Collecting lava?

that mod sounds uber cool

gotta go find it

thanks for the name 8)

 

As opposed to the skyrail system? ... Right.

 

Oh. You mean a vacuum cleaner.

The poll option only says "vacuum" so I assumed that a physical vacuum was to somehow... do magic(?)... on the lava.

Given that lava is very heavy, has surface tension, and doesn't compress worth a darn, it didn't add up.

As someone who works with ceramics (some sort of rock if you will =) for a living, I can assure you that a vacuum cleaner works horribly bad on it.
The density is just too high.
We do use an industrial strength VC. It has 3 turbines and still has issues picking up anything larger than near-dust.
Lava? (assuming heat is no issue) No. Way.

In order to have any chance for it to work you'd need a pump where the hose is in direct contact with the lava, not a vacuum cleaner that uses a perpendicular air stream to catch parts on the surface in the air stream.
Then you you have a believable implementation.

That you pump it into your magical inventory to store it - well, that's science. =)
The game just wouldn't work without one so *shrug*.

 

Right indeed. The skyrail system is used to transport the player to locations they regularly visit. A lava pump would be used to gather a liquid from a small pool then immediately become useless and need to be either moved or deconstructed. It would not be worth the effort unless a pool was already near the location you wanted to store it. I'm not sure why you would even compare these two.

That, and, what if you wanted to bring different liquids across planets? What are you going to do, run a pipe between them?

 

Guys, I think we can reach a very reasonable conclusion here...

We already have spaceships that can orbit planets.
We plan to have vacuums.
Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that GeorgeV is personally going to implement MegaMaid as the way to collect Lava, Oxygen, and bad jokes about "She's gone from suck to blow!"

 

There is Steambound if you prefer pumps and pipes for collecting liquids.

 

1. You're making an awful lot of assumptions regarding what "people" do often or not.
2. Opinions, opinions and more opinions.
3. You're making assumptions on how a system that only exists in people's mind work in practice.

A. Skyrails are an end game tool, due in part to material requirements and part to the fact that players haven't really "settled" down on low tier planets in the first sectors. (And lets not forget that a lot of people don't like the mechanic at all)

B. Small pool? Who said anything about small pools? You could plug it directly into the core for endless magma if you cared to - And not even then, you could start at the surface and work your way down as you had more materials available, bridging the empty pools to new ones (You know - Like we've done on Earth for ages)

C. Again - Purposely bad assumptions to make them fit into your argument. Tapping and Storage has already been discussed plenty. Not that Lava needs (or can) be stored in its natural state, since it kind of needs constant heating (But we'll ignore "realism" on this one since you can walk around with a metric ton of dirt and rock in your pants anyway)