Make Abyssalite an Insulator - not a Material

[Edjren]

Just a simple suggestion.

Have Abyssalite be what make materials insulated, as opposed to being a material itself.

So, 200kg of Sandstone = 1 Sandstone tile

and

200kg of Sandstone + 200kg of Abyssalite = 1 Insulated Sandstone tile.

[Gabrysiek]

Yeah, making isulated pipes and tiles now is kinda useless.

 

[Kasuha]

Assuming the resulting insulated tile or pipe would have properties of current abyssalite pipe or tile, I would agree with that. Though it would push insulated tiles and pipes a bit more out of reach in early game where the initial hit of heat from surrounding biomes usually comes before the player can dig abyssalite.

[Jigsawn]

Definitely agree with Kashua, it's really hard to mine lots of abysallite early on and you want to be insulating bits of your base as soon as possible. The forum has recently proven that standard insulated tiles are very effective anyway. It's a tricky one, maybe don't let people build some things like normal tiles out of abysallite? Although that would be a bit weird. Abysallite in general is a bit of a mess because it's so powerful and can be used to build so many things.

Someone suggested in another post that when you mine abysallite it should drop another material instead (that is still useful for insulating etc but maybe not so OP as abysallite).