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We had a discussion on chemistry stations. This seems more like medicine (probably out of grinding herbs into teas or something). It seems that is the focus of chemistry that Red has in mind. I was thinking other stuff but its still a bit to early.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/…ns/0/1473096599326977808/

On a side note, I agree with the comment below about finding potassium nitrate on the walls of caves. I remember that sulfur was also added to the game (for the sake of making TNT) that the id code for is was taken from cobalt. So cobalt was replaced with sulfur. We still need sulfur and potassium nitrate to make gunpowder. This stuff should be placed on the surface. or cave walls as suggested.

In a way, I feel like chemistry should go beyond herbs, teas, and other "potiony" things. I'm sure it would be useful, but plenty of games already have something like that.

Unfortunately, I didn't study a lot of chemistry, so all I can think of are plastics, refining oil into gasoline. Maybe converting plants into biofuel?

I'm actually looking up processes for turning hemp into resin. I suppose chemistry can be as basic or as complicated as Red wants it to be. While this isn't going to be a rocket-building game it would be neat if maybe someone can come up with an advanced chemistry plugin that adds a few hundred different minerals to mine for and a chemistry lab to process it all.

At minimum, I think we are going to have to make gunpowder and the herbs. I'm not sure what a healing potion is. That sounds almost magical which I felt wasn't going to happen in this game. Also need to be able to do some basic metalurgy: combine iron and coal to make steel / combine tin and copper to make bronze. Tin needs to be added naturally and copper would have to be layered higher than iron and be in a higher abundance. The whole reason the iron age ended is because bronze became scarce and iron was second in abundance

Then there are electronics. Now for simplicity sake, I'm not expecting to be able to build complex circuits out of individual resistors, capacitors, and pnp/npn transistors. Ability to control the flow of electrical current with logic gates would be neat. For making a generic "electronic parts" could be simplified to copper, paper, resin, carbon, and silicon, zinc, and silver. Then any advanced item to craft such as the ore detector would have "electronic parts" as a ingredient.

Ofcourse this means adding silicon (process from sand?), carbon, and zinc.

And if we're going to add zinc, minaswell add brass as a third alloy.

BTW, none of the technical stuff I wrote above I knew about before playing Rising World. playing a crafting game that has some resemblance to reality got me curious of how things are made.

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i mean opencomputer and computercraft means of robotics ...... and yeah electricity

I'd love electricity too, seems wrong that with a few bits of metal I can make an infinite light source.

But I guess we could say the same of torches

But I'm wondering how sci-fi the game could get and still feel like Rising World.

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Making the torches able to burnout wouldn't be a good idea. It propably would be super anoying. But with electric lights it would be better.

There's always that balance between realism and fun.