Current Use for Abyssalite?

[Keramane]

So, I keep reading threads that suggest using it as the ultimate insulator, and that's fine and good, but it seems that since those threads, it's no longer plausible (or at least, I can't find any recipes that use abyssalite). So, either I'm blind or it's been 'balanced'.

So, does anyone else have a use for the stuff? I've been leaving it alone as much as possible, since it's a great buffer for temperature balance, but still, I'm playing rather expoitive, wasting as little as possible, and having this stuff sitting around irks me.

[Angpaur]

You will have to launch some rockets to get that recipes ;-)

[Keramane]

Ah, good times. I'm presently trying to use my steel to save the world from being meteor-ed to death. Seems after 700 cycles, them rocks punch pretty deep...

[Angpaur]

I sealed my map from space before cycle 500. Now I'm at cycle 958 and I wanted to launch my first rocket on 1000 cycle. However I still cannot complete it as I'm constantly distracted by some small crisises and new ideas or things to try. 40 cycles left. Maybe if I fully focus on this I will manage to launch the rocket.

[Keramane]

Wait, there's a 1000 cycle limit?

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Keramane:

Wait, there's a 1000 cycle limit?

No, it is just my internal limit ;-) I wanted to do it before 1000 cycles.

[Keramane]

Okay, had me worried there...

[Strygald]

I find insulated Ceramic works well enough for most applications .. i'm planning on boiling crude oil later in my current game at which point it may not be good enough, although 2 tiles wide of insulated Ceramic might still do the job.

[Angpaur]

As far I know 2 insulated tiles will not exchange heat as values for potential transfer are so low that game just ignores it and doesn't simulate that transfer.

[Strygald]

Interesting, I just did a little test in sandbox:


I filled a chamber with Rock gas @ +3000c

- 2 insulated Obsidian tiles side by side did indeed transfer noticeable heat(before the outer one melted entirely)

- 2 insulated Ceramic tiles transferred 0.1c over the same period of time!

So I think i'll only need a single layer of insulated Ceramic for anything i'll need.. which would be temperatures between, say, +-800c

i'll probably still want space materials for better pipe insulation though..

[Angpaur]

Thanks for testing this. Looks like my info is wrong or just outdated.
You can also try the test with a hot liquid instead of gas. I read that liquids interact with tiles at much lower rate than gases.

As for pipes - just place them in a vacuum tunel. Then material they are made of will be irrelevant :-)

[Strygald]

Originally posted by angpaur:

Thanks for testing this. Looks like my info is wrong or just outdated.
You can also try the test with a hot liquid instead of gas. I read that liquids interact with tiles at much lower rate than gases.

One thing I noticed.. Magma liquid at the bottom of the map doesn't seem to transfer heat to insulated tiles at all!

[Keramane]

Ceramic is fantastic, don't get me wrong. I doubt I'll need anything more. I was just commenting because all these posts about Abyssalite and here I am, looking at it as lumps on the ground and being incredibly confused.

[zoarionprime]

Originally posted by Keramane:

So, I keep reading threads that suggest using it as the ultimate insulator, and that's fine and good, but it seems that since those threads, it's no longer plausible (or at least, I can't find any recipes that use abyssalite). So, either I'm blind or it's been 'balanced'.

So, does anyone else have a use for the stuff? I've been leaving it alone as much as possible, since it's a great buffer for temperature balance, but still, I'm playing rather expoitive, wasting as little as possible, and having this stuff sitting around irks me.

You need to fly out into space and find isoresin, takes sending research modules first to find it, then you can send cargobay to collect it. Then you can craft the ultimate insulator with abyssalite!

[MARTFONGER]

It isn't even really needed. Ceramic insulated tiles work for almost anything at this point, at .003 thermal unless you're handling molten metal you don't need insulation and probably not even then. Maybe for amking liquid hydrogen.

[zoarionprime]

It helps alot for transporting liquid oxygen to rockets, im also using it around a volcano but it does take forever to make and your limited by reed fibers as well. I might have a decent amount by cycle 4000 lol

Note for guy asking original question:

the recipe will pop up in the molecular forge after you find some isoresin and retrieve it...