Broken Rocket Interior Builds

[Tregrenos]

With enough heat you can destroy the steel walls of a rocket and while it gives you more room to play around with it's still a relatively cramped space. For those who've done it what are your preferred designs? After some trial and error I settled on the design below as it gives me an infinite water source (bottom left is duplicating water with the help of Brine) feeding into infinite water storage and a submerged Electrolizer. I've an infinite food source thanks to a flower pot Wheezewort and the cooling system is handled by them as well. The washroom doesn't need a sink because there's just enough radiation to not be an issue for my Dupes but enough to instantly kill food the poisoning germs.

The rooms are a Luxury Barracks, Washroom, Kitchen, Great Hall, Hospital and Message Clinic. As soon as I find them the kitchen has a spot to house Shove Vole for infinite food. The ship is using a Radbolt Engine, Battery, Artifact Containment, 2 Trailblazers to build a rocket platform on any planet and the rest are Solar Panels.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928070467
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928070487

Decor isn't that great, but it's maxed in the Great Hall and Luxury Barracks. The machinery are just the things I get the most use out of, mud being a great alternative to just slowly letting my water fill using only the infinite water source. The Sweepy is just there for moral support, but at least it's the only part of this crew taking their job seriously.

[lammaer]

Errrr.. how can a rocket interior than big? The spacefarer module is just 8*10

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by lammaer:

Errrr.. how can a rocket interior than big? The spacefarer module is just 8*10

It's from melting the walls. The "zone" around the cockpit is the same as the larger module and no different from building in the space biome.

To repeat this process follow these steps while working in a vacuum:
1- Make an Aquatuner out of Steel over some Airflow Tiles to catch it the resulting Liquid Steel. It has to be Airflow Tiles as that prevents the Liquid Steels heat from spreading/cooling.
2- Run the Aquatuner constantly, it should melt before breaking completely. Do this about 3 times to have enough Liquid Steel for the next step.
3- Build a Steel Liquid Pump inside the Liquid Steel with the wires pre-built so it can begin working immediately. You'll have time to pipe it into a Liquid Reservoir before the Liquid Pump breaks completely. Use Obsidian Insulated Pipes. (You can do this with a contactless pump method, but this is just faster and you probably have the Steel to spare.)
4- While using the Liquid Steel as "Coolant" run it through a Metal Refinery into the ship using, again, Obsidian Insulated Pipes. Have the pipes lead to the wall you want destroyed, but convert to Obsidian Liquid Pipes (non-insulated) when in contact with the soon-to-be melted wall(s). These wall segments in contact with the Obsidian Pipes will melt before the rest of the ship walls, the heat gradually spreading from the point of contact but at a slightly lower temp.

To cool the ship go ahead and have a liquid pipe able to be remotely connected to the already built pipes to pump Water or Polluted Water into the ship, the resulting Steam gradually cooling the ship down where your dupes can then enter. I'd made some Obsidian Tiles to block the water from flowing through the broken wall.

It's more precise if you're doing this with the floor as when the wall melts it won't leave a puddle. The first time I did this the wall formed a puddle at the very corner and melted 3 tiles instead of the 2 I wanted to melt.

[lammaer]

Man, this game and the players surprise me EVERY SINGLE DAY :D

[The Tempted Man]

I never even considered trying to destroy the tiles lol. Good one.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

You used to be able to deconstruct tiles for a couple days until they changed it; though it's not worth it since melting walls takes too much attention and micromanagement that could've been used anywhere else.

[Bravo]

An alternative process can be to use a centrifuge to make liquid uranium which can run through the same metal refinery.

[Alucard †]

Lmao is that still a thing?

Sounds like this 100% needs a Bug Report filed.