I haven't had a chance to build this in a proper playthrough until just now, but it's actually super fun. Just tweaking blocks and pumps for maximum efficiency is a game all by itself.

The previous system where you would use pumps to directly bring steam into the building was inflexible and hard to explain, and not really what you would expect from a game like this, so it had to go.

I completely revamped the steam power mechanics. Steam going through the turbine now increases its speed, and materials coming the other way slow it down. Steam also now turns back into water after traveling a certain distance, so you have to figure out how not to jam the system.

So at the start of the simulation tick, I add the particles to the main simulation, but mark them as changed so they don't move. Other pixels and the rest of the game can interact with them, and at the end of the tick I take them back out and do their simulation separately.

The tank already had a sort of gliding interaction due to how it placed materials in the world, but that was rather unintentional. There is now a new particle system for terrain that allows pixels to fly around with velocity, which makes the shooting possible!

New mechanic for the fluid tank. It's a jetpack!

I added a secret to the game. One is enough, I think.

The player is a mouse, so it makes sense that everything else is bigger.

Here you can see the actual simulation pixel size. Noita simulates an area of 512x512x4 around the player at once, which is the same size as the entire map of this game.

Yeah, pretty much. I might have already paid for the 1024 size with 768 internally anyway. Even on the CPU it's better, because I can make faster lookups with bit shifting (which I already do for chunks).

As much as I'd like to have a variable map size or even a dynamically loading huge world, I don't think that's in the cards anytime soon. Maybe some day.

I'm increasing the map size from 768 to 1024. 768 is a bad size for textures, and it would be nice to have a little more room to breathe. All I have to do now is change all the little magic numbers that assume a 768 size.

Now, the building checks if the material has room in the destination, then sets up a transfer packet with its own timer internally. If that is finished, the actual transfer happens. The animation is then just based on that packet, without any actual projectile movement.

Previously you put put a material into a stash, and it would transfer instantly to the end, then start the internal cooldown and play the pipe animation after the fact. That was sort of okay when the pipes were opaque, but if you can see what's in them it just looks bad.

You can now properly see materials going through pipes, rather than it being faked (it's only half-fake). If a transfer is cancelled in the middle for some reason, you even see them coming back.

Not at the moment, but I might add them.

Lightning rod.

Added parry.