Technology · Item
Gas cylinder
A steel bottle for 64 units of one gas: hydrogen, oxygen, methane or natural gas.
In the game
How to get it
At the grid: a copper ingot (the valve) on top, steel plates on the sides and across the bottom, bolts in the centre: 2 cylinders. Right-click a machine's gas holder or a tank with an empty one to fill it.
What it is for
Carry gases between machines (natural gas and oxygen to the gas plant), store them, and burn methane, natural gas or hydrogen as fuel in any fire machine.
Why it exists
Gases never exist loose in the world: the cylinder is how a player holds one.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How to make it
At the grid: a copper ingot top middle, 5 steel plates (both sides of the middle row and the whole bottom row), bolts in the centre: 2 cylinders.
Using it
- Holds 64 units of one gas; its name and colour show which and how full.
- Right-click a holder (gas plant, refinery, tank) with an empty cylinder to fill it, with a full one to pour.
- As fuel in a fire machine: methane and natural gas burn 30 s a cylinder, hydrogen 25 s; oxygen does not burn.
An empty gas cylinder: the machines that make a gas fill it. Full, it is a fuel or an ingredient.
On the progress path
LO3TransportSide quest
A sub-action of the step Tank and large tank: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
- BeforeLO2 · Piping
- This stepLO3 · Tank and large tank
- NextLO4 · Electric boat