Working on a Planet where Electricity

[mint girder]

so you can't use electric poles because the atmosphere is too corrosive? how does that not prevent you from using basically anything?

[minor grove]

You can't place any power transmission structures

[mint girder]

yes, but it says that's because atmospheric causticity is too high, but how does that only prevent you from using electric poles?

[minor grove]

Handwavium you can't string copper wire between the poles

No copper products will be allowed either

[mint girder]

but how tf does nothing else get effected by that?

[minor grove]

everything will be steel and stone based
and rely on https://mods.factorio.com/mod/HeatedFabrication for fabrication

[mint girder]

well steel and stone can still be corroded

[minor grove]

and https://mods.factorio.com/mod/heat-inserter/

Yes I know

If there is a better lore restriction I will use it

[crude heart]

EMF in the atmosphere is way too high, causes electronics and power to go haywirr and/or explode, nonmagnetic and nonconductive matetials are unaffected

[minor grove]

EMF will work for my second planet idea where everything is wetware and requires exploiting the brains of the biter analogs for circuits

[candid halo]

it would work for both but require different solutions

[cyan swan]

you could also say "atmospheric conductivity is too high"

[fair moth]

So would you add alternative recipes for current machines that use wetware circuits, or would you add new wetware-ran machines

[minor grove]

Oh I don't know that idea is not related to this planet

[autumn shale]

In response to the question of how copper corrodes but iron, stone, etc don't - AFAIK copper is more easily corroded by ammonia than the other materials listed. So presumably an atmosphere that was rich in ammonias would prevent copper from lasting. Obviously in a 100% real-world situation, ammonia levels that high would introduce a whole host of other problems, but it's a starting point for a restriction that's rooted in lore and real-world science 🙂

[fair moth]

How about if the planet is under a constant geomagnetic storm

The constant fluctuations in the magnetic field induces volatile currents in wires, melting them/causing surges

[minor grove]

I'm currently working with Chlorine and Mercury Vapor in the atmosphere

As the resources and tech tree kinda expect that

[fair moth]

Also Eddie currents would be much stronger, meaning copper structures aren’t possible

[fair moth]

Fair

(funny because literally every other mod adds chlorine as like an automation-level tech)

[minor grove]

It'll come from vents just like sulfuric acid on Vulcanus

[fair moth]

make water by combining chlorine gas and natural lye deposits

then find a usage for the byproduct sodium hypochlorite too

[minor grove]

There's two different liquids on the planet

Mercury and Magnisum Chloride Brine

The latter has a water reduction recipe

Here's my design doc if you're curious

https://github.com/drhaber/hydrargyros/blob/main/hydrargyros idea doc.txt

[fair moth]

Interesting

[fair moth]

I just make a shitty google doc lmao

[minor grove]

It's just a txt file in the repo 🤷‍♀️

[fair moth]

Low pressure atmosphere, I assume?

Since the 70C steam