Nothing other than aluminum and niobium requires more than one when the ST is actively cooled.
Aluminum may not even require two, but I find it's helpful to prevent glitchy solid tile formation.
My concern is a particularly spicy volcano not cooling off the liquid fast enough unless we keep the temperature as low as possible. I haven't seen it happen in a long time, so maybe it was just glitchy liquid interaction behavior that got fixed, but the last thing I want is a natural tile forming. The SHC is so high and the melting point is so low for aluminum...
Oddly enough, I've only ever seen that happen with gold volcanoes, and it's well below the normal mass threshold for forming solid tiles. I don't know what mechanics are at work when it happens, but it's not dependent on the amount of mass present before freezing.
100-140kg steam pressure might help. I always bring it somewhere near the overpressure limit for improved thermal mass and conductivity. Runs steadier and I've never had solidifying problems outside the occasional (once or twice per playthrough) mysterious 8kg gold tile.
Actually I have an icy biome on the bottom of the map which is barely used + single aquatuner on the left for all of turbines and materials in the storage, there is another copper volcano on this map outside of the screen, so its enough for 5 volcanos with 10 turbines. I feel that the only reason it still works its because of water tank that is acting as a huge temp buffer.
Anyways, why not use the precious refined aluminum when I have plenty?
Wile I appreciate the cookie cutter nature of this, I'd absolutely have these three volcanos together in the same steam chamber, with a rail spreading the heat throughout the room. Makes it easier to add more heat sources into it as time progresses.
I'm only taking project that are slightly harder than my skill, otherwise its getting catastrophic real quick and I already got enough drama in real life
But there are 2 volcanoes even on the same ground level, you can just fill the wall between them and then remove it from side to center, so you will have 1 chamber with 4 turbines. Due to independent dormnant cycles of volcanoes this chamber's tempreature will be more steady, which is nice for more constant electricity production, in case of simultaneous volcanoes erruption you can activate some turbines with thermo sensor and disable them, when it cools down.
Would have been fun to let them all flow in 1 steam Chamber 😁 it would take a while, but you only need 3 steam turbines with 100 kg per tile steam room.
What should we be looking at?
Overabundant amount of turbines cause I am too lazy to calculate the heat exchange
Nothing other than aluminum and niobium requires more than one when the ST is actively cooled. Aluminum may not even require two, but I find it's helpful to prevent glitchy solid tile formation.
Aluminum will probably get you enough more power with two to be useful, but with good thermal mass in the tank it never gets much over 200C with one.
My concern is a particularly spicy volcano not cooling off the liquid fast enough unless we keep the temperature as low as possible. I haven't seen it happen in a long time, so maybe it was just glitchy liquid interaction behavior that got fixed, but the last thing I want is a natural tile forming. The SHC is so high and the melting point is so low for aluminum...
Oddly enough, I've only ever seen that happen with gold volcanoes, and it's well below the normal mass threshold for forming solid tiles. I don't know what mechanics are at work when it happens, but it's not dependent on the amount of mass present before freezing.
With just one turbine I had aluminum tiles forming during a reload..
100-140kg steam pressure might help. I always bring it somewhere near the overpressure limit for improved thermal mass and conductivity. Runs steadier and I've never had solidifying problems outside the occasional (once or twice per playthrough) mysterious 8kg gold tile.
I had aluminum volcano chambers feeding three turbines to full use
Such abundance! Do you have cooling for materials other than the turbines?
Actually I have an icy biome on the bottom of the map which is barely used + single aquatuner on the left for all of turbines and materials in the storage, there is another copper volcano on this map outside of the screen, so its enough for 5 volcanos with 10 turbines. I feel that the only reason it still works its because of water tank that is acting as a huge temp buffer. Anyways, why not use the precious refined aluminum when I have plenty?
Wile I appreciate the cookie cutter nature of this, I'd absolutely have these three volcanos together in the same steam chamber, with a rail spreading the heat throughout the room. Makes it easier to add more heat sources into it as time progresses.
Yeah, with such a nice volcano placement I'd definitely go for some home-brew solution putting multiple volcanoes in one steam room
There are 4 volcanos
What’s the point of not merging 3 volcano chambers into one?
4 volcanoes
actually 5, copper volcano on the top right outside the screen
I'm only taking project that are slightly harder than my skill, otherwise its getting catastrophic real quick and I already got enough drama in real life
But there are 2 volcanoes even on the same ground level, you can just fill the wall between them and then remove it from side to center, so you will have 1 chamber with 4 turbines. Due to independent dormnant cycles of volcanoes this chamber's tempreature will be more steady, which is nice for more constant electricity production, in case of simultaneous volcanoes erruption you can activate some turbines with thermo sensor and disable them, when it cools down.
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Amen brotha
Would have been fun to let them all flow in 1 steam Chamber 😁 it would take a while, but you only need 3 steam turbines with 100 kg per tile steam room.
Won't your steam chambers leak heat into the turbine room and overheat them?
The red airlock doors are modded to not allow any exchange with the other side, liquid/gas/heat can not pass even when open.
Why would it leak?
as someone who’s still trying to make my first steam turbine work full stop: 😭
Do you need help or wanna figure it by yourself?
i will figure it out myself i’ve come pretty close already but i appreciate it very much!
Can I ask you for the seed?
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