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The '''Cooling''' Bay is the [[Relay Network]] Bay that removes heat from your other Bays. It makes no BC or [[Salvage]]. Instead it burns [[#Cryo Gel|Cryo Gel]] to produce cooling supply, which flows to your [[Mint]], [[Refinery]] and [[Recovery]] Bays.

{| class="wikitable"
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! Takes in
| Cryo Gel
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! Produces
| Cooling supply for your other Bays
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! Cools
| Mint, Refinery and Recovery, once a Bay passes 50% heat
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! Affected by
| [[Relay Research]] (Thermal Routing), [[Bay Upgrades]]
|}

== How cooling is shared ==

* Cooling only reaches a Bay once that Bay's heat passes the halfway mark. Below that it relies on its own passive cooling.
* Supply is split evenly between the Bays that need it. The '''Thermal Routing''' [[Research]] node lets you weight it toward the Bay you care about most.
* More and higher-level Modules produce more supply. The Cooling Output Efficiency [[Bay Upgrades|upgrade]] raises it further.
* A Cooling Bay only runs Off or Normal. It has no Underclocked or Overclocked mode, and makes no heat of its own.

== Cryo Gel ==

'''Cryo Gel''' is the Cooling Bay's fuel. It is crafted from Frostsac (from Hunt) and Insulating Resin (from [[Explore]]).

The Cryo Gel tank holds a set number of hours of supply at your current burn rate, so levelling Modules does not make your stockpile run out sooner. If the tank runs dry, cooling drops to a tenth of normal until you refill it.

Cryo Gel is not the same as [[DX Coolant]]. Cryo Gel fuels the Cooling Bay over time; DX Coolant is a one-off item you apply to a single hot Bay.

== Surge Capacitor ==

Cooling supply that no Bay needs is normally wasted. The Surge Capacitor [[Bay Upgrades|upgrade]] banks part of it. The banked reserve is spent only on Bays cooling down after an [[Overclock]] burst, helping them recover faster.

== Changelog ==
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