Torque - Orion351/hidden-worlds GitHub Wiki

Torque is a fluid that's made and consumed in very specific places.

• In the early game, Torque is produced/consumed by wood/stone/rope "primitive" machines.
• At some point in the later game, it would be interesting to do more with larger torque exchangers

Entities that echange Torque have Fluid Boxes that limit connecting to anything else. This is because under the hood, Torque is a fluid, and could end up in inappropriate places, like Pipes, otherwise. I don't care if someone cheats in a fluid pipe that does this.

The goal here is to encourage different design principles. To that end:

• Torque sources are specific entities like Water Wheels or Windmills
• Torque 'pipes' (assemblers with fixed recipes under the hood) are Axles, and have deliberately placed connection points for exchanging Torque.
• Torque consumers 'burn' it as a fuel.

At this stage of the game, other systems are being used to scaffold these design paradigms. See below.

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