Question: Visco-Gel and Super Coolant

[MaximusLight]

Hey Guys!

Since you have to physically travel to planets now... are Visco Gel and Super Coolant accessible in current version of DLC or not yet i.e. 4th and 5th planet? 

I have not fully explored the DLC yet, I am curious.

 

[Hokaeru]

There a Niobium volcano on the last asteroid, but you cannot find fullerene nor isoresin at the moment. So no, super coolant and visco gel are not accessible.
I think they mostly worked on the first 3 planetoids though, so even niobium is not very much accessible in my opinion.

I hope this helps  

[MaximusLight]

Thank you! It helps a lot! Curious how will they now implement visco gel and other rare resources. Since they need to be infinite Volcano/Vent is fine, although it might be a little boring if everything is vulcano/vent with adjusted activity to give scarce amount.. so hope Klei have idea alraedy.. or community might through some ideas at them

[zach123b]

afaik fulerene will be from meteors but no idea on isoresin.  it has a low melting point so i'm hoping it'll be from a critter

[sakura_sk]

Niobium seems ok to me **spoilers**

Spoiler

A niobium volcano (when present in the cluster) erupts for 63 seconds every 9138 (!) meaning every 15.1 cycles

But it is not little what it can produce. A little below 17 tons! (don't know average production of this volcano yet. Probably there will be less and more efficient ones)

So I just try -really try-.. .to wait patiently ... to see how fullerene and isoresin look like in a planet

(would it be a geyser?! would it be a tree..?  )

But I couldn't help it messing with debug to see how a niobium volcano erupt (before visiting magma planet :P )

 

[JonathanHoffman]

1 hour ago, zach123b said:

afaik fulerene will be from meteors but no idea on isoresin.  it has a low melting point so i'm hoping it'll be from a critter

I'm only on the first three planetoids so far, and the one thing from the base game that I DON'T miss at all is asteroids!  Are there asteroids on some of the planetoids???

Ughhh, asteroids, for me the most obnoxious part of the base game - not so much the destruction from impact (simple enough to deal with that part) but the heat!  Without the mechanic of heat radiating out into space, even steel robo-miners overheat and break.  I hated having to constantly deal with that - and while vacuum is a fantastic insulator, there just didn't seem to be a way through liquid cooling plus temp-plates to really draw away the heat.  I wanted some sort of late game mechanic (infrared-heat sinks?) to help you deal with heat in space.

[acidboy]

3 hours ago, JonathanHoffman said:

Without the mechanic of heat radiating out into space, even steel robo-miners overheat and break.  I hated having to constantly deal with that - and while vacuum is a fantastic insulator, there just didn't seem to be a way through liquid cooling plus temp-plates to really draw away the heat.  I wanted some sort of late game mechanic (infrared-heat sinks?) to help you deal with heat in space.

Steel robo-miners should last for a long while before overheating.  Thermium a lot longer than even that.  If I really want to deal with the overheating, I add a vent next to each robominer with a bit of drywall and just vent a (very) small amount of excess gas to cool them.