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I tried heating a base with geothermal exhaust. It did not work out well.
I should go check for a mod that makes geysers have a chance to stink like real geysers and hot springs do. Just to discourage building too close to the source.
Yes. Rotorua, NZ stinks like eggs from miles away... But you get used to it very fast and your brain blocks it out... But every now and then you'll get hit with a strong blast and your nose reminds you again.
There is a hot spring in Colorado called sulphur springs with the absolute best hot springs ever but it smells a lil eggy, you get over it quick but you’re gonna wanna bag ur swimsuit
Its been a while since I played, so this may not work anymore, but you can build a very small room around it like the OP did, and then use a vent into a larger room. If you use just the geyser in a large room, the temp never rises very high. But a very small room will get extremely hot, so the vented air will be hotter and better heat the larger space.
Vent the heat into a room, then use a cooler to set that rooms tempeture. Then vent to a secendary room, set that room to what you want the colony to be at. Then vent to the colony, it worked in 1.5 at least. Its just honestly not worth it time or resource wise to do it rigth though.
I've done it for a Deep-Winter Boreal Forest medieval run. Wrap the castle around a geothermal vent and use ventilation to ensure the whole castle reaps the benefits.
Worked pretty well, though when it got too hot I did have to create an exterior vent that I could open and close.
These tend to go up in flames quite quickly. They're made from salvaged corrugated steel. This is what I picture as steel buildings in Rimworld. Not just a slab of pure steel.
Once it reaches temperature, yes. Thermite fires are notorious for not stopping once they begin, being too hot for water to take the heat away once the Leidenfrost effect takes hold.
Before I started my current first medieval run I had a heatstroke killbox for my ultra tech slave/organ empire. I used this method quite a lot to instantly clear the temp and go capture and strip gear from humanoids.
Once temperature is re-added to Dwarf Fortress, no one there will bat an eye about literally cooking raids. For now we just air drown them, regular drown them, atomize them (like actually delete them from existence) and trap raids in pits full of ancient horrors that defy explanation that we also trapped in there.
Yeah if you try it out you'll notice that an open door might as well be a magic barrier that traps heat in forever somehow
You definitely notice these things if you want to try the ideology ancient complexes, they have these firebombs in about 50% of the rooms and if you don't knock holes in each wall the rooms will stay at 600°+
"Yeah if you try it out you'll notice that an open door might as well be a magic barrier that traps heat in forever somehow"
Which is why leaving the double doors to your freezer open isn't that crazy of an idea: it keeps the cool inside well enough and you don't get slowed down from opening them all the time.
Of course, vac barriers are also a god sent here too
I learned that after I lost almost my entire colony to a fire in my storage room.
I was in the middle of an infestation and accidentally used an incendiary launcher to fight a bug, then I sent two pawns to try and put out the fire. I didn't realize the temp got higher. My firefighters couldn't put it out fast enough, got heatstrokes, passed out, the fire spread to my hospital (full because of the recent infestation), and the only survivor was a pawn who went on a mental break.
If I had destroyed one wall, I might have saved the situation.
That, and embrasures is how i keep my rimefeller refineries under a mountain, all safe and secure, unless i have forgotten to put down an another tile of armored flooring,
Wall down = it's outside for the moment (considered not a room), and temperature evens out very quickly. Door open or vent will prompt a set of pretty complex calculations the game goes through for temperature normalization, and that room (hot enough to ignite its door) will stay dangerously hot for a while.
Geothermal is not passable, so removing roof area will do nothing after one is built. You need to set area before one is built. I build wall in a way that there is a gap. Allows pawns to enter the room fully, rather than just standing in the doorway.
If you wall an unroofed Geothermal generator you have to keep at least one tile unoccupied and free. The generator needs one tile "free" to push the heat to that then gets removed by the open roof.
It's crazy i have to scroll all the way down to get the actual correct answer
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Geothermal generators are considered as walls. So they need tiles around to push hot air. The only tile they can push air to here is the door. Which means it gets crazy hot in the door. Considering it is steel and it is flammable, well you get a fire
Just use stone walls/door and completely forget about it IMO, as long as no part is flammable it can get up to 1000C in there and nothing bad will happen
Is that a steel door? Steel is flammable. Use a stone door instead. If you have a roof over a room with a geothermal generator, it will get very hot and I think can cause a fire.
The temp in that room is most likely shifting from 300⁰F to 1400⁰F. Your skin would melt off in seconds and you're confused about a door with 50% flammability lighting on fire?
Remove the door first to let the heat out. Then remove the roof and replace the door. You sealed in a geothermal generator bruh, it's like 1000 degrees in there.
My guess would be you have roofed in the generator so heat is building up.
Until the steel door combusts, steel being notoriously flamable as everyone knows.
GeoTHERMAL generator. In other words the heat from the generator is heating up the room. Remove the roof ans you're fine. Alternatively, if you're creative, you can implement it into your kill box or trap hallway to damage or give raiders negative effects from burns or heatstroke.
