Airlock

Overview

 * The construction of airlocks is a core part of the game. Being able to travel outside your base or ship and keeping breathable atmosphere inside without loss is the goal.

Basic Tips

 * A single 1x1 sized airlock is functional, but the placement of wires and pipes needs planning.
 * Most components of the airlock such as: Consoles, sensors, airvents cannot be placed on walls and must be placed on a frame. You can put them on the floor or the roof (provided they are frames) but it is more user friendly to have them on the walls.
 * Using an PCU (Power Control Unit) exclusively for the airlock is recommend. If you have no power the airlock will not work and can lead to you being forced to deconstruct/vent your base to leave.

Requirements
The basic requirements of the airlock are:
 * 2 Airlock doors
 * 1 Console
 * 1 Airlock circuit board
 * 1 Sheet of glass
 * 1 Gas pressure sensor (Sensor kit)
 * 1 data disc to setup the console
 * 1 Active vent
 * 1 Passive vent (Placed in the pressurized area of your base)
 * Enough pipes and wires to connect everything.

Basic Build Process
The general build process is as follows:
 * 1) Build frames and walls
 * 2) Place airlock doors with the wire connections facing inwards.
 * 3) Place console, active pressure vent and gas sensor (Sensor kit can have type adjusted with mouse wheel)
 * 4) * Attention: the airlock will open as soon as the square in which the sensor resides has no air, depending on placement the airlock may open prematurely and vent the air that is left. One sensor per square works best.
 * 5) After placing console, insert airlock circuit board and place glass on top (have glass in active hand)
 * 6) Wire all power and data lines together and connect them to an active power supply.
 * 7) * Both data and power wires for the airlocks will have to be connected.
 * 8) Connect pipes from active pressure vent through walls/frames to a passive pressure vent inside your base.
 * 9) Go to console (turn it on), put in the disk to start the configuration.
 * 10) Select all the components that make up the airlock: Airlock doors, Gas Pressure Sensor, Active Vent. (Passive pressure vent is not required to be selected).
 * 11) * Note that the airlocks will turn red after they were selected to identify them. The first one selected is normally marked at the exterior. Unselect the airlock doors to correctly assign them.
 * 12) Remove the disk.
 * 13) * If there is an error the console screen will say so and the power light will flash yellow.

Note that the airlock may not work if the inside of your base is not pressurized. On the instruction to pressurise the airlock will attempt to pull gas from the passive vent and pressurize the airlock to 100kpa.