Carbon skimmer water sieve All comments will be appreciated and will be seen and answered. One way to deal with it is to use a Water Sieve to filter it into clean water. May 15, 2018 · Well I revisited the list and went through all the buildings that have outputs (If im missing one let me know) Oxygen buildings Algae Deoxidizer outputs at 30 C Algae Terrarium 30 C (both) Carbon skimmer outputs at 40 C Electrolyzers output at 70 Celsius (both hydrogen and oxygen) Power Buildings I typically set up a carbon skimmer that feeds a water sieve which feeds the skimmer. washrooms make volume nothing else does so a closed loop is best in this situation. Sep 25, 2018 · Carbon skimmer + water sieve combo to bring the water down to 40C (need a steady supply of CO2) then a single aquaruner submerged in pwater will bring that to 26C I have water pumping into the Carbon Skimmer input and the output is connected to the Water Sieve input. Dec 4, 2022 · Either one is fine. This saves 240 W of power to run a Liquid Pump once the loop is given an initial quantity of water to work with. , if you're pumping water from your sinks, lavatories, or "septic tank" into it. Skimmer-> Water Sieve -> Sublimation Station -> Deodorizer will produce Oxygen 120g of oxygen for every 1500g of carbon skimmed. None of these will cause wrong element damage to a Water Sieve or Desalinator. Then carbon skimmers are the solution for you. 9 slicksters = 1 carbon skimmer. Mar 24, 2020 · OXYGEN NOT INCLUDED "Oceania" Episode 16! In this episode, Carbon Skimmer Loop! Fox FINALLY breaks down and decides to build a carbon skimmer loop in order to cut down on the ever filling CO2 levels. Or you can make a carbon skimmer, put a water sieve somewhere, connect them input-to-output with pipes, pump in a few kg of water, and hook them up to power, and the job's done. A single water sieve can support five carbon skimmers running full time, although this is unlikely to be necessary unless you are dealing with machinery with extremely high C02 output, such as ethanol distillers and petroleum generators. Also I think it’s your lack of airflow tiles preventing co2 from dropping. You can use the Water Sieve for this - the output of one Water Sieve is enough to feed five Electrolyzers. Feb 13, 2021 · Originally posted by MirrorWax: I know you are real smart but if your Carbon Skimmer is connected to your water pump, and you have connected your Carbon Skimmer to your Water Sieve. This saves power, as the loop only needs an initial quantity of water. IMHO It's also good to ensure polluted water block lavatory usage if sieve is not working (as on the bottom example), for one simple reason - you get notified almost immediately about not working system, rather than having all liquid being drained out of the loop. Designate a clean water source and a polluted water destination. This works best as heat sink, if you combine it with aquatuners. first off, you can put carbon skimmer and a sieve in a closed loop. It should just make an infinite loop, but every time I drain it it and replace the water it just blocks up again. Use a liquid pump and connect water pipes to the machine. Jul 31, 2025 · You would only need to put some water into the input pipes of system (using a water pump and a liquid bridge which you would remove once you have water in the pipes) and it would circulate around and be used over and over in the carbon skimmer / sieve loop. Jun 19, 2022 · Tired of carbon dioxide but want to use that carbon dioxide for oxygen. Yes, you really can run a skimmer/sieve combo on half a packet of water. Let the loop run for some cycles. Build vents let it float down to the bottom of your base. . However, I think it's a waste of ressources to refine classics metal with the refinery, better use the Smooth Hatch, it's only cost 5% of your raw metal. Often a water sieve / carbon skimmer loop only need 5 seconds of water flow to get the system primed. It uses sand, but it can help to shore up dirt shortages if you don't have other ways to make it. So I added a tank as a buffer so that the purified water had somewhere to accumulate and allow the sieve to continue functioning. Sep 10, 2020 · Start with this loop (from left to right): carbon skimmer, water tank (500kg clean water), water sieve, water tank (empty), toilet, shower. Jul 3, 2022 · tip don't waste water with skimmer, make a closed loop. Set up a bottle emptier to dump water into it, then enable auto-bottle. Apr 28, 2020 · The water system only handles polluted water from carbon skimmers, yet the amount of germs in the clean water lake is rapidly increasing. Do you mean electrolyzer with hydrogen generator? Electrolyzer can run on germy water but they output oxygen with food poison germs. the skimmer outputs pWater to the sieve that cleans it and sends back to the skimmer. Oct 5, 2018 · From the water sieve you can cycle the water back to Pwater by using a carbon skimmer. No, the carbon skimmer outputs the same amount it takes in. That's no problem. At first I thought it was because the pipes would fill up and the output of the skimmer and sieve was more than the total volume of