Heatsink

Heatsinks are a required component of all guns. All guns require a gun core, a heatsink, and a barrel to be linked in order to use the gun; these may be unlinked at any time. Heatsinks can naturally be obtained by unlinking complete guns; six complete guns can be found in Central Control, in the two desks in the southwestern office. In other sectors, security offices can hold any weapon component, including complete guns and heatsinks.

Like all gun components, heatsinks can researched and then produced at the 3D Printing System. Once research is complete, improved variants of the basic Heatsink Frost 100 can be produced and subsequently researched, independent of the other gun components. Improved heatsinks have increased heat-storing capacities, allowing for more shots before cooling down is required, and increased rates of cooling down, providing less downtime. An improved heatsink is essentially required for using a plasma launcher, since even the most basic plasma launcher generates more heat than a basic heatsink can manage.

It is worth noting that, regardless of a heatsink's cooldown rate, a gun will not begin to cool down until a second has passed since its last shot.

List of all Heatsinks

Image	Name	Heat Capacity	Cooldown Rate	Link Capacity	Weight	Research Level	Research Time	Engineering Level	Production Time
	Heatsink 'Frost' 10D	50	4	50	0.50	1	2h13m	1	33m
	Heatsink 'Frost' 20D	60	4	50	0.50	1	2h20m	1	35m
	Heatsink 'Frost' 30D	70	5	50	0.50	1	2h26m	1	36m
	Heatsink 'Thor' 350	80	5	50	0.40	2	2h46m	2	41m
	Heatsink 'Thor' 360	90	5	100	0.45	2	2h53m	2	43m
	Heatsink 'Thor' 420	100	6	150	0.45	2	3h	2	45m
	Heatsink 'Loki' 70D	110	6	150	0.35	3	3h20m	3	50m
	Heatsink 'Loki' 80T	130	6	200	0.50	3	3h26m	3	51m
	Heatsink 'Loki' 90F	150	7	250	0.50	3	3h33m	3	53m
	Heatsink 'Naglfar' F350	175	7	250	0.30	4	4h26m	4	1h6m
	Heatsink 'Naglfar' G120	200	8	300	0.30	4	4h40m	4	1h10m
	Heatsink 'Naglfar' M100	200	10	350	0.45	N/A	N/A	4	1h13m

See Also

• Guns
• Barrel