What do Insulated Tiles/Pipe (really) do?

[FenrirZeroZero]

Hi, 

i know they help to reduce the heat transfer/ bleed out but how?

Do they just multiply the heat transfer by 0.1?

Do they remove a fixed amount?

Do they only tick for heat Transfer every second tick?

[Soulwind]

They reduce the thermal conductivity of the material they are made of by a large percentage.

I think the number is 1% of the normal conductive level for that material.

[WanderingKid]

That's part of it.  There's also a minimal value instead of an average value used for transition between different components that's not obvious via tooltip yet for the results for basic and insulated.

I grabbed the update but there's still not enough information in the tooltips and the like to make perfect sense of it.  I hope there's eventually a list of what did, and didn't, make it through the couple of dozen updates in this pre-release.

[PhailRaptor]

10 minutes ago, WanderingKid said:

I hope there's eventually a list of what did, and didn't, make it through the couple of dozen updates in this pre-release.

There always is, when the preview content moves to the live version.