Can we build with visco gel or not?

[SharraShimada]

In sandbox mode, i´m able to build plastic tiles and ladders from visco gel. Of yourse the wont last, but thats not the point.

In normal mode, i cant select visco gel as material. 

Is this intended behavior or a bug? Or do is miss something? (Yes i have bottled visco gel.

[Cairath]

You can't build from liquids. You need to freeze it so you've got solid chunks.

[SharraShimada]

1 minute ago, Cairath said:

You can't build from liquids. You need to freeze it so you've got solid chunks.

I thought so, but why can i build in sandbox? If would be su much easier to use cisco-gel if we could build tiles from it, that melt instantly. Just for the sake of comfort building.

[Cairath]

Because sandbox is meant for creative play/building, not actual play mechanics. You can use bottle emptier if you want to move it in a liquid form.

[Nitroturtle]

This does work if you freeze the visco-gel.  The problem is that it freezes into full tiles, and then you only get half when you dig them up.  But you can then build plastic tiles with it.  I played around with it in a previous base but stopped when I realized there was no way around losing half the mass.

[Chipplyman]

4 hours ago, Cairath said:

Because sandbox is meant for creative play/building, not actual play mechanics. 

To expand on this: sandbox implicitly creates the required resources when you build something, rather than using resources that already exist in your base. 

[KittenIsAGeek]

24 minutes ago, Chipplyman said:

To expand on this: sandbox implicitly creates the required resources when you build something, rather than using resources that already exist in your base. 

Correct.  When you use Sandbox mode to build something, it provided on the spot in the correct phase.  The confusion comes because frozen visco gel and liquid have the same name.  So think of it like building a frozen sculpture.  It uses ice, which is frozen water.  So technically you're building it with water in the solid phase.  That's what is happening with sandbox mode: It is using visco gel in the solid phase to build.

[6Havok9]

13 hours ago, Nitroturtle said:

This does work if you freeze the visco-gel.  The problem is that it freezes into full tiles, and then you only get half when you dig them up.  But you can then build plastic tiles with it.  I played around with it in a previous base but stopped when I realized there was no way around losing half the mass.

Since Gulp Fishes emit water that can freeze instantly if the temperature is low enough and still not produce a tile, I wonder if it's possible to freeze droplets of viscogel so that they don't make a tile. Like by dripping it in a very cold liquid using a valve. Not that it would be super useful.. Maybe to build a ladder that automelts in a liquid lock, or for making locks by bulding two tiles on spot.