No, not items to create that sense of community, items that are used to keep the atmosphere you need to breathe, you dummy.
tmospherics Items
A page on Canisters and other such things.
Contents [hide] 1 Items 2 Equipment 3 Gas System Items 3.1 Gas Containers 3.2 Pipes 3.3 Devices 3.4 Heat Related Items 4 Disposal System Items 5 Transit Tubes 6 Miscellaneous Items
FireExtinguisher.png Fire Extinguisher Found in: Extinguisher lockers Used for: Extinguishing fires and the lives of unaware command staff, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space. Description This has multiple uses, from being a staple of space travel to rocketing yourself down a hallway strapped to a wheeled chair, to even its intended purpose. Easily the best weapon against Slimes. A Chaplain can bless the water in a fire extinguisher to bless an entire stretch of hallway at once. Will need refilling at a water tank.
MiniFE.png Minature Fire Extinguisher Found in: Emergency Toolboxes Used for: Putting out small fires, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space. Description Functionally the same as a normal fire extinguisher, but has a smaller capactity and can fit into your pockets. Will need refilling at a water tank.
EmergencyOxygenTank.png Emergency Oxygen Tank Found in: Atmospherics Office, Emergency Lockers, internals box Used for: As the name suggest, used as an emergency oxygen supply. It's not a question about if you need it, it's a question of when you need it, keep one with you at all time. Strategy: Stuff it in your pocket, belt, or suit slot and leave it there, you'll need it. Description A small oxygen tank that you can wear in your belt slot or in the suit slot of various suits. It is typically kept at approximately 21 kPa with a minimal release setting. Oxygen tanks of all sizes can be filled by Atmospheric Technicians and are used with a breath mask to set up an internal air supply. You might want to set this to 16 kPa release pressure. Can be filled to 1013 kPa.
OxygenTank.png Oxygen Tank Found in: Tank dispensers, Emergency Lockers, Mining Outpost EVA Used for: Mostly used for hardsuits as it nicely fit in to the suit slot, but is sadly too big for a pocket. Also used for bomb making. Strategy: Don't forget one of these when you grab a hardsuit. Description An emergency oxygen tank with a much bigger capacity and a much slower oxygen consuming rate. A must for miners who like to stay in space for long times. Can be filled to 1013 kPa.
Handheld-Plasmatank.png Phoron Tank Found in: Tank dispensers Used for: Used for the Singularity Engine and bomb making. Strategy: Handle with care. Description Used by Engineers for radiation collection from the Singularity Engine, by Scientists for bombs, and your typical scoundrel for lightning fires with a flamethrower or releasing toxins into the air, phoron is the most hunted resource by NanoTrasen. It's the reason you are here. Equipment
Canister.png Canister Found in: Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Atmospherics, Toxins Lab Used for: Used for holding and transporting gases like Oxygen, phoron, and the like. Strategy: Place around hallways, wait for Assistants to open them for no reason. Description When new and before use, or when almost fully emptied, a label can be selected from its interface. This will change its color to indicate what it may contain (or fooling people into thinking it contains Oxygen and not Phoron) Can be made with 10 sheets of Metal.
SpaceHeater.gif Space Heater Found in: Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Atmospherics Used for: Heating up a cold area. Strategy: Set heat to high and drag it along with you to prolong a spacesuit-less space walk. Description Made by the Space Amish, it can reliably heat up a room to livable temperature. Requires an energy cell, all of them are loaded with crappy 1000 Watt one, keep it in mind if you need free battery.
PortablePump.png Portable Pump Found in: Locker Room, Atmospherics, Hallway outside the Atmospherics office Used for: Filling a room with air. Can also be use to suck the air out of a room. Strategy: Set pump direction to out and power to maximum, then watch things fly as you turn it on. Description It both sucks and blows. Be sure to connect it to the blue ports outside Atmospherics to fill it up with delicious air mix beforehand. Turn it on, and it re-pressurizes a room until the air runs out.
