Can I ask you: Where is fun in randomly failing components?

The fun is to make manageable heat vents (scriptable, so they can work faster/slower depending of the BIOS),

the fun is to repair components,

the realism in hard-core mode is to lose them, which is part of the "reality" in our real life.

the fun is to make it more realistic. This of course can be toggled normal = off/hardcore = on by the player in the config I think it's the best solution.

I thought the fun was with running computers in Minecraft.

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The fun is to make manageable heat vents (scriptable, so they can work faster/slower depending of the BIOS),

the fun is to repair components,

the realism in hard-core mode is to lose them, which is part of the "reality" in our real life.

the fun is to make it more realistic. This of course can be toggled normal = off/hardcore = on by the player in the config I think it's the best solution.

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I doubt this is worth the effort...

For me it would be fun to make modules that get damaged if submerged under water or works haaaard without vents (computers have already vents installed, but using high-end modules on low-end computers should make these vents not enough to cool down)

Why people doesn't like it, it's cool and it makes it realistic. Running computers is good, modular system is good to, but damage to these modules should be even more realistic and CAN BE TOGGLED ON/OFF in the config!!! So not everyone will get embarassed if they won't.

@SeniorFight but this all requires much of precious development time. It would require major rewrite of component/upgrade system.

And what with robots. Should their component also take damage. You can't change them easily.

@Kubuxu Robots should have "waterproof plates" to protect modules from water corrozion.

Robots also should have integrated heat vents, those would cool down these modules.

And no, we don't need majoooor rewrites, just add "uses" to every module, and add cooling/heating/damaging system to modules.

IT would be like a fun-part of this mod.

Let's just agree that what's fun is different for each person. I personally don't enjoy an overabundance of "pure maintenance" when automating things (which this would fall under, in my opinion). So unless there's major demand for this, I won't add this myself. This also falls into a kind of "hard mode" set of features, like #981. As mentioned in that issue, if someone were to make a good pull request, I'd be willing to merge that.

@fnuecke You said by yourself, that you'll maybe add computer "electrick shock" or something when under water, which would be logicall, as we see on both sides of the computer that there are vents, and water "could" enter through those wents and if computer is running should shut it down.

All right, so. After thinking about this topic for quite a bit, here's my stance on "hard mode" features: I don't plan on adding them in the foreseeable future. So I'm gonna close issues I feel that fall into that category as duplicates of #1043. While not entirely serious, that issue can serve as a place to pool "hard mode" ideas, in case someone wants to get working on an addon that does that, or I change my mind in the future.