Data Driven Achievement (Data Miner max efficiency achievement not working?)

[Sirkill]

Hey all!

I was working on one of the new achievements (Data Miner) that asks me to "Produce a Data Bank using a Data Miner operating at max efficiency." After playing around for a little bit, I see that the temperature is linked to efficiency - the lower, the more efficient. I got a room all set up and lowered to -271.2 F, and the efficiency of the Data Miner is 533% - as high as I can get it. Using a storage bin and an auto sweeper, I get one Data Bank produced. During the production, the heat rises, but the efficiency never drops below 533%. However, I don't get the achievement.

Has anyone else tried this achievement? Were you successful? If so, am I doing anything wrong?

For reference, I have no mods running, I am running the most up to date version, and I have closed out, reloaded a save and all that sort of troubleshooting. This has been fun to explore how to do this, but unfortunately, with no payoff. :(

Any help you could provide would be awesome!

[Sirkill]

Ok - I figured out what was happening (sort of) and I wanted to take the time to put it here in case someone else faces the same issue.

In my above post, I was trying to get the achievement using gold conductor panels behind the Data Miner. When I changed them to aluminum and let the temp drop to -271.7, when I made a Data Bank, voila, the achievement.

So, my recommendation, use aluminum for your conductor panel and you should get it.

[SEObomj]

Thank you!

[PepeMilagro]

Any chance for some screens?

[JadeFalcon]

when I did it it wouldn't pop until I went back out to the main menu and reloaded.

[Sirkill]

I can provide my set up in screenshots...it isn't anything super fancy because I was just testing this to try and get the achievement. Maybe this will help?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3453165583

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3453165794

[kingjames488]

you could always use thermo regulators cooling hydrogen to get down to around -250 without super coolant...

[Sirkill]

Maybe it's possible, but it wasn't working well for me when I tried it with Hydrogen. However, I am not a ONI engineer like some people (FrancisJohn, GCFungus, Nathan's Sandbox, BierTier, etc) - there may be a better way to do this than I did, this is just how I did it. :) The freezing point of Hydrogen is -252.2, and you need the Data Miner around -271.2 and NEVER go above that negative number for one entire cycle of making a data bank. Maybe this has been changed since then, but once I got the achievement I never did this again. I was working on this for days and got irritated enough that I just grabbed some space materials and made Super Coolant to see if I could knock it out.

Things change all the time in ONI, so it may have been adjusted since then but my problem was that I got it to that -271.2 number but it would go slightly higher while making the data bank. I could only make it work with Super Coolant.

I would love to see someone do it with Hydrogen because it seems there should be a possible way, but I got this achievement back in December 2024 and there was only one person who had recorded their testing to figure it out (search for Data Driven Achievement on YouTube by Jer's Simulation Gaming) and I just searched for this achievement and still his is the only one showing you how to do it. I copied his process meticulously but couldn't make it work at all.

After typing this all out, the two keys for me in my Achievement Run was using Aluminum for the Conduction Panels, using two Steam Turbines, and Super Coolant.

[JadeFalcon]

I had tried hydrogen when I went for this not to long ago and couldn't get it to work so did as you did and just went and got what I needed for super coolant to be done with it.

[kingjames488]

theoretically you could run 100g packets in the line and get it down indefinitely without it changing state i believe

but then I don't think you'd be able to pass enough mass through to cool anything, unless maybe you had some sort of massive heatsink you pre-cooled...

or if you wanted to be really silly you could set it up with the whole thing in a vacuum and drive the hydrogen past the freezing point so it breaks in the pipes and slowly accumulate a pool of liquid hydrogen around the thing :P

I don't have the DLC so I don't actually know how this thing works or what kinda heat output you're trying to cool but ya... probably easier to just get the super coolant.