Factorio @lemmy.world Sibbo @sopuli.xyz 11 mo. ago

Friday Facts #387 - Swimming in lava

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Hello, In the last FFF-386 we covered the natural landscape of Vulcanus which mostly showed the visuals, but as you are probably aware we always put gameplay first. Now it's time to find out what kind of greater good you can do to the planet...

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I wonder if we will be able to use the lava to produce steam for power. They've shown some new machines, but to actually produce the electricity is something that would also be interesting to see. If you first come to the planet entirely unprepared, will you be able to build your way back up to another rocket, or will you have to die to respawn on Nauvis?
- To prevent locking your progress if Nauvis gets cut off or completely overrun, we need to include a way to craft pretty much all of the rocket parts on any planet.
  
  They did write this, so I would imagine you can lose your hole base on Navius, and build up again from nothing
  
  I wonder if a challenge mode where you start on a different planet instead of Nauvis would be feasible. At the very least, I expect that a mod will do it eventually.
- A dev mentioned in the reddit fff thread that the sulfuric acid is turned into 500deg steam instead of directly into water, so that could probably be used with a turbine for power. Whether its worth it factoring in the materials used to turn acid to steam is a different story
  
  Link would be nice :)
  
  But otherwise, it may of course be that they still decide that the temperature of the planet is 500°C as well, and then the steam would be useless for generating power.
I really like some reveal of the gameplay, and new machines.

If we're getting a new drill and metallurgy on this planet, I wonder what new and improved machines we're getting on the others!
What stands out to me in this update is the sheer scale of it all. We've seen a small amount of one planet, and there are three more to to!
- When they said the expansion would have an entire extra base game of content they did not disappoint
It looked like the drills were outputing uranium from an iron patch? Visual bug or strange feature?
- They mentioned the drill can mine a 12x12 area, so there is probably some uranium from the patch to the right that is close enough for it to get. Looking more closely, there is a sulfuric acid pipe running to the drill. I don't know how this works with the current miners, but perhaps piping in the acid forces it to mine the uranium instead of the iron?
  
  Ah yes, it's drilling a mixed patch of course. :)
- Probably a byproduct of the huge mining range

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