PortableScrubber.png Portable Scrubber Found in: Locker Room, Atmospherics, Hallway outside the Atmospherics office Used for: Cleaning the air from phoron and other unwanted gasses. Also used for empting phoron tanks and oxygen tanks. Strategy: Pull it to the (Phoron) leak and turn it on. Description In with the bad air, out with the good air. Flip it on to clean the air very slowly. Connect it to the red ports outside Atmospherics to empty it out once it's full. Make sure you also re-fill the area with clean oxygen.
PipeDispenser.png Pipe Dispenser Found in: Atmospherics Used for: Making pipes and pumps. Strategy: It is still possible to dispose of pipes and pumps into it when it's in movable-mode. Description Using a Wrench will toggle it between movable-mode and dispensing-mode. When in dispensing-mode and in a powered room, it can dispense pipes and pumps for use. Despite not being able to pick them up with your hands, you can drag the pipe onto the dispenser to dispose of extras.
Gas System Items Gas Containers Canisters:
The most used gas container on the station. Can be moved and connected to a Connector Port using a wrench.
Canister.png Canister
Plasma canister.png Phoron Canister
O2 canister.png O2 Canister
CO2 canister.png CO2 Canister
N2 canister.png N2 Canister
N2O canister.png N2O Canister
Air Canister.png Air Canister
Pressure Tanks:
Bigger containers than canisters. Cannot be moved or attached to a connector port.
O2 Pressure Tank.png O2 Pressure Tank
Plasma Pressure Tank.png Phoron Pressure Tank
N2 Pressure Tank.png N2 Pressure Tank
CO2 Pressure Tank.png CO2 Pressure Tank
N2O Pressure Tank.png N2O Pressure Tank
Pipes Pipe.pngPipe Manifold1.png Pipe Manifold2.png Regular Pipes The most basic objects needed in a Gas Pipe Network.
Insulated Pipe.pngInsulated Pipes
Devices Scrubber Port.pngScrubber Scrubs the nasty out of things, or acts like a vacuum
Vent Port.gif(Unary) Vent Can pump gasses in or out of its area. used in airlock systems.
Connector Port.pngConnector Port Used to attach canisters, pumps or scrubbers to a pipe network.
Meter.pngMeter Tells the pressure and temperature of the gas inside the pipes.
Gas Sensor.pngGas Sensor
Pump.pngGas Pump The basic pumps you'll find all over atmospherics. Good for precise pressure levels. Goes up to 4500 kPa. The red mark is on the exit side of the pump.
Volumetric Pump.pngVolumetric Pump A bit like the gas pump, but pumps via volume rather than going for pressure. 200 is its max output, but this is fairly significant. Faster than a gas pump (You can even fill canisters up past the standard 4500 kpa pressure!), so best used in systems where precise pressure isn't needed. The red mark is on the exit side of the pump.
Manual Valve.pngManual Valve Prevents the gas from getting through when closed. The green light means the valve is open.
Digital Valve.pngDigital Valve Prevents the gas from getting through when closed. The green light means the valve is open.
Gas Filter.pngGas Filter Device that filters specific gasses.
Gas Mixer.pngGas Mixer Device that mixes specific gasses.
Air Injector.pngAir Injector
Passive Gate.pngPassive Gate Doesn't pump gas, but lets certain pressure through. Can let up to 4500 kPa pressure through. It should be noted that its on status can be easy to miss, being just a small red/green light.
Filter Control.pngFilter Control Heat Related Items SpaceHeater.gifSpace Heater Used to heat up an area.
HE Pipes.pngHeat Exchange Pipes H/E pipes transfer temperatures between the environment and gas within.
HE Junction.pngHeat Exchange Junction Turns a regular pipe network into a H/E network and vice versa.
Heat Exchanger.pngHeat Exchanger These devices equalize the temperature between two pipe networks without actually mixing the gasses. To use, place them facing each other.
Heater.png Heater Heats up gasses to a given temperature when connected to a pipe network.
Freezer.gif Freezer Cools down gasses to a given temperature when connected to a pipe network.
