It'd be fitting if the heat tower also somehow produced stone as a byproduct, rather than just consuming the lava.

Good call. On Reddi that was suggested as well. I have some example code that can accomplish that through the use of hidden buildings. When I get some time I'll look into making it generate stone.

I guess I'm never going to do this. If you want to do a PR, I'd happily accept

@orbital917 made a PR for this: https://github.com/lukedupin/vulcanus-lava-power/pull/1
Did some decent testing on this on other planets like obsidiax and had to nerf it a bit to make it balance out.

@TheFatman03561

Interesting concept, so this creates filtered lava to get the stone generation and the filtered lava is what the heat down 'consumes'?

I really don't have time to test this. Do you feel like its fully ready and wont break peoples current builds? If so we can merge and release.

it will definitely break current builds since it necessitates constructon of special foundries to fliter lava. tbh i don't think that stone generation is required for this mod to be balanced since it actually nerfs vanilla steam from acid recipe, moreover i handicap myself by only using direct connections from pump to heating tower (it becomes more immersive for me this way, lava does not actually go anywhere and just heats the tower)