About The Powder Toy Community
The Powder Toy is a physics sandbox in which users build scenes and watch materials interact. Its simulation includes air pressure, velocity, heat, gravity, and interactions among substances. The available elements include solids, liquids, gases, and electronic components, which can be combined to create terrain, machines, wiring, and explosive constructions. Users can experiment with how a setup behaves, mine or alter materials, and observe the resulting changes. The game also includes small characters that can be placed into a scene and machines that users can operate. Community-made creations can be browsed and played, and users can upload their own saves. A Lua API allows work to be automated and plugins to be made, extending the sandbox for people who want to script or modify its behavior. The result is an open-ended environment for experimenting with simulated physical systems rather than following a single objective.
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