>What's the best way to decontaminate bathroom water? Should I be feeding into a liquid storage submersed in Chlorine gas?
Personally I havent played in about half a year but this was still the most efficient way of decontaminating shit. I used to do the old "boil water till clean" strategy but then you had heat issues. Could probably set up a series of automation switches for disease thresholds when moving the liquid out of the room.
>decontaminate bathroom water?
dont really need to.
you could send it to a liquid tank in a chlorine gas room if you really want to use it on your crops.
best use for your leftover toilet water is electrolyzer to make oxygen and hydrogen. dupes breathe the oxygen and collect/use the hydrogen to power the machine in the ice biome.
>putting my food rations in a room of chlorine because why refrigerate anything when you can just sanitize it with
dont need to even do that
if you want to keep your food fresh just put the fridge underwater or in a room full of co2.
you dont even need to power the fridge.
food will keep like that nearly indefinitely.
I still find it funny that something like that works, when it shouldn't. Ration and storage containers I guess I would get because they're not air tight and the latter can have issues with certain items offgassing byproducts, while a liquid storage would HAVE to be airtight (or watertight, I guess) so why the fuck would a chlorine atmosphere be able to decontaminate it
I assume I need to run it through filtration to make it unpolluted (but still with germs) but does Electrolyzing germy water kill the germs or something?
I know CO2 works but one time I noticed I kept piling up food with food poisoning for some reason so I said fuck it, Chlorine. It's not exactly the hardest gas to work with since caustic biomes are common enough and it's not like it's dangerous to your duplicants in any way besides just not being able to breath it
At first I thought it was very neat, but as I got into it I got really bored. It was the worse kind of planning, not Factorio 'your spaghetti will work but you should probably fix this' and instead just 'you fucked up 3 hours ago and you're going to die eventually because of it'. And ive kept thinking I had a great idea, testing it, and then realizing the game wont let me do it. I had a spawn with 2 steam geysers next to me, so I rushed steam power thinking I could harvest it and it doesn't work because the temperature isn't high enough. Little shit like that which is just annoying.
Also the entire gas management system is a real pain in the ass. There is also just endless annoying shit which gets in the way, like your people trapping themselves, taking forever to do any tasks you set for them and generally being inefficient.
I dont know, maybe I dont have the patients for it, but I would rather play factorio.
this game is honestly doubly autistic to play compared to even DF
tons of tiny things can screw you over so hard, everything takes fucking forever to do and there isn't a single point of the game that isn't a huge pain in the ass
oh yeah, what is it? I think you need a HOT steam geyser to use it for actual steam power while a cool steam geyser (which is more likely what you're going to get around your spawn) is just hot water that makes living harder because lol heat
>tons of tiny things can screw you over so hard, everything takes fucking forever to do and there isn't a single point of the game that isn't a huge pain in the ass
Its funny because even in Rimworld you get moments where you think
>Thank fuck thats done, now I can focus on X
Whereas in this you are perpetually getting fucked on every front and never feel like you have anything under control.
>i was like fuck it, use chlorine
that's a fair enough call, i might give it a go myself just for some variety i think.
>I assume I need to run it through filtration to make it unpolluted
yeah, just run it through a sieve and then send that water to where-ever. it'll still be full of germs but it's fine to use for whatever, just dont use it on your crops.
try to have duskcap mushroom farms set up by the time you start to run out of fresh, clean water. sleetwheat is great early-mid game food too. just leave it growing naturally in the ice biome and have your guys set to harvest it whenever it's ready.
but even then you'll probably have at least a water geyser or steam vent somewhere. can eventually collect that water, send it to the ice biome to be cooled down and then use that.
>I still find it funny that something like that works
there was a lot of that in the game, especially until full release when you could magically turn 90 degree water into 40 degree water by sending it through a sieve.
>taking forever to do any tasks you set for them and generally being inefficient.
Gotta use the priority system. There was a second one added where you can set individual dupes to focus on specific tasks, like giving a miner a higher priority on actually digging shit, or someone with a build skill higher priority in building shit. It's defiantly an autism simulator though, so no worries if it isnt your thing.