the pipes, but I added outputs for these to dump any excess, but it *STILL* stops working. This can be used for cooling by inputting 99 C water in to the carbon skimmer. Not sure that it matters but all pipes are isolated. They produce polluted water which needs to be run via a liquid pipe to a liquid vent or into another machine with liquid intake. You'll end up with more than 500kg of water in tank that started with 500kg and there will be extra water in the loop The problem here is that the carbon skimmer is taking equal amounts of input water sources from the pump and the sieve. Also the skimmer plus the sieve use exactly as much power as a gas pump per gram of CO2 removed, but without the possibility to scoop up other gases and waste power that way. Nov 30, 2024 · #3 Dark Helmet Nov 30, 2024 @ 1:23pm The carbon skimmer coupled with a water sieve Oxygen Not Included A Screenshot of Oxygen Not Included By: Dark Helmet Edit: The problem is not only the bridge you're connecting the input of the carbon skimmer with the output of the water sieve. 1 full "bubble" or "packet" of water is 10kg, which is twice as much as is (strictly speaking) necessary. There is automation, but there is a green signal from the AND gate (atmo and gas element sensors are both green). Smart batteries and coal generator Feed some polluted water back to the trees, and the rest into the water sieve to make more polluted dirt, clean water to recycle into the carbon skimmers, and more waste heat. Right now, your clean water is going from pump into the output of the skimmer. Jun 14, 2023 · Skimmers should consume no water at all, here's what I do: build a carbon skimmer right next to a water sieve and loop them together with pipes; put a small amount of water into the system so that the skimmer can work at full capacity and then severe the connection to your main water supply making the skimmer/sieve a closed loop, should only Using your polluted water carbon skimmers or any source for that matter for maintaining or a main source of oxygen for your base. Use large water sources or renewable geysers/vents to fill your skimmers then use the resulting polluted water for your oxygen off gassing needs. Carbon skimmer loop into a water sieve produces polluted dirt (no germs unless your co2 has germs ) into compost for dirt! You reuse the cleaned water back into the skimmer and repeat. One water sieve can serve up to five skimmers. Facilities with pipe inputs will not accept hand delivered fluids. Apr 29, 2019 · Carbon skimmers output 40 C polluted water, regardless of input temperature. I rebuilt both the sieve and the skimmer and it had no effect. Ignore the carbon skimmer in the middle, I detached it because I thought it was causing the block Carbon Dioxide choking out your base? Can't figure out how to deal with the creeping asphyxiation? Not sure how to deal with water or polluted water in your carbon skimmer system? Well you're in Carbon Skimmers can convert some of that CO2 into dirt via a Water Sieve and a Compost. But don't worry. Nov 7, 2020 · I apparently have a blocked pipe in my water sieve/carbon skimmer setup, but I'm too much of a noob to figure it out. If a pipe is contaminated, deconstruct the offending pieces and try again. e. The Carbon Skimmer will remove Carbon Dioxide from the air. It requires a power connection, and clean Water to be pumped in. And it’s the toilets that increase the output, not the sieve. Lines are white. The skimmer makes the same amount of pwater as it uses water, and the sieve creates the same amount of water as it uses pwater, so you never have to add or remove any liquids, you just have to supply the sieve with sand or regolith. However, over time it kept accumulating new water, when there was no fresh input of water. Incidentally, CO2 skimmers and a water sieve can operate in a completely closed loop with just 20-30kg of water, consuming sand and producing polluted dirt you can just shove into a storage bin with a deodorizer nearby. This consumes power and sand to produce polluted dirt and eliminate carbon dioxide. That said, in general, it might work better to try to avoid making bunches of CO2 ahead of time. This lets you exchange building a bunch of pipes for a few nearby, and some dupe labor to run it. The Water Sieve, on the other hand, wants to process 5kg at a time; so you'll need at least 5kg in the line. this is a Terra planet and ideal one. The Carbon Skimmer can't output because its output pipe is full, and the Water Sieve can't output either because its output pipe is also full. Make a loop of liquid pipes from skimmer to sieve. Carbon skimmer doesn't require much of any piping if you put it right next to a water sieve. In the attached image the skimmer on the right is selected, and the output pipe of the right-hand skimmer contains 1 kg of water. The toilet loop will need an outflow for clean water occasionally, to prevent the pipes from backing up. Then link output of sieve into the input of skimmer. Too much water can jam up the system. Alternativly boiling PH2O produces 1/4 of the dirt and looses 1 % H2O in the cycle, but doesn't require