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Heat Management System

Heat Management System 🚀🔥
Batteries too chill? Thrusters running a fever? Vents just blowing hot air?
This mod brings a whole new layer of engineering challenge to your grids: HEAT!

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If your batteries/heat networks behave weird and you're getting a lot of messages with Infinity in them, just load the savegame without the mod, save it, and then load with the mod back.
That will flush all the heat on the blocks and should solve the problem.

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Heat Mods Family - for even more immersive realism
- Heat Management System - the core, you're on its page currently
- H2Real - the mod-satellite that covers the realism of hydrogen and oxygen with heat management.

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🔥 What Does This Mod Do?
- Adds heat simulation to batteries, thrusters, and vents
- Blocks generate, transfer, and lose heat based on activity and environment
- Overheating batteries? Watch out—they might just go out with a bang! 💥
- Vents and thrusters help cool things down, but managing thermal balance is up to you
- Neighboring blocks exchange heat, so ship design really matters
- Fully configurable per save — tune it to your liking
- Extensible API – other mods can now interact with or override heat logic
- Event Controller integration – trigger automation from heat-related events

Player's Guide is here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/3513670949/591780152569065758/

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⚙️ Features
- Realistic(ish) heat transfer between blocks and the environment
- Visual feedback: glowing lights and smoke effects for hot blocks
- Per-save config file to tweak thresholds and rates
- Exploding batteries if you push them too far
- Pipe-based heat networks (⚡NEW in 1.1.0!)
- Extensible API for 3rd-party mods (⚡NEW in 1.2.0!)
- Event Controller events: , (⚡NEW in 1.2.0!)
- Turbo mode for Vents (⚡NEW in 1.2.3!). Use your O2 to cool vents down fast and easily. Note that this method does not increase the heat exchange with the environment but rather cools the vents down directly.

Perfect for engineers, survivalists, and heat-loving masochists 😈

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🚩Commands:
- /HMS.refreshNetworks - causes a full rebuild of all the heat networks. Only available for local games.

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🧰 How to Use
1. Subscribe to the mod
2. Load a world (new or existing)
3. A config file will appear in your save's Storage folder:
4. Edit it to adjust thresholds, rates, etc.
5. Save the file and reload the world to apply changes

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📦Which blocks affected
Heat sources:
- Batteries
Heat sinks:
- Vents, Heat Vents, Exhausts, Atmo Thrusters
Radiators:
- Any non-deformable blocks adjacent to heat sources or heat sinks
Heat pipe networks:
- All sorts of conveyors, Pipe blocks, Willis ducts for large grids
- All sorts of conveyors, Neon tubes for small grids

Build, overclock, and try not to melt your ship 🔧🔥

Configuration guide with all the config options explained, hiding here: https://github.com/TheScrewUpTeam/SE-Heat-Management/blob/main/CONFIGURATION.md

🔧 Configuration
- Located at:
- Customize per-world:
• Heat generation and transfer rates
• Environmental influence
• Critical/explosion temperatures
• Pipe conductivity via • Event controller thresholds and triggers (⚡NEW in 1.2.0!)

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🐞 Known Issues

Your ship may unexpectedly become a fireball.
This is a feature, not a bug. 🔥💥

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👷 Credits
- Mod by TSUT (The Screw-Up Team)
- Inspired by all the engineers who ever said:
"What if batteries could explode?"

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Got ideas? Found an issue? Want a variant version?
Leave a comment or start a discussion — this mod is actively maintained!
If you want to watch progress on this and other mods, join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zn3k8fP5Dz

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v1.3.2: O2 Distribution System
- New O2 Distribution System: automatically manages oxygen across conveyor-connected blocks
- O2 producers: Oxygen Farms now generate O2 for the network
- O2 storage: O2 Tanks track and store available oxygen
- Third-party mod support for O2 consumption
- The new property is accessible for scripts. It's called HeatTemperature and is available on all affected blocks

v1.3.1: Heat transfer through connectors
- One more method to transfer heat to other grids - through connectors.

v1.3.0: Heat transfer to subgrids
- Heat transfer between subgrids through Rotos, Pistons, and Hinges.
- Heat conductivity is on the HeatPipes level for all of those but regular rotors.

Stay cool, engineers! 😎