Store diamonds in storage.

[Lynette]

Hello.
Added diamond ore to oil update.
However, this diamond is still unavailable and there is no way to organize it.

Store diamonds in storage until alternative.

Thank you for the efforts of developers to make fun of the fun games.
Everyone is happy.

 

[Michi01]

I think it would fit well into the "Industrial Ingredient" category (same for plastic, idk why it needed its own new category. It can't be that it only works that way for crafting recipes, because you also can't select coal instead of bleach stone for hand sanitizers).

[Gravityx]

What is the point of storing something you can't yet use? It would just waste time. On the stream they said its meant to just be something that is hard to dig through right now. But yes of course once it has uses, it should have storage.

 

1 hour ago, Michi01 said:

I think it would fit well into the "Industrial Ingredient" category (same for plastic, idk why it needed its own new category. It can't be that it only works that way for crafting recipes, because you also can't select coal instead of bleach stone for hand sanitizers).

agreed. plastic having its own category seems odd.

[Kasuha]

Phosphorus and solid gases need some love too.

[Whispershade]

3 hours ago, Gravityx said:

What is the point of storing something you can't yet use? It would just waste time.

To clean debris up or move it somewhere else.  I wanted to remove some diamond from an area because they were very hot and I was trying to lower the temperature of the floor to less than 75c.  I suppose my only option right now, if I was determined to clean them up, would be to temperature control it then move a hatch there to convert the diamond to coal. Which is rather ironic, thinking about it.

[goboking]

6 hours ago, Michi01 said:

same for plastic

Agreed.  I was surprised to see it had its own category when it's an industrial ingredient by any measure.

 

5 hours ago, Gravityx said:

What is the point of storing something you can't yet use? It would just waste time.

Cleaning clutter improves performance.  You can also use it to feed hatches if you want coal.

 

[NurdRage]

22 hours ago, goboking said:

  You can also use it to feed hatches if you want coal.

 

That has got to be one of the most hilarious resource issues in the game.

"Use hatches to convert your worthless diamonds into valuable COAL!!!"

[Whispershade]

1 hour ago, NurdRage said:

worthless diamonds

It is actually amusing to me that diamonds are considered valuable and the convention is generally kept in games. It is one of the most common gemstone with only relatively recent industrial applications. That they're worth a lot owes mostly to slick marketing and a cornered market monopoly.

The only really valuable thing about diamonds are its ability to signify disposable wealth. In a more pragmatic sense, coal represent energy and that's the core of economies forever. Whether two bushels of wheat or a barrel of oil, it represents the ability to get something done.

[Eep]

On 10/8/2017 at 2:08 PM, Gravityx said:

What is the point of storing something you can't yet use? It would just waste time. On the stream they said its meant to just be something that is hard to dig through right now. But yes of course once it has uses, it should have storage.

And yet diamond (250 hardness) is easier to dig through than granite (80 hardness) and abyssalite (250 hardness). Go figure...

 

Also, as of build 236679, I don't see a way to store diamonds.