Hello,

I am currently trying to make a fluid but i want it to be quite a bit different then other fluids but i have no clue how to approach  doing so. I have a fluid which i want it to solidify if a property called "heat" is too low. The issue i have is that i essentially want the "heat" to be connected to other blocks. Essentially, you have a 2x2 square of my fluid(liquid slime) and one heat source close by. The "heat" property is going to be shared between only fluid blocks connected to one another. The "heat" property would also depend on all of those. For example, if there is a heat source generating 1000 heat, and there are four liquid slimes, the heat of each liquid slime blocks is going to be 250.

Is that even possible to do?

Thank you!

Not easily.

 

You're going to need to either maintain your own data structure to track all sources of heat in the world yourself (think of how Minecraft stores chunk data) or you're going to need to make approximations, like making every block of yours search the area around it to see if there are "hot" or "cold" blocks nearby and make a best-guess at its own heat level based on what it finds).

Hmmm, well i think that would work but each "Fluid Block" would have to have a heat source nearby.

I was originally thinking that it would have a "network" in a way which would have the amount of blocks in it and store the total amount of heat and the liquid slime calculates it itself based on that. The issue is that im not sure how i would do that. I think that this would be the most lag_friendly way and what would be the closest to what im imagining how it would work.