[2.0.30] Molten Iron below Phase Transition Temperature
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:23 am
Molten Iron in Factorio is defined as follows:
Meanwhile, Wikipedia (and a Chemistry textbook, which I double-checked for sanity) list Elemental Iron's Melting point as 1811 Kelvin =~ 1538 Celsius..... Factorio's "molten iron" would certainly count as "hot", but it is not quite "liquid", by definition. The max_temperature value of 2000 also seems arbitrary? The real-world Boiling Point is given as 3134 Kelvin =~ 2861 Celsius; but it would also make sense for Factorio's pipes to not support fluids that warm (the Pipe itself is made of Iron after all). A more reasonable default_temperature would be 1550, which is just above the Phase Transition point.
The real-world Melting Point for Copper is 1358 Kelvin =~ 1085 Celsius; the Factorio prototype defines "Molten Copper" as having a Temperature of 1100 - which is close enough.
This post is only partially a joke.
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{
type = "fluid",
name = "molten-iron",
icon = "__space-age__/graphics/icons/fluid/molten-iron.png",
subgroup = "fluid",
order = "b[new-fluid]-b[vulcanus]-a[molten-iron]",
default_temperature = 1500,
max_temperature = 2000,
heat_capacity = "0.01kJ",
base_color = {0, 0.1, 0.53},
flow_color = {0.2, 0.68, 0.93},
auto_barrel = false
},The real-world Melting Point for Copper is 1358 Kelvin =~ 1085 Celsius; the Factorio prototype defines "Molten Copper" as having a Temperature of 1100 - which is close enough.
This post is only partially a joke.