Stationeers - Brutal Europa - Day 101

Dear Diary, Advanced furnace is 'working' - still need to sort the temperatures out on 3 of the tanks. The bad news is that will take some time to do. The good news is there WILL be some funky pipe shenanigans...

[@programorprogrammed]

Cool

[@usurpinesusanti3910]

I seriously want you see mining, because doing it effectivly is kind of an art. After hours of mining myself under pressure with small batteries and no light i still become better and better. Of course its easy if you have this lenses, then everyone can do it. But with brutal start mining and not getting lost is a challenge.
I was watching you filling up the tanks with gases ending with some tanks too hot. Well, thats easy, just connect the tanks with pumps and pump in cold gases from the environment, until you have the temperature you want. Use several active vents and distribute them and in no time you will cool down any hot tank. Dont forget the liquid drain to minimize pipe stress.
Have you ever thougt about using other fuel then volatile and oxide? you can use N-Oxid 1:1 with volatiles and have higher temperatures and lower pressure. This mixtures starts burning from 50°C while the oxide already needs 300° C
Try to get very high temperature with this fuel mix because once you have that, going down on a cold planet is easy.

[@54bear]

My experiences with nitrous fuels have been... less than optimal. If it didn't explode, then it froze, pipes burst and all the fuel went bye-bye. There is a fundamental problem with the games implementation of phase changes that my brain is ill-equipped to handle - I get the concept ok, it's just that when it comes to actually managing the infrastructure, something always goes wrong. One key learning thing (for me) was that temperature changes only happen when phases actually change - which is not the way things work in real life. As for the mining thing - I just blast away in a circle above where the last nugget was - generally if there was nothing within a one drill radius, I move on.

[@usurpinesusanti3910]

@@54bear yes, you are right. Real physics and game mechanics are different. Just look if you expand gases they should drop in temperature or compressing them should make them hotter. Nothing like this happens, but thats fundamental (Joule-Thomson-Effekt not implemented (yet)). And phase changes is still something i have not fully understand (well the game mechanik, not the real physik).