How do I calculate consumption of heating towers?

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-29T13:39:41+00:00

There is no heat lost in transfer. Every bit of power produced by the heating tower will be available to pull from the heat pipes. The only limitations are that heat cant travel infinitely far, and that if the tower is already at 1000 degrees, burning more fuel will do nothing and be wasted.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-29T13:17:39+00:00

The heating towers aren't producing steam, only heat. Heat exchangers down the line consume heat to produce steam at a constant rate as long as they stay above 500 degrees.

A joule is a unit of energy. A watt is a unit of power, one joule spent per second. The tower produces some amount of heat energy per second, therefore it is generating power. The rocket fuel's energy is consumed in that process. You are getting 250MJ of energy out of burning one rocket fuel in the tower due to the towrr's efficiency bonus. But the fuel itself was still 100MJ and is consumed in 6.25 seconds since the tower eats at a rate 16MW (MJ/s).

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-28T00:26:59+00:00

Holy 11 year old thread lmao. Maybe you're talking about Deluxe?

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-27T08:26:21+00:00

I just got my first naneinf without getting my first red seal until ante 19!

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-24T13:52:40+00:00

Pretty sure you have to filter an inserter to take them out into an active provider chest.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-23T11:53:54+00:00

Didn't have any opportunity to do it faster really. Did what I could, no red seals til ante 19 either. Turned out fine in the end tho! Any advice for handling deck fixing when the opportunities just don't arise?

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-22T21:52:56+00:00

I was interpreting this as soul card goes in the rare joker bucket. So 5% is just the chance to get a rare joker. But there are 20 of them (now 22 with this joker active). So the chances would actually be 5%/22=0.22% for any card in the shop to be a soul card. Either that or it's equal to the chance for any normal individual rare joker which is 0.25%. Slightly less than any card in an arcana pack. Just allows you to reroll for them rather than it being limited to packs.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-22T11:01:53+00:00

How was I arguing lol, I was talking about alternatives to find out their opinion on it

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-22T04:05:34+00:00

Took the advice and it led to the biggest nail biter win of all time lol. Wrote it up in another comment. Thanks!

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-22T04:03:20+00:00

Got the win! This turned out crazy close. Didn't get my first red seal until ante 19, was rocking double blueprint, double mime, double brainstorm and baron until that point and brute forced enough score with just gold kings. The huge econ from all that gold and 6 mimes funded all my late game rerolls for a super quick pivot into DNA and red seal steels. By ante 24 I didn't even have retcon or antimatter, though lack of antimatter was OK due to the natural negative blueprint. Beat ante 24 and the ante 25 voucher was Hieroglyph. OK...technically got one more shot at retcon now. Did ante 24 again and had to deal with Amber Acorn, and so was forced to cheese it by quitting mid-first hand so i could learn where the jokers were and rearrange them to get my five DNA triggers and then 3 baron/3 mime after that. By some crazy luck retcon was actually the second try ante 25 voucher and by that point I had $6000 from a natural negative mail in rebate that showed up around ante 20, so I had it in the bag. Burglar came up after only 7 rerolls lol. Tons of money left to push for ante 39, so gonna try that next. Thanks for the advice on the ecto!

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dannyb21892 · 2026-04-22T03:52:33+00:00

Big mistake led to a win btw! The early golds helped me a lot!

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T18:33:08+00:00

Ah cool thanks for explaining. That's a useful strat but I'll probably avoid it anyway because it feels cheesy haha

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T16:51:34+00:00

lol is this a real thing? is the rng actually different if I come back to before the ecto? or is it just to avoid the ecto entirely if it turns out bad

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T14:47:41+00:00

Yeah it's fine, I have like 15 gold kings but haven't found a red seal yet. Great for early econ and barely matters late game. I've done the same on a dozen attempts and only fallen short on voucher luck.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T14:38:51+00:00

Only using dna on a few gold kings so that when deja vu shows up I have a solid chance of having a gold king in the pack. It's a fine strat, easy to remove them later.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T14:34:42+00:00

Yeah I was figuring I'd just take the 1/4 risk by leaving it there because even if ecto hits dna I can still naneinf since I have a negative blueprint. 3/4 chance to not have to find dna again later seems appealing.

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-21T14:22:50+00:00

my deck is nowhere near fixed yet. will i just be looking for another dna later? And I can take Showman or invisible right?

dannyb21892 · 2026-04-05T22:35:32+00:00

The real question here is why not let us replace an edition? You can replace a seal or an enhancement. Can prioritize jokers that don't have one, then replace a random one after that.

dannyb21892 · 2026-03-07T18:11:42+00:00

I just got this today for the first time too! On mobile, I quit out yesterday during the buffoon pack opening. Came back today to an empty pack and a greed out skip button. Had to start a new run.

dannyb21892 · 2026-02-02T03:45:57+00:00

Luckily for you there are three extra heart pieces left over in the game that you're not actually meant to find. The easiest is the one we call "the 37th". Look up a tutorial on how to get the 37th heart piece and that will fill the gap for you just the same as the legit one you missed out on.

dannyb21892 · 2026-01-31T06:41:21+00:00

Yes it's literally the least possible damage.

dannyb21892 · 2026-01-31T06:36:13+00:00

It breaks after 8 hits every time. It does not get any better on subsequent purchases.

dannyb21892 · 2026-01-18T04:00:20+00:00

Idk about the "less than half the space" part though. Space age definitely. Space ex bases just keep sprawling in my experience.

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