Lasers, Mirrors, and Prisms! (1.0.43)

This update adds a bunch of things related to lasers!

• Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst, and Diamond Laser pixels are now craftable!

• Mirror Pixels are craftable from Silver and Glass! They deflect lasers, and can be opened/closed using signals. Two Mirror Pixels on a 45 degree diagonal will deflect an incoming beam as if they are a 45 degree line.

• Prism Pixels are craftable from Glass and Lead Oxide! They refract lasers by 45 degrees, and the rotation key can flip them between Prism Left and Prism Right modes.

• The values related to weight on materials (Weight, Density) are now replaced with Mass, and have been somewhat rebalanced for consistency

• Materials have had the follow additional properties added: Specific Heat, IsReflective, and Laser Absorption

• Blender pixels reflect an incoming laser beam in a random direction every tick

• Loose pixel forms of Mirrors, Prisms, and Blenders also have the laser-related effects

• Max laser range greatly increased (128->512)

• The model of how lasers transmit energy is adjusted. Previously, a laser beam would add directly to the heat value on every cell, which was very unbalanced. Now, the energy of a laser beam is conserved, with the beam continuing until it deposits all of its energy. The amount of energy deposited in a cell is determined by the LaserAbsorption value of the material.

I've also added a "Restart Tutorial" button to the F1 Help screen, so you can start or reset the tutorial whenever you want! :)

Other things:

• Added reactions to create the rest of the gems up to Amethyst

• Added the molten and vapor phases of a bunch of metals

• Added blending of Eggs into Egg Shell and Egg Yolk

• QoL: Shift-R can now reverse-rotate the identity of a pixel about to be built

• BUGFIX: added translations for Aluminum Hydroxide, Black Powder, Bone, Latch

• BUGFIX: Liquid Nitrogen's formula changed to N2

• BUGFIX: fixed formula of molten Stibnite

• BUGFIX: localized hardness and mass strings in the hovered pixel hint

• BALANCE: Grass growth rate 4x

Hotfix 1.0.44:

• Fixed weight of Clay (had become lighter than water)

• Made color of Water more visible against surface background

Hotfix 1.0.45:

• Added Laser Absorption to the expanded material tooltip when you hold Alt

Hotfix 1.0.46:

• BUGFIX: fixed overflow math issue with how the laser was applying heat that could freeze water while heating it

• BUGFIX: fixed a rendering issue if the laser beam ran out of energy in a non-solid cell

Thanks to everyone in the Discord community and Twitch chat for their suggestions as we continue to improve the way the game handles heat and energy - some of the values we set up in the game in this update will be useful foundation for future revamps of the heat system and better support future simulation improvements!

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-Triplejump