Disposal System Items PipeDispenser.png Disposal Pipe Dispenser Disposal Pipe.pngDisposal Pipe2.pngDisposal Pipe3.pngDisposal Pipes Those pipes are made through the disposal pipe dispenser, use them to fix or expand to the disposal system of the Exodus.
Disposal bin.pngDisposal Unit Where people put their trash which are then sent to the disposal area via the disposal pipe system.
Disposal outlet.pngDisposal Outlet Disposal Intake.pngDisposal Intake
Transit Tubes Transit Tube1.pngTransit Tube2.pngTransit Tubes Transit system used on the Research Outpost of the asteroid.
Miscellaneous Atmospherics Hardsuit.png Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet.png Atmospherics Voidsuit and Helmet The Atmospheric Technician's hardsuit for emergencies.
Portable Air Scrubber Air Scrubber.png
Portable Air Scrubbers act just as their name says- they scrub the air of harmful contaminants. They run automatically once turned on in their interface, and suck in harmful gases such as Phoron, CO2, and N2O. They can be found outside of Atmospherics, as well as in the Locker Room.
To use a portable air scrubber, simply put it in the room with the harmful gas inside, set the power level to something appropriate (this is the rate that the scrubber will intake harmful gases), and turn it on. It will then begin to drain the nearby tiles of harmful gases, storing them inside. It's as simple as that.
Once filled with phoron and CO2 from that phoron leak that caught fire, portable air scrubbers should be emptied. However, the air scrubbers don't work in reverse- you cannot simply stick it into space and have it dump all of the gases into a void of nothingness. Rather, you must connect it to a port with a wrench(similar to a Portable air pump). From there, all of the gases inside will be mixed with the piping system, where they can be pumped out.
Portable Air Pumps are devices that are primarily found in the Atmospherics section of the station, and are most often used by Atmospheric Technicians. They are, as the name suggests, portable, and can be easily pulled around the station. They can be used to either add or drain gases from an area of the station. Most of the time, they'll be used to add gas to an area, rather like normal air canisters, but they can also be used to drain gas from an area, and offer more control over the final pressure of the atmosphere in the affected area than normal air canisters.
A Portable Air Pump, when interacted with, is very simple. It has only a few settings: Power, Pump Direction, and Target Pressure. Power determines whether or not the air pump is currently active. Pump direction determines whether the pump is taking air out of the room or putting it in. Target pressure tells the pump when to stop working; when the air in the room reaches the target pressure, the pump will stop adding or removing air from the room.
By far the most common use of Portable Air Pumps is to repressurize rooms that have suffered a loss of atmosphere, whether through exposure to vacuum or some other means. Once the breach, if there is any, is sealed, a portable air pump can be used to return atmosphere to the room faster than the native vents would do so on their own. Just set the pump direction to out, set the target pressure to the desired pressure that you want the room to be (usually 100 kPa), and turn the pump on. Once the room is repressurized, the pump will automatically stop putting air into the room.
It's important to note, however, that it takes a lot of gas to repressurize any decent-sized room. Make sure that the pump is well-filled before trying to use it to refill an area. Using multiple pumps can also speed up the refilling process for larger areas.
Much more rarely, Portable Air Pumps will be called upon to remove excess gas from a room that is overpressurized. This is just as simple as repressurizing a room. Haul the pump inside, set the pump direction to in, set the target pressure to whatever you want the room's pressure to be, and turn the pump on. The pump will continue to suck gas out of the room until the room has reached the target pressure.
Portable Air Pumps can contain more than 4000 kPa of gas, but begin the round empty. Before they can be used to refill a room with gas, they have to be filled.
The easiest way to do this is to connect them to a port supplying your gas of choice by using a Wrench. The three pumps that begin the round outside of Atmospherics are all set up so that they can be immediately set up in this way (and the ports they're set up next to fill them with regular air, which is what most people will want to use them for). As long as the pumps are connected and air is flowing through the port they are connected to, the pumps will continue to fill with gas until they reach maximum pressure.
