Cant figure out whats turning to sand when hot.

[MythN7]

Near my hot geysers, like the metal and magma ones, i keep getting blocks of sand you have to dig order where there was just open gas or water.

Can anyone tell me whats getting hot and turning into blocks of sand?

I have a feeling it might be PO, but not sure.

[Oozinator]

slime gets above 125° c turned into dirt and then into sand (dunno temp)

[MythN7]

1 minute ago, Oozinator said:

slime gets above 125° c turned into dirt and then into sand (dunno temp)

oh ok, its the dirt turning into sand

ya that makes sense that it happens all the time to me, since I am using dirt temp shift plates heh.

[avc15]

Another thing if you're playing in the magma box the dupes' suits will turn to sand usually before they become incapacitated.

Copper ore is a limited resource so make sure to nip that one in the bud if it's happening.

[MythN7]

34 minutes ago, avc15 said:

Another thing if you're playing in the magma box the dupes' suits will turn to sand usually before they become incapacitated.

Copper ore is a limited resource so make sure to nip that one in the bud if it's happening.

ya I learned that from a guy having it happen while analyzing a gold geyser while it was active.

I am actually building a ton of mesh tiles around the volcano to see if it will melt the blocks while doubling as a way to absorb he heat before it can spread to far

[Smithe37]

26 minutes ago, MythN7 said:

ya I learned that from a guy having it happen while analyzing a gold geyser while it was active.

I am actually building a ton of mesh tiles around the volcano to see if it will melt the blocks while doubling as a way to absorb he heat before it can spread to far

You can do this, but the result would be: heat energy = mass (liquid gold) * temp(liquid gold) + mass(solid gold) * temp(solid gold)
Temperature = heat energy/total mass
Heat energy is always conserved except in the case AETN, wheezewort and exploits/"features"
 

[MythN7]

Just now, Smithe37 said:

You can do this, but the result would be: heat energy = mass (liquid gold) * temp(liquid gold) + mass(solid gold) * temp(solid gold)
Temperature = heat energy/total mass
Heat energy is always conserved except in the case AETN, wheezewort and exploits/"features"
 

ya it just blew and it melted the gold mesh tiles like nothing, and i have abys blocks holding it.  now the magma and liquid gold are sitting in the pool at 1600C lol, but I have a huge lake of PW under the geyser cause its smack in the middle of a huge swamp biome.

will just remove 1 block so it drains in the thousands of kgs of PW heh.

also about the aetn, i have one just a hop away, hoping it can keep everything in order for temps. 

haven't popped the cork on that other geyser yet, have a feeling its also magma, so far all these new geysers are in pairs it seems.

the only time i haven't seen a twin pair is when i get the metal ones, but they are always close by and are both metal, as t he twins.

I had slime and algae on a tile by the geyser, and they turned into a dirt block. so either algae also turns to dirt, or it just de-spawned when the dirt tile came.

[MythN7]

ya i can confirm PW is also turning into sand.

I setup an abys piping system to pump all that PW on top the lava pool in hopes it would turn to steam, its just instantly turning into sand blocks when it hits the lava

[PhailRaptor]

The P-H2O will evaporate into Steam, leaving a small amount of Dirt behind.  That Dirt is then baking into Sand.

[MythN7]

7 minutes ago, PhailRaptor said:

The P-H2O will evaporate into Steam, leaving a small amount of Dirt behind.  That Dirt is then baking into Sand.

i guess its so hot that im not seeing the stages then if it is turning to steam first.

[suicide commando]

To deal with that thing, you're going to have to dig into a cold biome for some wolframite, then turn that into tungsten. It's the only metal that can withstand that kind of heat. With it, you can set up a hotplate and from there work on a steam turbine setup. I've seen Brothgar do something like that with an iron volcano.

 

[JonnyMonroe]

14 hours ago, MythN7 said:

i guess its so hot that im not seeing the stages then if it is turning to steam first.

You're getting extremely small amounts of dirt (rarely over a gram) so they will heat to sand in a matter of ticks.

[Luminite2]

55 minutes ago, JonnyMonroe said:

You're getting extremely small amounts of dirt (rarely over a gram) so they will heat to sand in a matter of ticks.

It's 1% of the PH2O mass. One tile of 800kg of PH2O will yield 8kg of dirt.

[JonnyMonroe]

1 hour ago, Luminite2 said:

It's 1% of the PH2O mass. One tile of 800kg of PH2O will yield 8kg of dirt.

Did they change that recently? I used to get much less building up in my boilers. Admittedly I was only boiling 50kg or so per tile at a time.

[chemie]

If PW is there 

PW , dirt, sand, glass is the order