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[–] porotoman99 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if we will be able to use the lava to produce steam for power. They've shown some new machines, but to actually produce the electricity is something that would also be interesting to see. If you first come to the planet entirely unprepared, will you be able to build your way back up to another rocket, or will you have to die to respawn on Nauvis?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To prevent locking your progress if Nauvis gets cut off or completely overrun, we need to include a way to craft pretty much all of the rocket parts on any planet.

They did write this, so I would imagine you can lose your hole base on Navius, and build up again from nothing

[–] porotoman99 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if a challenge mode where you start on a different planet instead of Nauvis would be feasible. At the very least, I expect that a mod will do it eventually.

[–] kn33 2 points 1 year ago

I predict that research done on Nauvis will be a requirement for getting off of other planets. But then again, maybe not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah especially because they said there will be a "last" planet. Would make for some fun playthroughs, if you couldn't go back to your previous planets!

[–] ADON15 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A dev mentioned in the reddit fff thread that the sulfuric acid is turned into 500deg steam instead of directly into water, so that could probably be used with a turbine for power. Whether its worth it factoring in the materials used to turn acid to steam is a different story

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Link would be nice :)

But otherwise, it may of course be that they still decide that the temperature of the planet is 500°C as well, and then the steam would be useless for generating power.

[–] ADON15 2 points 1 year ago

Good point, I completely forgot the power comes from a difference in temperature. Not sure what the link is anymore sadly