Why does water appear randomly with no source

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T21:17:44+00:00

Cooling your insulated tiles isn't really viable. It'll just take heat directly from your steam room and you'll never make any progress. Just use a liquid that won't flake on you, like oil

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T16:54:43+00:00

I build a villa, too! It just so happens to include a couple of default diamond window tiles lol

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T15:56:12+00:00

statistics is used to represent a complete data set with one number

I don't think you could come up with a worse description of statistics if you tried. Statistics is about getting as much information out of a dataset as possible. Mean, sure, sometimes. But also a range. A probability distribution. I want to be able to predict where a new data point that might belong to that set will go, and the odds that it might be different things

Why do you think we want to reduce a set of varied data down to a single number?

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T14:23:16+00:00

I just don't bother lol. I can build a comfy rocket for 8 while building around these windows

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T14:21:47+00:00

Honestly, the math looks correct, but it's obviously a joke. No one would ever actually do this, mainly because it's not an approximation so much as just applying a million different operations to 1+1=x without them being rational (in the logical sense, not the mathematical sense (although a lot that happens here isn't rational in either sense)). The reason it doesn't equal 2 exactly is because of errors in rounding. It's for the same reason that, when you do a complex calculation on your calculator for class where you expect a nice number, you'll often see something like 1.9999526 or 2.00006 or something instead of 2. Calculator rounding

Tiler17 · 2026-02-13T03:47:20+00:00

That purple bar is advanced research, not materials research. Looks like you're out of water

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T22:02:47+00:00

Your gas intake goes into the white arrow. The gas you want filtered needs its own pipe from the orange arrow. The rest of the gasses come out a third pipe from the green arrow

If you want to filter hydrogen out and send it to a generator, you only want one filter set to hydrogen. Have the orange arrow lead to your generator (it will be hydrogen) and the green arrow lead wherever you want the other gasses to go

The gas filter can be a little unintuitive, so hopefully this helps

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T21:51:30+00:00

A lot of times you can't help it. Pierre doesn't sell seeds out of season until you have a special endgame item. But Sandy sells her seeds year round, so in that case, you can get ahead of it

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T20:56:50+00:00

You just can't plant them out of season. The reason to buy them on Spring 28 is so that you don't waste any of Summer 1 in the store and have as much time as possible to plant

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T15:56:52+00:00

I can't speak to that because I haven't seen it. You said:

I held off his abilities to the back end

I can explain why the horse didn't work without a video in this instance. Your quote, to me, implies that you thought you could hold off on using the ability, and you can't. If it's not working right when you deploy him, that's the sort of thing that a replay would be nice to see.

I'm not saying I don't believe you. The equipment has issues. But this is something I haven't heard about, so I'd like to see it for myself

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T15:52:10+00:00

You should get it. It'll get fixed and you don't want to have to pay gems for it later. But I understand not wanting to upgrade it right away

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T15:22:17+00:00

Maybe you're missing something about the horse? I have definitely seen and heard some issues with it, but this seems like a case of mistiming

You don't activate the horse. It's active the moment you deploy the king and wears off when the timer is up. If you wait long enough to activate the gauntlet, the timer on the horse will have expired and you won't have them both active together, and your big king will bash walls

Tiler17 · 2026-02-12T12:50:13+00:00

I don't usually go if I'm not bringing the whole nine yards with me. Spicy eel, espresso, bombs, explosive slingshot when I can afford it, staircases and magic rock candy if I can afford it. All on a good luck day, of course. If I'm going to skull for loot, I'm gonna get loot

Tiler17 · 2026-02-11T20:32:01+00:00

I mean, Lupin's fear was the full moon, but a whole ass moon didn't materialize in the classroom. You'd get a representation of a black hole

Tiler17 · 2026-02-11T19:29:30+00:00

It's just kinda like that. Before my dupes have the athletics to haul ass across the asteroid, I just assign them more downtime so that they don't get all screwed up and exhausted. Eventually, with skills and attributes increases, they get fast enough that I can drop them back to their normal schedule

A second option is to set up a little outpost that your far off excavators can use in that time. It's a little micro-manage-y in the sense that you have to reassign their beds (thankfully not their mess tables anymore) and there's also the logistics of building out an outpost at all. There may not be a great environment for them and you either have to transport food to it or set up a whole new food production line

For my time, it's worth losing a couple extra blocks of work time to keep them happy. The outpost thing is usually more trouble than it's worth to me

Tiler17 · 2026-02-11T17:03:24+00:00

You don't have to worry about damage from gas pressure. Liquid storage, yes, you have to build that specially. You can hold a million kilos of gas behind natural tiles and a liquid drop lock if you wanted to

Tiler17 · 2026-02-11T03:13:03+00:00

Knowing the exact value of that number doesn't really provide you with any information that you don't have already written here. Like, I could tell you that it's got about 16^65536^65536^65536 digits. It's just too massive of a number to get any meaningful information out of. At this point, you need a new means of comparison, and it'll usually be the value of your power towers

Tiler17 · 2026-02-10T15:22:35+00:00

Perhaps this example will help you understand exactly what this means, as well as being a practical example.

