Massive temperature inaccuracy in boiling mechanic

By Zarquan

December 20, 2019

Branch: Live Branch

Version: Windows

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I recently found a massive bug regarding how the boiling of 5 kg packets of gas off of a liquid works. I think you divided when you meant to multiply somewhere. Or vice versa.

Here, I have put a mere 50 kg of insulation at 2000 K next to 5000 kg water at 280 K.

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I then start the game. Within a quarter of a cycle, the insulation boiled away most of the water in the chamber, despite not having nearly enough energy to do so. Additionally, the amount of thermal energy in the room increased from 6407.6 MDTUs to 7045.8 MDTUs.

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I repeated this experiment with the smallest amount of insulation that I could get to boil the water at this level. With 36 kg of insulation at 2000K, it managed to boil the entire 5000 kg of water down to less than 5 kg/tile, with over 1000 C to spare for boiling more water.

The starting energy here was 6251.6 MDTUs and the ending energy was 8148.1 MDTUs. The 36 kg could boil even more water, as it only lost about 300 C total.

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I decided to see what happens if I used a truly massive block at 10,000,000 kg insulation at 2000 K. It barely boiled anything, and deleted the vast majority of the heat in the system. The heat energy started at 111,405,900 MDTUs and ended at 20,615,380 MDTUs, losing about 90,000,000 MDTUs

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