Deep Well – Guide

The Deep Well is a well drilling rig that works automatically like the deep miner: it drills down to bedrock, then delivers polluted water – nothing else. Depending on the planet it comes as liquid into a pipe or as ice into a chute. The water still has to go through the water purifier: the well saves you collecting ice, not the automation. All model labels, the display, buttons and device names appear in German or English, depending on the game language.

Overview#

The ground temperature is the mean of the world's day and night value. From 3 °C – the freezing point of polluted water in the game – the well delivers water, below that ice. With Modus you can force water or ice everywhere.

Requirements#

• Stationeers 0.2.6428, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, StationeersLaunchPad 1.0, see Installation
• Mod in the active mod pack
• In multiplayer: the server and all players

Building and recipe#

The well has the footprint of the deep miner (4 × 2 m) and a drilling mast 4.6 m high. It stands on terrain or on a frame platform and drills through the frame. It is easiest to build it on frames or flat terrain: if it sits deep in the ground, the connections end up inside the terrain and the display sits lower.

Setup#

Seen from the front, the blue drilling mast with its power swivel stands on the right. Below it sits the wellhead, through which the drill string with filter pipe and drill bit goes into the ground. On the left is the pump house with feed pump, settling tank with sight glass and ice former, and in front of it the control cabinet with the control panel at eye level and a work light.

Connections#

On a frame you need a short piece of pipe and cable going up to the connection row.

How it works#

1. Drilling: the drill string turns at 200 rpm and disappears into the ground until it reaches bedrock. The display shows the progress.
2. Delivering: after that the well delivers 0.5 mol/s at full speed.
3. Water: it goes into the liquid pipe at 15 °C until the line is filled to the fill limit (default 80 %, adjustable with the - and + buttons) or 3000 kPa is reached. So no pipe bursts.
4. Ice: every 50 mol makes one chunk of polluted water ice in the ice tray. With a chute it goes in batches of 5 chunks. Without a chute the tray collects up to 50 chunks, which you take out with an empty hand. Nothing melts in the tray.
5. Waiting: if the line or the tray is full, the output is closed or no pipe is connected, the motor runs down. The well then needs only 10 W instead of 500 W.

0.5 mol/s means one ice chunk every 100 seconds – as often as the deep miner delivers ore – or about 32 L of water per hour. That is plenty of drinking water for several players.

Operation#

Display#

Four pages with four lines each, at eye level: overview, planet, output and statistics. The gauge next to it shows the fill level of the line or the ice tray. The key values also appear in the tooltip.

LEDs#

IC10#

More values with get (those marked (W) also with put):

clr resets the statistics.

Example: show the ice in the tray, warning light#

The well is named "Brunnen", a small LED display "Eis" and a wall light "Eiswarnung". The display shows the chunks in the ice tray, the light switches on from 45 chunks – time to fetch the ice or connect a chute.

# Deep Well: show ice in the tray, light on from 45 chunks
define BRUNNEN -2057641468 # Deep Well
define ANZEIGE -815193061  # LED display (small)
define LAMPE -1860064656   # wall light
define WARNUNG 45          # chunks in the ice tray for the warning
alias eis r0
alias voll r1
start:
yield
lbn eis BRUNNEN HASH("Brunnen") Quantity 0
bnan eis start
sbn ANZEIGE HASH("Eis") Setting eis
sge voll eis WARNUNG
sbn LAMPE HASH("Eiswarnung") On voll
j start

Console commands#

Console with F3. brunnen status and brunnen planet work everywhere, the other commands act on the nearest well and only on the host or server or in single player.

The German words work too: fels, ventil auf|zu, licht an|aus, grenze.

Configuration#

File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.tiefbrunnen.cfg, or via the mod settings in LaunchPad. The server's values apply.

Multiplayer#

New device: the server and all players need the mod. Only the server delivers; display, LEDs, speed and buttons are synchronised to everyone and saved with the game. See Multiplayer.

Tips#

• Polluted water is not drinkable: lead the line into the water purifier, put ice into the ice crusher or furnace.
• On Venus and Vulcan the outside air heats up uninsulated pipes. Above 114 °C the water boils – use insulated pipes.
• The well is non-flammable, even on Venus.

Troubleshooting#