better just to use deoderizers which clean up the polluted oxygen which causes the slimelung to die off. Plus they have added benefit of turning sand into clay.

Also, slimelung isn't that big of a deal anymore. In the old-days you could end up with a rapid colony collapse if you weren't really careful. Just have a dupe that can make Medical Packs.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Just to be clear chlorine kills germs inside it. You cannot put oxygen inside chlorine so there is no way to use chlorine to kill germs in oxygen.

Like others have said germs die in pure oxygen but thrive in polluted oxygen, so the solution is to convert the polluted oxygen into regular and then wait.

Yeah, there is. Just like with water. In a tank for one full cycle in a chlorine filled room.

It's not worth the effort considering how much they nerfed slimelung.

[Gojak_v3]

Originally posted by Zhorge:

You put the oxygen in a tank in a chlorine filled room. BUT it has to be in the tank for one full cycle. The basics are:

Each tank holds 150KG of air. Each normal dupe uses 60kg of O2 per day. So,basically, you need two tanks for every five dupes.

You pump the air in and and fill the tanks. Once you wait a day, you can start letting the air out, but you have to make sure the flow out doesn't drain the tanks too fast.

It's a pain in the ***. It's better just to use deoderizers which clean up the polluted oxygen which causes the slimelung to die off. Plus they have added benefit of turning sand into clay.

Also, slimelung isn't that big of a deal anymore. In the old-days you could end up with a rapid colony collapse if you weren't really careful. Just have a dupe that can make Medical Packs.

Wait, so chlorine gas will clean air inside air tanks? That doesn't seem right. I mean aren't those sealed? If not it kinda defeats the purpose of a gas tank.

[Gojak_v3]

Okay, so one of my dupes finally got lung disease. And yeah it's not that bad. Takes like one cycle to get rid of, they have like -3 to athletics so they move really slow for that day, and a couple other things that didn't seem that major.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by Zhorge:

Originally posted by Hedning:

Just to be clear chlorine kills germs inside it. You cannot put oxygen inside chlorine so there is no way to use chlorine to kill germs in oxygen.

Like others have said germs die in pure oxygen but thrive in polluted oxygen, so the solution is to convert the polluted oxygen into regular and then wait.

Yeah, there is. Just like with water. In a tank for one full cycle in a chlorine filled room.

It's not worth the effort considering how much they nerfed slimelung.

Context! He was talking about pumping the oxygen into a chlorine room, which won't work because a tile can only have 1 gas in it and o2 tiles next to chlorine tiles won't lose germs faster.

Originally posted by Gojak_v3:

Wait, so chlorine gas will clean air inside air tanks? That doesn't seem right. I mean aren't those sealed? If not it kinda defeats the purpose of a gas tank.

In oni the gas isn't technically in the tank. It is in its "storage" witch is part of the tank and thus subject to the same conditions as the tank.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Gojak_v3:

Originally posted by Zhorge:

You put the oxygen in a tank in a chlorine filled room. BUT it has to be in the tank for one full cycle. The basics are:

Each tank holds 150KG of air. Each normal dupe uses 60kg of O2 per day. So,basically, you need two tanks for every five dupes.

You pump the air in and and fill the tanks. Once you wait a day, you can start letting the air out, but you have to make sure the flow out doesn't drain the tanks too fast.

It's a pain in the ***. It's better just to use deoderizers which clean up the polluted oxygen which causes the slimelung to die off. Plus they have added benefit of turning sand into clay.

Also, slimelung isn't that big of a deal anymore. In the old-days you could end up with a rapid colony collapse if you weren't really careful. Just have a dupe that can make Medical Packs.

Wait, so chlorine gas will clean air inside air tanks? That doesn't seem right. I mean aren't those sealed? If not it kinda defeats the purpose of a gas tank.

It's not about 'right,' but game mechanics. They haven't given us any direct machinery to clean the air and water so you are allowed to put it in tanks and sterilize it that way.

Personally, I would rather inject chlorine into the water. Just like IRL. But they don't have that mechanism at this point. But they did give us this, right or wrong...

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Originally posted by Zhorge:

Yeah, there is. Just like with water. In a tank for one full cycle in a chlorine filled room.

It's not worth the effort considering how much they nerfed slimelung.

Context! He was talking about pumping the oxygen into a chlorine room, which won't work because a tile can only have 1 gas in it and o2 tiles next to chlorine tiles won't lose germs faster.

Originally posted by Gojak_v3:

Wait, so chlorine gas will clean air inside air tanks? That doesn't seem right. I mean aren't those sealed? If not it kinda defeats the purpose of a gas tank.

In oni the gas isn't technically in the tank. It is in its "storage" witch is part of the tank and thus subject to the same conditions as the tank.

I understood exactly what he was saying. But he made a blanket statement that wasn't completely correct. So I pointed out the correct solution lest the OP believe there was no chlorine solution.

COMPREHENSION.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by Zhorge:

But he made a blanket statement that wasn't completely correct. So I pointed out the correct solution lest the OP believe there was no chlorine solution.

I can comprehend my own post, thank you. I think you are confused. When I said "You cannot put oxygen inside chlorine" I meant you cannot put one gas inside another since there is no gas mixing in this game. I didn't mean to make it sound like a blanket statement. Yes, technically you can put o2 inside cl2 by using tanks, but no one does this for o2, so I omitted it.

[AquaX]

I think the only way to clean germs off a gas is to stick inside a gas reservoir that is within chlorine gas but most germs die in O2 anyways as long as it is not next to the source that is creating it.