Atomcraft on Steam
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A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.

I’ve been looking for something that can prepare hydrofluoric acid from fluorite and sulfuric acid for some time, and I’ve finally found such a game.

The idea of the game is to collect every element on the periodic table to repair your ship. Compounds with several elements won’t work - only compounds that consist of a particular element are eligible.

And how do you do that? You have to react things with each other to make new compounds. And/or you use heat to do it. Or, you use electrolysis to separate elements (I like the electrolysis reaction where salt is separated into sodium and chlorine gas). Or you use your particle accelerator gun to make synthetic elements.

There are a bunch of reactions missing (you can’t mix pure sodium and fluorine to get NaF on the spot), but there are enough to get all the elements. I had a fun time with it.

  • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I tried the game demo last night. It’s way more like Sandustry than Minecraft. Or since that’s a newer/obscure game, a bit like Terraria without the weapons.

    There’s an addictive quality to wanting to discover the next element or compound after each prior one. But at least in the demo, that seems like all there is to do. Collect materials, research how to react them, and fill in the periodic table to fix your ship.