I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that for LESS metal, you could do much better heating by using metal tiles over radiant pipes. I would specifically have the tepidizer area only 2 tiles tall, with the top row metal tiles except for the sensor, and move the conveyor loader up, then have metal tiles along the bottom row where the auto-sweeper isn't, then only have granite pipes anywhere in the Pincha area that isn't metal tiles. Try warming up from 20 C with both setups and see how they compare. As for the tempshift plates, they are largely pointless. Literally all they are is oversized (3x3 footprint despite being 1x1) buildings, so they do nothing to transfer heat from the pipes, because they only touch the element in the tile and those adjacent (a bunch of oxygen and the hydroponics tiles). If you wanted them to actually do something, you could have the loop just be radiant pipes in the two rows above the hydroponics tiles, with metal tiles 2 above, and tempshift plates in the gap row, so that the tempshift plates transfer heat from the metal tiles to the hydroponics tiles. Ultimately though, tempshift plates at their ridiculous 800kg are thermal ballast, and very expensive, so I wouldn't use them for this application.
Hey! I will pass this on and pin this because I think this is really useful to add. I appreciate the response truly. For newcomers to ONI, this way of thinking is great and can help players think outside the box. At some point I may try and experiment with this and I will keep in mind the tempshift plates in the future. Glad for the feedback!
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I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that for LESS metal, you could do much better heating by using metal tiles over radiant pipes. I would specifically have the tepidizer area only 2 tiles tall, with the top row metal tiles except for the sensor, and move the conveyor loader up, then have metal tiles along the bottom row where the auto-sweeper isn't, then only have granite pipes anywhere in the Pincha area that isn't metal tiles. Try warming up from 20 C with both setups and see how they compare.
As for the tempshift plates, they are largely pointless. Literally all they are is oversized (3x3 footprint despite being 1x1) buildings, so they do nothing to transfer heat from the pipes, because they only touch the element in the tile and those adjacent (a bunch of oxygen and the hydroponics tiles). If you wanted them to actually do something, you could have the loop just be radiant pipes in the two rows above the hydroponics tiles, with metal tiles 2 above, and tempshift plates in the gap row, so that the tempshift plates transfer heat from the metal tiles to the hydroponics tiles. Ultimately though, tempshift plates at their ridiculous 800kg are thermal ballast, and very expensive, so I wouldn't use them for this application.
Hey! I will pass this on and pin this because I think this is really useful to add. I appreciate the response truly. For newcomers to ONI, this way of thinking is great and can help players think outside the box. At some point I may try and experiment with this and I will keep in mind the tempshift plates in the future. Glad for the feedback!