Prototype/Fluid

Mandatory properties

Inherits all properties from Prototype.

icon

Type: Types/FileName

default_temperature

Type: Types/uint

Also the minimum temperature of the fluid.

max_temperature

Type: Types/uint

base_color

Type: Types/color

Used by bars that show the fluid color, like the flamethrower turret fill bar in the tooltip, or the fill bar for the fluidwagon tooltip; and for the pipe windows and storage tank fill gauges.

flow_color

Type: Types/color

Used only for pipe windows or storage tank fill gauges.

pressure_to_speed_ratio

Type: Types/double

flow_to_energy_ratio

Type: Types/double

Optional properties

heat_capacity

Type: Types/EnergyAmount

Joule needed to heat 1 Unit by 1 °C.

gas_temperature

Type: Types/uint

auto_barrel

Type: Types/bool

Whether the fluid should be included in the barrel recipes automatically generated in data-updates.lua in the base mod.

Example

{
    type = "fluid",
    name = "water",
    default_temperature = 15,
    max_temperature = 100,
    heat_capacity = "0.2KJ",
    base_color = {r=0, g=0.34, b=0.6},
    flow_color = {r=0.7, g=0.7, b=0.7},
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/fluid/water.png",
    order = "a[fluid]-a[water]",
    pressure_to_speed_ratio = 0.4,
    flow_to_energy_ratio = 0.59
  },