The radiator does not cool the ceiling lamp

I changed the lamp material to steel and now it cools. It's not a bug, it's just that the radiator is useless for buildings made of non-refined metal. I checked the heat conductivity in the sandbox, and it's very low. It's just that the radiator is useless for buildings made of non-refined metal. Wrong bug report.

The radiator does not have time to cool a 500 DTU ceiling lamp, but it does have time to cool a 1000 DTU transformator made of the same material. Is radiator cooling somehow related to the mass of the structure? How is this calculated?

It seems to me that it would be more logical to make the radiator cooling based on the number of cells it comes into contact with and make it independent of the weight of the buildings.

On 7/5/2026 at 3:39 AM, Krakenator said:

it's just that the radiator is useless for buildings made of non-refined metal.

This is particularly the case for gold amalgam, as the "coolability" of a building is proportional to its mass per tile * SHC * thermal conductivity, the formula for building heat transfer is quite deranged! As gold amalgam has very low SHC and low TC it ends up having very poor coolability.  Gold amalgam will receive only about 1/5th the cooling of other common ores making it really a gold amalgam problem.

If you want more details I wrote a post on reddit about it: 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by blakemw