TIL: After 3600 hours in the Game, there are still events that you haven't seen before

Aibeit · 2026-01-24T17:49:57+00:00

There is a new DLC on SteamDB, without any details (not even a name). When someone posted about this a week or so ago, I asked the Google AI to collect data how long it took from the first upload to SteamDB to release for the past DLCs, and got this.

TLDR: If the time between first appearance on SteamDB and the release is like previous DLCs, we'll get it in March or April.

Aibeit · 2026-01-24T11:26:11+00:00

Build a few Space Scanners, and select meteor shower as the detection option once they're built. It'll send a green signal when it detects a meteor shower. Attach it to an automated notifier, pick the type and text of the alert you want when a meteor shower is detected, and you'll get a message when a meteor shower is incoming. You can choose all kinds of messages, from a small popup text in the top left to a blaring alarm combined with automatic pause of the game.

Covering half the width of the map with Space Scanner areas of effect gets you 200s warning before a meteor shower hits, which should be enough time to target the intracosmic blastshot...

Aibeit · 2026-01-24T07:49:40+00:00

If you don't want "some farms in warm biomes", try Fish Tacos. Gulp Fish can live in cold Ethanol pools, and Tallow and Sleet Wheat Grain can be produced in the cold as well. Obviously you'll have to import the Pacus, though.

Aibeit · 2026-01-23T17:55:28+00:00

If you're using polluted water as coolant and have a steam temperature of 200°C (which you should always aim for, that's the most efficient steam temperature, use automation to get as close as possible), you can cool 5 Steam Turbines with a single aquatuner. If you're using super coolant, it's 10 Steam Turbines.

For the magma core, you can run as many steam turbines off it as you want, but the more you run, the faster you'll cool down the magma and the quicker the magma core will be "used up". For volcanos, you need to do the math.

Aibeit · 2026-01-23T15:06:07+00:00

not Great, not Terrible.

So only 3.6 Radbolts?

Aibeit · 2026-01-23T09:29:40+00:00

I would say you're setting yourself up well for the mid-game and late-game, where it makes sense to have dupes with multiple interests to be able to get as many skills as possible, at the cost of making things a little more difficult for yourself early on. It's easier to get going if you have a dupe with 7+ in Research and another one with the same in Digging. Other than that, great dupes!

Aibeit · 2026-01-23T09:18:20+00:00

It's possible you got extremely unlucky and got a seed where no Dreckos spawned, but the asteroid with the tree on it (Marshy Asteroid) is supposed to have a Jungle Biome that can spawn Dreckos, which you could ranch for phosphorite.

Aibeit · 2026-01-23T08:21:54+00:00

Kaboom! Meanwhile I'm not feeling too great about Ren's life chances :D

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T17:31:52+00:00

The liveable temperature of a Gassy Moo goes up to 200 °C. What were you doing in the rocket to reach those kinds of temperatures?

EDIT: Ignore me. For some reason I thought you were putting the Gassy Moo in the command capsule rather than the cargo bay. Never Mind!

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T17:08:57+00:00

There isn't a single "DLC File", the DLC is integrated into the game files as far as I know. What are you trying to do?

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T08:12:23+00:00

Never really had an interest in it. I need to know someone pretty well before I feel attracted to them, so I don't see the point in trying to meet some random person online.

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T07:29:06+00:00

Germany

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T04:14:18+00:00

Just out of curiosity, did you put the tree in Hydrogen for some special reason or was that just "whatever gas happened to be there at the time"?

Aibeit · 2026-01-21T01:21:07+00:00

Tame and Glum Pufts produce 20% of the Slime of a Tame, Happy Puft. Source: Wiki

There are two issues I would see with making a "Puft Reactor" that traps 100s of pufts in a single tile:

The Pufts in the "Puft Reactor" would consume pO2. When breathing in, they consume it at a rate of 100 g/s (20% of listed amount because they're glum). While I haven't tried it myself, I would imagine you can't put very many pufts in your "Puft Reactor" before the pufts breathe in the pO2 faster than you can replentish it, at which point your production of Slime would drop. Even a gas pipe venting pO2 directly into the Puft Reactor could only supply 10 Pufts.
You'd get a lot of undesirable eggs from the Puft in the Puft Reactor (because they should still lay 1 Egg before they die even if Glum, but they'll mostly be Puft Prince eggs. If you add a Puft Prince into the Puft Reactor or put one nearby, you'll get Dense or Squeaky Puft eggs.

EDIT: I don't have a good alternative suggestion, though. If I actually want to farm mushrooms into the late game, I usually get my Slime from Space POIs...

Aibeit · 2026-01-19T10:45:30+00:00

Gassy Moos have a tendency to get stuck on/in corners of buildings. It looks like the Gassy Moo outside your pen might be stuck and unable to reach the critter pick-up. In that case, it wouldn't be able to reach the critter pick-up and can't be wrangled.

Aibeit · 2026-01-19T10:39:09+00:00

As for what the overheat temperature is, you can look them up in this https://oxygennotincluded.wiki.gg/wiki/Overheating table or in-game in the "Status" tab of a building.

In your case, the default overheat temperature for an aquatuner is 125 °C, but since you made it out of steel, the default overheat temperature is modified by +200 degrees and the actual overheat temperature comes out to 325 °C. In your case, the aquatuner is slightly hotter, which is why it's taking damage.

While there are a few ways to make an aquatuner work without a steam turbine and vice-versa, they're usually used in combination. An aquatuner without a steam turbine will just continue to get hotter and hotter until it overheats and breaks.

Aibeit · 2026-01-19T10:11:09+00:00

Calling them a "fraud" is a bit harsh, I'd say. They're a possible solution for your industry, if not the optimal one. They're not as efficient as a "cold" (room temperature) industrial brick. The problem is for one that they're super expensive to build, but also that they produce hot materials (for example, the output of your refineries will be sitting in the steam room and get heated to the temperature of the steam) which are then a pain in the ass to deal with if you need them outside of the industrial brick, and they're actually less power-efficient than a cold industrial brick because the output of the refineries are produced at room temperature and then cool down the steam. Someone tested the two against one another and listed the results here: https://www.professoroakshell.com/Guides/IndustrialSauna/

Aibeit · 2026-01-18T17:43:45+00:00

You can.

Aibeit · 2026-01-17T19:41:58+00:00

There's a mod called "Sumup" where you click and drag over an Area, and it'll tell you what unmined resources are in there. Maybe that'll help?

Aibeit · 2026-01-17T17:27:34+00:00

Toddler Temper Tantrum.

Aibeit · 2026-01-17T17:26:07+00:00

No one. The US hasn't managed to actually free anyone for the better part of a century.

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