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Ah more crowdstrike content. Love it. I wrote a DISM script to "fix" it, but I still ended up re-imaging all the servers and desktops after the fact. Good times.

Renaming Wheat? Yeah ... I renamed a tray while there was wheat growing, and that wheat -- and the wheat that stacked with it -- now has that name ;) Kinda weird and cool. (And just checked -- it looks like you can rename wheat stacks pulled out and dropped on the floor!)

A random greybeard feels the need to expand on your "back then" observation -- yeah, sizes were limited. Mostly the size of the assembled image, not the size of the source file, so removing two instructions (two lines of code) and adding six lines of comments would be a net win. To calibrate how small was small: my KIM-1 in 1978 had a kilobyte of memory; and in 1979, I used Intel 2716 eproms, which stored 2 kilobytes of data, were re-usable, and were cheap. How we reprogram the IC10 chips is a pretty good match for how people handled the 2716 and its cousins. It's tempting to do my IC10 development outside the game, and set up to automatically convert my editable source into minimal files for Stationeer (removing comments and blank lines, checking that it's not too long, then dumping it into the clipboard). One thing the Stationeer limitation will encourage is to build more complex systems using multiple housings, where each housing runs a program that does one simple part. We have the ability to communicate between them. Just have to carve the big job into essentally a collection of simple coroutines. Not sure how the farming might be divided into coroutines, aside from being able to lift Grow Light and Import Bin management out of the way, but I do see that such a tight memory limit will encourage that kind of thinking.

Hey dude, I really like your scripts. Can you tell me where to find them? Specifically I LOVED your vulcan script that identified the types of gas containers in the filler. I may be lazy, but it would be ideal to have a repository (either steam workshop or somewhere else) for some of your good stuff. I, personally, am not strong at MIPS so it's nice to see how you handle solutions. Thank you for the solid videos! Quick edit: even a github would be good. <3

Did you notice any problems with the LArRE Slot 0 Occupied and Quantity values not showing up when coming out of idle after the Activate for a couple of seconds? I've had to inject a *sleep 2* and while it's working fine now, it will continue to nag at the back of my head.

The "right" way is the way that works IMO 😁

Some food for thought... You spoke of backup power generation possibly masking issues with main power generation, and well, there are means to thwarting such problems, such as a suitable application of more logic. For example, the establishment of a monitoring, and/or notification center (preferably in a commonly traveled area), in which you can feed all pertinent data to so you can monitor your atmospherics, gas supplies, gas generation and consumption, power generation and consumption, water generation and consumption, etc. with color changing LEDs to notify statuses, flashing lights to grab your attention to critical issues, and of course, some nice console graphs to display generation versus consumption. Cheers!

The problem with the cooling is the gas sensors. Check the names again. I'm sure you've fixed this in a later episode, though. Thanks for the videos!

Labeler tip: use mouse wheel to cycle through your last 10? label enters, helps when labeling multiple of the same thing

Neat!

Awesome videos!! Thank you very much for your work! I learned quite a lot and in a good pace for a newbie to watch as well.

Is there some easy way of telling the various printers to make x amount and then stop? Having to babysit cable and plate manufacturing is tedious.

And here i am, happy i figured out how to increase the temperature on a ice crusher, and setting up some filtration with status lights and not blowing their tanks up

FYI: Much like the card for your sensor lenses which provides x-ray vision highlighting ores, there is another card which provides x-ray vision highlighting all of your pipe and cable networks. While it may take a bit of acclimatization towards getting used to this feature, I'd highly recommend it. It can be greatly beneficial not only when tidying up cable and pipe networks, but also when laying out new networks as I've noticed you have a bit of a bad habit (no offense intended) of automatically equipping the wrench or cable cutters when placing new pipes or cables especially along wall edges and corners. Many old school players have learned the hard lessons of the lurking potential catastrophes in accidentally splicing into unseen existing networks. So some of us have employed the good-practice habit of not equipping a tool until it was absolutely necessary. But the somewhat recent addition of the expanded sensor lens use with network vision has remedied such problems quite effectively. Cheers!

2 Crowd Strike jokes in ONE episode? I feel blessed by the comedy gods. :D

Are you planning to use charcoal filtration or evaporation to purify shower water? Heating up polluted water with a small heat exchanger and outputting via evaporation valve to your water combustion cooling system is an essentially free and permanent solution, but that area is already crowded enough with pipes. On the other hand, charcoal needs new machines to get going, but the piping is easier and demand is low enough that a quick-and-easy solution might be better. On my next Vulcan run I'm planning to go the water boiling method myself. If I'm going to set up a water combustor rather than trading for bulk water, then an extra few devices to also have the system boil and reclaim polluted water is worth it and will let me use the hardsuit more freely.

@34:41 thats what she said (im older than 40, couldnt resist, sorry)

Personally I boycott the solid fuel generator. I treat coal like its just an ingredient for steel. That being said if you store it in a hot room, it will auto-ignite lol. I want it to be a bit more realistic as in there is no coal on the moon or other planets.

Still planning to encapsulate your solar arrays to protect them from storms?

Is there a specific reason you're not comparing the sterling output temperature with outside temperature and have the base open the doors when the outside temperature is lower?

Rather than enclose the solar panels in a greenhouse, why not just replace them with heavy panels which are impervious to the storms? Surely you can manage the astroloy and stellite construction requirements at this point. Cheers!

instructions unclear, base filling with wheat ... ;) ;) (my second stacker was set at "1" and I went out to dig the basement ... ;) ;)

When fixing the first farm and reseeding the pots the arm tore the plants from as a result of the reset, you forgot to reseed the last pot next to the bin. Cheers!

