Show fluid temperature in storage tank and pipe gui

Osmo · Post by **Osmo** » Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:18 pm

TL;DR

What?

Here is an example of what it could look like, done with a (jank) mod

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Why?

It is weird that fluid temperature is shown in the tooltip when hovering over a tank or pipe, but when opening their gui, this information is not present, even when hovering over the fluid icon.

Quezler · Post by **Quezler** » Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:26 pm

+1, being able to see the temperature anywhere at all in this gui would be very nice

Shadow_Man · Post by **Shadow_Man** » Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:46 am

+1000
That's a great idea, how did I not realize that before?!

Rico_Suave · Post by **Rico_Suave** » Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:17 am

+1

iPilot · Post by **iPilot** » Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:23 am

But temperature is constant for all liquids. Is it a change that only makes sense for steam?

Osmo · Post by **Osmo** » Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:21 am

iPilot wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:23 am But temperature is constant for all liquids. Is it a change that only makes sense for steam?

If liquids are at default temperature, i think temperature should not be shown.
I don't know about space age, but in base game, yes, only steam would be affected. It is still a useful information considering heat exchangers output higher temperature steam than boilers.
In lots of mods however fluid temperature matters more, and having this information tucked away into a tooltip where its easy to miss makes it really easy to accidentally mix fluids of unwanted temperature, and then take a while to figure out what's wrong as, again, its easy to miss.

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