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2 hours ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

But there is a way to make more tungsten^^

=> Melt insulation (pipes)

I dont quite get it, are you referring to Radiant Pipes?

21 minutes ago, biopon said:

Cheaper to just melt abyssalite instead, same results.

What you mean, does melting Abyssalite produce Tungsten?

30 minutes ago, biopon said:

Cheaper to just melt abyssalite instead, same results.

You can´t build anything using abyssalite so how would you melt it in the current build of the game ?

(Yeah, there are some tricks with pumps not inside the liquid they are pumping, but even in this case you would need some additional cooling to melt debris.)

 

9 minutes ago, Oni Noob said:

I dont quite get it, are you referring to Radiant Pipes?

Nope just plain pipes (any non insulated pipe should do the trick xD)

Just superheat some liquid using the metal refinery and send it to vacuume room with some pipes made of insulation.

 

9 minutes ago, Oni Noob said:

What you mean, does melting Abyssalite produce Tungsten?

Yes, but insulation is made of abyssalite so your more efficient if you use insulation^^

(Considering abyssalite is finite)

26 minutes ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

You can´t build anything using abyssalite so how would you melt it in the current build of the game ?

I was joking, and assumed you were too.

27 minutes ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

Just superheat some liquid using the metal refinery and send it to vacuume room with some pipes made of insulation.

I don't think there's a liquid in the game that doesn't become gas before it reaches the melting point of insulation/tungsten/abyssalite.

27 minutes ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

(Considering abyssalite is finite)

It's not, you can get it from space.

is there any method to reliably melt abyssallite? Even if you could pipe magma (from magma planet) it turns into rock gas way before temperatures reach anywhere close to melting point of tungsten.

We need solar devices; needs sunlight access and converts abyssalite to liquid tungsten.

6 hours ago, biopon said:
6 hours ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

You can´t build anything using abyssalite so how would you melt it in the current build of the game ?

I was joking, and assumed you were too.

6 hours ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

Just superheat some liquid using the metal refinery and send it to vacuume room with some pipes made of insulation.

I don't think there's a liquid in the game that doesn't become gas before it reaches the melting point of insulation/tungsten/abyssalite.

 

You can use... niobium, actually. But that's literally your only option, everything else is already gas by that point except for diamond and refined carbon. And of course you have to get around the very low conductivity of abyssalite to do this.

8 hours ago, Arcus2611 said:

You can use... niobium, actually.

I would prefer liquid steel or tungsten (use a killn to melt steel (or wolframite))

(A little trick to get something very hot inside your pipes to start heating it up to the required temperature using the metal refinery.)

 

But it´s more proof of concept, cause you will be forced to replace pumps and other buildings and your forced to work in a vacuume insulated room made of diamond glass tiles ...

(Not to mention the heat loss when a duplicant is forced to rebuild the pipes to melt ...)

 

22 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

I`s value it higher than niobium since it`s finite and it`s the only metal able to sustain multiple rocket launches using the hydrogen engine.

Keep in mind tungsten can sustain indefinite rocket launches ;)

(But you can´t build anything using tungsten so wolframite is the go-to material when tungsten is not available. )

 

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