Temperature rise when digging deep.

Deon Beauchamp shared this feedback ago

Not Enough Votes

When digging deep on a planet, could a rise in temperature with depth, be used as a limiting factor on digging down, for no other reason other than a mechanic and an engineering challenge?

I like this feedback

Replies (3)

Deon Beauchamp ●

This could lead to being in hot water.

Reply URL

Колясик ●

this is actually what happens in real life.

When diving, not only does the temperature and pressure increase, but the force of gravity decreases.

it would be great if the developers introduced the possibility of deep ore occurrence under the surface of the planet and complicated the process of extracting this ore

Reply URL

MadGosu ●

It's a good idea and I would like it for the engineering challenge, but I feel like it would lead to people spamming self repair welders over their mining ship rather than taking the time to engineer a solution (if the proposed challenge is that blocks get damaged from the heat)

Reply URL

Deon Beauchamp ●

That is a choice, but my concern is more for the engineer. Do they get tired, or start to take damage, does their power consumption increase to mitigate against the heat.

There could be implications to some systems that would be temperature dependent. I would suppose that there would be a depth at which damage to blocks would occur without a cooling method and a depth beyond where cooling would be longer effective.

URL