Hi folks,

I'm running my first volcanea playthrough and I'm kind of stuck - I really would like to access the oil biome but it seems very out of reach due to massive amounts of heat and/or steam outside the core area. I almost ran out of algae but made a quick and dirty not-quite-SPOM which feeds hot O2 to my atmo suits in my bedrooms. I only just got the atmo suits fixed, which is why progress outside the base is spotty. The clock is still ticking because I have no real way of supplying cool atmospheric O2 when algae runs out. I guess for now I could just insulate the bedrooms and keep them supplied with cool O2 from a single oxygen diffuser?

Here's what I've got:

• Hot water source about to come online to feed the not-quite-SPOM, which in turn (not quite fully) feeds the atmo suits. I need to a fix a 2nd gas line from it to fully feed the suits
• Secure power with not much draw
• Secure food source and storage via mushroom farming, and occasional omelettes and pacus
• Access to space
• A fairly cool base, considering it's ~200 degrees outside the core area
• A large smooth hatch ranch and a budding glossy drecko ranch - about to access plastic. Both are made to be automated with a kill room right near the food production later down the line
• Potential access to large slime biomes
• 1 kinda-tamed nat gas, but with no way of cooling the power plant, I'm not prioritizing use of it right now

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Here's what I don't got:

• Steel
• Any kind of heat deletion, except for a few wheezewhorts
• Any significant amount of oil, which I'll need for steam turbine/thermo aquatuner setup. I planned the base so that I could make a single large, powerful setup in the bottom left hand corner, which could cool my industry, power plants, and the cool steam vent and easily connect to my main electrical grid
• Any kind of slickster - I got lucky with the pod that printed a few early on, but then didn't realize they would die in the cold so quickly
• Replenishable cool water

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I guess overall I'm looking for guidance from more experienced players on what to do next to thrive - this is only my fourth playthrough and the first 3 were on Terra. The amount of steam and lack of cooling is starting to get me worried - especially on the left side of the base, where heat is leaking in through steam and water.

Volcanea is an interesting challenge, but I did not expect this giant U shaped hot crater that prevents access to the oil biome, and without oil as a heat carrier I'm not sure how to efficiently delete all this heat.

Here's the link to my savefile: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MpcciK0vfKVpHX-eHEUBGZj6ZHAghQgm/view?usp=sharing

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