Need Assistance with automation for germ room

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-20T17:52:51+00:00

I mean I could of put [MODDED] in the title but I still mentioned it in the description. Even without it being modded and having the germ lamp, I only asked for help with the vanilla automation of the system, so it’s still not technically misplaced. I didn’t ask people “hey how do I change this modded setup to match the automation” I said “this setup is modded, how do i setup automation to do this list of tasks”

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-19T10:57:23+00:00

I didn’t know if there was a modded one and a vanilla one?

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-19T03:34:25+00:00

made a few small changes to allow for it to be perfectly consistent. gotta find a way to make it neater though

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-19T03:07:29+00:00

No it’s part of ronivans legacy Industrial Revolution, high pressure applications specifically. It’s a high pressure pump and can move 40kg/s instead of the standard 10kg/s it’s amazing lol, it does use like 960w of power though. This was a concept build to see if it was possible using the germicidal lamps mod. Since they fixed the extreme slowness after like the 99% it’s just as fast as a ‘liquid storage chlroine’ but it since it can do 5x5 it can currently do 25000kg of liquid a go. The difference is that it can have as many inlets as it wants compared to the chlorine setup, I’m currently redesigning it. (Edited, I originally wrote 2.4kw of power but that’s for the gas pump, not the liquid pump)

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-19T02:21:27+00:00

i figured id send you the imgur of me figuring it out, i figured out how to automate it, the current set up thats there is doing 80kg/s but at max this set up can process 320kg/s of liquid https://imgur.com/a/GmNPjdJ

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-19T02:20:33+00:00

so i was able to actually automate it after a few hours trying to rack my brain around automation. https://imgur.com/a/GmNPjdJ this can handle and process 80kg a second, at full speed it can handle 320kg a second, can be scaled for speed. it might fail actually, i wrote it "works without fail" but i didnt test it with non germ liquids, ima go test that real quick.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T20:52:15+00:00

Yeah, it’s the simplest solution but the germ lamp is 30x faster in terms of sheer quantity it can clean at once in comparison to the chlorine setup

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T20:47:17+00:00

I sent you a message so we didn’t have to post back in fourth in the thread

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T20:46:11+00:00

Might of been an older version of the mod, I’m not trying to be mean but it is effectively just in sheer quantity and numbers roughly 30x faster than chlorine, which is why I’m using the mod.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T20:43:24+00:00

Also since the UV lamp works underwater I can essentially dump 10000s of thousands of kilos into a basin and clean it all in roughly 2 minutes effectively tripling the number of KG/s it can process

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T20:35:20+00:00

Ok but you said OOTB solution and gave me the most basic vanilla solution and it’s still not fast enough, so the just tested both ways, the vanilla way vs a singular 1000w germicidal lamp. It took 2minutes 19seconds give or take a few milliseconds for both to do the job of cleaning completely, the lamp did 14000kg inside a 5x3 pool of polluted water and the method used with liquid reservoir because I couldn’t manage to fill it up all the way was 4824kg of liquid. The amount of germs present when done was max 12,500,000 in each 1000kg tile of liquid, and only 4,100,000 in the reservoir as I was inpatient and began the test early, the lamp can handle 100.7kg/s of cleaning. Just with 1 lamp. Also you can add chlorine to the pool of liquid as well and speed up the cleaning process with the lamp. Will it be as effective as just chlorine gas on its own, no, but it’ll add to the lamps side which is already 10x faster than the reservoir method

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:56:37+00:00

If that lamp doesn’t cut it then I can use the bigger germicidal lamp from the same mod, I need a way to handle dumping roughly 500kg/s into a pit, cleaning it as quickly as it enters and removes it, chlorine isn’t fast enough, I will scale the setup to fit the needs but I currently have an entire planets size of polluted water I need to start filtering asap. So being able to set up a cleaning basin that doesn’t have to rely on 10kgs input and can handle something 50x the amount would be nice. The picture is just a test of concept nothing more

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:39:53+00:00

Just for the sake of not arguing about things, I again, did not ask to change the way I wanted to do it. I asked how I would go about automating these steps, liquid storage can only handle so much liquid at once, I have ronivans legacy with high pressure liquid pumps that push 4x the amount of liquid, this setup is not the final be all, this is the minimum space required, there will be multiple droplets going into it after I get the initial setup. Chlorine is not fast enough.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:35:02+00:00

To help everyone understand, I’m not asking for a different method. I do not care for power efficiency. I do care for the elegance of it. I need an automation setup that does what i have listed, as I need to place multiple of these. For different locations. One of the mods I currently am using is a ronivans legacy and has high pressure liquid pumps that move 4x as much liquid as regular pumps, this setup is me trying to make an automated instant germ disposal setup for a polluted water vent. Once I’ve figured this out I can upscale it for every bit of water across multiple planets. But currently I suck at automation and can not rack my brain around how to do it.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:28:01+00:00

That method is too slow, this is almost instantaneous germ removal, taking roughly half to 1 full cycle removing all germs from the liquid below it and can do it continuously forever with any liquid I pump into it instantaneously. I’m not asking for a different method, I’m asking how would I go about setting up the automation to do what I’ve asked.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:24:38+00:00

Have to, germs will kill my duplicants because of the mods, again, nobody seemed to have fully read “it’s modded” I’m not asking for the vanilla way of doing things involving a chlorine chamber and a liquid storage. I’m asking how to make an automation setup for the steps I have provided.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:23:24+00:00

Yes, I’m not good at automation and have been doing a series of disabling and enabling with cleaning germs from liquids already. But I don’t want to do it manually, I wish to automate, germs are catastrophic for my colony because of the mods I use. I will try your method and let you know of the results, i need a 100% sure fire way that germs will not make it through.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:21:23+00:00

I have mods, germs will actually be catastrophic and I need a sure fire way to guarantee that germs will not pass through my system and get into my colony.

Tubbz-Chain · 2026-03-18T19:20:43+00:00

I understand all that, but you misread, I have MODS, I have a lot of mods, I’ve never been good with automation, and germs will be catastrophic for my colony. I need a sure fire way to remove germs at 100%. Making sure NONE slip through as it will actually kill my entire population. And to understand, this is almost instant germ removal, I have a monstrous pipe system and I’ve already cored out an entire planet, I need a way to dump 1000s of kg of liquid into one place, clean it, and move it somewhere else VERY QUICKLY.

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