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Planning to make a gold volcano based Coal to Carbon kiln.

Problem is, for each 250g gold am expecting to use 500g coal as coolant, which would mean I get about 2.5kg steel per 250g gold. Every1 knows lime bottleneck will mean my kiln will almost never run, thus I cant get my gold.

Are there other mats to use, that benefit from heat? Don't mention petroleum, that I don't want, or natural gas .. That I Will make from volcano or iron volcano. Have 4 volcanos + 2 water geysers on current seed.. random seed, very lucky. We don't want to burn fertiliser anymore.. So I'm sort of short on ideas.

The kiln would use Aze's magma dropper dropping gold on weight plates on one side, then on the other side is the coolant and a sweeper + loader. Loader is set to receive the refined material, and new coal is dropped with a sweeper eggdropper.. So we can measure temperature by calculating how long it takes for stuff to refine. When this timer goes too slow, we unload the gold and drop new liquid gold.

I don't want to waste the heat so refined carbon is obvious, but will need other materials too.

Just now, Carnis said:

Planning to make a gold volcano based Coal to Carbon kiln.

Problem is, for each 250g gold am expecting to use 500g coal as coolant, which would mean I get about 2.5kg steel per 250g gold. Every1 knows lime bottleneck will mean my kiln will almost never run, thus I cant get my gold.

Are there other mats to use, that benefit from heat? Don't mention petroleum, that I don't want, or natural gas .. That I Will make from volcano or iron volcano. Have 4 volcanos + 2 water geysers on current seed.. random seed, very lucky. We don't want to burn fertiliser anymore.. So I'm sort of short on ideas.

The kiln would use Aze's magma dropper dropping gold on weight plates on one side, then on the other side is the coolant and a sweeper + loader. Loader is set to receive the refined material, and new coal is dropped with a sweeper eggdropper.. So we can measure temperature by calculating how long it takes for stuff to refine. When this timer goes too slow, we unload the gold and drop new liquid gold.

I don't want to waste the heat so refined carbon is obvious, but will need other materials too.

I have no idea what you mean.... but algae/dirt/polluted dirt all turn into sand, which can be refined into glass. dno if that helps you at all.

49 minutes ago, Carnis said:

Planning to make a gold volcano based Coal to Carbon kiln.

I think the idea is convert coal into refined carbon using heat.

 

Ok some usefull heat based conversions:

- oil -> petroleum

- plastic -> naptha

- petroleum/naptha -> natural gas

- algae/slime/dirt/polluted dirt -> sand

- sand -> glass

- obsidian/granite/regolith/malefic rock -> magma(igneous rock)

- wolframite/abyssalite -> tungsten

(- clay -> ceramic      Not really usefull because you loose 50% mass, even if you create your coal by feeding clay your only loose 33% mass using the killn)

Its a fail concept.

Every solid forms a tile when it transforms. Maybe this will Be changed later, but for now kiln is optimal for making ceramic & carbon.

Decided to just burn the heat and get dirt + clean water by boiling.

not true, only solids forming above a certain quantity limit form full tiles, drop 200g drops of water in ice biome watch it turn to chunks not tiles.  Drip magma onto oil it will make chunks.  Its about the amount of material you are transforming.

28 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

not true, only solids forming above a certain quantity limit form full tiles, drop 200g drops of water in ice biome watch it turn to chunks not tiles.  Drip magma onto oil it will make chunks.  Its about the amount of material you are transforming.

Negative. Liquids form chunks. But when you heat 1kg coal you get 1kg refined carbon tile. When you heat up 1kg dirt you get 1kg sand-TILE.

Liquids, ok.

Solids, fail.

1 minute ago, Kabrute said:

now try again with 100g of coal, and 100g of dirt

I'm just on another conversation on reddit regarding that matter and a guy I'm writting with just tried 50g of slime. It was still converted to a tile of dirt.

12 minutes ago, Carnis said:

Negative. Liquids form chunks. But when you heat 1kg coal you get 1kg refined carbon tile. When you heat up 1kg dirt you get 1kg sand-TILE.

Liquids, ok.

Solids, fail.

I only get this if the item turns into sand, if it turns into dirt first it is just an object, then the sand becomes a tile. 

Just now, Kabrute said:

i've got enough on my plate, previous test results showed quantities at and below 100 grams were to small to form full blocks and created chunks, test performed above open mechanical door floor.

Other than items turning into sand all of mine just become drops, sand becomes a block though (Hurts my steam geyser build)

15 minutes ago, BlueLance said:

Other than items turning into sand all of mine just become drops, sand becomes a block though (Hurts my steam geyser build)

Dirt comes from liquid, polluted water so its chunks.

Sand comes from Solis dirt so IT becomes tile.

Solids/liquids work difference.

I Will test <100g packets but that would Be unfeasable in a game.

3 minutes ago, BlueLance said:

You also get dirt from algae. Pretty sure you also get it from polluted dirt when you cook it as well?

I Will test that too, but so far every solid has become tile. Its nonsensical. Neotuck had a clever way to force those tiles out of The boiler with full tiles & conveyors. But as a concept its silly and an oversight imo.

If you need a reliable source of gold from it, I'd just use the steam turbine as a heatsink. If you at least get the metal into a solid state (eg; run wolf gas pipes with a suitable gas source, or loop), you can keep the volcano in a vacuum with a auto-sweeper, taking the metal down logistics lines into wherever heat is needed. So you could use this to heat up coal first, then dump excess under the aforementioned steam turbine, of which will consume the heat with an adequate loop of some sort.

The certain-mats-turning-into-tiles issue, dunno. I personally just opt to manually kiln materials in the lower carbon space, as to keep the temperature up so my slicksters don't die from cold...

True, though the main objective here is to remove unneeded heat for more gold out, which the turbine does a good job of bringing the temperature down to safer levels, even if you get no power out...

But of course, heat can also be dumped directly to space now via a waste material of some sort (eg polluted oxygen), so pick your poison really.

21 minutes ago, Paul17041993 said:

But of course, heat can also be dumped directly to space now via a waste material of some sort (eg polluted oxygen), so pick your poison really.

Or just boil pW, The condensing Steam has 2J less heat capacity / gram. This system can delete megawatts of heat.

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