[Suggestion] Ceramics

u oh.... help!!
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"followed up by an almighty bang and the sounds of an raging fire"
"drops to the floor with his heart raging"

nothing to see here... please proceed.

wel, time to get serious. but no, dont like it, im sure most wil agree. but maybe an addon. MAYBE.
i dont see it getting implemented to IC2 core... for obvious reasoning.

its an technical mod, not an decoration mod xd, and realy... Battery's from hell? im sure as hell that new battery's have been denied before.

Ceramics have tons of more uses than just decorations alone...If this was implemented the decorations would just be a nice extra.

Decoration
Electric circuits
Tools (like drills and cutting tools possibly faster than diamond tools or more efficient?)
Armor
High resistance against high temparatures (maybe tier 2 nuclear reactor components?)
Superconducting
Heat exchanger

There prolly more uses than the ones i listed above.

Well looks like there enough uses for this so alblaka are you going to implement some of it?

Quote from Alblaka

Give me a valid set of useful reasons for implementing Ceramics and I will consider it.

the stuff everyone else said that i like
ceramic coffee mug (seems to be popular)(stone mug can stay but add a way to chill it to give booze an additional boost cold rocks is where the term "on the rocks" came from after all)
electronics (didn't you say at one point you were going to replace something in the circuit recipe with silicon?)
armor (im thinking an armor with low durability but massive damage reduction)
potted plants (drain their water and nutrients fast and they get no bonus from biomes but they do not spread weeds and can be picked up and carried in a inventory)
more reactor components
capacitors (but not like RL they store large amounts of power but the power dissipates if it goes unused)
superconductors (if the means was added to make it cold enough)

Unlike what most ppl think ceramics doesnt have to have low durability. In fact there tools that have a longer livespan with ceramic materials than with steel. So i was more thinking of high end stuff not cheap low cost low durability armor

most bullet resistant ceramic vests only stop a few bullets ("dragon scale" armor being the exception) cause while the armor stops the bullet it shatters in the process. how would ceramic tools be different from other earthen materials like stone or diamond tools?

I agree with you, but I think clay dust should be smelt in a "High Temperature Furnace" , what make it harder to obtain Ceramic Ingot, and it could be an ingredient for Tier IV technology, like Supraconductor.

alternate recipe for personal chest just like RL safes

Quote from passinglurker

most bullet resistant ceramic vests only stop a few bullets ("dragon scale" armor being the exception) cause while the armor stops the bullet it shatters in the process. how would ceramic tools be different from other earthen materials like stone or diamond tools?

Well in minecraft we dont have bullets and i doubt arrows from a simple bow will penetrate it. We dont have to be that realistic anyway its minecraft the current composite vest protects you from creepers. Also this would just replace some components of the composite vest which seems realistic to me.

Ceramic materials can be very strong but they tend to be brittle (meaning that if you apply more force than it can handle it will break pretty much instant). But brittle has nothing to do with the actual force it can handle. Its just that ceramics dont want to bend instead they break. So as long as you wont throw your ceramic knife on another hard object it wont break and it will actualy have a longer lifespan than normal knife's.

Like i always said in thread that wants to add new materials (And Al says so, at least half of it), "If you want it to be valid suggestion, you must provide a clear list of applications to it that isn't 100% full of replacement for already existent recipes. Because why bother adding new materials if the one we have right now works just as well?"

Quote from FenixR

Like i always said in thread that wants to add new materials (And Al says so, at least half of it), "If you want it to be valid suggestion, you must provide a clear list of applications to it that isn't 100% full of replacement for already existent recipes. Because why bother adding new materials if the one we have right now works just as well?"

1. potted plant takes up a 1x2 space like a door and needs more hydration cells and fertilizer to keep it going but it can be picked up and stored in an inventory and when that happens the plant enters suspended animation using the same tech that lets a wooden tree tap stop a wooden booze barrel from fermenting. also is completely biome neutral it will grow just as well in a desert as a swamp craft like a bucket
2. ceramic coffee mug comes in a variety of colors and gives a boost to coffee buffs when you drink coffee out of it (its mental steve thinks its better cause he is using the right mug) craft like a mug
3. capacitor cheap power storage block it will store a lot per cost but the power will dissipate if left unused. craft cables on top row ceramics in the middle row and more cables on the bottom row. also have a special version that can output all its power as one big packet(for capacitor bank/superconductor combo creations of awesomeness)
4. MORE REACTOR COMPONENTS MORE!
5. super conductors flank super conducting cable with ice blocks and the cable will gain unlimited packet size at 0 loss until the conductor melts the ice. discuss adding liquid nitrogen later
how long does the list have to be?

As long as alblaka decide.