Mars Storms

[Prometheus_Unbound]

Wondering if there is a mod or mods that will slowly cause damage to your base over time during martian storms. Martian storms can be quite violent. In the current weather system they are just pretty. Anyone know of any mods?

If there are none, anyone know how hard it would be to implement such a thing myself given i have a small amount of coding experience but not much?

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I don't use Mods and I will go build underground or go build at the snowy Poles and use a lot of Safe Zone blocks on sand when I will go play on Mars.

From the Guide

Mars = Almost all areas of Mars experiences sandstorms, the poles of the planet are safest.


Edit

Thunderstorms spawns everywhere but deserts and snowy biomes.

Mars sandstorms are special, they have lightning, you might want to setup a decoy array!

[Mr. Pestbird]

mars storms can be quite violent, but if you like it "relalistic". mars has such a low density atmosphere (i think mars atmosphere density is around 2% of earth atmosphere ), so that storms won't do much damage to metal structures for example (like the ones in space engineers). windpressure is to low from the storms to cause significant damage. we need more nasa guys/physicists that play space-engineers for the real questions. :-)

[Prometheus_Unbound]

Originally posted by HaRo:

mars storms can be quite violent, but if you like it "relalistic". mars has such a low density atmosphere (i think mars atmosphere density is around 2% of earth atmosphere ), so that storms won't do much damage to metal structures for example (like the ones in space engineers). windpressure is to low from the storms to cause significant damage. we need more nasa guys/physicists that play space-engineers for the real questions. :-)

Good to know. But i always thought it was 1% density, you could be right though. Thank you. I was just thinking of a way to represent dust settling on things like Solar Panels and such and reducing their ability to produce power. Them being damaged slowly was the best way i could think of to represent that. We really do need some expert advice on such things. I am only going on what was written in "The Martian" novel. A lot of fuss was made in that about Martian storms being something you would want to avoid. Again, Thank you! :-)

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

Hi, I don't use Mods and I will go build underground or go build at the snowy Poles and use a lot of Safe Zone blocks on sand when I will go play on Mars.

From the Guide

Mars = Almost all areas of Mars experiences sandstorms, the poles of the planet are safest.


Edit

Thunderstorms spawns everywhere but deserts and snowy biomes.

Mars sandstorms are special, they have lightning, you might want to setup a decoy array!

Thanks for the help Dan. I have the habit of modding my game, or any game for that matter, heavily. I am not really trying to avoid the storms. Rather, i like them and wish they were more of an inconvenience. I am probably one of the few people who does, but there you are haha.

[pinoboy010]

wait so the Mars storms do not actually do any damage on metal structures because of the low wind pressure like in space engineers?

[ShadedMJ]

Originally posted by Prometheus_Unbound:

... slowly cause damage to your base over time ...

I do not think you would like it if did use a mod like that. The game doesn't show small amounts of block damage.
You would have to visually inspect every block and weld it back up. With a large station, that's all you'd ever be doing.
I've played games with meteors active and spent most of the game looking for damage.