IRCers will have heard me rant but meh. What if when you pressurised a liquid, when it reached a certain level or pressurisation (in regards to the block it has to move) it shot the block like a cannon, doing massive damage to anything in the way? Easy weaponisation too, I already have a plan! http://community.playstarbound.com/...ake-dwarven-engineering-schematics-here.5758/ Perhaps the pressure needed (and thus speed, and thus damage) had to do with the time it takes to break the block? Then if you use too hard a cannonball the cannon explodes instead. Also, pressurised air. EDIT: If you're confused refer to post eight.
As we can see as of now an infinite amount of water will fit into a 1 block space... it just comes out of it REALLY explosively
Well you can pressurise anything if you have enough pressure/a strong enough container. The water would most likely just go through a few solid and liquid phases until you started getting fusion and eventually you'd theoretically get a black hole. But the kind of pressures for this are probably just gonna make the water spurt out a bit This idea sounds quite cool. Might be pretty hard to code though, as all the blocks usually have a static position on a grid, and this would involve them having to code a way for blocks to have a dynamic position so that they could 'fire' out.
I am aware that anything can be compressed but the amount of force to compress water is immense. So applying a couple "blocks" can go in to ways. either the blocks wont compress water (which would be lame) or since the blocks are the dominant force that cannot be stopped, the water must move the same amount of blocks to retain it's volume.
Well yes, but I don't think the game is exactly going to be the most realistic when it comes to the laws of physics and how pressure really works. My understanding of the system the devs have made is that blocks are going to remain completely immovable objects. So: Water in a box ==> Adding water/placing blocks inside the box will increase the pressure ==> Removing a block from the outside of the box will result in release of that pressure with explosive consequences (water spraying out the hole) I don't think blocks are going to be displaced by water if you let the pressure build up, but I could be wrong. With regards to this idea I think he was assuming you'd make the box out of something stronger (say steel), and then a shove a weaker block (say dirt) somewhere as the block that you wanted to 'fire', so that the system could tell the difference between the two. Then you'd increase the water pressure until the block was shot out. I have no idea what would happen if you made the box all out of the same material, maybe a random block would just shoot out to relieve the pressure? Or the whole thing would explode? Could be pretty interesting nonetheless. I'm not sure I even really replied to your statement in the end lol.... But you win some you lose some.
