What is the best material for the tempshift plates?

[Norxiam]

Having problems cooling down my base and need some suggestions.

[Ζiоqch]

Diamond is best, refined metals are second best.

[Trien]

how do you use them?

[Norxiam]

Originally posted by Trien:

how do you use them?

In game, they either accelerate or halt/cool heat depending on what material they are made out of,

[Trien]

Dirt is slow heating, so to keep things cool should that be used?

[EpicMadness]

its the opposite, its used to "buffer" heat based on it's own thermal mass (mass * heat capacity).
the key point here is that the ambient temperature "follows" the temperature of the tempshift plates.

thermal mass (mass * heat capacity) = amount of heat that can be buffered (higher means slower temperature change of tempshift plates)
thermal conductivity = how fast the ambient temperature gets affected by tempshift plate

thus to rapidly change temperature, you need a high thermal conductivity but low thermal mass material.
while to keep the temperature constant, you need a low thermal conductivity but high thermal mass material.

[mixnix]

Originally posted by EpicMadness:

its the opposite, its used to "buffer" heat based on it's own thermal mass (mass * heat capacity).
the key point here is that the ambient temperature "follows" the temperature of the tempshift plates.

thermal mass (mass * heat capacity) = amount of heat that can be buffered (higher means slower temperature change of tempshift plates)
thermal conductivity = how fast the ambient temperature gets affected by tempshift plate

thus to rapidly change temperature, you need a high thermal conductivity but low thermal mass material.
while to keep the temperature constant, you need a low thermal conductivity but high thermal mass material.

This is helping a bit. Me tried to cool an ice biom and warmen up an area for some plants,
but this Plates being so scheisse time conuming tryout and a lot confusing, watching these Plates more then 20 cycles .having no idea where to place and how mutch of them and what kind of material and so on. For me, i feel they do not work either. It seems they are eating heat and cold ambient, nothing else.
I was unable to spread the temperature cold or warm ambient through one room. Finally i have no clue.

[!?!]

Soo which material to use if I want to equalize the temperature of my base?
How far apart do I build those things?

???

I dumped a bunch of ice into my water reservoir and it brings half my base down to 9°C while other parts approach 40, I put some wolframite plates around the hot parts but that did nothing despite wolframite supposedly being so good at conducting heat.
What do?

[zverozvero]

Connected lines of Igneous rock plates worked for me.

When my crops started freezing in center and right parts of ~40 tiles line but left corner had good bit of heat (orange zone) i pulled 2 fully connected lines of Igneous rock plates through them and temperature equalized rather fast on whole length. Same for cooling my machines with Weezworts blocks.

[EpicMadness]

Originally posted by chris:

Soo which material to use if I want to equalize the temperature of my base?
How far apart do I build those things?

???

I dumped a bunch of ice into my water reservoir and it brings half my base down to 9°C while other parts approach 40, I put some wolframite plates around the hot parts but that did nothing despite wolframite supposedly being so good at conducting heat.
What do?

build a rock granulator and refine Gold Amalgam for pure Gold.
use this Gold instead to build the Tempshift Plates, make a two line thick to route them efficiently, you must build a connection between the hot and cold parts of your base.
then add one or two Diamond ( or Iron from refined Iron Ore ) Tempshift Plate to key points with the hottest or coldest spots, this is to buffer their temperature more effectively, don't put too many or it'll absorb too much of the thermal energy.

[EpicMadness]

i have just finished doing tests on tempshift plates under debug mode.

tempshift plates only interacts with tiles, solid, liquid and gas blocks within it's 3x3 zone.
tempshift plates cannot transfer heat to other thermal shift plates. (tested under vacuum)
tempshift plates does not interact with buildings. (tested under vacuum)


so from my experiments, the best way to utilize tempshift plates is to use tungsten or diamond tempshift plates and tungsten floor tile in alternating formation, or in parallel.

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[!?!]

Originally posted by EpicMadness:

tempshift plates cannot transfer heat to other thermal shift plates. (tested under vacuum)

Well no wonder those darn things don't seem to do anything.
They're bugged.

[milkman_of_human_kindness2003]

Wow. That kind of negates the whole idea of being able to use them to transfer heat away from an area into a cooling agent like water.

[zverozvero]

And i was wondering why yellows popped up in my gen pit. Gas went in fresh dug drain and plates stopped working...
Still enchances transfering but gas fill is a must for now. Would be great to see its potential if fixed.

[EpicMadness]

it does transfer heat within adjacent floor tiles so it can be used to move heat like an embedded conduit.

i have this feeling that Klei intended for this to swap heat between liquid and gas blocks.