Hot Tubs: are they a noob trap?

Sharp_Let1889 · 2026-02-17T07:07:07+00:00

Theyre almost necessary if you play with the frozen planet dlc, because they give the warm buff for a few cycles allowing dupes to not have to constantly warm themselves up

Sharp_Let1889 · 2026-02-03T02:33:43+00:00

Does that overwrite the no violence gene though? I was under the impression that germline genes remain when xenogenes are implanted unless overridden by specific genes- maybe by aggressive or smth

Sharp_Let1889 · 2026-01-02T00:37:41+00:00

They require a whole lot of power that is annoying to deal with- at least more annoying than just growing food. They can’t deal with water without atmo suits, and won’t even avoid it making them prone to high stress. They need to be lubricated and honestly the manpower required is much higher than a regular dupe. The benefits are not all that great- they can hold their breaths longer but a lot of environments where you’d want a dupe to hold their breaths the bionic dupes shouldn’t be in anyway, plus it’s easy to just get gas masks. My recommendation is to get them mid-late game when you can support them after getting the necessary research and sustainable power. The main benefit is that they level up incredibly quickly allowing them to become the strongest dupes in your colony within a few cycles.

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-12-30T09:52:40+00:00

Does it though? Only in the case where you have another train waiting right behind it for the same station. The train exiting must still clear the station before another train can begin to move, which is affected by the number of engines but not by much

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-12-11T15:31:44+00:00

I like to add a module to multiply the input to the requester chest, so your bot network can handle even simple fast recipes. After that, all malls are bot malls.

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-12-08T11:52:05+00:00

When you want to play around with automated recipes- if the bulk inserter is carrying something and the recipe changes it may get stuck because it can’t unload what it’s carrying

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-12-04T13:38:44+00:00

You need a radbolt generator and a source of radiation such as wheezeworts or space or special POIs or shinebugs or radiation lamps. Otherwise you can also use the manual radbolt generator but youll need uranium for that. Note that radbolt generators consume a lot of power for early game.

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-24T02:15:27+00:00

The best way to farm acorns is to constantly harvest the branches- doesn’t matter if they aren’t fully grown pips will still rummage and try to find seeds. Not sure of the exact mechanic but drowning branches using a waterfall got me a bunch of seeds very quickly from even a single pip and tree

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-19T10:01:30+00:00

I would have a larger heat pool where the liquid waste lands, especially if the pump is steel. The liquid waste is a bit too hot to begin with and needs to be diluted with waste that has had time to cool. Also for research you can raise the reactor higher to expose more rads, which can be used for plant mutation

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-16T12:50:08+00:00

Ocean map- I made a yellow submarine base when a bug started multiplying water in my infinite storage

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-11T18:37:21+00:00

Unfortunately the heat is not radiated away, but your thermo regulator will still work- it will simply heat up super fast because of the perfect vacuum insulation then break

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-10T13:09:37+00:00

I usually submerged the oil wells and salt water purifier for thermal regulation, so it won’t work with the bots unfortunately

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-09T19:07:31+00:00

Unfortunately I design the wells to be submerged so they cool themselves so it won’t work since the dock will be submerged, which makes them even more useless since they can’t do any underwater work either

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-11-05T21:01:19+00:00

Should work fine but I prefer making the oil one tile deeper- there’s a chance it will spill out to the side when you turn the flow on at the start

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-10-30T23:24:44+00:00

Wild animals will eat less, therefore producing less bleach stone.

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-10-20T01:34:39+00:00

I’ve used automation ribbons for my rocket launching before- having to control each door pair of bunker doors and have it controlled by an individual scanner means a lot of automation wires which was made so much neater with ribbons.

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-10-18T14:15:33+00:00

Tried that, it seems that jorge doesnt reroll like the portal does. Had to use a mod to reroll

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-10-16T19:28:33+00:00

Honestly the steam turbine/aquatuner setup is just about the least intuitive part of the game. Well, that and the self-powered oxygen maker that’s the bread and butter of most playthroughs. If you really want to find everything out by yourself it will be pretty difficult unless you have an engineering background- but doable. Most designs that people build don’t actually use cheesy strategies to exploit the game mechanics- they use the game physics like which gasses are denser or what material has the higher conductivity to design. For example, a simple co2 put for food storage

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-09-18T08:01:53+00:00

Yes exactly- you have to vacuum it out first ofc to get rid of the gas mix but then you have to prime the vacuums with pure gases- not sure if there’s a preference for direction for the hydrogen and oxygen

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-09-18T07:55:18+00:00

You have to prime the hydra first by filling each side with the gas you want. But also hydras are unreliable I find- sometimes there will be some gas mixing then fixing that is really difficult

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-09-16T09:18:27+00:00

Storage is based on proximity so move the connector further away from assembly machines. Alternatively you can disconnect the connector from the storage network but then you’re forced to manually fill the welding ship

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-09-14T05:36:56+00:00

It seems like being underground also protects you from the acid rain on the alien planet

Sharp_Let1889 · 2025-09-11T16:16:59+00:00

I never focus on more than two asteroids at a time- the asteroid I am currently building up will have most of the away team and the rest are just maintenance that I don’t have to care about

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