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Capture bot rocket

2025-01-28T12:40:13Z

Gloweye:

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{{:Infobox:Capture bot rocket}}
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The '''capture bot rocket''' is a special type of ammunition for the [[rocket launcher]], [[rocket turret]]{{SA}}, and [[spidertron]], used to slowly transform a [[Spawners|biter or spitter spawner]] into a [[captive biter spawner]].
When loaded with capture bot rockets, rocket turrets and spidertrons will exclusively target spawners and will not fire at any other enemies, even if the turret's target priorities are set to non-spawner enemies.

== History ==
{{History|2.0.19|
* Changed captive biter spawner to inherit quality from the wild spawner instead of the capture robot.
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{{History|2.0.7|
* Introduced in [[Space Age]]{{SA}} expansion.
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Talk:Thruster

2025-01-26T09:42:28Z

Gloweye:

How speed depands on time, mass and thrust? At least for equilibrium speed tell me, how depends on thrust and mass?
I thought equilibrium speed is proportional thrust/mass, but experiments show it's not true. Not liear, but growing dependense on this ratio.

- I looked into it. The calculations seem to be complex. There is a quadratic equation there (force of friction = a*V^2 + b*V + c), and both platform mass and platform width go there in every component as coefficients in a non-trivial way. I tried to derive it by measuring the speed of the platform in different conditions, but got bored. Too much work for no real benefit. But I did find some useful information:
* The closest planet always pulls you by 10km/s.
* Platform mass is almost irrelevant. Yes, you shouldn't be afraid to make you platform bigger.
* Platform width, on the other hand, is VERY important. The slimmer is your ship, the faster it goes.
It is probably worth putting somewhere on the wiki, because it is not obvious that what you really need to look at when building a platform is its width (which is not even shown to you), but I have no idea where exactly. Maybe somebody more stubborn than me will derive the correct formula. I have all the measurement data, if anybody is interested.
--[[User:Morse|Morse]] ([[User talk:Morse|talk]]) 19:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

== Please add explanation for data sheet. ==

It seems that, if you understand the basic mechanic, the datasheet probably makes sense but, if you don't, it's just a bunch of columns of numbers. Specifically, how does one know the Filled Fluid Reserve, and how does one plan for it to be their ideal chosen amount?

== Quality magnitude seems off in the table ==

The infobox says that Legendary quality has a fluid consumption of 15-300, which matches how quality scales on all other things. However, the table forgets to skip a quality for legendary, therefore ending up lower than that.

I don't know for sure how to figure out the numbers that should be there?

[[User:Gloweye|Gloweye]] ([[User talk:Gloweye|talk]]) 09:42, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Infobox:Rocket part

2024-12-04T14:56:30Z

Gloweye: Whoopsie, corrected output

{{Infobox
|prototype-type = item
|internal-name = rocket-part
|total-raw = Time, 153 + Copper plate, 200 + Plastic bar, 50 + Processing unit, 10 + Rocket fuel, 10 + Steel plate, 20
|category = Intermediate products
|stack-size = 5
|recipe = Time, 3 + Low density structure, 10 + Processing unit, 10 + Rocket fuel, 10
|required-technologies = Rocket silo
|producers = Rocket silo
|changed-by-space-age-mod = yes
|rocket-capacity = 105 (21 {{Translation|stacks}})
|space-age-recipe = Time, 3 + Low density structure, 1 + Processing unit, 1 + Rocket fuel, 1 = Rocket part, 2
|space-age-total-raw = Time, 9 + Copper plate, 10 + Plastic bar, 2.5 + Processing unit, 0.5 + Rocket fuel, 0.5 + Steel plate, 1
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Infobox page]]</noinclude>

Infobox:Rocket part

2024-12-04T14:54:49Z

Gloweye: SA recipe gives 2 rocket parts

{{Infobox
|prototype-type = item
|internal-name = rocket-part
|total-raw = Time, 153 + Copper plate, 200 + Plastic bar, 50 + Processing unit, 10 + Rocket fuel, 10 + Steel plate, 20
|category = Intermediate products
|stack-size = 5
|recipe = Time, 3 + Low density structure, 10 + Processing unit, 10 + Rocket fuel, 10
|required-technologies = Rocket silo
|producers = Rocket silo
|changed-by-space-age-mod = yes
|rocket-capacity = 105 (21 {{Translation|stacks}})
|space-age-recipe = Time, 3 + Low density structure, 1 + Processing unit, 1 + Rocket fuel, 2
|space-age-total-raw = Time, 9 + Copper plate, 10 + Plastic bar, 2.5 + Processing unit, 0.5 + Rocket fuel, 0.5 + Steel plate, 1
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Infobox page]]</noinclude>

Rocket fuel

2024-12-04T14:53:07Z

Gloweye: Corrected SA ratios

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Used in the production of orbital rockets. It is the second-most long-lasting of all the fuel types, beat only by [[Nuclear fuel]]. Rocket fuel can also be used in burner devices to provide 100MJ of energy, however this is slightly less efficient than using 10 [[solid fuel]]s unless extra products are created using [[productivity module]]s.

'''Vanilla:''' 10 rocket fuel are required for each [[rocket part]], so 1000 rocket fuel are needed for each rocket launch. Additionally 50 rocket fuel are required for each [[satellite]].

'''Space Age:''' 1 rocket fuel is required for 2 rocket parts, so 50 rocket fuel are needed for each rocket launch.

== Recipes ==

There are multiple ways to make rocket fuel.

{| class="wikitable"
! Process !! Input !! Output !! Produced by
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| {{Icon|Rocket fuel||}} || {{icon|Light oil|10}} + {{icon|Solid fuel|10}} + {{icon|time|15}} || {{icon|Rocket fuel|1}} || {{icon|Assembling machine 2}} + {{icon|Assembling machine 3}} + {{icon|Biochamber|space-age=yes}}
|-
| {{Icon|Ammonia rocket fuel|space-age=yes}} || {{icon|Ammonia|500}} + {{icon|Water|50}} + {{icon|Solid fuel|3}} + {{icon|Time|10}} || {{icon|Rocket fuel|1}} || {{icon|Chemical plant}} + {{icon|Cryogenic plant}}
|-
| {{Icon|rocket fuel from jelly|space-age=yes}} || {{icon|Water|30}} + {{icon|jelly|30}} + {{icon|bioflux|2}} + {{icon|Time|10}} || {{icon|Rocket fuel|1}} || {{icon|Biochamber}}
|}

== History ==
{{History|2.0.7|
* Increased rocket fuel stack size from 10 to 20.
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{{history|0.17.60|
* Rocket fuel requires light oil.}}

{{history|0.17.0|
* Relative fuel value of rocket fuel decreased by 10.6%.}}

{{history|0.15.0|
* Fuel type now affects vehicle acceleration and top speed.}}

{{history|0.13.0|
* Rocket fuel can now be used as fuel.}}

{{history|0.12.0|
* Introduced}}

== See also ==
* [[Rocket part]] components:
** [[Low density structure]]
** [[Processing unit]]
* [[Satellite]]
* [[Solid fuel]]
* [[Tutorial:Producing power from oil]]
* [[Fuel]]

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