Nuclear Pasta

Trivia

 * "Nuclear pasta" is a real astrophysics term for the interior of neutron stars, describing the various intermediate phases between discrete neutron-rich nuclei and bulk neutronium. Under the pressures partway into the neutron star, the neutrons organize themselves into short cylinders ("gnocci phase"), long cylinders ("spaghetti phase"), sheets ("lasagna phase"), etc.
 * Despite its name, Nuclear Pasta is not radioactive.
 * The glowing ball in the item's mesh is mostly shielding, surrounding a microscopic speck of the actual Nuclear Pasta material. A solid ball of Nuclear Pasta that size would weigh trillions of tons (more than a mountain range) and would immediately sink into the ground and tunnel into the planet's core. It would also require trillions of tons of material to make.
 * By estimating the mass of a Copper Ingot at 1125 kg (density of copper being 9000 kg/m³, and the Copper Ingot item being around 0.128 m³), and by using the fact that 1200 copper ingots are used to make nuclear pasta, the mass of the nuclear pasta item can be determined to be around 1.3 gigagrams, or 1,350,000 kilograms.
 * With the density of nuclear pasta being estimated at ~10e+17 kg/m³, the sphere of actual physical nuclear pasta inside of the item is ~0.28 mm wide, with the rest of the sphere being shielding.
 * In-game, Nuclear Pasta, when placed onto the ground or on a Conveyor Belt, the space around it is warped, which is actually true in real life, because neutron stars actually have enough gravity to bend light.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Made officially available, renamed from Dark Matter