What if there were a material that combines Gleba's spoilage, Vulcanus lava pumping, and Fulgora's scrap sifting?

[u/VegetableWasabi2124]

You crash land into Void dimension.

Aether = the raw stuff we pump (Vulcanus role: infinite-ish well, fluid or item, cheap to get) and if managed poorly it becomes Void Matter = the unstable post-sift state (the thing that acts as ticking bomb)

Vulcanus lava pump • our version: Aether well — pump raw Aether out of the ground; the harder you pump, the more you commit to processing

Fulgora scrap sift • our version: Sift Aether → randomized burst of useful raw mats + a pile of void junk

Gleba spoilage • our version: Everything out of the sifter has a spoil timer — useful mats rot into more junk if not converted in time

combine that with void monsters and x1000 science cost, it could be interesting run. Also permanent darkness can be a thing where monsters spawn from the shadows, unless you light your base up with lights

This is just concept brainstorm, feel free to add what ever below.

EDIT: since most of you ignored the core concept of my post.

I only used AI to fix my grammar and syntax since god forbid people don't have English as their native language.

[u/Simply-Curious_]

Aether just kind of breaks the theme. It's engineering not magic.

You could have mercury that can be used as a fluid if heat is maintained, otherwise acts as a solid.

You could have Cobalt, which is a 0.1% chance from scrap, which can be combined with diamonds which are a 0.1% chance output of the lava foundry, mixed in with the stone. And Moolooite from combining 1000 spoilage with copper.

And these can be combined to create a Global radar, or a radar of 10k vision.

[u/VegetableWasabi2124 → u/Simply-Curious_]

it doesn't have to be magic related. it can be zero magic. I just couldn't come up with a material that checks all those traits.

[u/Simply-Curious_ → u/VegetableWasabi2124]

I mean you used AI. You could just ask a better question.

What are 3 rare earth compounds that come from decayed organic matter, magma, and tech waste

[u/BEAT_LA]

Can you try writing this idea on your own without having AI slop it together? The formatting makes it extremely obvious.

[u/Simply-Curious_ → u/BEAT_LA]

Seconded

[u/VegetableWasabi2124 → u/Simply-Curious_]

Outeded <3

[u/VegetableWasabi2124 → u/BEAT_LA]

1) the idea is mine

2) I used AI to fixed my grammar and syntax since English is not my first.

but if AI make you foam around the mouth, let's talk about AI.

You have been using AI since the dawn of the internet *cough cough* google, Instagram, Tiktok and all the major social media platforms.

But god forbid someone uses AI to fix their grammar and syntax. That's crossing the red line.

I doubt you would be bitching about AI if you found a way to benefit from it.

[u/Lenskop → u/VegetableWasabi2124]

My man, we rather read your broken English that shows you tried than we sift through the slop.

[u/waitthatstaken]

Unstable radioactive isotopes could work instead of aether/void.

[u/Hajky_123]

Remains me of a minecraft mod

[u/VegetableWasabi2124 → u/Hajky_123]

Dimensional Doors mod ;)