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it would make more sense for him to just...leave and go back

That's a good point. It would be pretty cool in general if people did thematically appropriate reactions for different thoughts, but might be way more work than it's worth.

Or the dems go hypocrite & start abusing the filibuster like the pubs did.

I don't really view that as "hypocritical."

Just like I wouldn't view it as hypocritical if I said "You better not punch me in the face, asshole!" and then you punch me in the face, and I proceed to punch YOU in the face afterward.

some metals are soft enough to be worked without necessarily having to become molten.

That is a very good point. I think that a lot of MesoAmerican people used to be excellent, detailed metalworkers without knowing a whole lot about smelting (earlier on), just because they didn't need to with large amounts of copper nuggets lying around.

Thanks!

Thermodynamics pretty much working now. The image below shows locations of mantle plumes (superimposed black dots) and a map of the crust, blue = cold, red = hot, each pixel = column of goxels, with an overly dramatic amount of heating going on. The crust is currently stationary.  The temperatures you see are actually being filtered through conductiveness, specific heat, and density all properly by Fourier's law, with just a couple shortcuts (causing the minor and insignificant banding). Heating follows Gaussian, not linear falloff too! And since the plumes are all equally active for now, reads from a dynamically stored table of circle distances.

For a thin ocean crust, this algorithm goes quickly enough on a 300x300 map that I can't even snap a screenshot quickly enough before it gets too hot without adding in pause functions.

Next step is cracking the crust along the weaker hot paths (pathfinding with temperature as cost, for now), to form plates, then determining Voronoi maps of nearest plume neighbors for calculating plate movement vectors, and filling in new ocean floor and volcanism where stuff collides.

For now, volcanism is just a number stored in the column so I can show it in the images. Later will mean actual volcanism and trigger new algorithms, etc.

This isn't just a simple image of only thermodynamics. The coordinate system is already in place to handle all the wrapping of coordinates, and all set up to be ready to handle plates moving independently too (they're stored in separate vector lists of columns, so I only have to chnage one offset number to "move" the plate basically). System already loads up all the goxels as basalt, and has 3D structure, etc.

Getting there!



Top left panel is the actual map. Rest of it is copied/pasted to show how it wraps around correctly.

Surely somebody in 40.14 has built a wall of stone to hold a demon back to have reported on such a change if it happened by now.  Maybe not...

Also, you could consider bridges. They cover areas a lot faster. Just scan through the types of demons at your site and see if there are any hot enough to melt your most heat resistant stone on hand, and if not, you're golden.

I've never seen a game with that option. A fully optional tutorial, like how Age of Empires does it, is fine, because I'll never do it. But those first start ups, the beginning of each game, scroll over this to get a small explanation and directory? I hate those.

If only there were some sort of forum where the little people like us could express these suggestions for the better kind of optional tutorial. 

I think I would walk about half as quickly over that than pavement, actually. More than 20% by a lot. Looks incredibly ankle snappy.

If carrying anything and unable to see my feet, more like 1/3 as fast as over pavement probably.