Heat

Heat

Description

Heat is one of the three (initial) categories that increases the Terraformation Index score. It also unlocks certain blueprints and removes icy terrain opening up new paths through caves.

Heat can be increased by building machines, which can be sped up by using rockets.

Units

The units used in the game are the kelvin (standard SI unit of temperature) with SI fractional prefixes:

• picokelvin (pK, 10⁻¹² kelvin, or 0.000000000001 K)
• nanokelvin (nK, 10⁻⁹ kelvin, or 0.000000001 K)
• microkelvin (µK, 10⁻⁶ kelvin, or 0.000001 K, or a millionth of a K)
• millikelvin (mK, 10⁻³ kelvin, or 0.001 K, or 1/1000 K)
• kelvin (K)

Machines

Heaters

• Heater T1
• Heater T2
• Heater T3
• Heater T4
• Heater T5

Drills

• Drill T2
• Drill T3
• Drill T4
• Drill T5

Extractors

• Gas Extractor
• Gas Extractor T2
• Ore Extractor T1
• Ore Extractor T2
• Ore Extractor T3

Farms

• Amphibians Farm

Rockets

• Asteroids Attraction Rocket

Production ranks

List of Heat-producing Machines

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Item	Energy kW/s	Heat pK/s	Pressure nPa/s	Heat/Energy Ratio
Drill T2	5.0	0.10	1.5	0.020
Drill T3	8.5	0.25	17.0	0.029
Heater T1	1.0	0.30	--	0.30
Heater T2	3.5	4.50	--	1.290
Gas Extractor	58.0	13.00	--	0.220
Ore Extractor	34.0	17.50	15.0	0.510
Drill T4	45.5	25.00	459.0	0.550
Heater T3	17.5	28.50	0.6	1.630
Gas Extractor T2	218.0	45.00	32.0	0.210
Ore Extractor T2	164.0	79.50	85.0	0.480
Amphibians Farm	155.0	175.00	75.0	1.130
Ore Extractor T3	289.0	202.00	135.0	1.590
Animal Shelter	270.0	280.00	340.0	1.037
Heater T4	51.5	538.00	51.5	10.450
Drill T5	375.5	295.00	3950.0	0.790
Heater T5	360.5	4530.00	280.0	12.570

Blueprint rewards

Attaining a certain amount of Heat will grant the player blueprints.

In order, they are:

1. Vegetube T2 (500 pK)
2. Screen - Progress (2.00 nK)
3. Beacon (5.00 nK)
4. Exoskeleton T2 (10.00 nK)
5. Drill T3 (21.00 nK)
6. Biodome (100.00 nK)
7. Sign (500.00 nK)
8. Algae Generator T1 (2.00 µK)
9. Biodome T2 (12.00 µK)
10. Drill T4 (41.00 µK)
11. Nuclear Fusion Generator (750.00 µK)

Trivia

Since a temperature of 0K doesn't exist under normal circumstances in the universe (the lowest temperature that occurs naturally is approximately 2K), it can be assumed these numbers are not absolute, but merely measure the difference that Convict GP-8971-L has made from whatever the planet's original temperature was.

The planet's original temperature must have been close to 273 K, given that ice melts and liquid water accumulates after raising the planet's temperature by only a fraction of a kelvin (making the game's Heat scale functionally identical to Celsius). Room temperature is roughly 295 K, or 22 C.