Filtration Medium. Also use 2 sensors to automate the skimmer, so it only draws in gasses when needed. The water sieve output is also connected to the Carbon Skimmer input. It will output Water to the Liquid Pipe on its output slot. My setup for carbon skimmers is not working. This little guy A carbon skimmer plugged in a water sieve. I like the fast it's water independent and does not care of what issues I could have with my plumbing for the rest of the base at any point. In addition, the ethanol loop's other outputs can be put through the water sieve/carbon skimmer (this requires more sand than the Oakshells themselves produce). A third option is to pump it to space. Skimmers remove large amounts of carbon dioxide, but produce no breathable air. Until then, it's going to wait. So once you have put water into the loop, you can leave it be and the water will be cleaned as it is used - with no loss or excess (though the germs will remain). Mar 22, 2019 · just disconnect the pump and its pipes. I lost my 3rd base to carbon dioxide, before I figured out the carbon skimmer/water sieve loop. The carbon skimmer and water sieve create a balanced cycle of water exchange. You can cool down the aquatuners using fixed temperature output of both sieve and carbon skimmers. Apr 15, 2025 · The Water Sieve is particularly useful for operating structures like the Carbon Skimmer or the Lavatory, as it allows the use of polluted dirt or filtration media, which are more abundant, instead of clean water. The Water Sieve is a plumbing building in the game that can be used to produce clean water from polluted water. Then you can use a carbon skimmer and water sieve to get rid of it. If you math it out skimmer plus water sieve is same power consumption as gas pump per CO2 removed. A Carbon skimmer/ sieve loop will run fine on like 10kg of water total, BTW. There's a few methods: Use a carbon skimmer to turn bulk co2 into more polluted water (goes well with petrol generators using any kind of fuel) Use the water to make oil via oil wells, boil the oil into petrol, then burn the petrol in generators to make polluted water. Is carbon skimming a water positive process? I noticed that when I looped a carbon skimmer to a water sieve, it kept jamming up. The temperature of the output Polluted Water is the combined one of the input materials. carbon skimmers and sieve are equal water with no added volume. It keeps saying the pipe is blocked at the water sieve but I only have one input and one output. What I like to do for cooling my base is the same as neotruck suggested, but I also use a water sieve>carbon skimmer to get a 40C Pwater. Nov 30, 2019 · The clean water should head into the intake of the skimmer and link the output from the skimmer into the input of sieve. If I delete and rebuild, it will Automation noob here: I have the carbon skimmer and water sieve in a closed loop, but I want to automate the system so that it turns on when pressure is above 1000 g and it turns off when it gets below 300 g. The sieve will do stuff when space on its output side opens up. But it requires manual supply of Sand|Filtration Medium, removal of Polluted Dirt which usually requires two Compost places per Water Sieve, and, of course, power. Time to handle cycles 15-40, water consolidation, mealwood for food. Can anyone help? Sep 8, 2025 · Carbon Skimmer filters Carbon Dioxide from the air, and traps it in Polluted Water. Mainly because it will barely run since the carbon skimmer only turns on when it's in carbon dioxide, and it doesn't look like your base produces much of it. The loops makes it so water can only leave when new water comes to replace it, blocking the bridge and causing it to overflow. Hey Gamer, lets play ONI. It is an Apr 22, 2020 · I have a water sieve/carbon skimmer loop that was working fine at one point. Power looks fine. - water sieve -> skimmer put some water into the pipes then let it run for ages without consuming water. How is your water sieve draining? If the loop is open everything will work just fine. More polluted water comes out than you put fresh water in. Jun 11, 2018 · The Carbon Skimmer is an option to repollutate the water has been cooled by the Water Sieve. In general fluids will Topics Covered:Carbon Dioxide RemovalExploring basicsThimble ReedReed FiberSuit BasicsLearn on the same colony Echo is playing:Coordinates: SNDST-C-291876885 Basically I got a 100% operational water sieve, and as you know it produces 5 kg water/second, which means that it can supply up to 5 carbon skimmer at the same time however, my water sieve + 2 carbon skimmers don't seem to work at all? Only 1 carbon skimmer is operational while the other one has "pipe blocked" red thingy in the bio The ACTUAL output pipe of carbon skimmer is NOT blocked, and Jan 19, 2025 · The carbon skimmer takes in clean water and outputs polluted water at the same volume, allowing for a closed-loop system with a water sieve. The sieve's output pipe will become full, which backs up the input pipe. Nov 30, 2019 · I have water pumping into the Carbon Skimmer input and the output is connected to the Water Sieve input. You