We should note that mash to nutrients still requires the biochamber. Or mash/jelly to bioflux to nutrients requires two biochambers.

But I do think it's worth noting that getting just one biochamber running from from spoilage is somewhat less troublesome than needing to get multiple biochambers ...

I think any hub-expansion would be a serious balance problem for space platforms.

I wouldn't say Gleba is hard. Nothing on Gleba is hard per se, it's just not fun.
I have 2 Space Age starts both died at Gleba. For second one I even, eventually, took someone's "all-inclusive" blueprint that produces science and fiber. I still continue to go to my K2.0 or Nullius runs because I ...

Let's recap from the beginning ok ?
Gasp, you got me! I wasn't careful to distinguish between the line discussion going on in

and older comments in this thread that weren't part of that line, and left myself vulnerable to bad faith actors catching me in a technicality!

I am slain!

And out of ...

You continue to bewilder me by starting off like you wanted to get back to what you wanted to talk about

So to make a recap, before the interruption :
but then you restart the digression in the very same post .


(I'm not the person this was directed at, to preempt any possible confusion ...

Once again, I don't care about the strawman you're railing against.

If you don't want to consider applications of keeping reactor temperature high, then don't consider applications of keeping reactor temperature high , and stop whining that I'm not considering the specific narrow situation ...

Once again, I don't care about the strawman you're railing against.

If you don't want to talk about applications of keeping reactor temperature high, then don't respond to applications of keeping reactor temperature high , and stop whining that I'm not considering the specific narrow situation ...

I don't know and don't care what strawman you're going on about.


I feel you should have then refrained from voicing this objection :

It wasn't an objection.

You posed a question. I found it interesting own its own merits and responded to it.

And, apparently, my attempt to preempt ...

I'll give you some extra time to think about what relation keeping reactors sufficiently hot might have with preventing your plant from stopping steam production.


There is no need it's pointless it's unrelated to the suggestion. You just made up a random unrelated case, "when you expand your ...

Are you seriously telling me there is no value in error-proofing a build because it's possible to make a ridiculously exaggerated error that's too big to proof against?


:lol: i'm just saying there is no compelling reason to keep the reactor always hot, the demo setup i posted is there to ...

I find it peculiar you paired "Expand by a couple of reactors" with "Ensure you have a steam buffer to cover loss in generation" and "Massive 10x expansion!!!" with "Keep reactors hot so that the system doesn't go under 500 degrees", rather than pairing things the other way around.


You can do ...

3) i don't see any compelling reason to keep reactor temperature above an arbitrary threshold, i feel that's a "you" thing. To me the important part is that the electricity is reactive , that's why you have steam tank in the first place.
(I'm not the person this was directed at, to preempt any ...

3) i don't see any compelling reason to keep reactor temperature above an arbitrary threshold, i feel that's a "you" thing. To me the important part is that the electricity is reactive , that's why you have steam tank in the first place.
(I'm not the person this was directed at, to preempt any ...

Controlling the water can be done without electricity since offshore pump don't require it unlike regular pump.

If and only if offshore pump is directly connected to heat exchanger. Add water pipes and suggestion change nothing.

It's not an all or nothing thing.

I just checked my tileable ...

The proposed changed is not how much water turn into steam, it is only to reduce the buffer size of the input for 2 entities, the effect can be easily reverted in a game by adding a tank in your design to have a water buffer,
Or even just adding two pipe segments, since the proposal doesn't ...

Im against any change cause someone has problem that it is already solvable by already existing things and this blaancing would change other things that would had to be balanced due to this. Someone forgot that this change would lead to balancing asterodis casue some people use steam power to fuel ...

For the sake of having more use cases to evaluate the proposal....

The situation where I've most commonly heard this use case is to add hysteresis to the on/off cycle of a backup power plant, to eliminate the extremely rapid thrashing of the system when you toggle a power switch based on ...

Green Cat wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 5:24 pm The devs implement gacha mentality where you need to "pull" for higher tear

That's entirely on you. Most of the rest of us have the mentality that it's a statistics problem.

"Weird" reason? I understand this to be a relatively common mid-game thing to keep a legacy steam plant around for backup power. For example, wanting to prioritize accumulators when using solar power, or to have an emergency backup that should only run if you accidentally brick your nuclear plant ...

As food for thought....

Without modules, a biochamber consumes one nutrients every 4 seconds. With -80% energy costs, that jumps to 20 seconds.

The bioflux to nutrients recipe gives 40 nutrients per craft, for 800 seconds worth of biochamber activity. At 100% freshness and instant delivery times ...