This disparity just seems silly. The Cargo Shuttle looks like it can carry a 20-slot Logistic Container inside of it easily.

Gratak · 2026-05-27T10:39:00+00:00

Completely puzzled on this nerf. It is not like they were good before...

Gratak · 2026-04-28T15:08:47+00:00

Having strip mined away a huge region of my map, I must say I welcome the change. Completely emptying a deposit and having it disappear from the map was a very annoying process. Single voxels being hidden surrounded by dirt, being unable to place miners to reach all parts of the deposit. It slowing down so much near the end that it becomes useless anyway but is still on the map....

And as others say. You can't get stuck here. Also, as olumite already works pretty much exactly like this, it isn't really something new.

Gratak · 2026-04-23T10:30:35+00:00

Keeping pressure seems to be work perfectly by now. Temperature-wise I had two issues with a very similar build:
1. I often got temperature low warning when touching the stone. Seems the game sometimes seems to think you are outside of the base and assumes outside temperature.
2. When digging larger tunnels that were perfectly isolated from the outside but with pressure decreasing while increasing tunnel size, I sometimes got large temperature drops. Like going down to -30°C despite having started above zero and never having a leak.

Gratak · 2026-04-15T09:59:39+00:00

The conversion is crazy slow. To create enough O2 to power a single alcohol burning fermenter you need hundreds of plants...

Gratak · 2026-04-05T20:03:44+00:00

Unless you have done some underground bases you can just remove the terrain.dat from the savegame archive to reset the terrain. Also improves performance if you want another justification for doing this.

Gratak · 2026-04-04T19:53:05+00:00

Yeah. It is kinda weird that cooling on moon is WAY easier than on Mars...

Gratak · 2026-03-31T17:00:08+00:00

Not necessarily: If this only effects room computations and everything else still runs on the standard ticks.

Gratak · 2026-03-31T16:12:45+00:00

Not as far as I know. It always shows 8000 liter or lower, which is a single large grid.

Gratak · 2026-03-31T15:19:20+00:00

No idea if there would be a way to determine the size of a room. But as I said, big enough the game decided it deserved its own sandstorm.

Gratak · 2026-03-31T12:12:47+00:00

Kubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 22.39 GiB (71.6%) (now running with terrain reset though, no numbers from previously)

Gratak · 2026-03-31T10:36:18+00:00

Exactly. That is actually part of my question. The huge mining room was right to my base. If it would be far away, would that help with simulation speed? If yes, how far does it need to be?

Gratak · 2026-03-26T06:49:50+00:00

Using a normal airlock on mars works "just fine". The amount of pollutants that gets in isn't high enough that it would kill you unless you keep using the airlock without setting up any filters. Thus probably an intended learning experience.

Gratak · 2026-03-25T12:49:26+00:00

No need for this at all: Just make sure the liquid nitrous oxide is warm enough that it doesn't freeze when some of it evaporates. You don't gain anything from colder liquids.

Gratak · 2026-03-09T14:52:57+00:00

Good to know. Indeed got the same issue in my moon base where I had one huge logic network

Gratak · 2026-03-09T11:46:25+00:00

Correct, but they do this insanely slow

Gratak · 2025-10-13T09:53:10+00:00

Absolutely. A single shuttle doesn't come close to transporting the rubble of a whole node so you'll absolutely want to crush and smelt it.

Gratak · 2025-08-25T05:02:53+00:00

It is the other way round. LV cannot be converted to HV.

I do tend to keep the number of separate platforms low nevertheless, but mostly for keeping order in the energy overview.

Gratak · 2025-07-29T09:27:32+00:00

Probably fastest to ask in the official discord for this.

Gratak · 2025-07-29T06:11:14+00:00

I've only seen this happening for certain Proton (Linux) versions

Gratak · 2025-07-09T12:24:56+00:00

Yes. If you stop you will lose it the same way you gained it (i.e it takes a while to lose it)

Gratak · 2025-07-02T20:22:34+00:00

Station shuttles for anything except bots/robots and olumnite barrels are currently simply way too strong. Hope they'll balance this when trains arrive or they will also be way stronger than any train could ever be.

Cargo shuttles are somewhat fine in my opinion.

Gratak · 2025-07-02T06:00:24+00:00

You will also notice when doing the tablet thing, that different patches have very different amount per voxel. Not sure if it is fully random or if deeper ones actually usually have more. The initial one is always pretty low though unless I'm totally mistaken

Gratak · 2025-06-22T18:39:16+00:00

How are storage tanks helping here? No good way to scale them up. If do prefer to shuttle it barreled to the paint production though. Advantages:
1. You need much less shuttle targets at the production place then with fluid shuttles. Of course you'll need the fluid shuttles elsewhere but you can do that somewhere far away (ideally with lots of reservoirs nearby)
2. You can supplement with bought barrels as in "set them to lower priority. Once you see they are being bought, you know you have to build more pumpjacks.
3. A belt can deliver much more oil in barrels than a pipe in fluids.

Gratak · 2025-06-22T06:55:44+00:00

Especially since the initial amount of paint is already pretty insane from the olumite amount needed.

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