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It's a gazebo, Eric! (+10 points for the reference!)
In the lower right you can see dynamically rotated dials on the gauge. Apparently I am out of oxygen, have half my fuel left, and all my energy left. The fuel gauge will be changing.
Also in the screenshot are the new foundry blocks Nezumi has created. Stick in a block of ore, they spit out a block of chondrite. Stick in enough blocks of ore, it'll spit out a full block of solid metal too!
Oh, and I rotated the crosshairs 45 degrees. I thought this looked thoroughly awesome.
Cheers,
-Dirk
Gazebo. The first thing that came to my mind was Dwarf Fortress and a mentally impaired dwarf (google Syrupleaf if you want to know).
The gauge looks great. If combined with some warning alarm when low on oxygen I can already imagine the despair when you repair your gigantic ship and suddenly realise you are low on air and fuel and a hundred of blocks from the nearest airlock. Then the flashlight flickers out because apparently you are short on energy too.
Wouldn't it be easier to just draw a new crosshair texture than rotating it :D?
No sir, that's not the reference! Reward raised to 20 points!
Actually, rotating the crosshair is easy as pie.
-Dirk
That wasn't aimed at the reference :D I know it's about the sleeping Gazebo wich ate Eric after he woke it up, but I didn't know it before uncle Google told me.
Oh yea I like that crosshair :D
Is this thing safe? Or just a place to sit and have a cup of tea? I don't trust anything that doesn't have windows on it.
That thing looks awesome! We'll be making clones into ration blocks in no time! :D
Though something puzzles me: how can you fit multiple cubic-meter blocks into a one cubic-meter device (like when you need to combine several ore blocks to make a metal block)?
Good question. Some sort of compression maybe?
Not sure how you compress a solid, such as rock, when it isn't full of air pockets.
Perhaps the foundry only stores material it needs for the recipe, until it has enough for a block of the desired material, and spits out the unneeded material? For instance, if you set the machine to steel, it strips the iron and carbon out of each ore block, and spits out the rest. It could do this until it is full of enough iron and carbon to make a cubic meter of steel, and then spit out the steel block.
That or it could use some kind of science fiction method involving microscopic black holes or something. :P
These are JUST ore refineries. Here's how they work:
You insert a block of, say, iron ore. On most asteroids, the non-iron bits will likely be chondrite. So the ore refinery will IMMEDIATELY return a block of chondrite, and store whatever fraction of iron your original block contained in itself. When you have put in enough ore, a solid block of metal pops out!
Cheers,
-Dirk
Ah, I see! That makes sense. So do you to make component printers larger than the foundry, to accommodate the constituent blocks?
Yup! Nezumi has been working on a series of "factory" blocks, and multi-wide doors, which can be stiched together to create component printers of various sizes.
Cheers,
-Dirk
Modular component printers? Genius! That's even cooler than I thought it would be, and I expected them to be pretty awesome.