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I love that you were geeking out on your "bookshelf" design as it sounds fun! I could so easily make a joke about you playing with your wood but as someone that could be considered an amateur woodworker, I'll just say that your design sounds like fun.

For the last 1/3 of your video Xero, my brain couldn't help but sing, "And Pop Goes the Glass Sheet." Hope your Pop-A-Glass gets all better by the next video! :D

Out of curiosity, I wonder if swapping the names of the doors will fix the airlock... Or perhaps even disassembling the doors to reset the circuit board.

What about a dedicated furnace kept rather coldish for off-gassing and gas capture/filtering? Then, once off-gassed, use the gas-less ore in your normal furnace? I haven't done this myself. Just thinking out loud.

Looking good Xero. I know I'm watching 5 months back, so I probably should check your recent ones, but a minor suggestion.... If you carry a portable light (I forget the exact name) in your uniform (or any inventory slot?), it casts more light to the surroundings. A selfish ask, but it makes watching what you are doing in the videos easier with better lighting. Positive side effect of not draining your suit battery.

Impactful is a keyword when designing in engineering. This is a criteria for evaluating the targeted values of the design and its impact on the target audience. This is useful for the stakeholders when picking designs that would be profitable and sustainable. These are my understanding of the word impact. When designing think of the values not of the impact.

Hey, About the energy drinks. It's the Sugar maybe? You might need to load up on Probiotics and fix your guts biome.

Neat, book shelf with locking channels and lectern. Sounds as complicated as those spin to expand tables. Debugging. Haha. Good software.

Love plus mod, it's nuts! Anyone who attempts it gets a thumbs up from me :) We almost completed it just before update 8, but then the update broke the mod and we gave up, I understand it's even more challenging now. Might try again after full release....One thing we learnt is when you think you have a big enough space for a specific factory - quadruple it! And managing waste products is critical. Good luck :)

You could have turned the housing off to keep the code from running. Then shut off the input pump and the exhaust pump would still be powered on.

Wont furnace sticking its face into vacuum still radiate?

So close with the filter there.. lol

33:30 put small transformer in front of APC. Battery is higher priority and takes all the power you can throw at it leading to APC not getting any juice. Transformer gets higher priority than battery.

Weak composite window in the back? I thought padded windows were exactly like composite differing only in looks?

I'm looking forward to following your restart. Lessons learned for me as a viewer? Manual control of the powered vent should be controlled by IC. Too many times it ran when it shouldn't have and pulled in hot air with the last one bursting the tank. The garden could start sooner and in a smaller space; perhaps more protected/isolated from the living area with frames rather than walls/windows connected with spaces containing high-pressure tanks. More power generation and solar tracking the sun. A single trade for temperate water and another for temperate oxygen would have been a game changer. Trade coms/control/vending machine inside for easy, anytime access. I'll keep watching your restart to see what other things you change.

Out of curiosity, would the plants grow faster if the grow light were on a bit longer? You would need to respect the min darkness time, typically around 5 mins / day I think. So perhaps the grow light would be on for 14m/day and dark for 6m/day rather than the 10m and 10m in your chip currently. Thoughts?

At 42:46, the gas mixer is set to 67%/33%, but the temp of each gas is different resulting in an oxygen-rich mixture. You could adjust the gas mixer to higher percent on Input 1 to bring the resulting fuel mix to 2:1.

Was it intentional to avoid trading for O2 and Water? You had the thought, but you ruled it as unlikely, but not sure why. Thoughts?

Yah, 1st! XD

@23:00 or so - "usually you're one short"... I hope you didn't jinx the rest of the video.

"Copper is good" - yeah it's good, it's also cable in its natural state; and you're going to need more cable.

Need to put all these in a playlist

Nice run on brutal. Why is the playlist in reverse order for the first 10 in the series?

Thank you for your service man, sorry to hear you talking about the fireworks, hopefully you still enjoyed the fourth somehow.

The lags look like terrain generation, or vram swaps if you're exceeding that

The problem of seeing the cable at 51:00 can be solved if you print some sensor lenses with x-ray vision.

At 19:21 you are losing volatiles since the gas mixture is super hot and includes oxygen, so it's combusting within the pipe.

For emptying the tank, isn't just like pipes that when you deconstruct it the gas is deleted? So no need to drain using the active vent?

RIP the sudden sneeze at 18:34 and continued, muted audio but welcome back at 42:08 !

You were good for a while there and then the mic went bye-bye. =(

My best guess for the damage was heat damaging a chute and then an ore escaping and offgassing something combustible, or pollutants or water has gone to liquid in the tank

Grow light can be turned off while not growing since it's a power hog. And, Mars gets enough light for potatoes so as long as you are not planting in shadows, you don't technically need grow lights. Also, for faster growth, you can use logic / IC to have the grow light on longer (read a few mins before sunrise and a few mins after sunset) as long as min darkness is respected (varies by plant.)

I wonder if it's the water filtration system dumping the vol and pol into your quarters.

I had to laugh as I have never seen someone play this game and get "eaten" by a solar panel before.

I googled it... a 50g gold bar is going for about 3800-3900$...

No heavy drill this playthrough? (the "voxelnator 5000") Edit to add - and spend some iron on a set of stairs and two more frames... you're nearing 50% failure rate of jumping up on the first platform.

You've done a ton of digging. Why not upgrade your drill?

At about 26:30 you ask yourself about what would be different. I have a guess... Since you are using "On" when the chip is in the filtration device, once it turns itself off, it can't run the IC code to turn itself back on. However, since you combine the logic onto an external housing, the Filtration device can turn on/off. I really should experiment, but I guess "Mode" may toggle active vs idle to allow the onboard chip to work, but since the device would remain on, it's likely to be less energy efficient than just shutting down the device. No idea how much power an idle filtration device uses.

Loving this series. I know I'm 9 months behind, but learning in almost every video. Thank you for these! I'm looking forward to when you go back to Vulcan, but I refuse to skip ahead for the same reason you came to Mars. FYI for those of us still figuring it out, in IC10 scripting, "db" is a special register for the device housing the chip. So, if it's in the AC/Filtration unit, then it's a register pointing to the unit itself (Me in VBA I'm thinking). When the chip is mounted within a housing, then that is a reference register for the housing.

You mentioned refrigerant at 55:12 but the large fridge doesn't need you to pipe it. It sucks in N2 from the environment if I recall. It just needs power.

you are correct about charcoal production plant > recycler> centrifuge > furnace (8Vol +4Pol) =charcoal > furnace or centrifuge also solid generator(3Co2 +3Pol) > 1Vol + furnace = Hydrocarbon