[2.0.7] Melting ice platform

[Tsuranuki]

So, the ingame tooltip and the wiki both mention that ice platforms "will melt if exposed to heat"

Exactly how does this work? I've got a few heatpipes at max heat next to a section of ice platform, and they're not melting.

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[aka13]

It's flavor text, they don't melt, you just can't place heat pipes on ice without concrete, that's it

[Tsuranuki]

That's a shame, the mechanic is in the game so I wonder why they didn't set it up. Several other tiles in the code refer to a thawed or a frozen variant, so clearly there's some sort of temperature threshold in the game that tiles use to change from one to the other.

Just did some testing.

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data.raw.tile['ice-platform'].thawed_variant = 'brash-ice'
data.raw.tile['ice-smooth'].thawed_variant = 'brash-ice'

By adding these two lines both smooth ice and ice platforms will melt away to brash ice. Sadly the melting radius seems to be only 2 tiles away, even if the temperature is at 1000 °c, and the melting temperature is a fixed 30 °c

[Xorimuth]

That's a shame, the mechanic is in the game so I wonder why they didn't set it up. Several other tiles in the code refer to a thawed or a frozen variant, so clearly there's some sort of temperature threshold in the game that tiles use to change from one to the other.

Just did some testing.

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data.raw.tile['ice-platform'].thawed_variant = 'brash-ice'
data.raw.tile['ice-smooth'].thawed_variant = 'brash-ice'

By adding these two lines both smooth ice and ice platforms will melt away to brash ice. Sadly the melting radius seems to be only 2 tiles away, even if the temperature is at 1000 °c, and the melting temperature is a fixed 30 °c

“Heat pipes and heated buildings would melt the ice, so to protect the ice that keeps you floating you can place concrete (or refined concrete) as an insulator. In practice this just means that most entities can't be placed directly on to ice, we don't actually turn the ice tiles into ocean... anymore. That used to be a mechanic, but it was too annoying to deal with when you try to build in an already heated area.”

From the Aquilo FFF. Good to hear that the engine still supports it even if it isn’t used in vanilla SA.

[Tsuranuki]

There's now a mod for that