only need to look back when extending living areas below the CO2 line Reply reply Aleksandrs_ • I tend to use CO2 to purge pockets of gas Jun 26, 2021 · The easiest solution is a carbon skimmer. When done correctly you can pump a small amount of water to the carbon skimmer, turn the valve to off with the temp sensor and then destroy the valve. Can't figure it out. Slicksters can only be used if you produce very small amounts of co2. The question about electrolyzers have been very well answered. You overfilled the loop, which is why it backed up a little. The Carbon Skimmer is part of the ventilation system. You can even water Apr 15, 2025 · Using a Water Sieve to filter Polluted Water Polluted Water is a common occurrence in Oxygen Not Included, and while it has its uses, it can be a nuisance and a health hazard for your Duplicants. It needs to be supplied a Filtration Medium and receive Polluted Water in a Liquid Pipe on its Input port to function. I tried pumping extra water into Apr 14, 2023 · In two separate savegames, I have experienced an odd occurrence of water disappearing from a closed loop setup containing only a few sinks and a water sieve. I would use 2 different circuits, one for input, anoter for output, so it doesn't get stuck. See attached image. Take all of the polluted dirt and compost it, producing hot dirt (a surplus of 1520. Will the water inside the Carbon Skimmer or Water Sieve lose heat from the temperature outside and eventually freeze the insulated pipes? Welp, I just tried the insulated pipes, they still break. Use a liquid pump to feed clean water to Description:Hello to all the Asteroid Dwellers! Here is a simpe device that takes care of your accumulated Co2-mess. The water types are water, polluted water, salt water and brine. It started out as polluted due me not knowing sieves transfer germs, but even after sitting for about 10 or more cycles, in some parts the amount of germs has just increased, from 10-20k to almost 200k. Same with water sieve. Mar 12, 2019 · Carbon skimmers that share the same output don't like to do that and one of them (at least?) will emit a pipe blocked status. Barely a point in storing polluted water, though. The Carbon Skimmer/Water Sieve combo shouldn't generate enough heat to cause a problem or even be noticable. What gates should I use and how to connect them? IE, you have Carbon skimmer -> sieve -> back to the carbon skimmer. As far as I'm aware, there shouldn't be any water loss in this system, as the listed input and output ratios for sinks and sieves alike are CO2 skimmer just cuts off the level of CO2 where it is placed. We also get some hatches trussed up!Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simu May 10, 2023 · Machines need the correct flavor of water or they won't work. I noticed that CO2 was accumulating so I see that the pipes are blocked. I would love some advice. Apr 6, 2018 · The water you put through a sieve only has germs if it had germs to begin with; i. It allows a colony to operate structures like the Carbon Skimmer or the Lavatory without consuming water by instead consuming sand or regolith which is far more abundant. Use algae terrariums. Then put a carbon skimmer next to a water sieve at the lowest part where that you want to be part of your base. Basically prime the loop with clean water, then skimmer -> sieve -> skimmer Recently I put a Carbon Skimmer to the left of the sieve (such that the skimmer's output was directly on the pipe). It is an infinite water loop so you only Nov 30, 2018 · I lost my 2nd base to starvation, before I figured out the microbe musher. It says the pipes are blocked, even though the water should continue recycling because I have everything connected to power. i use super speed mode sometimes. It will drop Polluted Dirt on the floor when its internal Dec 3, 2018 · First time building a water sieve and I can't get it to work. Aug 31, 2021 · I set up a water sieve, carbon skimmer loop for skimming carbon and purifying the byproducts, but for some reason this always tops working. You build a carbon skimmer and a water sieve next to each other, then you connect the output of the skimmer to the input of the sieve and the output of the sieve to the input of the skimmer. Once you've got enough water to keep the skimmer going full time (which is not that much) just disconnect it and let it run. Sep 11, 2018 · CO2 -> Carbon Skimmer -> Polluted Water -> Water Sieve -> Water + 120 Kg Polluted Dirt / cycle -> 2 x Composters -> 120 Kg Dirt / cycle and you can re-use the water so it's run still you manage to have enough CO2. Any help is appreciated! My blocked carbon skimmer setup. Jul 25, 2017 · The first step to preventing blocked pipes is setting up your plumbing system correctly. 