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Mod, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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8 Sep, 2020 @ 8:52am
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AutoVents

Description
Description
This mod adds an automatic vent that opens and closes to try to make a room reach your desired temperature.
It has been designed to make early game indoors growing more easy by harnessing geothermal temperature.
Works best with Dubs Skylight.
How to use
It's very simple.
It requires the same research as the vent (Complex Furniture).
It costs 40 Steel and 1 Component to make.
The Red arrow must point to the room you want to keep in check. The other side can be a room or outside, but you must keep in mind that it is a vent, so it can only equalize temperature.
Just like a cooler/heater, you can select the desired temperature, and the vent will do its work.
There is also an over wall version which requires a bit more work to build (500) and has less HP (75).
How it works
Just like a regular vent, but before equalizing, it checks if the temperature of the room would get closer to desired temperature by equalizing. If the outside is 30°C and your room is 25°C while you aim for 21°C, the vent will stay closed. But if the outside was 5°C, the vent would open and let the room cool down to 21°C before closing. Pretty simple.
Non-Steam Version
Link to the Github: https://github.com/Slime-Senpai/AutoVents
No power version
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3528642656
Credits
Japanese Translation by Proxyer
Popular Discussions View All (2)
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11 Mar, 2022 @ 10:51am
PINNED: I have great ideas!
Slime-Senpai
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27 Mar, 2021 @ 12:56pm
PINNED: It broke!
Slime-Senpai
86 Comments
Slime-Senpai  [author] 2 hours ago 
Should be fixed. 1.5 sadly won't have the gas transmission like 1.6 does though
Slime-Senpai  [author] 2 hours ago 
Oh, probably the Vacuum thingy I added. I didn't think people would still play 1.5 but I guess it's fair. I can fix it, just gotta get the old version back and put it back for older versions
Shadow 12 hours ago 
I'm still running 1.5 until I finish the current colony, and when I loaded my save this morning it was to a blank map (no structures, pawns, etc. Only terrain). I didn't even have any auto vents constructed on this map, but disabling this mod fixed it (the log was full off errors related to automatic vents and storage framework).
Seems bizarre that this mod could break the game like that, and maybe it was some weird interaction with another mod I have, but could be worth testing it still works with 1.5, at least.
Slime-Senpai  [author] 18 Jul @ 8:55am 
Drefar your idea is a nice one but would massively increase the scope of this so I never went to actually adding it. If anyone else wants to though they sure can xD
Erron Black 18 Jul @ 6:25am 
Thank god for this
Drefar 18 Jul @ 6:14am 
Slime-Senpai I have a question...

I have followed this mod since it kinda came out so I hope to see a reaction or a message regarding the great idea section.
Slime-Senpai  [author] 18 Jul @ 6:08am 
Also this let me realize I hadn't really updated this mod properly and never taken into account gases and vacuum. I have now updated this so that it should work like a normal vent would when encountering those
Slime-Senpai  [author] 18 Jul @ 5:29am 
Oh well, I guess I was wrong. And to be fair I mostly never bothered to do it because I don't really know how to handle it with a setting and I didn't want to go through the research just to do that. I made a second version (see description) that shouldn't use power so that people can have fun in their medieval runs because why not
Torham 18 Jul @ 4:37am 
Actually, fully mechanical vent is entirely real. I have one on my central heating unit. There is a small thermostat that expands with temperature. To it, there is attached a lever with a chain. The chain goes back down to the bottom of the heating unit, and controls the air flow. I can manually set with a screw driver at which temperature the air vent closes down, starving the fire inside and cooling the unit. Entirely mechanical. I just lit the boiler in the winter, and refuel periodically and it automatically self regulates the airflow as not to overheat. No electricity.
Kowhaifan 17 Jul @ 4:19am 
@Kagetora brother you are forgetting the whole "opening and shutting the vent" part.