Electric heater for snow bases#5430
With the use of electronics, allow players to heat their bases in areas such as the winter, especially in the night-time. Make a heater that covers a much larger radius than the stone fireplace, which is powered via electricity. This will make the winter a much more suitable place to live in. I believe there should be a small and large heater. A small heater for starter bases, heats with radius roughly 2 building squares, and costs about 200 metal frags, 10 hqm. For large bases, a 5 tile radius heater would be optimal, costing around 1000 metal frags, 50 hqm, and 5 tech trash. The small electric heater at night should be able to be powered by one small battery, while the large heater should require two large batteries(connected with root combiner) to work.
On board with all except the batteries
Fireplaces are going to heat entire bases.
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I’d rather save my HQM for weapons, armor, armoring my base. At least the fireplace is relatively cheap and runs off of easily obtainable wood. Why would I throw HQM into heating my base when I can just use wood and a few camp fires or a fireplace or two.
I would use a couple timers with electricity to make the heating system turn on and off with day and night, which would cost no wood to use and I wouldn’t have to worry about heating
@Hunter Pruett you would still be using HQM to craft the stuff. Wood is 20 scrap for 1k or like a minute of tree farming. Just makes no sense to me to spend HQM that has many better uses over wood that takes all of 50 lgf and a chainsaw for 5 minutes to keep a fire or fireplace going.
Maybe we wouldn’t need HQM or a very little bit- 10 or 20. It still is technically an electronic component and should require some HQM. Maybe 1k Metal 10 HQM and 5 tech trash seems more realistic.
They need to add copper to the game for electrical to replace the HQM. It makes more sense to recycle all electrical components than it does to use electricity for the handful of things that are actually useful. Let alone adding more content that just does what existing content already does.