5 g/s by my math) and waste heat. Connect it in a closed loop with a water sieve. As for carbon skimmers, it just means you'll get germy polluted water instead of clean polluted water. Dec 5, 2021 · In this episode I deal with Carbon dioxide building up in my base by building a system with a Carbon Skimmer and a Water Sieve. I wonder is it possible to use the same mechanics and create a closed loop of Carbon Skimmer - Water Sieve? Monitor carbon dioxide accumulation and oversee oxygen generation processes to mold your colony into a veritable deep-space oasis. If you run it into a sieve and then back into the skimmer, the germs simply stay a closed loop forever, never escaping and causing no harm whatsoever. But if you fill it with water, while the water in loop is still germy, it also release germy water. It is required to make use of the polluted water found in the Swamp Biome and to utilise the water in any of the starting biomes. Food poisoning in air is not contagious and will die off pretty fast Btw. If you are then that explains things as you are rotating the poluted water the carbon skimmer is making right back into it, as the Water sieve has nowhere to place the water even if powered. Fluid mechanics are a bit tricky to get the hang of. Other kinds of liquids like crude oil or ethanol will cause wrong element damage. Uses Water to filter Carbon Dioxide from the air. Make a water locked chamber with, carbon skimmer gas valve gas vent to supply small amount of CO2 and use the skimmer -sieve loop to produce polluted dirt than use compost to turn it into dirt and wash basin or sink,deodorizer for hazard management Persy Titan (talk) 00:01, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Cookies help us deliver our services. take some polluted dirt to feeds poke shells to make sand for filtration medium. You can set up a self sufficient water loop with a sieve, this way you aren't pumping excess water. Nov 2, 2022 · The Carbon Skimmer only uses 1 kg at a time. If you connect the carbon skimmer to a water sieve you can have an infinite loop that doesn't consume any water. A carbon skimmer and water sieve to clean up the CO2. all you have to do is prime the skimmer with 3-4 packets of water then disconnect from the source. Later I noticed this sieve not working so I deconstructed the skimmer. Since the carbon skimmer and the sieve input/output the same volume of water, if you put a few packets of water in, it'll run forever as long as there's sand available and power, and shut down when there's no carbon. It needs Power and clean water to run. If you're just pumping the P-H20 runoff from natural gas generators and carbon skimmers, the water coming out of the sieve will be germ-free, because no germs are involved. There exist a few different ways to delete CO2 without a carbon skimmer (though a carbon skimmer and water sieve can get powered by a hamster wheel and battery, so, I'm not sure why you would make that off the table). Carbon Skimmer - Water Sieve closed loop? There is a guide on Gamepedia how to create a closed loop system from Shower/Lavatory and a Water Sieve. Unlike Algae Terrariums, Carbon Skimmers do NOT produce oxygen Sep 8, 2025 · Water Sieve uses a Filtration Medium to purify Polluted Water . The sieve needs piss water, and skimmer needs blue water. It also requires you to actually dig to the surface, which in non-Spaced Out is a pretty long journey and will take a while. It doesn't need a constant fresh supply of water that way. The Water Sieve is a very helpful building as Water is a very important resource. A carbon skimmer-water sieve pair consumes around 1/60th the power of the coal gen running it and will keep up with 15 of them Early game DLC CO2 is too useful to trash, later you probably have bigger problem gases so carbon skimmer doesn't see a lot of use Now put the other side of the valve to the carbon skimmer input, put the skimmer output to the water sieve input and put the water sieve output to the skimmer input also. Jul 28, 2020 · In this episode of the Let's Play, we build a carbon skimmer and water sieve. A Carbon Skimmer can be used to convert CO2 to O2 at slightly less than a 10:1 ratio. So you can keep digging and dumping the CO2, but instead ot trying to get your rate of digging to match your rate of CO2 buildup, the carbon skimmers just sets the level wherever you want. I always put my bathroom/sieve system on the second to bottom floor and the skimmers on the very bottom so I've already got water and the sieve handy, it's just a matter of running power and pipes. Meant Carbon Skimmer for CO2+H2O -> PH2O, then Water Sieve for PH2O+Filtration Medium -> H2O + PDirt & Compost. Feb 24, 2024 · Since the Carbon Skimmer outputs exactly the same volume of liquid as it takes in, it can be built in a closed loop with a Water Sieve. You can have up to 5 skimmers per water sieve. A loop consisting of carbon skimmers and sieves can be built as a closed loop, because the water level will not change. And 8 Smooth Hatch can refine 1,12 tons / cycle ! Steel Refining Jun 19, 2018 · Why would you want to waste CO2 like this?! Use it for carbon skimmers to make closed loops for water usage (converting water to polluted water and then polluted one to clean water again). Jun 22, 2018 · Did you use the water sieve and ran your skimmer with the filtered water? Water sieve makes water from ph2o but don't removes germs. cloz gmqaogfam mwbj xjinlq wrupbx jvifb oyenx girxz ivmwpzs tfs dijn vupp sqavmjg xmfb zvgga