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Tungsten
45 Comments
Fumblesneeze 3 Apr, 2021 @ 6:57am 
thank you!
Holgast  [author] 3 Apr, 2021 @ 6:27am 
I meant 10, of course. Fixed now, thanks!
Fumblesneeze 3 Apr, 2021 @ 6:27am 
I think it's only x10 but yeah it should work if you just divide the gold cost by 10 in the defs.
Holgast  [author] 3 Apr, 2021 @ 6:23am 
Okay, yep. I forgot to account for small items being multiplied by 100 in recipes. Let me fix that quickly...
Holgast  [author] 3 Apr, 2021 @ 6:13am 
Hmm, did something get changed in how small items work or did I make a typo?
Fumblesneeze 3 Apr, 2021 @ 4:57am 
@Hologast the bulk advanced component crafting recipe use 10x too much gold compared to the single crafting recipes.
Swagatron 31 Dec, 2020 @ 2:55pm 
Excellent response to user feedback, I wish I could like and favorite it again but I already did before.
Holgast  [author] 29 Dec, 2020 @ 10:13pm 
Okay, now that I've finally published a smelter mod, the grace period is over and tungsten carbide is now craftable at smelters only. Thanks for your patience!
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:26pm 
i guess
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:25pm 
i just found it interesting that tungsten was the only metal out of the IRL metals in the vanilla game and this mod that couldn't be smelted in a crematorium
pgames-food 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:24pm 
(ash its just a play on words) :)
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:24pm 
yeah
pgames-food 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:23pm 
and for holgast, its your mod you can do whatever you wish sir, im just glad that an electric smelter can be used.
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:23pm 
i don't think that has anything to do with what i said but whatever
pgames-food 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:22pm 
it could always be worse... you could have hit an f instead of the c in curious :)
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:12pm 
i was curious what can i say
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:12pm 
for reference "According to the National Funeral Directors Association which is the largest industry association (founded in 1882), “The optimum temperature range is 1400 degrees to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit for the cremation chamber.” aCremation’s Dallas cremation chambers (also called retorts) are typically kept at 1650 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature is constantly monitored by the crematory operator to
ensure it is maintained between the required levels." tungsten melts at about 6,192 °F which means it's need temperatures around 3 time that of the average crematorium
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 7:09pm 
let me correct myself i looked it up out curiosity but turns out a the average temperature of a crematorium is actually hot enough to melt gold,steel and silver but NOT tungsten it's only half of the temperature needed to melt tungsten and then comes that problem that most people who play modded don't really use the crematorium because of mods that allow you to use the corpses for other things
Holgast  [author] 5 Dec, 2020 @ 6:48pm 
Yeah, I was considering making an advanced smelter, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I had a similar thought with making them have different amounts of work for in a crematorium or not, but it probably wouldn't make sense.
pgames-food 5 Dec, 2020 @ 6:17pm 
hi, thanks for adding a smelter as an option, i can get the mod now :)

i wanted to get this mod before, but was waiting until i actually needed a crematorium for something else too (but only because i use so many other mods, i never want to waste a dead raider lol :) (i re-use everything) from genes, simple cloning, maggot farming, chemfuel, spare organs in case your people get injured etc :)

if you still have it as a recipe for both, then maybe one way to simulate things, could simply be to have the Smelter recipe take a bit longer to smelt it, and to have the crematorium be a bit quicker to smelt it. that would be the best of both i think.

btw there was a murder mystery show on tv some years back, where the bad guy actually owned a funeral parlour, and he cremated the victim, but they caught them after they found a partly melted ring in the bottom of the machine which he forgot to check (i think with a partial engraving or something to id)
ashhhh2 5 Dec, 2020 @ 10:33am 
well sorry if i seemed aggressive it's just these days some people just don't understand unless you make it so obvious a 3 year old would get it that might be getting to me
Swagatron 5 Dec, 2020 @ 10:04am 
Ash was a little more aggressive about my point than I was but yeah, the smelter definitely works better and thank you for making that available to both since others may have liked it the original way. I looked it up, tungsten has a melting point of over 6,000F and steel only requires 2,500. A crematorium only runs at 1,800 degrees or below. A space age smelter would probably be a better fit here logically, and I'm happy you made that choice.
Holgast  [author] 4 Dec, 2020 @ 7:24pm 
Ok, thanks for your feedback, guys. I'm going to chalk this up to me misunderstanding how a crematorium works :P

