Ice biome? More like steam biome

[DarkMoge]

Natural world gen at work right there. Though, someone should make a mod that uses it as an idea... Digging into biomes full of hot high pressure gasses is always difficult, so, I suggest a mod that generates biomes full of hot high pressure gasses for extra challenge.

[0xFADE]

melting an ice biome is the best way to get the most water out of it.  Since you are halving the ice when you mine it.

[Bluefoxfire]

57 minutes ago, 0xFADE said:

melting an ice biome is the best way to get the most water out of it.  Since you are halving the ice when you mine it.

And to also make the game mine the ice out of it for you, if you think it in that way,

[Satyrical364]

I had this happen too but it was at the bottom near the oil biome so I didn't find it until the whole thing was melted and super pressurized. I never was able to touch it lol

[bobucles]

2 hours ago, 0xFADE said:

melting an ice biome is the best way to get the most water out of it. 

That may be true, but melting it all in 50 cycles is probably a bit too fast.

[DarkMoge]

12 hours ago, bobucles said:

That may be true, but melting it all in 50 cycles is probably a bit too fast.

that biome actually melts in 5 cycles. At that point, you have half of biome filled with water and other half filled with 50 kg per tile of steam... After the volcanoes erupt, more and more water will turn into steam, creating even higher steam pressure. Volcanoes erupt like once every 15 cycles. Depending on when you reach it, the biome might be entirely steam with like 500 kg per tile.
Also, the steam and water stay at some sort of equilibrium while waiting for volcanoes to erupt, because of the heat transfer, while the water at the bottom is like 60C, steam at the top is over 500C and it stays in constant contact with igneous rock that is still 800C.
 

14 hours ago, 0xFADE said:

melting an ice biome is the best way to get the most water out of it.  Since you are halving the ice when you mine it.

The problem of condensing the biome to water is actually harder than melting it.

[mickaux]

1 hour ago, DarkMoge said:

The problem of condensing the biome to water is actually harder than melting it.

What about a safety valve with steam turbine(s)? Hot water could be even used to melt yet another ice biome.

[0xFADE]

Once it is steam it is easier to heat it up more and suck it in to a steam turbine than it is to cool it down.