Plasma Industries

The engineer leans in, watching as the machine channels pressurized plasma that arcs, crackles and flashes, etching a familiar pattern into the processing units with a speed never witnessed before.

Content

Adds several balanced and vanilla friendly recipes to the game inspired by real life plasma usage. Enables the chemplant, foundry, biochamber, electromagnetic plant and cryoplant to process plasma. While plasma is needed for the recipes, you get a matching output of hot fluoroketone, keeping the plasma loop closed.

Currently features

A bulk recipe for processing units using fusion plasma instead of sulfuric acid, inspired by plasma semi conductor etching.

A more productive recipe for carbon fiber, inspired by plasma activation, a process used to enhance surface adhesion in textiles.

A new artillery shell that deals formidable damage in a tiny area, inspired by the 1960s Casaba-Howitzer project.

A new late game way to melt iron and copper (and some modded metals) into fluids without the need for calcite, inspired by mass spectrometric separation.

A new fuel that matches nuclear fuel in terms of vehicle speed and acceleration, enabling fast late game trains on all planets, inspired by plasma propulsion engines.

Supercharged railgun ammo that falls apart as soon as it leaves the barrel, dealing much less damage than regular rail gun shells but in a much larger area. This breaks up the monotony of ship fronts, makes railguns useful against biters and gives the player a reason to research rail gun damage beyond level 2.

Lastly, if you're feeling particularly destructive, this mod enables you to spray fusion plasma at your enemies from a flamethrower turret. Horribly wasteful but terrifyingly effective.

This mod also adds plasma ducts, a pipelike entity specifically made to transport fusion plasma.

Mod compat

With Corrundum installed, the catalytic chemical plant can now handle plasma and produce ionized rocket fuel, Casaba howitzer shells and supercharged railgun ammo.

Frozetas golden railgun works with plasma railgun ammo, with more compat coming.

With Castra, the forge can now handle fusion plasma and forge Casaba howitzer shells as well as supercharged railgun ammo.

Muluna has a new molten aluminum recipe with plasma.

Lignumis has a new gold melting recipe with plasma.

With Pelagos, the barreling machine can now handle fusion plasma and barrel it into titanium barrels.

With Vesta you can use Vestas plasma pipes and vice versa.

Using Crushing Industry, the plasma ore melting recipe uses crushed ores.

Scrappy Industry has explicit compat, the bulk recipes will produce their usual scrap and some plasma recipes will produce irradiated scrap that needs to be decontaminated!

More mod compat coming soon for fans of Snouz Moshine, other planet mods and Ribbonia!

Coming up next

Github, discord, more pictures, custom smoke colours.

Special thanks to SafTheLamb for her advice about thumbnails and mod descriptions!