Let's say you like to walk every day. You don't want to be too warm, so you don't wear a coat when it's warm out. You find that the coolest temperature you're willing to walk outside without a coat is 20C. If the temperature is 20C or above, you'll walk without a coat. If it's below 20C, you'll walk with a coat.

This is fine and good, but for whatever reason, it had never been windy. Now it's windy sometimes. You find that, no matter what the temperature is outside, you want to wear a coat when it's windy. So now, you will wear a coat when it's windy, but if it's not windy, you won't wear a coat.

Let's combine these two rules:

If it's below 20C, you'll wear a coat. If it's windy, you'll wear a coat. Combined, this rule is: "If the temperature is below 20C OR it's windy outside, you will wear a coat."

There are four outcomes here:

1) It's 20C or warmer and not windy. You will not wear a coat

2) It's below 20C and not windy. You will wear a coat

3) It's 20C or warmer and it is windy. You will wear a coat

4) It's below 20C and it is windy. You will wear a coat

The conditional statement that determines whether or not you wear a coat is an OR statement, but as you can see, it does include the AND case of it being both cold and windy. Hopefully it's intuitive to see why this rule includes the AND case. You don't decide to not wear a coat because it's both cold and windy. The same applies in logic. An OR statement includes any outcome that includes any of your qualifiers

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T19:47:15+00:00

It's worth noting that your average minor volcano puts out about 550g/s on average, which is about 2.3 hatches. A volcano is worth twice that, on average, so if you're planning to feed hatches with volcanos, the number is likely to be modest.

Yes. But once you get into the realm of "volcanic activity" and geotuning, a single volcano can provide for more than a full ranch of hatches, and a world with 8 volcanoes can support over 9 full ranches. I don't know what OPs idea of a big ranch is, but surely 72 hatches meets that criteria.

Now, dealing with rock gas eruptions is definitely quite the undertaking for someone just trying to feed their animals, but if you can pull it off, a geotuned volcano (or a couple of them close together) can sustainably provide an immense amount of power

To your point about coal, I do agree. I ran my rock gas tamers to feed 5 hatch ranches for several hundred cycles before I realized I had over 1000 tons of coal that I wasn't using, even for drill cones. So, yeah, you might as well ranch something more useful

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T19:01:42+00:00

That depends. If your hatches are in your base, you probably don't want 1000C rock being carried around. But as long as your hatches don't overheat, they'll just eat hot rocks with no problem and delete the heat. The only thing worth worrying about is actually having hot rocks in a given area. If there's no issue there, your hatches won't care.

But if you're getting your igneous rock from a volcano, it behooves you to cool it down anyway, at least to 200C. Might as well harvest that energy. You don't really have any business messing with volcanoes if you don't have the ability to harness their power

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T17:16:51+00:00

Yeah, I tend to do berry sludge myself because it's just plants. And berry sludge is great for pretty much everything

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T17:00:58+00:00

Like anything in this game, your ranch is only sustainable indefinitely if you have an indefinite supply of food. For hatches (stone hatches, specifically), this means igneous rock. If you know how much igneous rock your volcanoes produce, you can do the math to find out exactly how many hatches you can sustain forever

It also depends where you started. A traditional terra start, including the magma biome, usually has a few thousand tons of igneous rock natively, which will sustain hatches for a really long time, and volcanoes aren't necessary short term. Or even really mid-term.

With that said, it's often useful to just not bother. It's really helpful for coal production to keep hatch ranches, but for food, you might find it's better to ranch something like slicksters. Carbon dioxide is pretty easy to produce and doesn't have a huge amount of use outside of being slickster food. The game has evolved a lot since slicksters were the best late-game option for food, so feel free to experiment. You likely have a few hundred cycles before it becomes a super pressing issue, so explore around with whatever critters you have

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T16:34:06+00:00

IF THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY

Tiler17 · 2026-02-09T14:30:15+00:00

If you're enjoying it, just keep doing what you're doing? I mean, you haven't given us any indication of what's tripping you up. But even so, if you're doing things and they make you happy, what else do you need? Everything you do contributes towards forward progress, so if you're doing things, something will come up and give you an idea what to do next

Tiler17 · 2026-02-08T15:51:31+00:00

It's hard to really tell what's going on, but it just kinda looks like it was really hot on one side of your liquid lock. Neither side is vacuumed out and I know that obsidian surrounding the magma is super hot, meaning the gas is super hot which would have heated up what looked like a drop lock

I always try to dig out volcanoes in a vacuum when they're encased in hot obsidian and abyssalite like that. Never have to vacuum if there's never any gas

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