✧✦Catherine✦✧
generally speaking if your game comes with like a textbook or something i will probably get much more interested than if it's not. if the textbook is just "AP Physics"* i will get not only interested but invested
* localized reference (i've never taken classes in the US)
✧✦Catherine✦✧
there's a game on steam for which the textbook is just "introduction to semiconductor fabrication" but i'm already doing that as my job _and_ hobby so i've yet to launch it
✧✦Catherine✦✧
if i continue liking vintage story i'll make a mod for it that adds vapor compression refrigration
💭 how do you artisanally manufacture large amounts of copper tubing? i need it for a game mechanic
Sophie of Ratsnake Games
@whitequark what game is that?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@ratsnakegames vintage story
Sophie of Ratsnake Games
@whitequark no, the semiconductor one
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@ratsnakegames hard chip
Sophie of Ratsnake Games
@whitequark tanks
✧✦Catherine✦✧
hm, how _do_ we manufacture copper tubing anyway
✧✦Catherine✦✧
you know you're in the right part of the internet when the term of art is something like "mother tube"
dram🎀
@whitequark i guess extruded while hot, like macaroni?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
wow this is so much weirder than i expected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AnnyCmMxno
✧✦Catherine✦✧
but yeah i think this totally fits in with the vibe of a steampunk-ish game _and_ would be historically accurate
the refrigerant will obviously be ammonia, there's no other period option that fits well
✧✦Catherine✦✧
actually, no, i think sulfur dioxide is a better option than ammonia! there's sulfurous places in the game already, they're rare so it's not a trivial build to set up, and "burning sulfur" is way easier to do as a mechanic than ... however you'd get large amounts of ammonia in a barely-industrial world
✧✦Catherine✦✧
barring that, sulfur dioxide plus water can give you sulfuric acid (not... actually, you need VO6 catalyst to get good yield, but we can omit that), ethanol can be distilled, sulfuric acid plus ethanol gives you dimethyl ether, that's also a (mediocre, i would assume) refrigerant
Rich Felker
@whitequark Can you handle the pressures needed to use CO2?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
i want my video games to have an annealing mechanic and i want it to be load bearing
i'm actually somewhat surprised vintage story doesn't make you harden, temper, and sharpen blades of bladed instruments
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@dalias with early-industrial non-seamless pipe that would be either soldered or riveted? naaaah
people *did* use CO2 but my understanding was that it wasn't in a loop with a compressor and such, more in something like Icy Ball
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@xgranade oh yeah i love chocolate metallurgy
Cassandra has had an adventure
@whitequark Including cooking and baking simulators. Chocolate is *wild*.
✧✦Catherine✦✧
oh hey the modders did it https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/32273
✧✦Catherine✦✧
> disclaimer: do not use this mod to determine which [real-life] mushrooms around you are edible
lmfao
(the mod doubles the amount of mushrooms in the game to over 70)
✧✦Catherine✦✧
oh my goddess
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@bx hard chip
ebx
@whitequark i gotta know what this game is, that sounds amazing
John Regehr
@whitequark wtf. is it done this way because copper is highly ductile?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland i've *considered* it (the game models K, P, and N as separate soil quantities, even)
Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe
@whitequark inventing the Haber process 100 years early
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland it does yea; I've given a lookover to the electricity mods and at a _very_ cursory glance I'm not sure I like the theme, it's like a port of IC2 or somesuch with, possibly, all its faults
fixing nitrogen chemically _would_ avoid that. would need to think about mechanics...
Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe
@whitequark it also ties in with the steam stuff if you do methane reforming - maybe a more advanced unlock for the late game?
AMS
@whitequark Doesn't copper not work with ammonia? Like it dissolves?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@AMS oh yeah
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