Goonhub
06-01-2025, 10:42 AM
On this, I'm glad that indestructible pipes have gone. As someone who's gotten the Jiggawatts medal recently with a chamberburn, its absolutely possible to achieve very good outputs without what ultimately amounted to an unfixed exploit in the piping system.
Using knowledge from maybe 10 previous runs that hit up to 2.6 EW at the end of the shift it took about 20/30 minutes of prep working with science, mining and other engineers to do. We gathered and alloyed materials, mixed chems etc. and ended up with a great setup that didnt even burst but still got us our million which was promptly turned into a joint.
Using plasmasteel reinforcement with 20u GHC per pipe on the standard Kondaru layout you can contain over 20TPa of pressure (I reached that pressure without a burst, possibly higher), with Iridium reinforcement and GHC I'm sure you could hold even more.
No one enjoys being stuck in welder hell, and I'm always impressed with the ingenuity that we as a community can apply to the TEG to overcome the problems it presents and ideally I'd like an even higher tier of materials, for example an Iridium (alloy) alloy for some silly pressures above what I've achieved. Another idea would be to be able to increase the thickness of the pipe layers through multiple layering as has been presented above, this is done IRL when high pressures are involved (maybe balanced by forcing players to have to vault over said thicker pipes though I'll admit that's a half-baked idea).
All this is to say that it's very possible to get big ol' numbers with the TEG without using unbreakable pipes and it just requires some team effort and with recent updates such as pipe reinforcement I'm excited to see where development will go next.
Using knowledge from maybe 10 previous runs that hit up to 2.6 EW at the end of the shift it took about 20/30 minutes of prep working with science, mining and other engineers to do. We gathered and alloyed materials, mixed chems etc. and ended up with a great setup that didnt even burst but still got us our million which was promptly turned into a joint.
Using plasmasteel reinforcement with 20u GHC per pipe on the standard Kondaru layout you can contain over 20TPa of pressure (I reached that pressure without a burst, possibly higher), with Iridium reinforcement and GHC I'm sure you could hold even more.
No one enjoys being stuck in welder hell, and I'm always impressed with the ingenuity that we as a community can apply to the TEG to overcome the problems it presents and ideally I'd like an even higher tier of materials, for example an Iridium (alloy) alloy for some silly pressures above what I've achieved. Another idea would be to be able to increase the thickness of the pipe layers through multiple layering as has been presented above, this is done IRL when high pressures are involved (maybe balanced by forcing players to have to vault over said thicker pipes though I'll admit that's a half-baked idea).
All this is to say that it's very possible to get big ol' numbers with the TEG without using unbreakable pipes and it just requires some team effort and with recent updates such as pipe reinforcement I'm excited to see where development will go next.