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Lavaland Gas Mining
So, bounties are not paying out like you want them to. Try gas farming!
Every shift magical forces change the gas composition of lavaland, letting you roll a few gasses
Nitrogen
CO2
O2
BZ
Plasma
H20
What we are looking for is that sweet BZ which typically rolls from 0-25%~ percentage of the air.
That is a lot of MONEY that you can make. But extracting gasses from lavaland can be a challenge as you need open tuff for it to spawn and scrubbers do not work outside of the lavaland mining base.
Preparation and Setting Up
Gas mining requires mining access, so as a cargo tech beg HOP for access or get a spare mining conscription kit. Inside of it theres a mining access card that you can apply mining access to your ID
Aux base also required to drop the base, QMs start with this access. Alternatively you may ask AI to drop the base.
Aux base also contain the RPD which is vital to laying the pipes for the gas mining and a set of basic tools you will need
You also require freezers to chill the air so you can pack as much moles of air into a single cannister. So this requires either mining or Science access.
This is the single highest barrier to gas mining as convincing HOP to give access is a dice roll. You may have better chances asking AI/ENG/SCI to use the lathe, tell them you are upgrading the ORM and the other department are traitors to materials.
Aux Base Gas Mining
Instead of using passive vents to draw air, I highly recommend the AUX base as the tiles on it are powered by the magics of lavaland. Simply use a landing field designator (found in Aux base or mining lockers) somewhere near the lavaland base.
Run back to Aux base, and start laying pipes.
Try to fill every square with a scrubber, since the powered tiles are a valuable resource on lavaland since you need blueprints to even expand them.
After you are done laying pipes, use metal to make a air alarm frame and install it into the single wall, send the base down using the blue monitor in the middle of Aux Base.
Remember to Tell your miners that the base is dropping and where so you do not gib them, then drop the base. After dropping the base, quickly leave before you fall to your death.
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Head to a autolathe (there is one at cargo lobby) and make a air alarm electronics and cable coil if you have no already grabbed them and head to the aux base.
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Lay the pipes into the lavaland base. I normally pipe it directly into the old smelter room. Do this so your miners do not get pissed about you getting in their way and it gives you space to work with.
Strongly recommend adding a valve so you can shut off the input because the pressure may kill you
Complete the air alarm by adding electronics to the frame, then wires. Screwdriver to finish
At this point you can set the air alarm, personally iset to panic siphon, manually setting it all takes far too much time.
Compressing air theory
Managing lavaland Atmosia has many set ups. But I primarily inject it into a chamber so it continually fills. then scrub the BZ from it.
Some might alternatively just scrub BZ Directly from lavaland but injectors can continuously inject air into a chamber so it does not clog completely.
Without freezers to compress the air you might only get a few thousand moles in depending on the rolled temperature of lavaland at roundstart ( i have seen 10-60 degrees C). So get those parts from engineering and build freezers to compress the air.
Build a cannister(10 iron in hand) and wrench it into a connector with your BZ extraction method and start hauling it to sell!
Try to always have a cannister being filled so production does not stop simply because there is no space in the pipes/containers.
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This is my personal setup post scrubber nerf. Depending on access problems will take approximately 20 minutes to speed run set up alone. Assuming no problems like a cult or revs in the way. You will not be able to finish this effectively before nuke ops so don’t bother.
Dont Stop there!
take atmosia further and ultilise the plasma and plasma if any for tritium production. Its one of the only places besides metastation plasma miner where plasma regenerates if the station runs out or the SM is not configured filter plasma. It wont be enough to make a lot of fusion but i can see it happen if more experienced atmos men can optimise a set up.
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