Stuck on Cooling 4

[spambin]

Hi guys:

  What am I missing here? I have Cooling 4. To get Cooling 5, I need a Heat Pipe. To research (or make) a Heat Pipe, I need Methane Gas. Methane gas is found on terrestrial worlds at depths >150. I take damage and die (without drilling) after around 130m.

..so, obviously, to get methane, I will need Cooling 5 first. To get Cooling 5, I need methane.



I have tried gathering a hold full of iron/titanium ore and then diving past 150, burning all the iron and titanium for repairs. Even using an entire mk5 cargohold full of titanium and iron, I didn't find any methane drilling at 150-170m. (I guess it would help if I had any idea what it looked like.)

Anyway, please help me out of this loop! Thank!

[nemoricus]

Try going to a glacial world. The heat is much less there, and you can go deeper. Methane looks like a brownish version of vespene, amaranthine, and therazine. You'll hear it and see it puffing out the ground.

[spambin]

Jan 21, 2014 1:57:02 GMT nemoricus said:

Try going to a glacial world. The heat is much less there, and you can go deeper. Methane looks like a brownish version of vespene, amaranthine, and therazine. You'll hear it and see it puffing out the ground.

You're the best! Problem solved.

[Vesper]

You could use the same trick as you tried and get out lava, mithril, diamonds (and you can live on mithril if you didn't know), then build a teleportation node and rock the depths.

[haloboy01134]

Jan 21, 2014 17:52:22 GMT Vesper said:

You could use the same trick as you tried and get out lava, mithril, diamonds (and you can live on mithril if you didn't know), then build a teleportation node and rock the depths.

...although the Glacial world idea is much safer, for you could easily just dismiss the 'envionmental overheating' warning and suffer of a terrible fate.