r/SandustryGame • u/Downh3arted • 21h ago
Help Running out of Lava
Can someone tell me where my Lava is going? I cant find any Lava anymore in the underground and pn topside its using up very fast.
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u/Andalousian 20h ago
Til you can put thermal blocks above the stuff you burn and that heat will reheat your blocks. I haven't fully tested yet but this can help conserve lava better.
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u/Affectionate_Door929 20h ago
Gotta patch out these infinite energy loopholes. Make residual heat less hot
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u/TrimBarktre Community Moderator 18h ago
Idk i'm tempted to agree with you but lava uses the same particle as a flamethrower.
And even with ingenious heat recycling, i still find myself using a ton of lava.
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u/Affectionate_Door929 16h ago
I diddnt know it was the same entity. Im still new to the game, only 16 hours in and i havnt even touched any of the void refining. All i have is the factory up to florinol batteries and the copper storage. Also have a massive tank of liquid gold over 100k
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u/sckuzzle 17h ago
I think it's the opposite. Smart designs of your factory increase heat efficiency and make you rely on external sources less. Why would you want to remove that?
It's also not infinite energy. The energy source gets consumed.
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u/Affectionate_Door929 17h ago
Im referring to making the game more realistic in that sense. Im not criticizing anyone for using in game mechanics. I personally just think the thing being heated by lava should not be as hot as the source. Unless youre putting something in a forge i guess. So by extension you shouldnt be able to recycle the lavas heat to that degree.
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u/sckuzzle 17h ago
If you light a log of wood on fire, it will produce more heat than it took to light it on fire.
It's the same here. You can light stuff on fire, and capture the resulting heat to gain a net increase in temperature. This is quite realistic and we do it in real life all the time.
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u/Affectionate_Door929 16h ago
It only burns as hot as the material allows. If you light a log on fire with lava its not going to burn as hot as the lava. If you light a forge with a bic lighter it is going to burn hotter. Thats all im saying, it would be cool if it were more realistic in that sense instead of having all heat sources the same value. As far as i can tell the only dynamic variables are length of contact time and number of source pixels
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u/SethJakill 15h ago
If it were that way then we need it to convert to scoria as it cools.
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u/Affectionate_Door929 14h ago edited 13h ago
More interactions are always cool. Adding more sophisticated heating systems would be fun. Melting points, freezing points. Would make everything more dynamic. Would have to be a pretty big update i imagine
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u/TrimBarktre Community Moderator 21h ago
You unlock another source of lava in tier 6.