Suggested additional use for Refined Carbon

[nets]

I have tons of Refined Carbon. That's great but not very useful. Some things come to mind for uses of refined carbon;

A refined carbon burner (releasing Carbin Dioxide, YaY! More Carbon Dioxide!). Or as an alternate fuel for coal burner generators.

Use it for the medicine instead of coal! 

Use it in fertilizer makers instead of dirt. 

In a fanzy Fischer–Tropsch process!  (maybe regular coal would maybe make more sense)

[Sasuga]

I don't think carbon, especially refined, would make great fertilizer for most plants.

In Factorio (and real life?) you can liquefy coal to make it into oil. (I know about slicksters.)

If you can't already in ONI, maybe add the ability to turn it into diamond late-game, and craft more things with Diamond.

The medicine one makes sense to me. But so does coal. So, maybe a more advanced medicine...? :-/

[Sasza22]

I think there should be more usages for refined carbon. Like making carbon fibre for construction or changing it into diamond. Maybe graphite batteries. There are a lot of possibilities.

[goboking]

If we ever get a Combat Upgrade, maybe refined carbon could be used to make carbon fiber, which in turn could be used to make body armor at the textile loom.  Body armor could reduce damage taken when attacked by hostile critters and/or invaders.

[Lawnmower Man]

Carbon fiber would be useful if there were any weight penalties in the game.  Considering dupes can carry around almost 2t each, I haven't seen any real weight penalties.  Perhaps carbon fiber jetpacks would have improved efficiency?  However, graphene could be used as an advanced technology for capacitors, etc.  Activated carbon is used for filtration, so it should also work as a filtration medium, IMO.  An expensive one, at that, but hey.

[badgamer123]

i willing to spend some energy to turn carbon back to CO2...carbon is a deadend you cannot remove(heat it up to 4000+ and release to space?)
the medicine line also seem to unfinished?too expensive to use it early and 0 use later

I think we could have a burner to turn those deadend material to heat energy at least 

[Rainbowdesign]

How do you get too much refined carbon? certainly not with refining coal or?

For the use i can imagine making oil from it and carbon dioxide maybe some fiber .

[nets]

Just now, Rainbowdesign said:

How do you get too much refined carbon? certainly not with refining coal or?

Space travel gives large amounts of Refined Carbon.

[Rainbowdesign]

9 minutes ago, nets said:

Space travel gives large amounts of Refined Carbon.

I wrote the code now however it will likely only be in the next release of my mod which will be at the next oni update.

Recipes are: carbon to: oil, carbon fiber and carbon dioxide

[scaldinghotcarl]

I'd be ecstatic if I could burn it in the coal power plant. Half the power and twice as much carbon production? That's generous and I'll take it!

[Yunru]

Refined Carbon Wires?

[Lawnmower Man]

1 hour ago, Yunru said:

Refined Carbon Wires?

4 kW overload capacity FTW.

[badgamer123]

8 hours ago, Yunru said:

Refined Carbon Wires?

damn I wet myself lol

still we need some QoL change on many resource that stuck in the game in 1000cycle up.

maybe change it to filer medium since it came from kiln i think it work like charcoal filter,now we need a selection box for all air filter at once.

EDIT:god i get it we could make a special new air filter with pure carbon,that just capture air element except oxygen(not outputting oxygen)
the result is a used up carbon filter debris(from my simple web search it seem active carbon can absrob many gas element chlorine,polluted oxygen,steam,high pressure CO2) that you can crack it in a machine that release the gas inside.useful for that a few air pocket moving around your base.collecting them inside and release them in a room have a lot of air sorting gas storage.It look super useful in the cost of you capture too many type of gas unlike normal air filter.

[cpy]

Refined carbon -> activated carbon -> filtration

[The Plum Gate]

I though it was going to be some sort of superfuel for the coal generator, but I remembered that it didn't really have that option.

I see several preludes to chemistry already in the game, maybe it will get an additional use after all.