Element suggestion: LEAD
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A peculiar conductor with a fairly low melting point.
Properties:- Melting point: 327C (There is currently nothing that melts in the range 40C - 600C, I think some variety would be nice)
- Conduction: Conducts SPRK at the same speed as WATR, but with the same frequency as METL (ie. still an 8-frame delay between sparks)
- Only conducts to CRAY vertically and horizontally.
- Does not accept SPRK from PSCN, but accepts SPRK from NSCN;
conducts to PSCN, does not conduct to NSCN - Strange property: When molten LEAD comes into contact with (i.e. within a 5x5 pixel square of) 'indestructible' electronics (TSNS, DTEC, ARAY, FILT, PSTN, PUMP, GPMP etc.), the electronics are converted to BREL.
I always find it annoying, when creating a city / technology save, to have to trade functional complexity for breakability: It's easy to make a city that does nothing, but if you want to have any ARAY spires coming off a building you'll always be left with an annoying yellow pixel once your bomb is done. Putting some LEAD around/near it will remove these annoying pixels with a minimum of element additions. - molten LEAD also conducts, but now exactly the same way as WATR.
- Immune to VIRS, but does not cure it.
- Absorbs all types of radiation (GRVT, PROT, ELEC, PHOT, NEUT), taking on the removed radiation's temperature
- Deforms like GOO, but does not disappear when exposed to pressure
- Colour: light grayish blue (similar to 0xD6D6FF)
Edited 6 times by minecraft-physics. Last: 26th Oct 2015 -
Lead has been suggested before, however this is the best by far.
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it is a good idea so why not implement it into the snapshot and see how it works?
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@minecraft-physics (View Post)
I like the idea of something to break electronic stuff, but it seems kind of random to make lead do it. A while ago, I suggested an element that converts everything into its broken form (For example, ARAY->BREL, BMTL->BRML, etc.)
Also, there are too many blue-gray metals (NSCN, METL, BMTL). Maybe dark gray would be better.
Edited once by 12Me21. Last: 22nd Oct 2015
