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Heaters don't emit enough light to melt ice

jobukkit opened this issue ยท 2 comments

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Issue description

This is kind of a duplicate of #5301, but for heaters in particular it's not just an aesthetical thing. You'd expect heaters to melt ice, and if you use a temperature mod, prevent you from freezing to death. But they do not, because they do not emit light outside of their own texture.

2022-11-08_13 54 16

Steps to reproduce

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Minecraft version

1.18.x or earlier (No longer being developed)

Forge version

31.2.57

Mekanism version

Older

Other relevant versions

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commented

Hmm interesting. Not sure why it isn't visibly giving off any light for you (unless this is something we changed more recently, though I don't think it is). Though it seems the reason that the ice isn't melting is when active the heaters give off a light level of 8 for a bit of ambience (without performance issues from as many light updates if machines are going on and off), but it looks like ice only melts at like a light level of 11. Definitely will need to think about this more (and maybe make heaters specifically use a light level of 11 instead of just 8, unsure.

commented

My apologies, I shouldn't have tested on 1.15 (I did that because I don't have a temperature mod on 1.19). On 1.19 they do indeed emit light. I have changed the title of the issue.