Atmospheric Condenser

The Atmospheric Condenser is one of the Modules in Astroneer. It condenses the Atmosphere around it into gases used for crafting at the.

Uses
The following atmospheric Resources can be gathered using the Atmospheric Condenser:

Each planet has a different composition of gases in its atmosphere. Therefore, in order to obtain all of the gases, one must visit different planets with the Condenser. † Power Consumption per 1/5th capsule.

When an Atmospheric Condenser is installed in a permanent base, it's advisable to put it on a Large Platform A on purpose; this is to ensure that it will only complete a single capsule of gas, and won't continuously drain base power while attempting to fill every slot of storage space available to it. Atmospheric gases found on the planet where an Atmospheric Condenser is installed are effectively infinite, and can be produced via the machine at a whim, so stockpiling inside of a base is unnecessary.

On more remote outposts however, it's beneficial to have extra storage space for Atmospheric Condensers to put finished capsules on, so Astroneers can leave and do other things while waiting.

It costs as much to produce 1/5th of a capsule at 100ppu as it does to smelt one ingot of any material in a smelter, but it takes almost an entire medium battery for each 1/5th of a capsule at 25ppu, so remote outposts consisting of several large platforms with power-generating devices next to the Atmospheric Condenser are extremely viable.

Trivia

 * Before 0.10.1.0, the Atmospheric Condenser (previously known as the Fuel Condenser) synthesized Hydrazine from the atmosphere of the planet, at the cost of a large amount of constant power usage and lots of time.
 * The Atmospheric Condenser shares a lot of similarities with the Soil Centrifuge, because of similarities in the way they work, filtering external factors into a resource.
 * When not in use, the Atmospheric Condenser can be switched to a gas with an insufficient concentration to prevent it from making noise.
 * The Atmospheric Condenser will stop running if it runs out of Attachment Slots to place gas canisters.
 * You can place the Atmospheric Condenser on the side of a Large shuttle and travel around with it to collect resources (you might have to attach some sort of power generation to do this.)
 * The amount of power required to collect gas increases dramatically at lower PPU ratings; it only costs 33% more power to collect at 75PPU compared to 100PPU, but it costs 100% more power to collect at 25PPU compared to 50PPU.

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