[innawood] Add makeshift hand-crank charger and magnetite ore

[Entott]

Summary

Mods "[innawood] Add Makeshift hand-crank charger and magnetite ore."

Purpose of change

Right now it is impossible to reach an electricity era in this mod. You can't charge any battery without having a charged soldering iron. Also clay car battery is the only battery you can craft without electronics 5 skill, which is unreachable without charged soldering iron.

Describe the solution

A makeshift hand-crank charger based on homopolar generator solves this problem. It works just as original hand-crank charger except it can charge tool batteries. I added the BATTERY_HEAVY flag to the clay car battery so it can be charged with this charger. I also added magnetite ore as a natural source of magnet for the charger.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I wish this charger could charge appliance and vehicle versions of batteries, but I'm not smart enough for that.

Testing

1.Mined magnetite.
2.Crafted a charger.
3.Reloaded it with clay car battery.
4.Charged battery.

Additional context

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• A large chunk of magnetite, a ferrimagnetic oxide of iron. It can be magnetized to become a permanent magnet itself.

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[moxian]

You can't charge any battery without having a charged soldering iron

Please explain this part. I haven't tried setting up electricity in innawood, but this particular blocker seems odd. How exactly are you charging the battery, and why do you need to solder it?

Most of the crude electronic contraptions can be made by simply twisting the wires together, with no permanent solder. The solder is only there for fine work (like microcontroller terminals) and perhaps some amount of durability. None of this should be neccessary for making a battery?

What I'm trying to say that, while the hand-crank charger might be a fine addition to a mod in vacuum, it does not seem like the best solution to for the stated problem.

[Entott]

Please explain this part. I haven't tried setting up electricity in innawood, but this particular blocker seems odd. How exactly are you charging the battery, and why do you need to solder it?

Most of the crude electronic contraptions can be made by simply twisting the wires together, with no permanent solder. The solder is only there for fine work (like microcontroller terminals) and perhaps some amount of durability. None of this should be neccessary for making a battery?

What I'm trying to say that, while the hand-crank charger might be a fine addition to a mod in vacuum, it does not seem like the best solution to for the stated problem.

AFAIK there are 3 ways to charge a battery in the mod with electronics skill 4:
1.wind turbine
2.water wheel
3.bicycle alternator and motorbike alternator

As you see all of them require soldering. Maybe it's wrong and you can make crude or even good versions of all the above without soldering IRL too, but i decided to begin with making crude hand-crank charger.

[Light-Wave]

Sounds reasonable. There used to be craftable solid batteries that were used to get battery power early in Innawood, but they seem to have been removed. This should kinda sorta fix that.
Another suggestion has been to make a primitive soldering iron that is a rod of iron you heat in a campfire. But this is fine too.
Something else to consider is that players may end up with a lot extra magnetite and not enough iron, so a recipe to turn magnetite to iron could be useful, but is not required for this PR.

[Entott]

Sounds reasonable. There used to be craftable solid batteries that were used to get battery power early in Innawood, but they seem to have been removed. This should kinda sorta fix that. Another suggestion has been to make a primitive soldering iron that is a rod of iron you heat in a campfire. But this is fine too. Something else to consider is that players may end up with a lot extra magnetite and not enough iron, so a recipe to turn magnetite to iron could be useful, but is not required for this PR.

Yes, I thought about it.
I originally added steel to the recipe thinking you'd turn it into a magnet by using it as a lightning rod beforehand. But some people on Discord didn't like that.

[moxian]

Oh, I see what you mean.
I think the bigger problem is that all of them require not only soldering iron, but also the handwavy "electronic scrap", which is unobtainable in innawood AFAIK (which hand-crank charger could also use in place of magnetite tbh).

Anyway, I now see the issue. The issue is not the way that we can't charge the battery, the problem is that we need to charge it in the first place. Which is wrong, because lead-acid batteries should come pre-charged (and non-rechargable).
But, yes, as I have just found out, the crafted lead-acid battery comes with zero charges. This is the bug that needs to be fixed, and not worked around.

Set "flags": ["FULL_MAGAZINE"], on the clay car battery recipe to make the battery spawn fully charged.

p.s.: @Light-Wave

There used to be craftable solid batteries that were used to get battery power early in Innawood, but they seem to have been removed. This should kinda sorta fix that.

They still exist, at least in some capacity -

Cataclysm-DDA/data/mods/innawood/recipes/electronic_parts.json

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	"result": "battery_car_clay",
	"type": "recipe",
	"activity_level": "LIGHT_EXERCISE",
	"category": "CC_ELECTRONIC",
	"subcategory": "CSC_ELECTRONIC_PARTS",
	"skill_used": "electronics",
	"difficulty": 2,
	"skills_required": [ [ "fabrication", 2 ], [ "chemistry", 3 ] ],
	"time": "30 m",
	"autolearn": true,
	"using": [ [ "surface_heat", 10, "LIST" ], [ "glazing", 2 ], [ "earthenware_firing", 120 ] ],
	"proficiencies": [ { "proficiency": "prof_plasticworking" } ],
	"qualities": [ { "id": "SCREW", "level": 1 } ],
	"components": [
	[ [ "scrap", 4 ] ],
	[ [ "lead", 3200 ] ],
	[ [ "chem_sulphuric_acid", 13 ] ],
	[ [ "water", 2 ], [ "water_clean", 2 ] ],
	[ [ "clay_lump", 5 ] ]
	]
	},

[Entott]

Anyway, I now see the issue. The issue is not the way that we can't charge the battery, the problem is that we need to charge it in the first place. Which is wrong, because lead-acid batteries should come pre-charged (and non-rechargable). But, yes, as I have just found out, the crafted lead-acid battery comes with zero charges. This is the bug that needs to be fixed, and not worked around.

Set "flags": ["FULL_MAGAZINE"], on the clay car battery recipe to make the battery spawn fully charged.

Will this battery be fully charged if you make it IRL? If so, I didn't know that.

[moxian]

Will this battery be fully charged if you make it IRL?

Yes, it will. See this wiki page for an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaic_pile
Or the lead-acid battery that the recipe aims to immitate, although wiki is a bit less explicit about the initial charge of that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93acid_battery

Also, potentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery (I initially assumed we have these ones innawood, but then realized that MA does not really grow lemons at all, and potatoes are a strong "maybe", so perhaps adding those to the game is a bit pointless)

[Maleclypse]

and potatoes are a strong "maybe", so perhaps adding those to the game is a bit pointless)

Massachusetts grows more potatoes than any other New England state. So you can probably move that from maybe to yes.

Edit: unless your saying something I’m missing about potato batteries

[moxian]

No, you're not missing anything, I'm just being ignorant in the matters of agriculture.