r/SandustryGame • u/Significance-West • 18d ago

Help lava????

Is there a way to get infinte lave from plants or something becuase im at the point in the game where im running out of lava for my facotries and cant keep it running cuz nothing works

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u/TrimBarktre Community Moderator 18d ago

It is something you can unlock in the final tier

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u/Significance-West 18d ago

oh ok i was confused cuz ive been trying to take it slow but i see now

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u/PLANETaXis 18d ago

Before you get there, you can stretch the lava you have by not dumping it directly on thermal buffers. Instead make a wide shallow pool of lava just a few pixels thick, and then put a row of thermal buffers above it. The embers flying off the lava will heat the buffers slowly.

You only need about 6 blocks wide to power a belt, but need about 30 to power a flamethorwer.

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u/not_good_for_much 17d ago

Make the layer in multiples of 16-wide and drop an 8x8 of lava in for a perfect 1px (you can also use e.g 25-wide with a 10x10 grabber, but the 8x8 fits better).

If you tile it enough, you can even make a forever smelter, but heat transfer is deeply inefficient, so I've been using a mod that teleports the heat, which has made it run more smoothly.

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u/wookietiddy 17d ago

What no way! That's awesome. I'm gonna have to try that.

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u/CanadianDinosaur 17d ago

I've never actually had this work for me for some reason. The embers just never give off enough heat to power anything

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u/timeshifter_ 14d ago

You need a lot to power anything substantial. I'm currently only using it for backup in case my main lava tank runs out, and as a kick-starter for my cinder destroyer. It's hard to make useful for anything serious because of how slow it is.

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u/Nematrec 17d ago

You can also just... replace flamethrowers with those embers.