Lava
When on/in other objects/liquids: | |
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magmatic liquid magma-covered object lava-stained object | |
Vaporizes at
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10000° |
Base temperature
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1000° |
Cooking Effect
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Value per dram
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50 |
Weight per dram
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0.5# |
Fluidity
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15 |
Cleaning factor
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20 |
Prompt to wade through?
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yes |
Prompt to drink?
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yes |
ID
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LavaPool, LavaPuddle, SmallLavaPuddle |
Liquid ID
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lava |
Infobox data from game version 2.0.201.72
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lava is a liquid made out of melted rock. It is one of the higher valued liquids, but is highly harmful to anything it contacts that lacks proper heat resistance. Cooking with it grants simple heat and fire-based cooking effects. A composite liquid containing lava will be magmatic.
Upon entering a cell of lava that is not frozen, the creature's temperature will increase by 1,000, which is often enough to set the creature on fire. This is only when the cell is entered, and staying on the lava will not alter temperature directly. However, there is a high risk of lava staining and covering the creature and their items repeatedly if they do not leave the cell.
When lava is poured on something, their temperature will increase but will not inflict damage. Drinking it or even dilutions of it is even more dangerous, increasing temperature by the same amount but dealing 1d1001-100 (Avg: 50.5) damage and 1d1001-100 (Avg: 50.5) more for every 10% of lava (100% lava deals 11d10011-1100 (Avg: 555.5), 50% of lava deals 6d1006-600 (Avg: 303)). The temperature increase is unaffected. Drinking lava grants the On the Rocks achievement. In the journal, this is noted as "Unexplainably, you drank lava".
Storage
Lava's baseline temperature of 1,000 degrees means that only some containers can safely hold it:
- phials can hold lava any number of times, but is highly limited due to the 1D size limit. Phials are relatively rare and expensive but have a very low weight, which can allow for carrying large amounts across multiple vials.
- glass bottles can hold up to exactly 5D of lava cumulatively; upon receiving its 6th Dram of lava the bottle will ignite, even if the previous Drams have been poured out. Bottles are relatively cheap containers, especially compared to vials, but have a higher container weight and cannot be filled their full 16D.
- All other empty containers will ignite and burn upon pouring lava inside.
- Very small amounts can be stored in some artifacts that store liquids. Examples include: liquid fueled energy cells, gyrocopter backpacks, rocket skates, and flamethrowers.
Containers that ignite from lava suffer the flaming effect, making them suffer tick damage from burning until destroyed. Freezing is not a viable solution to this issue, as frozen entities and materials thaw back to their resting temperature in a matter of turns and most containers burn at a much lower point than 1,000 degrees.
Sources of Lava
- Any wall that reaches its melting point will turn into 2,000 drams of lava
- giant lava weeps and lava weeps. Fungal biomes that contain these have bright red and yellow mushrooms.
- Rarely sold by ichor merchants and chefs.
- Note that this lava will sometimes be sold in non-lava safe containers, in which case the containers will be flaming in their inventory.
- The alchemist is guaranteed to have one dram of lava for sale.
- This dram will be sold in a phial, which the lava cannot destroy.
- When killed, red jells leave a pool of lava in the same way that giant amoebas leave a pool of slime.
- Found in the deeper levels of the Asphalt Mines
- Left behind by red-colored ("hot") machine walls when they are destroyed.
Uses of Lava
- Used in thermoelectric cells to power artifacts
- Can be cooked with
- High commerce value per dram
Tips
- An easy source of large single-target, single-hit damage, making it potentially useful, e.g., for killing a mercurial without it teleporting away. However, this will anger them if they survive.
- Lava can be collected after the initial pouring to be reused for damage, although it will be halved due to mixing with the salt on the ground.
- Because any wall can melt into lava, characters with heat-based mutations, such as Flaming Hands or Pyrokinesis, can make lava without having to search for it.
- Lava can be poured on someone to remove the frozen effect. However, this often results in upwards of 100 damage, so it is best used only as a last resort.
- molten wax is much safer, though not as effective.
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