Solar tubes to provide natural light indoors without opening curtains

CosmicKobal · 2017-02-05T16:19:21.000Z

As stated in title, solar tubes can be installed in a roof to provide natural light to interior rooms of a house. I feel that the same thing should be available as a construction option to allow natural light into your fortress.

Alternately, you could build a skylight…

kevin.granade · 2017-02-05T22:00:16.000Z

I think we’d want to limit it to a skylight for the time being, IRL light pipes are used to route light to lower levels through walls and such, but the code to do that would be a PITA in the game.

Aquilo · 2017-02-06T07:08:07.000Z

I’ll just leave it here.

CosmicKobal · 2017-02-06T15:50:28.000Z

[quote=“Aquilo, post:3, topic:13363”]I’ll just leave it here.

I love this so much, that I think I’ll be doing it to my own future tiny home

RedPine · 2017-02-09T00:36:08.000Z

How hard would it be to craft an indoor light source that emits daylight while indoors? For balance it could be limited to Z levels on the surface and above only.

At the very least I want to craft “opaque” windows that let light but not vision to pass through.

kevin.granade · 2017-02-09T17:39:48.000Z

Not hard at all, just a few tweaks to the light code.

Coolthulhu · 2017-02-09T18:10:37.000Z

In 3D mode, it would be possible to check if the tile above has sunlight. In 2D mode it’s all hacks, though.