As noted above, most of the time you're going to want to fill your air pumps with normal air, but it's possible to fill them with pure Oxygen - or something more sinister - if you hook them up to a port that supplies that gas.
It's also possible to fill the pumps manually, by clicking on the pump with an open hand to bring up its interface, setting the pump direction to In, and altering the Target Pressure setting so that it's lower than the air pressure around the pump, but this is generally very inefficient and time-consuming.
Items
Fire Extinguisher Fire Extinguisher Found in: Extinguisher Lockers, Xenobiology Used for: Extinguishing fires and the lives of unaware command staff, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space Description This has multiple uses, from ghetto space travel to rocketing yourself down a hallway strapped to a wheeled chair, even to its intended purpose. Easily the best weapon against Slimes. A Chaplain can bless the water in a fire extinguisher to bless an entire stretch of hallway at once. Will need refilling at a Water Tank. Holds 50 units of water. Miniature Fire Extinguisher Miniature Fire Extinguisher Found in: Emergency Toolboxes Used for: Putting out small fires, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space Description Functionally the same as a normal fire extinguisher, but has a smaller capacity and can fit into your pockets. Will need refilling at a Water Tank. Holds 30 units of water. Emergency Oxygen Tank Emergency Oxygen Tank Found in: Atmospherics Office, Emergency Lockers, Internals Box Used for: As the name suggest, used as an emergency oxygen supply. It's not a question about if you need it, it's a question of when you need it, keep one with you at all time Strategy: Stuff it in your pocket, belt, or suit slot and leave it there, you'll need it Description A small oxygen tank that you can wear in your belt slot or in the suit slot of various suits. It is typically kept at approximately 16 kPa, which provides just enough oxygen for you to breathe in. Oxygen tanks of all sizes can be filled by Atmospheric Technicians and are used with a breath mask to set up an internal air supply. Can be filled to 1013 kPa. Oxygen Tank Oxygen Tank Found in: Tank Storage Unit, Emergency Lockers, Mining Outpost EVA Used for: Mostly used for hardsuits as it nicely fits in to the suit slot, but is sadly too big for a pocket. Also used for bomb making Strategy: Don't forget one of these when you grab a hardsuit. Put it on your back if you don't have a space suit. Description An oxygen tank with a large capacity and a much slower oxygen consuming rate. A must for miners who like to stay in space for long times. Can be filled to 1013 kPa. Plasma Tank Plasma Tank Found in: Tank Storage Unit Used for: Used for the Singularity Engine and bomb making Strategy: Handle with care Description Used by Engineers for radiation collection from the Singularity Engine, by Scientists for bombs, and your typical scoundrel for lighting fires with a flamethrower or releasing toxins into the air, plasma is the most hunted resource by NanoTrasen. It's the reason you are here. This is also a high-risk item. Plasmaman Plasma Tank Plasmaman Plasma Tank Found in: Plasmamen, Plasmaman Supply Kit Used for: Used as a personal supply of plasma gas for plasmamen. Strategy: Put it on your belt and leave it there. Description Each plasmaman joins the shift breathing from one of these tanks in their right hand. This plasma tank is specially designed to fit in the belt slot. The only other place it can go is on the suit storage slot of a space suit or hardsuit. The tank is already filled to 1013 kPa and it has a large capacity, so it should provide more than enough plasma gas to sustain a plasmaman for the entire shift. Atmospherics Gear
Welding Helmet Welding Helmet
Atmospheric Technician's Firefighting Helmet Atmospheric Technician's Firefighting Helmet
Firesuit Firesuit
Black Gloves Black Gloves
Hazard Vest Hazard Vest
Tool Belt Tool Belt
Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet
Atmospherics Hardsuit Atmospherics Hardsuit
Optical T-Ray Scanner Optical T-Ray Scanner Equipment
Air Alarm Air Alarm Found in: Every room with atmospherics Used for: Sniffing the atmospheric status near it, sending alerts if something isn't right and controlling the room's vents and scrubbers Strategy: Install it in a room wall and it'll find the vents and scrubbers in the room automatically Description To use an Air Alarm, first swipe your Id regular.png ID card across it to unlock it. Then click the Air Alarm with a free hand to access it's control panel. [Expand] Control panel options:
