My base is overheating, how do i cool it down?

[Swatti]

Ive tried to move hot machines elsewhere but still my base is getting hot.

Tips welcome.

[SKull]

A little more specific would be nice. Anyway, separating hot things and cold things, insulated tiles, wheezeworts and cooling loops of liquid are the normal ways.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733792164

This is one of my bases where I am trying to have as many fish as I can in the two tanks, which is why they're so big. Anyways, the tropical tank is so warm I might as well make some glass in there, and it is still not heating the surrounding area. Even though it is "inside" my base. The insulated walls are enough. I don't care that it's hot in there, but have a couple of worts outside to act as a sort of wall between the heat coming out the door and the rest of the base.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733792201

The other side of my base where all the farming is. I don't do anything hot there and am as you can see having the opposite problem around my blossoms and it's getting chilly.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733792222

There's even a steam vent down there I'm not using. As you see, the tiles are stopping all the heat from it from wrecking my base. Use insulated tiles. A lot.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733792244

Just to show it, this is "outside" to the left. All the power, give or take, is made here. I could move more stuff out, but haven't had any heating problems since I acccidentally was shipping 1200 degree glass into the middle of my base for a while. But that was a couple hundred cycles ago.

Simple version is a wall of insulated tiles with all the hot things on one side and all the cool things on the other. If you do that the cold side can't heat up.

[Swatti]

Aquatuner loop fails. The unit overheats into 400+ and i dont have thermium to make it from. Also cools the liquid for mere 10c lower

[Hedning]

Originally posted by Swatti:

Aquatuner loop fails. The unit overheats into 400+ and i dont have thermium to make it from. Also cools the liquid for mere 10c lower

make sure you have enough water in the steam chamber and make the tuner out of steel. If you want to be extra safe drip some oil or petroleum on the bottom of the steam chamber and if the steam chamber is 3 tiles tall build some tempshift plates in the middle (if only 2 tall tempshift plates will push heat into the insulation which is bad for efficiency).

[Naryar]

A cooling aquatuner + steam turbine setup, plus some insulation walls. You really need to invest into heat deletion devices by midgame, else heat will cook you alive (unless you're on Rime or somesuch, and even then that just delays the problem). Also any space industry that's not pressured will need to be cooled down unless you enjoy overheating machinery.

Cooling aquatuners are fairly simple in theory but trickier in practice. You have to make sure steam doesn't get too hot for the aquatuner (not a problem with steel, usually), make sure whatever cooling fluid you use doesn't boil up in the pipes (polluted water and petroleum are usually the best ones midgame, but you can also use water to cool down water that's too hot) and you have to cool the steam turbines that's deleting heat too.

You do not generally need to cool all your base. Mostly the crops, and your living spaces (if you do not want your base to look like an industrial dystopia, but I wager most ONI bases look like that anyways) : industry can stay hot, as long as it is not overheating.

[some moron]

I have been trying to build a STAT my last few runs but I always get sidelined. I think it's reasonable to build that air cooler first, because it's more obtainable, sure it's less efficient I guess, but that steam turbine is expensive. Then later switch to STAT. For example I've had a dickens of a time refining metal because of the cooling and gases and food and trying to get some plastic which is required for the ST. So I'll call the ST mid game (still haven't built one that worked sufficiently, clogged pores and such) and you probably need to do something else first, running through cold biome etc. just the way we use crappers until we have toilets. Unless you really know what you are doing and can skip outhouses and rush toilets.

You all talk about insulating, but I have air circulating all around (not all of it healthy) and I think that is what transferred the heat in my base, the insulation doesn't help if the air is loose.

[Naryar]

Air or gas coolers are really bad compared to liquid ones. If you don't have steel yet you can make a gold amalgam aquatuner, You'll just need to make sure the aquatuner doesn't go above 150°C - this can be done with automation and a drop of oil in the aquatuner's tile. Or if you want to make low-tech heating, a loop of polluted water going in a cold biome works too, but that's not a long term solution.

[Hedning]

Here's how you can get some early game refined metals:
https://i.imgur.com/hBOm8rA.png
The bigger the polluted water pool the longer you can use it. Usually the swamp biomes have quite a lot of polluted water that you can collect in one place by simply digging out a cave towards the bottom and digging tunnels from the pools above.

You can also place a gold amalgam aquatuner in the pool and use it to cool your base and again the bigger the pool the longer it will last. The downside of course is that you are not getting the power rebate from the steam turbine and you are also left with a hot pool of water.

[Naryar]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Here's how you can get some early game refined metals:
https://i.imgur.com/hBOm8rA.png
The bigger the polluted water pool the longer you can use it. Usually the swamp biomes have quite a lot of polluted water that you can collect in one place by simply digging out a cave towards the bottom and digging tunnels from the pools above.

Or you can use a rock breaker. It's noticeably less efficient, sure, but it doesn't entirely drain your power, requires less setup and tech, and will be less of a heat problem. Metal refinery is a late earlygame building when you really need a bunch of refined metal.

[Hedning]

The rock crusher doesn't have a recipe for steel.

[Gaardian]

Originally posted by Hedning:

Here's how you can get some early game refined metals:
https://i.imgur.com/hBOm8rA.png
The bigger the polluted water pool the longer you can use it. Usually the swamp biomes have quite a lot of polluted water that you can collect in one place by simply digging out a cave towards the bottom and digging tunnels from the pools above.

You can also place a gold amalgam aquatuner in the pool and use it to cool your base and again the bigger the pool the longer it will last. The downside of course is that you are not getting the power rebate from the steam turbine and you are also left with a hot pool of water.

Does volume of water help cool the aquatuner? I have a huge ocean below my base I made.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Gaardian:

Does volume of water help cool the aquatuner? I have a huge ocean below my base I made.

Yes, a large volume of water would absorb a lot of heat from an AquaTuner before it turns into steam.

In the long run, you need the Steam Turbine to delete heat above 125 C, and you get power back from doing so. But you could heat up a large pool of water for a while, perhaps even some hundreds of cycles if the pool is big enough.

[Hedning]

You don't need hardly any volume of water to cool the aquatuner, but the more water you have the longer you can just let it run before it becomes a problem. You can view it as a battery, the larger the pool the bigger its capacity. The steam turbine is the only thing that can "recharge" the pool.