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[Sir Pseudonymous]

Is it just me, or did the latest version fuck nuclear reactions to hell? Devices that reduced Destructable City 5 to a single giant crater full of lava struggle to even take the top off the tower... D:

[Argembarger]

Yeah the materials we used to use for shells now shatter long before the reaction is at a satisfactory state...

I find the Fuse material makes a good replacement if you used to use Coal shells. But it has to be a really big shell, still...

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Hmm... That must be it, since the "gigantic block of DEUT at absolute zero surrounded by a ring of neutrons and metal" annihilates the city as well, or better, than it used to.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Will metal still work?

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Hmmm... While giant blocks of absolute zero deuterium seem to work just as well, plutonium doesn't... Adding a thicker (metal, as always) shell just ate up more of the reaction strength.

[Akura]

New version is out.

Spoiler: New materials (click to show/hide)

C-5: Cold bomb. Detonates only at very low temperatures, but when it's cold enough, it seems to go off at the slightest touch or flame. Expolosion is blue, and lowers temperature.

BOMB: Very glowy powder. Explodes on contact with anything. It seems indivudual pixels explode only, causing the rest of the blob of it to scatter, causing more explosions. Seems a little buggy with the Stickman objects(see below)

Quartz: Hardens at higher temperatures, becomes very brittle when cold(at close to absolute zero, it breaks under its own weight), but can conduct electricity when cold. Broken quarts(PQRT) is also usable.

Boyle: Gas that expands when heated. This means that it increases pressure as heat increases.

Singularity: Similar to a black hole, it heats up and sucks particles in. The difference is that it does it a hell of a lot more forcefully, and it behaves like a powder rather than a static object, meaning it moves around(it also consumes itself).

Stickman: There are two Stickman objects now, and both will now place a sqawnpoint rather than a Stickman itself. When the Stickman for that spawnpoint is destroyed, a replacement will respawn. Stickmen seem to be able to stand on the material selection buttons at the bottom of the screen, but quickly die when they do.

Another noticable change, on some display settings, materials will glow red when heated up, increasing in intensity as it reaches its melting point.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Wow, the boyle gas is great for making stable nuke triggers. A bit of that in a metal shell with a couple of wifi blocks triggers plutonium slowly and under controlled circumstances. Provided it's all at absolute zero.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Bump.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Heh, I just updated this this morning, and set to work trying to build a still in it (again). Unfortunately, the water cloners just filled with steam, and turning water into distilled water isn't too impressive...

[Akura]

Interesting effect from putting uranium and boyle in an enclosed space.

Spoiler: For those who don't know (click to show/hide)

Uranium generates heat as pressure increases, boyle increases pressure as it heats up.

Also tried to make a furnace that drops coal and a mix of iron and sand(for impurities), and melts it out by blasting it with plasma gas(regular fire+burning coal isn't hot enough for that. Could replace coal with thermite. That's hot enough), but it just isn't working right.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Heh, I just updated this this morning, and set to work trying to build a still in it (again). Unfortunately, the water cloners just filled with steam, and turning water into distilled water isn't too impressive...

When you said "still" I thought you meant the DF sort at first. THAT would be fun to put into a game like this.

Same concept: a simple retort still for extracting something that has a different point of vaporization from a fluid by heating it so that it evaporates and recondenses someplace where it ends up in a separate container. If yeast ate sugar and shat out alcohol when in water, it would be possible in theory. The main problem is how hard it is to control the temperature. I've made a semi-functional still before (complete with a cooling/condensation bit to recondense the water after turning it to steam), separating oil from water, or turning saltwater into distilled water, but in the first case the gas from the oil was ignited by the steam, and in the second the salt piled up, then turned into lava.

Interesting effect from putting uranium and boyle in an enclosed space.

Spoiler: For those who don't know (click to show/hide)

Uranium generates heat as pressure increases, boyle increases pressure as it heats up.

Also tried to make a furnace that drops coal and a mix of iron and sand(for impurities), and melts it out by blasting it with plasma gas(regular fire+burning coal isn't hot enough for that. Could replace coal with thermite. That's hot enough), but it just isn't working right.

I tried that. Problem is both broken metal and sand turns into lava when heated enough. A plasma blast furnace is easy enough, using some creative electrode setups (creative because every single conductor other than electrodes melts when exposed to the heat the plasma produces...).

[Akura]

I used cloned plasma, plus a E-Wall and Fan wall. Metal and sand do both lava-ize, but at different temperatures, so the trick to seperating them would be to make it cool down so one of them solidifies(metal solidifies first), but I think one of the walls I think I need for that is bugged/mislabled.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Use high pressure and gradual cooling. I couldn't get a self-sustained rig to accomplish this, but using the white hole material and manually cooling/heating the lava in a bowl produces the effect of forcing the glass to the bottom, leaving molten metal on top. The problem otherwise is on cooling broken metal behaves like metal, and broken glass behaves like glass (and sometimes just ends up as glass to start with), so the pressure keeps them "broken" so they both behave like particles, meaning the glass drops to the bottom while the metal remains on top. Might even be possible to use voids and careful cooling to make it automatically remove the glass, so long as the metal keeps flowing over it fast enough, and ends up in a separate cooling chamber.

[Micro102]

The only thing I don't like about this game is that heat doesn't travel through empty space. Things need to be touching in order for heat to transfer.

And FYI, deut bombs are the best.

[sonerohi]

I'm not really sure what is causing it, but I appear to be incapable of cloning bombs. They simply explode the instant they exist. The upswing is that it makes for a cool energy cannon.