Activate Atmospheric Alarm: Self Explanatory. The Alarm will show on the Atmos Alert Computers and alerts the AI. Scrubbers Control: Controls the scrubbers in the area. Select specific gases to be filtered. Choose between two settings for the scrubbers, scrubbing and syphoning. Scrubbing will slowly drain any gases set to filter in the air of the tile they are on, and transfer it to their pipe. Really, really slow with N2O. Syphoning will do the same, except indiscriminately and drain all gases on their tile. Vents Control: you control vents through the air alarm. There are the following settings: External on, Internal off: will drain/add air from the tile the vent is on to make it reach the selected pressure. All air being moved goes into/comes out of the pipe the vent is attached to. Set to 0 to drain air, or pressurise to specific levels. Both on: completely useless. Don't bother. External off, Internal on: Drains/adds air to the tile to get the pipe attached to the selected pressure level. Setting a vent to internal and the desired pressure to 0 causes ALL gas which enters the pipe to be shunted out onto the tile. Set Environmentals Mode: you can select a preset mode for the scrubbers and vents in the area: Filtering: Default mode, scrubbers are set to “Filter”, vents are set to keep the area at normal pressure (101kPa). Draught: scrubbers are set to “Syphon” and vents are On. Panic: scrubbers are set to “Panic Syphon” and vents are Off. Replace air: scrubbers are set to “Syphon” and vents are Off. Nearly identical to “Panic”. Off: Both scrubbers and vents are Off. Sensor Settings: Let's you change the minima and maxima for pressure, temperature and specific gases to automatically activate the alarm. Activate Panic Syphons: They turn all vents off and set all scrubbers to syphon. You *can* do better than that, but most of the methods involve setting vents to suck, and if you need a panic syphon, then sucking contaminated air into Distro kinda sucks.
Guide to building an Air Alarm. Guide to hacking an Air Alarm.
Fire Alarm Fire Alarm Found in: Every room Used for: Automatically closes the fire doors in case of fire Strategy: Pull leaver to close down an area so only people with Crowbars can leave Description Used to toggle all fire doors in an area. Can be quickly toggled by shooting at it with a taser or also by hitting with a melee weapon. Guide to building a Fire Alarm. Tank Storage Unit Tank Storage Unit Found in: Engineering, Atmospherics, Mining Station, E.V.A., Toxins Used for: Distributing air and plasma to those who need it Strategy: Just choose what you need Description Immovable dispenser filled with 10 oxygen tanks and 10 plasma tanks (except the ones located in E.V.A. and Mining Station have only oxygen tanks). Canister Canister Found in: Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Atmospherics, Toxins Lab Used for: Used for holding and transporting gases like Oxygen, Plasma gas and the like Strategy: Place around hallways, wait for Assistants to open them for no reason Description When new and before use, or when almost fully emptied, a label can be selected from its interface. This will change its color to indicate what it may contain (or fooling people into thinking it contains Oxygen and not Plasma) Can be made with 10 sheets of Metal. Portable Pump Portable Pump Found in: Locker Room, Atmospherics, Hallway outside the Atmospherics office Used for: Filling a room with air. Can also be use to suck the air out of a room Strategy: Set the pump direction to out, set your target pressure (most likely 101.3 kPa), turn it on, and it re-pressurizes a room until its air runs out Description Out with the good air. It both sucks and blows. Be sure to connect it to the blue ports outside Atmospherics to fill it up with delicious air mix beforehand. Portable Scrubber Portable Scrubber Found in: Locker Room, Atmospherics, Hallway outside the Atmospherics office Used for: Cleaning the air from Plasma gas and other unwanted gasses. Also used for emptying Plasma Tanks and Oxygen Tanks Strategy: Pull it to the leak, put it on maximum power and turn it on Description In with the bad air. Flip it on to filter