Materials deletion

[Greybear]

So, I've noticed I can make gases disappear when building tiles on top of them while they are orthogonally trapped. So I am starting to wonder, is there any way to destroy solid materials laying on the ground?

[Tranoze]

yes, melt them to liquid then build tile on top of them while they are orthogonally trapped.

[Greybear]

Thanks for the reply. So there's no way for solids to disappear in the game, without changing their state into either gas or liquid?

[Tranoze]

1 hour ago, Greybear said:

Thanks for the reply. So there's no way for solids to disappear in the game, without changing their state into either gas or liquid?

For spaceout you can put material on rocket then dispatch the ship. There also a mechanic that if material is above no building zone, it will get deleted, but i wonder if there anyway to deliver materials you want to delete there.

[GuyPerfect]

On 10/30/2022 at 10:57 AM, Tranoze said:

There also a mechanic that if material is above no building zone, it will get deleted, but i wonder if there anyway to deliver materials you want to delete there.

I feel like this would probably work:

  

[6Havok9]

4 hours ago, GuyPerfect said:

I feel like this would probably work:

  

What about a mechanized airlock elevator? Even if it's just a single door tall. For science!

Doesn't the deletion zone start 2 tiles above the no build zone btw? IIRC

[Gurgel]

Interesting idea

[tuxii]

9 hours ago, GuyPerfect said:

I feel like this would probably work:

  

This wouldn't work.  In the base game you can build bunker tiles at the top of the map and still have 2 tiles of regolith collect above it in the red zone and you can still send dupes up there to mine it out and collect it.  Spaced Out didn't change these barriers.

The only ways I know of to delete solids is to mine them, (deletes half the mass) feed them to a critter, (hatches only return 50% of consumed mass) have them state change (algae turning to dirt at 125C and then being mined deletes half the mass) or by being in a rocket and abandoning ship.  (I lost over 10 tons of plastic that way once.)

[Gurgel]

Using a rocket would at least work for manual deletion. Hmmm.

[6Havok9]

What if you heat up something inside a tile, forming a column of tiles up to the limit? If you put debris above the column, would it get buried or pushed up?

Assuming that mechanic/bug still works.

[JRup]

By any chance are you talking about the tower of terror @6Havok9?

Sorry to say they fixed it over a year now; the link to the "Cosmic Calling 478755" release is on the image:

[6Havok9]

40 minutes ago, JRup said:

By any chance are you talking about the tower of terror @6Havok9?

Sorry to say they fixed it over a year now; the link to the "Cosmic Calling 478755" release is on the image:

Yep, it was that. I wonder if there Is a way to replicate something similar using flash teleport mechanics.

So: state change from gas, inside tile, to liquid in the available tile above, then a legit freeze of the liquid tile. Further gas/liquid transition would happen above the newly created tile. I guess any debris in the way would get buried. It would also be very impractical even if it worked by actually pushing up debris.

Ok, was a fun thought experiment.

 

[JRup]

56 minutes ago, 6Havok9 said:

So: state change from gas, inside tile, to liquid

The teleporting mechanic with airflow tiles still works, but it'd still be limited by the build limit on the top of the map.

I did some tile destroying a couple of years ago - totally advised against; I'm still playing on the same map against all odds.