The Geothermal Heat Pump is Awesome

[Primalflower]

Just wanted to say that I really love the Geothermal Heat Pump. It's a super interesting power option with one particular mechanic  that I would say breaks some rules about ONI and makes everything 10x more interesting in a particular way. The fact that the heat pump just randomly spews out a selection of materials makes for, on top of a fun visual, a pretty wholly unique, and hard to predict and account for mechanic that makes the heat pump fairly unlike anything else in the game. I have to account for contingency that could happen but might not, something i don't really have to do for anything else in the game in this particular way. Sometimes the device can just, spout a ton of water, sometimes it just doesn't. It really does feel like a device that could go catastrophically haywire if handled improperly and not planned for.

Props to the devs for an immersive and enjoyable gameplay experience.

[hydragyro]

So far it seems fairly predictable:

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the "impurities" you get are based on input temperature, you get them when it first erupts, and you can predict when that will happen based on how much liquid has been pumped into the heat pump.

Now, I don't think that's a bad thing, and the premise is very creative, but the only really new thing here is:

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the ability to get [very tiny amounts of] rare materials that used to require space travel, at the cost of some very hot liquid.

I don't mean to undersell it though, that is kind of a big deal.

[Primalflower]

19 hours ago, hydragyro said:

the "impurities" you get are based on input temperature, you get them when it first erupts, and you can predict when that will happen based on how much liquid has been pumped into the heat pump.

No, this is false. Beyond about 56 degrees there will be an inherent variance due to not everything dropping at once, sometimes you'll get the water and sometimes you won't, which i found to be hard to plan for and fudged my findings for quite a little while until I figured out what was going on. This variance (or rather, random element) in output of a machine basically doesn't exist in any other facet of ONI unless you want to count meteors which are I would argue are kind of an entirely different class of thing