Hydrofluoric Acid & Plastic, Enthalpy Update, and More! (1.0.56)

Pictured: the new Heat Pump pixels :)

Hydrofluoric Acid Updates & Plastic

Hydrofluoric Acid now reacts with many more things, including Ceramic Walls! To contain Hydrofluoric Acid, you can now create plastic (PTFE - polytetrafluoroethylene) and build walls with it. Ethylene now is one of the things that evaporates from Naptha (product of separating oil), and is used to produce TFE (tetrafluoroethylene) and then PTFE.

List of new things Hydrofluoric Acid reacts with: Alumina, Apatite, Corundum, Flint, Magnesium Oxide, Olivine, Quick Lime, Rust, Zinc, Zinc Oxide

Enthalpy

Exothermic/endothermic reactions are now more realistically simulated, using an Enthalpy value (in Joules) instead of a TemperatureChange value - this allows the temperature change from reactions to act properly with regard to Specific Heat of the material in the cell. The Guide Tab shows the delta-H (Enthalpy) of reactions that have an Enthalpy value.

Heat Pumps

The first iteration of heat pumps, based on suggestion from the Discord, is in the game now. :) These pixels move only heat. They will probably become more important as the heat-modeling of the game becomes increasingly realistic. :)

Pictured: Machine Volume slider for quieting Lasers and Electrodes

Other stuff:

• Made gases have a chance to swerve left and right as they rise so they will spread out more

• Added a Machine Volume slider to Settings for making droning sounds like Laser and Electrode quieter

• BUGFIX: Fixed CaO + HCl to be balanced (now requires 2 HCl input)

• BUGFIX: Fixed BuildsInto fields for Gems (Beryl, Topaz, Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst) for them to build into their Crystal pixel variants, for making the crystal-growing reactions work

• BUGFIX: make the Match Filter / Non-Match Filter / Sensor pixels show their names properly again

• QoL: flipped the direction that the arrows on the character select screen go, since people in the Discord thought it felt backwards

• QoL: right-clicking a useable item (consumables) uses it

• REACTIONS: added Lithium + Water, Rubidium + Water, Cesium + Water

Added in Build 1.0.57:

• Added IsBuilt flag to gems so they can be decrafted (not just mined)

• Added IsBuilt flag to PTFE so it can be decrafted (not just mined)

Thanks everyone for the bug reports and quality-of-life suggestions in the Discord community and Steam forums! More new stuff coming soon! :)

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