Thread by @GeePawHill

ONI: Yet another play-through from around c375 forward. It's c4395, and it's, again, space time.

No pics yet, you've seen it all.

Backstory. In the second pass, I learned even more than in the first, and tried a different space design, the intricate Francis John version. But it's a *lot* of work, and feels very touchy and unmodular.

I also found a kinda cool crusher build for space, which is more compact, seems cheaper, is *definitely* easier. I've modified it to have two layers of door, one to crush, one to drop below to a safe area for pickup.

The trade-off: with this build, you're giving up the bazillion tons of regolith, which means you can have far fewer groomed voles. *But* voles reproduce even as they starve, so even *one* tamed/groomed vole will eventually swamp you in meat.

The modularity is a big plus for me: I can get two modules for two scanners and the telescope, then slowy build the rest of the modules for solar power.

Also learned: 1) My petroleum boiler counterflow was big enough and it's a massive pain to alter it after the fact. 2) Infinite oil storage is pretty irrelevant, one less cell in liquid ring.

3) If your space wall is vertically compact enough, you can *easily* put scanners quite high and solar down below and get the best of both worlds.

4) Running a rail up to the surface is mandatory, cuz you're going steel crazy up there. Keep one canister of steel handy down below, and sweep the rest to the surface.

I'll alert you when I get the first module of the space wall built. :)

Oh, and 5) The fact that lots of things made out of lead melt easily doesn't mean that all things do. lead wire seems to work just fine up to 370c without fails. I need to seriously confirm this before I go for it, but the machines fail well below melting point, and wires don't.

Tomorrow I have one meeting and I'm shooting the next Real Programming, so I'm sure to be blathering off and on about ONI by mid-afternoon. :)