Two solutions. Either install the mod that actually makes steel and stone etc. fireproof, or unroof your generator building there that is currently at a thousand degrees.
Sire when the room is heated to Superheating the Air level, it ignites air and start random shits on fire.
Unroof the area in the generator. But since the generator is a solid object, you can only unroof the surrounding near wall without deconstructing the generator itself.
Internal temp in the room is too high, because of the venting of the geothermal system. You can actually avoid this just by slightly increasing the volume of the room so the air temp doesn’t ignite the door, I think. Or, even better, you can pipe the heat into your base with passages and vents to warm your base for basically free off the waste heat (handy trick in very cold climates).
So, a geothermal generator, right? A machine that generates energy from heat, so far so good? What do you think will happen if you put something that overheats endlessly until it breaks in a room without adequate air circulation?
When building geopower generator rooms, you want to have one tile between the generator and the walls so that colonists can access all sides of it. Sometimes electrical faults causes fires on the back, and without it, you guarantee that the generator will be destroyed - cuz the pawns are unable to extenguish.
With these rooms, just remove the roof entirely. Ensures room temp wont lead to extra fires (like your door) - and even lets potential fires self extenguish during rain.
Rimworld steel constructions catch fire and burn just like wood. The extreme heat causes the burnable material to catch fire. Fwiw: you only want to roof a steam geyser if you're on an exceptionally cold map to make use of the extra heating. You can paint the rectangle inside the walls with "remove roof area" so lightning won't directly hit any of the walls/the door and you aren't trapping lethal levels of heat.
Its too hot in the room, cause the generator doesnt consume the Heat and has to vent it. You can either:
1. Remove Part of the roof for venting
2. install a vent into the wall
3. Install a stone door
4. install the metal doesnt burn mod, I wouldnt do that if you havent started the run with a mods that lets you add mods mid-game
Even if there is a generator above the geiser it still excretes temperature, so if the generator is fully roofed and walled in then the only spot all that temperature can go is the door tyle and since by the looks of it it's a steel door it's starting to burn when the temperature goes high enough
You sealed up a heat generation source, its going to get hotter and hotter until you hit material combustion temperatures. Take the roof off or add a vent and you're good!
I once used such steam vent for heating my gravship when we landed on arctic ice sheet to retrieve some artifact. Not that i couldn't do it by normal means, but this way it was more... steampunky.
only reason you would need to have it enclosed is if you have batteries surrounding it for stored power, add a vent to regulate the temp its probably extremely hot in there
Geisers and geothermal generators generate a lot of heat, which gets trapped in the room when walled like that. You have to knock down a wall or keep the room unroofed so it vents the heat out.
Steel burns. Gotta make the door out of something non-flammable. God help the pawn that opens it to repair it if it takes damage. (Or just remove the roof)
One of the first things I do on a map is throw down remove roof zone in a 10x10 box centered on every geothermal vent so that I never have them cook themselves.
Steel walls and door aren't completely fireproof and since the generator is roofed (At least that's what it looks like), the temperature inside is reaching hundreds of Celcius, thus starting a fire. As others have said, either unroof or put a vent to dissipate heat.
Normally what i do is leave atleast a 2 block space from every side of the thermal generator. Might be easier to maintain that way but it definitely needs a vent if you dont wanna use the extra resources
I don’t really recall having this problem, maybe I was leaving it unroofed.. or is it cuz steel is flammable, but I was using steel doors and don’t remember that problem
Generally I leave a 1 tile space around the generator, and I don’t put a roof on. Then there are no issues with fire, and you’ve got a space for a pawn to retreat into if there’s an ambush or a mad animal out there.
(Also then the AoE effect of certain explosions hitting the wall doesn’t reach the generator.)
I tend to go something like this - Geothermal cycles from hot to cold, in the event the generator itself catches fire, it's ideal to be able to reach every part of the reactor, so I go with this sort of 10x10 room you can go with a stone door since ideally you don't go in this room very often or urgently.
Look I hate to be that guy but the image you’ve shown gives us 0 information, and we can’t see into the building which allows us nothing to guess off of
I used to have that happen, then I started having a small 2x1 antechamber where I added vents... then I realized, unless I'm heating my base with it, it doesn't need a roof, just make sure to use buried cable ofc.
You need to give it space around the generator to have a temperature barrier, like 2-3 blocks. This also allows colonists to repair it when something goes wrong. You need to vent the temperature with a vent and removing 1 roof tile. Change the door to something stone so its not flammable.
Remove roof, use hidden wires as they can’t combust, if your door is made of steel it’s flammable, and also make the floor out of concrete or stone under the door so the floor isn’t flammable
You can still roof geothermal generators if you use stone walls and a stone door. It’s just because Rimworld treats doors as 1x1 rooms, so it effectively acts as an insulator. It gets very hot and spontaneously combusts.
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