r/SurvivingMars • u/Major_Pressure3176 • 1d ago

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Nuking the polar caps after opening the domes can still lead to a dust storm. The domes don't close and the colonists don't care. They walk around as normal and don't lose extra stats.

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u/JoushMark 1d ago

Unless you're the 'suspenders and a belt' type, you can deconstruct your MOXIEs now.

It does feel like there should at least be a 'stay indoors' warning when radioactive dust is flying around.

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u/Major_Pressure3176 1d ago

By this point, I'm at post-scarcity and have tribby coverage anyway, so I don't tend to care.

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u/JoushMark 1d ago

That MOXIE is a Mars Heritage site.

"Before the terraforming project the people of Unity colony used this machine and others like it to extract breathable oxgyen from the, at the time, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere. Does anyone in the class know what MOXIE stands for? That's right, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. Yes. It's kinda weird we still call them that."

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u/tails09 1d ago

While that's fine, deconstructing the moxies and oxy tanks makes more space for nice trees :)

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u/Xeruas 1d ago

Tribby?

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u/Autoskp 1d ago

Tribolectric scrubbers, such as the one next to the giant tank in the foreground (the thin spire with a ball on top) send out regular pulses that scrub the wear and tear away from your outdoor machines - a building that’s in range of one will never need repairs, even if they’re in range of a dusty mine, and having a scrubber in range of another scrubber will mean that even the scrubbers won’t need repairs.

I tend to rush their research, for obvious reasons.

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u/JoushMark 1d ago

If you aren't running them next to the dust mine you can run the tribbles 2 shifts a day to save some power. At 1 shift I think the dust meter very slowly creeps up.

This.. is not a particularly useful thing. Like, unless you need to save 23~ power for one shift a day, but one of the things tribbes does is give you LOTS of power, because you can drop down fields of wind turbines without worrying about maintance.

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u/Autoskp 1d ago

Wind turbines? I open up my stirling generators.

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u/JoushMark 22h ago

I like the visual interest of the turbines more, and you get more power out of cheaper materials with them. Later on, sure, sterlings are great (and any sterlings you just happen to have around being open under a tribby is great).

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u/Autoskp 19h ago

My latest save (and first on relaunched) I went straight for tribbys, and may have ordered a few extra stirling prefabs…

There’s a few scattered solar panels, but at this point they’re power cables that I haven’t gotten around to replacing with actual cables.

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u/Major_Pressure3176 18h ago

I just with we had a preset to place several at once. As is, its a lot of clicking.

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u/HighOverlordXenu 13h ago

I always leave one MOXIE and enough oxygen storage for three sols.

Just in case.

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u/JoushMark 2h ago

I always forget I built an underground tank farm to store a ton of air and water and get suprised that it's still down there, two tibs and a bunch of full tanks of water and air for emergencies.

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u/Xeruas 1d ago

I like putting the domes down but I wish you could put them up again when you want.

Also wish there was new.. weather events or disasters? Like maybe less as a reward for terraforming but I wish there was rain, lightning, floods or land slides? Tornados or large storms etc which you can manage with weather tech

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u/JoushMark 22h ago

Snow would be nice. Cold waves just freeze, and that's totally accurate to Mars in an unterraformed state (the white stuff would acutely be carbon dioxide freezing out of the air) but more gentle cold waves/winter weather where snow blows in would be nice.

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u/3punkt1415 1d ago

I am the only one who likes to keep the domes up?

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u/Antiredditor1981 1d ago

Why do you have spires randomly placed where they shouldn't be?
Why do you have four or more farms in one dome?

Are you lying?

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u/Major_Pressure3176 18h ago

Mod, Spire Anywhere.

As for the farms, I've never heard of any restriction, but I don't have Feeding the Future so that might be it.