Found in: Extinguisher Lockers, Xenobiology Used for: Extinguishing fires and the lives of unaware command staff, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space
Description
This has multiple uses, from ghetto space travel to rocketing yourself down a hallway strapped to a wheeled chair, even to its intended purpose. Easily the best weapon against Slimes. A Chaplain can bless the water in a fire extinguisher to bless an entire stretch of hallway at once. Will need refilling at a Water Tank.
Found in: Emergency Toolboxes Used for: Putting out small fires, ghetto jetpacks Strategy: A fire extinguisher will spray water across the room to put out fires or change your direction in space
Description
Functionally the same as a normal fire extinguisher, but has a smaller capacity and can fit into your pockets. Will need refilling at a Water Tank.
Found in: Atmospherics Office, Emergency Lockers, Internals Box Used for: As the name suggest, used as an emergency oxygen supply. It's not a question about if you need it, it's a question of when you need it, keep one with you at all time Strategy: Stuff it in your pocket, belt, or suit slot and leave it there, you'll need it
Description
A small oxygen tank that you can wear in your belt slot or in the suit slot of various suits. It is typically kept at approximately 21 kPa with a minimal release setting. Oxygen tanks of all sizes can be filled by Atmospheric Technicians and are used with a breath mask to set up an internal air supply. You might want to set this to 16 kPa release pressure. Can be filled to 1013 kPa.
An emergency oxygen tank with a much bigger capacity and a much slower oxygen consuming rate. A must for miners who like to stay in space for long times. Can be filled to 1013 kPa.
Found in: Every room with atmospherics Used for: Sniffing the atmospheric status near it, sending alerts if something isn't right and controlling the room's vents and scrubbers Strategy: Install it in a room wall and it'll find the vents and scrubbers in the room automatically
Description
To use an Air Alarm, first swipe your File:Id regular.pngID card across it to unlock it. Then click the Air Alarm with a free hand to access it's control panel.
Found in: Every room Used for: Automatically closes the fire doors in case of fire Strategy: Pull leaver to close down an area so only people with Crowbars can leave
Description
Used to toggle all fire doors in an area. Can be quickly toggled by shooting at it with a taser or also by hitting with a melee weapon.
When new and before use, or when almost fully emptied, a label can be selected from its interface. This will change its color to indicate what it may contain (or fooling people into thinking it contains Oxygen and not Plasma)
Found in: Locker Room, Atmospherics, Hallway outside the Atmospherics office Used for: Filling a room with air. Can also be use to suck the air out of a room Strategy: Set the pump direction to out, set your target pressure (most likely 101.3 kPa), turn it on, and it re-pressurizes a room until its air runs out
Description
Out with the good air. It both sucks and blows. Be sure to connect it to the blue ports outside Atmospherics to fill it up with delicious air mix beforehand.
In with the bad air. Flip it on to filter out the bad gases very slowly. Connect it to the red ports outside Atmospherics to empty it out once it's full. Make sure you also re-fill the area with clean oxygen.
Found in: Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Atmospherics Used for: Heating up a cold area Strategy: Set heat to high and drag it along with you to prolong a spacesuit-less space walk
Description
Made by the Space Amish, it can reliably heat up a room to livable temperature. Uses a Power Cell to function. All Space Heaters come default with a 1000 watt power cell -- keep it in mind if you need a free cell.
When in dispensing-mode and in a powered room, it can dispense pipes and pumps for use.
You are able to dispose of unwanted pipes and pumps by using them on the Pipe Dispenser.
Found in: Atmospherics Used for: Making disposal pipes and other disposal equipment. Mostly used for repairs or making experimental transit-systems Strategy: Dispose of the entire waste system extra pipes you dispense by dragging them onto the disposal unit
Description
Using a File:Wrench.pngWrench will toggle it between movable-mode and dispensing-mode.
When in dispensing-mode and in a powered room, it can dispense pipes and other disposal equipment for use.
Despite not being able to pick them up with your hands, you can drag the pipe onto the dispenser to dispose of extras.
See information here how to modify the existing ones or make your own disposal pipes.