Volcano making a mess

[SilverSpeedy]

As I explore map, I found a volcano. First time it went off did little damage. So before the next time it went off. I built some insulated blocks going up to handle the lava, I missed when it went off. I notice, one of my people was getting burned. I basic gases and water by some ruins. When I checked on the area where the volcano was. Turned some rock into gas and water form, Phosphate. The temp of air was over 1200 F and the volcano that was exposed and researched. Now 80% covered of the rock over the volcano. The area look to become a mess. Had a bio lock door to lock the area off. The water staying over 180 F. Not sure if it will make a bigger mess when it blows again.

[joebruce185]

Volcano taming is a bit of an advanced project, in my opinion. You're best to keep them buried until you know you can handle them.

But, since yours is exposed: when it's dormant, seal off a space around the volcano and vacuum out the area. Vacuum does not transfer heat. However, it may be too hot for you to do this now, so you might need to just insulate the area and not go over there. Use at least two layers of insulated tiles, if not three or four.

Share a screenshot for more specific advice.

Videos for taming volcanoes can be found on YouTube. Look those up to get an idea of what you need to accomplish this.

[Thelightingking9000]

Sounds like the big bad wolf attacked X3

[Manxome]

Most raw materials have melting points lower than the output temperature of volcanos, and so can potentially be melted if they absorb enough heat. Tiles that are going to be in direct contact with magma might want to be built out of ceramic or obsidian. (And with iron or gold volcanos, even ceramic can potentially melt, though obsidian should still be ok.)

Obsidian is a poor insulator but it has a very high melting point.

[Doesn't Learn From Mistakes]

Drown the volcano. Volcanoes can't output if their tile of interest has pressure above 150kg/tile. Dump in a bunch of water while it's idle and lock it in.

[Cyrus]

You can (or rather used to.. not sure if its changed at all) also build a tempshift plate out of coal behind the 'spawning' tile (typically - starting at the bottom left, 1 tile right 1 tile up) and as soon as it erupts the next time the coal tempshift plate will become a solid block of refined coal suffocating the volcano.

However, building a couple walls around it and filling it with Water is often the simpler method :)

[SilverSpeedy]

The sides were not the issue, but everything above it was changed. I used the blocks to keep the lava in but look like everything melted above the volcano some of the elements are now in water form and not sure if I can make it back to a solid form. It makes steam each time it blows with no water around it. Suck at posting screenshots.

[Amoc]

Originally posted by Manxome:

Most raw materials have melting points lower than the output temperature of volcanos, and so can potentially be melted if they absorb enough heat. Tiles that are going to be in direct contact with magma might want to be built out of ceramic or obsidian. (And with iron or gold volcanos, even ceramic can potentially melt, though obsidian should still be ok.)

Obsidian is a poor insulator but it has a very high melting point.

By the time ceramic would melt you're probably into advanced tech and can tame the volcano. Ceramic heats so slow I've never seen it melt though you can definitely see it heating up slowly.

[chaney]

Originally posted by Cyrus:

You can (or rather used to.. not sure if its changed at all) also build a tempshift plate out of coal behind the 'spawning' tile (typically - starting at the bottom left, 1 tile right 1 tile up) and as soon as it erupts the next time the coal tempshift plate will become a solid block of refined coal suffocating the volcano.

Nice thanks!

[Wat]

Send dupes with atmo suits to seal the volcano with ceramic insulating tiles. Then ignore it until you have enough steel to tame the volcano as most other materials are going to melt near a volcano.

When you get steel radiating pipes and a steam turbine, you can try taming the volcano by flooding the volcano room with water, which will turn into steam and lower the room temperature to manageable levels.

Then build the radiating pipes and steam turbine with a SCST design. Now you have volcano power generation.

Last, add a steel auto-sweeper, conveyor loader and conveyor rails inside the volcano room with steam, combined with conveyor rail thermo sensor to detect when the debris are cool enough and you can harvest whatever the volcano is spitting.

[Amoc]

Whatever you do… don’t let it get wet. Volcanoes be like gremlins.

[bwhitejr]

Francis John posted a video yesterday on his current base, showing a trick I've never seen before - he wanted to force an aluminum volcano to shut down, so he built a temperature shift plate out of coal over the center tile of the volcano - you know, the one that if you don't dig up, the volcano won't go active - when it got heated, it converted into a lump of refined carbon, because coal doesn't change state into a liquid in high heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-dpWX3WVw

The process is explained at 21:00 -ish.

Guys like Francis John and Brothgar are incredible for tips you'd never think of on your own!