Vents and walk-in freezers

[Silvador]

So, I noticed that vents have been added to the temperature tab of the architecture menu. Can anyone elaborate on this new... feature? mechanic? thing!

How are these vents intended to be used? Do I just slap one in a wall and it stops my temperature in that room for going up and down like a yo-yo? Can it be used on both heated and cooled rooms, or only one or the other? Will it reduce the number of heaters/coolers I need to use?

In a8 the heating made sense and seemed to work pretty straight forward. In a9 it got overhauled... and tweaked numerous occasions, but still seemed a bit cumbersome and confusing as far as establishing a stable temperature, especially in a large room. Now, in a10, with the addition of these vents, I have no idea what to expect...

[JonoRig]

Vent is a passive temp item that allows two rooms go equilise their temperature, like having a hole in the wall, but blocked off to stop pawns wandering through, in fact the description says:

A simple vent for equalizing the temperature between two rooms without allowing people to walk between them

[Boboid]

Imagine a vent.

It works exactly like that.
Except Aliens don't use them to get around your colony.

[Matthiasagreen]

Imagine a vent.

It works exactly like that.
Except Aliens don't use them to get around your colony.

yet

[linkxsc]

Basically. If you were in a desert and everyone was whining about hot bedrooms all the time before, what could you do? Put a chiller in every room? Usually I just had my colonists deal with it. Now the vents can be placed in the bedroom walls leading into the main hall (air conditioned/heated) and let a pair of centeral cooling systems deal with it rather than possibly 6-8 individual chillers.

[JimmyAgnt007]

Id prefer vents going up, in a mountain you can bleed off heat deep in your base upwards.  Though I personally just use thermal shafts to dump my heat.  never goes over 120 really so it works well enough.

[Snownova]

Imagine a vent.

It works exactly like that.
Except Aliens don't use them to get around your colony.

yet

Oh. My. Tynan. Imagine if megascarabs could climb through those things! We need a new event, megascarab vent invasion!

[Kegereneku]

That's it, I'm building turret in front of all my vent.

(inbefore someone build absurd number of vent and a killbox to eat scarab forever)

[rmurdocci]

Id prefer vents going up, in a mountain you can bleed off heat deep in your base upwards.  Though I personally just use thermal shafts to dump my heat.

Jimmy, can you please elaborate on the "thermal shafts" topic... Do you mean a cave dug up deep inside your base (4x4 or larger), or is there a way to dig upwards and out when deep in the mine to vent using a 1x1 hole?

[Silvador]

After reading these responses I a) wonder where my brain was last night when I made my original post, and b) fear using vents in case of scarabs >.>

[milon]

Id prefer vents going up, in a mountain you can bleed off heat deep in your base upwards.  Though I personally just use thermal shafts to dump my heat.

Jimmy, can you please elaborate on the "thermal shafts" topic... Do you mean a cave dug up deep inside your base (4x4 or larger), or is there a way to dig upwards and out when deep in the mine to vent using a 1x1 hole?

He's talking about the former.  If it was the latter, heat would not get trapped and the 1x1 room temp would be equal to Outside.  (Which you can achieve using No Roof Zone, as long as it's not Overhead Mountain.)