There's a certain level of jank in video games that doesn't interrupt your fun even if it breaks something or obstructs you. There's less room to forgive jank with AAA large studios (im looking at you Bethesda), but when you're playing an indie game that's trying to do a lot of complicated things you let stuff slide
im currently playing Vintage Story with some friends. It looks and behaves like minecraft, but really it's a early-modern (think 1600s) survival simulator with weird steampunk science gone wrong themes. it's not groundbreaking but it hits the right notes for me in terms of speed of progress and things to do. and of course, I play with mods (do you... not mod your games?)
the vanilla game has a cooking pot that doesn't start "cooking" until the contents in the vessel reach 200 degrees Celsius. If you know anything about cooking and physics you should be immediately terrified, because the temperature that things actually cook is largely dictated by the boiling point of water, which is 100 degrees Celsius at 1 atmosphere of pressure (sea level, abbreviated 1 atm).
Your food is full of water. So, like, even if you can set your oven to 200 degrees Celsius, that's the temperature of the air in the oven, not he ingredients
If you were to raise a pot of food up to 200 degrees Celsius, you'd need a pressure cooker, which increases the boiling point of water. However, you'd need a pressure cooker that no one in their right mind would put in their home. a stove top pressure cooker cooks at 15 PSI, or 1.02 atm, to raise the boiling point of water to about 121 degrees C.
In order to raise the boiling point of water to 200 degrees C, you'd need a pressure cooker that operates at...
just about 39 atmospheres. or 571 PSI.
Seems high, but that's not unobtainable with really good equipment irl. For reference, the pressure at the Mariana trench (deepest point of the ocean) is 15,750 PSI, or ~1071 atmospheres of pressure.
I mentioned mods earlier for a reason. We installed some mods because games are more fun with mods. A conflict between two mods: one that changes the speed at which materials heat up, and one that adds a much, much larger cooking vessel, created a minor situation:
I went to make some broth by boiling bones in water. I wanted to make a lot, so I used this modded vessel, which holds 50L of water vs the vanilla cooking pot's 6L.
I tossed the stuff in and lit the fire. The temperature of the water went past 200 degrees Celsius, and did not stop. It topped out at 1100 degrees Celsius.
How much pressure do you need to change the boiling point of water to 1100 degrees Celsius?
im afraid i've gone past the point of boiling water. I'm now creating new elements unknown by science. The pressure at the center of the sun is approximately 3840000000000 PSI, or 261296501407.55 atm. This is 30,500 times higher than the pressure at the center of the sun.
my broth is done. my broth contains enough energy to obliterate our local galactic neighborhood. my broth is delicious. my broth is purple:
