Spore Cannons: Cryogenic Arsenal 4.2.0

Version 4.2 is a complete WHITEOUT visual, machine-feedback and Create-automation refinement update.

Visual Overhaul

• Reworked the current arsenal item textures, including CDU cores, ammunition, fuzes and engineering components.
• Replaced the vanilla book appearance of the Whiteout Protocol Field Manual with a dedicated field tablet.
• Added an animated cryogenic pulse to the charged CDU coolant cartridge.
• Added an animated radar sweep and intermittent contact signal to the CDU Field Scanner.
• Added distinct WHITEOUT markings to loaded AP and flak CBC autocannon cartridges.
• Improved item contrast in the custom creative tab and both machine interfaces.

Refuelling Station

• Reworked the machine’s textures and functional port layout.
• Water is supplied through the front Create Fluid Pipe connection.
• Cryogel is inserted from above.
• Depleted and charged cartridges are handled through the left and right service bays.
• Kinetic power remains connected from below.
• Fixed the charging progress bar briefly flashing back to zero.
• Automation ports now visually match their real functions.

Containment Projector

• Reworked the Projector’s frame and core textures.
• Added separate standby and active visual states.
• The core remains dark while empty, stopped, depleted or overstressed.
• The active core lights up with a calm, non-rotating energy pulse while maintaining the containment field.
• Charged cartridges can be inserted automatically from above.
• Depleted cartridges can be extracted from any horizontal side.

RPM-Scaled Performance

Both machines still require at least 32 RPM and reach their maximum useful performance at 256 RPM.

Refuelling Station

• 32 RPM: 1.0× charging speed — approximately 8 seconds.
• 64 RPM: 1.5× charging speed — approximately 5.3 seconds.
• 128 RPM: 2.25× charging speed — approximately 3.6 seconds.
• 256 RPM: 3.0× charging speed — approximately 2.7 seconds.
• Intermediate RPM values are interpolated smoothly.

Containment Projector

• 32 RPM: 12-block radius and 0.75× coolant consumption.
• 64 RPM: 16-block radius and 1.0× coolant consumption.
• 128 RPM: 24-block radius and 1.5× coolant consumption.
• 256 RPM: 32-block radius and 2.0× coolant consumption.
• Intermediate RPM values are interpolated smoothly.
• Increasing RPM now trades cartridge lifetime for a larger containment area.
• Stopping or overstressing the network pauses the machine without losing its remaining coolant.

Improved Machine Interfaces

• Added live charging-speed and estimated cycle-time information to the Refuelling Station.
• Added live field radius, coolant-consumption multiplier and estimated runtime information to the Projector.
• Existing RPM, water, progress and coolant tooltips remain available.
• Machine performance can now be understood directly from the interface.

Complete Create Automation

• Added support for a fully reusable coolant-cartridge cycle.
• Depleted cartridges can return to the Refuelling Station through Create logistics.
• Charged cartridges can then be routed into the Containment Projector.
• After depletion, cartridges can be extracted and returned to the Station again.
• Belts, Funnels, Depots, Mechanical Arms and filters remain entirely player-built.
• The addon exposes standard inputs and outputs instead of creating a proprietary transport system.

Ponder Improvements

• Added a dedicated coolant-automation scene for the Refuelling Station and Containment Projector.
• The scene now contains a filled Fluid Tank, connected Fluid Pipe, physical Mechanical Arm and Depot staging points.
• The Mechanical Arm demonstrates both depleted and charged cartridge movement.
• Updated machine and kinetic-power scenes to explain RPM-scaled performance.
• Clarified every machine input, output and shaft connection.

Localization

All new GUI and Ponder content is available in:

• English
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Polish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Simplified Chinese

Fixes and Verification

• Fixed Refuelling Station progress synchronization.
• Corrected the Station’s duplicated and misplaced connection textures.
• Corrected Ponder localization and missing scene components.
• Preserved machine progress and coolant when kinetic power stops or changes.
• Expanded the automated suite to 30 GameTests.
• All 30 required GameTests pass in the final release build.

Existing worlds, machines and coolant cartridges remain compatible with version 4.2.0.