out the bad gases very slowly. Connect it to the red ports outside Atmospherics to empty it out once it's full. Make sure you also re-fill the area with clean oxygen. Space Heater Space Heater Found in: Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Atmospherics Used for: Heating up a cold area Strategy: Set heat to high and drag it along with you to prolong a spacesuit-less space walk Description Made by the Space Amish, it can reliably heat up a room to livable temperature. Uses a Power Cell to function. All Space Heaters come default with a 1000 watt power cell – keep it in mind if you need a free cell. Freezer/Heater Freezer/Heater Found in: Medbay, Atmospherics Used for: Cooling/heating gasses in pipes, Cryogenics Chamber Strategy: Make a Canister with chilled Oxygen, give it to R&D Description Will cool/heat any gasses in the connected pipes. Can be used to cool down gasses that come in through waste after a fire. Guide to building a Freezer/Heater. Pipe Dispenser Pipe Dispenser Found in: Atmospherics Used for: Making pipes and pumps Strategy: It is still possible to dispose of pipes and pumps into it when it's in movable-mode Description Using a Wrench.png Wrench will toggle it between movable- or dispensing-mode. When in dispensing-mode and in a powered room, it can dispense pipes and pumps for use. You are able to dispose of unwanted pipes and pumps by using them on the Pipe Dispenser. [Expand] List of dispensable items: Pipes: Regular pipes: The station is infested with these things and you want to add MORE!? Place down manual valves to crush the hopes and dreams of any would-be plasma flooding AI. Devices: Connector: Used to attach canisters, pumps or scrubbers to a pipe network. If you can't get a pipe network easily to the filter loop, an empty canister can be a good substitute. Unary vent - See: Vent. Once placed down it will have to be turned on by activating it at an Air alarm terminal. Gas pump: The basic pumps you'll find all over Atmospherics. Good for precise pressure levels. Goes up to 4500 kPa. Passive gate: Think of it as a one-way manual valve, but electronic. Doesn't pump gas, but lets certain pressure through. Can let up to 4500 kPa pressure through. It should be noted that its on status can be easy to miss, being just a small red/green light. Volume pump: A bit like the gas pump, but pumps via volume rather than going for pressure. 200 l/s (~9000 kPa) is its max output. Faster than a gas pump (you can fill canisters up past the standard 4500 kPa pressure!), so best used in systems where precise pressure isn't needed (such as anything to do with the waste loop). Scrubber: Self explanatory, scrubs the nasty out of things, or acts like a vacuum. Like unary vents, needs to be turned on by an Air alarm terminal after wrenched into place. Meter: Wanna know how much gas (and its temperature) is in a pipe? Use these. Gas Filter: Them big ol' blocks of things that ring Atmosia, takes certain gasses out. Filters them, if you will. Gas Mixer: Like a filter, but mixes gasses instead of filters. There is one in Atmosia that mixes nitrogen and oxygen. Heat Exchange: Pipes: H/E pipes transfer temperatures between the environment and gas within'. Besides looking spiffy, you can place some in space to super-duper cool gasses, or create a burning length of death pipe. Junction: Turn that regular pipe network into a H/E network, and back again! After all, you have to get that gas safely into space somehow! Heat Exchanger: These strange and esoteric devices equalize the temperature between two pipe networks without actually mixing the gasses. To use, place them facing each other. (So you're going to need at LEAST a 1 X 4 area to set this up.)
Disposal Pipe Dispenser Disposal Pipe Dispenser Found in: Atmospherics Used for: Making disposal pipes and other disposal equipment. Mostly used for repairs or making experimental transit-systems Strategy: Dispose of the entire waste system extra pipes you dispense by dragging them onto the disposal unit Description Using a Wrench.png Wrench will toggle it between movable-mode and dispensing-mode. When in dispensing-mode and in a powered room, it can dispense pipes and other disposal equipment for use. Despite not being able to pick them up with your hands, you can drag the pipe onto the dispenser to dispose of extras. See information here how to modify the existing ones or make your own disposal pipes.