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A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
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Make circuit fabrication require sulfuric acid #14497

Open Veritius opened 1 year ago

Veritius commented 1 year ago

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Make the circuit fabricator machine require sulfuric acid or some other corrosive substance.

Partmedia commented 1 year ago

I make boards IRL, and what you're looking for is ferric chloride, a common copper etchant, but same concept, great idea.

z9ctn4fn commented 3 weeks ago

I can make the recipe for ferric chloride. The other two parts are changing the recipes to require something like 1-2u of ferric chloride and adding a chem slot to circuit imprinters.

Partmedia commented 3 weeks ago

It's a cool idea but I'm not sure how much an addition of "yet another ingredient requirement" would add to circuit printing. It would be more cool, for example, if it was split into two steps, e.g. print at an imprinter and you get a "printed board", but then you have to take it into a sink with ferric chloride to etch it to get the final board.

Otherwise, even though we know that you need some kind of etchant, it might just feel like an unnecessary additional ingredient requirement. Happy to discuss this more here or on Discord if you'd like.

WarMechanic commented 3 weeks ago

im iffy about the addition of another chemical reagent for this purpose. if the reagent is exclusively used for fabricating machine boards then it takes away from the feeling of interactiveness in the game since it doesnt function like an acid. but if you add another acid then it would be possible to make quadacid as a deathchem which is a balance discussion.