I've just pushed a quick update to make the recipe available at an electric smelter, too. For now, you can use either, but I may remove the crematorium stuff a bit later, when I have time to see if anything else needs to be added. I probably won't add coal smelter support for this but maybe I'll make an extreme smelter to add to the extreme crematorium mod. It doesn't seem like anyone has made a super fast smelter yet?
Holgast  [author] 4 Dec, 2020 @ 7:10pm 
that's a good point I guess, the smelter also destroys objects but you get stuff out of it, whereas you don't with a crematorium
ashhhh2 4 Dec, 2020 @ 6:43pm 
i mean a crematorium is used to burn corpses and not smelt metal IRL for a reason
Holgast  [author] 4 Dec, 2020 @ 6:41pm 
well, that was my reasoning. the crematorium says it 'vaporises' corpses which seems to indicate it works with high heat and quickly. if it's weird/inconvenient I could add it to smelters too?
ashhhh2 4 Dec, 2020 @ 5:24pm 
well not without bellows that's for sure
ashhhh2 4 Dec, 2020 @ 5:23pm 
you can definitely burn a corpse with a wood fire but you can't smelt metal with a wood fire
ashhhh2 4 Dec, 2020 @ 5:22pm 
and how would the crematorium be able to then? as far as i know you need more heat to smelt metal than you need to burn corpses
Holgast  [author] 4 Dec, 2020 @ 5:16pm 
I decided to use the crematorium because I figured that the smelter could not get hot enough to work tungsten.
Swagatron 4 Dec, 2020 @ 8:55am 
Alright so this is a good mod. I used tungsten instead of plasteel for most things and reserved the plasteel for high end electronics and stuff that require it in their recipes. I liked having an alternative metal, though it didn't spawn as ore even as much as plasteel does on three or four map generations. The only thing I would recommend is that we use the smelter for smelting rather than the crematorium which doesn't make any sense to me.
Holgast  [author] 28 Nov, 2020 @ 6:20pm 
Just at a glance, it looks like VME/Expanded Materials Metals has a different def name for their tungsten, so both mods should work together by default; there would just be two different tungstens.
Holgast  [author] 28 Nov, 2020 @ 6:10pm 
Do you mean Expanded Materials Metals?
Holgast  [author] 28 Nov, 2020 @ 6:08pm 
I wasn't aware that mod was a thing, I will check it out.
My mod doesn't add coal natively.
Zergologist 28 Nov, 2020 @ 4:06pm 
How does this mod interact with VFME - Metals? How does it react with that tungsten and coal?
ashhhh2 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:57pm 
it's all good take your time
Holgast  [author] 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:54pm 
the hit points was definitely the same, but I think there was a slight difference in weapons damage? I've just taken a quick look and will push a very quick patch which I haven't balance tested. That's all I have time for right now.
ashhhh2 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:46pm 
but i looked in-game at the stats of tungsten and uranium and they were exactly the same the walls had the same durability and the weapons had the same damage and armor piercing
ashhhh2 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:45pm 
no problem
Holgast  [author] 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:44pm 
Okay, I've reviewed and they aren't exactly the same, but I guess the increase is more marginal than I had wanted. Maybe the intended changes are in a local copy somewhere! How embarrassing. Thanks for letting me know and I'll have to edit it when I have time tonight.
ashhhh2 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:44pm 
nope it's not either as far as i could tell

Holgast  [author] 24 Nov, 2020 @ 1:34pm 
Hmm, I will have to take a look! Maybe I forgot to change something with basic tungsten. Carbide is definitely better though.
ashhhh2 24 Nov, 2020 @ 11:08am 
i'm gonna be clear and i'm pretty sure it wasn't intended but tungsten is exactly the same as uranium in every way in terms of stats
Holgast  [author] 23 Nov, 2020 @ 1:17pm 
Never read/watched it, but I hear it's good! I took some advice on stats from friends in chem/physics.
Eng-Chasers 23 Nov, 2020 @ 7:49am 
I'm getting Dr.stone's Vibe here!