![]() (Note: it takes a long time for a storage bin full of ice to melt.) You can also use polluted ice to cool down your water, just remember it will turn to polluted water when it melts. Regardless, to keep your water storage of a suitable temperature you can run a cooling loop through it.Īnother option for cooling, if you have ice or snow on your map, is to store it in your water storage. I tend to avoid filling my water storage with very hot water, but that's easy for me to say as I usually have small bases with few dupes, so I don't need that much water. If you pump hot water to you main water storage then cooling might be necessary. Note that it requres a fair bit of electricity: 960W. (How much the metal refinery heats up its cooling liquid depends on what metal you refine.)Ī more controlled way to heat liquids is with a Liquid Tepidizer. If you send in liquid from a cool geyser, the liquid the metal refinery outputs will be pretty close to suitable temperature when it comes out, so you can probably just turn it to water and pump it into your water supply. You can also use liquid from a cool slush geyser or cool salt slush geyser to feed a metal refinery, as they require cooling liquid for each use. ( Cooling loops are covered later in the guide.) But this is an easy early-game solution to cooling down your base, and something you can replace with a more controlled cooling loop later. Over time you might pump enough freezing water through your base that it becomes freezing cold, too. ![]() The bad news is that it isn't easy to control that process - how cold an area will get or how hot the water will get. So you can for instance snake cold water from a cool geyser around your base and cool down your base while heating up the water. The good news is that if you have liquid that is too cold, that means you have free cooling available. Which would mean you're safe until -2.6C.) (My understanding is that the game actually adds a couple of degrees to all state change temperatures, in order to keep things from flashing back and forth between water and ice. Avoid sending any liquids that are below that through any refining machines, as once they turn into water they can instead turn into ice and break pipes. Let's cover heating and cooling separately, and throw in some sub-headings to give it all a bit of gravitas.īefore turning them into water you will want to heat up the liquids at least enough that they won't break the pipes once they become water. You want to be careful with pumping any near-boiling liquids around your base as they will heat up the place. If you pump freezing (below +-0C) salt water or polluted water through a desalinator or water sieve, you can end up breaking your pipes in the refining process.Īt the other extreme are really hot liquids. ![]() The freezing point of polluted water and salt water is lower than the freezing point of water. ![]() (Dealing with germy water is a separate thing, covered in the section on recycling toilet water.) Those germs will also spread to nearby liquids. If you have any polluted water that is the result of a dupe "accident" or vomiting, then that will have germs in it. Also, most vents output germ-free liquids the exception being the polluted water vent (the normal temperature one, not the cool one). In general, all liquids you find "lying around" will be germ-free. There are two things to keep in mind when turning non-water into water: germs and temperature ![]()
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