IRL, plants respire water vapour during their 'sleep' cycle. I wonder if the game engine could allow you to harvest this if they introduced H2O vapour as a plant side-product?

A passive vent to a condensation valve would probably be the preferred way of pulling the liquid water out of the atmosphere. Unless the devs reworked the drain inlet it's going to contaminate your water line with all the gasses in your atmosphere, because it drains a bit of everything, not just liquids. In other words, you've now probably got some N, O2, and CO2 gas in your water pipe. Also, I really like your idea of daisy chaining stirling engines together in series. I wonder why I didn't think of that when I suggested using the stirling engine; I guess that makes us even (LOL)! It won't be efficient for power generation, naturally, as each chained engine will suffer greatly from the law of diminishing returns, but the power generation is just a bonus as they're primarily being used for cooling. A fair bit of experimentation here could also determine how to get the best of both worlds, i.e. power gen and cooling. I look forward to seeing what you'll achieve! Cheers!

the siren.. of the popo going by.. and the Crazy Duck quacking in the back ground is funny.. i thought the printing of the radiator was doing that sound.

I used your backpack filling method in my online video. Works great and I gave you credit in the video. Never saw that method used before. Awesome!

The new lights look great! Or they did before you started blowing breakers at least. It was time to expand the solar and rip out the legacy power drains anyway. And it’ll be beautiful again next episode!

Just some food for thought: on the new combustor set up you may wish to consider beginning the cooling process by utilizing the heat from the steam and exhaust gasses to run a stirling generator for some night time power, and then separate the steam to cool and condense it. Cheers!

Seems like it would be more efficient to use a few long rows of radiators going sideways instead of many columns going up?

At some point you should make a second jet-pack canister so you can just swap instead of having to wait for a fill.

I don't know if it's still the case but solar encased in glass in vacuum was protected with small efficiency loss.

Great videos, with a little of the money you got you could have bought a little coal to up your steel.

I made something like you did here and it works fine. I have a night-time medium fan sucking in 127c Vulcan night air. Some will go to a filtration to filter out CO2 into a tank and the rest is being condensed (pollutant is the only thing that condenses), which is stored in two inline tanks and then a purge valve to keep it all under 4000 kPa. This is all outside. The condensed pollutant is cooling the CO2 to around 55-60c. But the "cool" pollutant is also going inside and being purged into gas and then compressed again to liquify. The heat from the condensed liquid, which is on the gas, is then going into a heat-exchanger with the "original" pollutant as a liquid. Which then cool the gas a bit (it's usual around 70c). And it's also hooked up on a AC (coolant side). When I inject the 55-60c CO2 into the base, the AC will transfer the heat from that into the Pollutant gas in the 2nd stage, which then transfers it to the first stage, where it bleeds off during the night. Works like a charm.

Returning to here ... the idea of losing all my crops when opening access to the next part of the base keeps digging at me. I think maybe the smart move might be to temporarily seal up the hydroponics area with a few walls, so if you dump the air in the base, your plants are happy while you recover. ... Am I being paranoid? ;)

You’re making some cool builds with nice exposition but, Please, prioritize installation of bright overhead lights everywhere. The head lamp is charming for the first couple episodes of a series. But it’s fairly unpleasant long term: we get 320p of twitchy, head bobbing viewing area out of a 1080p stream. Similar request for your moon series.

haha you have same washing machine as me

add a heavy wire transformer to the wire going outside...if you upgrade to extra solar or other modes of power in future. Question: is there a mod that gives random building error.. like a pipe loose electric wire not socketed properly or something not done the correct way.. when building a indoor system and laying the extrnal furnace outside on the moon surface.. i know there is a suggestion on steam for chos surface problem scheduled for future updates.. and Solar flare and random Meteor Showers on the moon is one of them. but is there a mod for that... mostly now its very peaceful and easy to build... i know you can choose before starting the game to option out what you can bring and not bring with you..but like not having a furnace or advance printer that don't work without 1 pre-programable chip with a few printing tool diagrams and some basic manuals welding/drilling/pressure.. and make it look more Admissible like the Aurdino EEPROM chip That can be electrically erased.......and not have the entirety of wikipedia on Any basic chip right out the advance printer... yeah i know its a game.

Future Improvements (so far): 1. Check that the robot arm is empty after dropping item in import bin, if not then signal alarm, sleep, and retry. 2. If on a "first pick", nothing is acquired, signal alarm. 3. If on a "first pick", if not a seed, sleep for 1 minute and continue. (will permit reducing trays to speed up operation)

Idea. Feed the output into a Stacker ;)

This is a nice, clean, and effective setup and coding. It's not fast, but it is constant. Great idea. Even better execution. ❤

I expect this starts again at zero whenever you reload the game or tweak the code? Maybe an external memory chip would help it remember where to resume?

For the investment that seems very simple and efficient to my inexperienced eye. I would definitely need to put this in a separate room out of earshot. Too noisy!

You can cancel pressurization of your airlock even from inside the station. Over the window in the door you can click on cancel button👍

I should have put my comment here, (Portable light, large battery, turn it on and toss in uniform slot). Best light, no need for suit light or head light ever.

Portable light, large battery, turn it on and toss in uniform slot. Best light!!