Igneous rain

I've noticed this as well while messing around in debug with magma and steam turbines. Insulated tiles will "sweat" and infinitely create 10kg of igneous rock several times per second. It's odd, because the tiles themselves are nowhere near their melting point.

You mentioned you made your insulated tiles of sedimentary rock, but they were still dripping igneous? That's even more odd.

Changed Status to Known Issue

Changed Redmine to https://redmine.klei.com/issues/4355

That's quite strange, thanks for reporting it.

On 10/24/2018 at 2:13 AM, crypticorb said:

I've noticed this as well while messing around in debug with magma and steam turbines. Insulated tiles will "sweat" and infinitely create 10kg of igneous rock several times per second. It's odd, because the tiles themselves are nowhere near their melting point.

You mentioned you made your insulated tiles of sedimentary rock, but they were still dripping igneous? That's even more odd.

I've tested this, sedimentary rock, sandstone, granite, etc all melt into magma, all at a lower temp than the freezing point of magma, giving you igneous rock. The weird thing is, tiles in contact with gas (and only gas) hotter than their melting point shed magma in 5 kg increments, until they've shed their mass sans 5 kg, regardless of the actual temperature of the tile. This is most noticeable with insulated tiles, which shed 395 kg of igneous rock when in contact with a hot enough gas, even though they themselves aren't near their melting point. Letting them reach their melting point produces the last 5 kg of magma, so no net gain in material, but deconstructing them even after they've shed 395 kg still gives you the full 100. Normal tiles do the same, but its much less noticable because they have less mass and heat up much faster.

Whats really interesting is you can do this with insulated isoresin tiles at a bit over 100 degrees Celsius to get 395 kg of naphtha per tile for free.