Metal refinery heating seems inconsistent

the heat output depends entirely on the material

if you look at the recipes, they have the heat as "X kDtu" listed, with steel creating the most heat

the temperature increase of the coolant is depending of its heat capacity, high capacity liquids (like water) have a lot less temperature increase than low capacity liquids
also; the heat is distributed equally between all coolants in the building, requiring a minimum of 400kg liquid coolant (but having a max capacity of 800kg)

800kg water on the first refinement after a while of idle heat up less than the minimum amount, 400kg, that are in the building after that first refinement process (since the refinement is most likely faster than the time it takes to fill up the coolant storage to full)

Aha thanks, that seems to explain it - primarily the different heat per recipe.

If enough other people missed this, it could be nice to make it easier to notice in the interface; perhaps a tooltip could be added over "Significantly Heats and outputs the Liquid piped into it" saying something like "Heat is dependent on the recipe".

If not many people miss this, then I think this bug can be closed.

Thanks

Edited September 11, 2023 by mathjeff

Changed Status to Closed