Professor Oakshell's Guides


A diagram of a base cooling system.

How do I cool my base?

For long term base cooling your best bet is a simple setup with a thermo aquatuner and a steam turbine to move and delete heat.

An industrial brick complete with two saunas for your dupes' recreational enjoymnet.

"Industrial Sauna"

An "Industrial Sauna" that actually works. More efficient, cheaper, and faster to build than traditional Industrial Saunas. Do all of your metal refining and other industry without producing needlessly hot metal.

A diagram showing how to place suit checkpoints on a ladder.

Vertical Suit Checkpoints

Want atmo suits or oxygen masks on your main ladder shaft? Here's a setup to do just that!

A cryofuel condenser for producing liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.

Ceramic Hater Cryofuel

Want to use cryofuel in your rockets but you don't have tons of ceramic or insulite for your fuel lines? No problem! Here's a setup that can safely use cheap pipes.

A diagram of a build for turning phosphorite into refined phosphorus.

Big Key Phosphorus Refinery

Need some refined phosphorus for geotuning your metal volcanos? This build can process more than you can reasonably use.