Fission reactor discussion

[Gregorius (Gregorius Techneticies)]

@Erik3003

While the new nuclear fission reactors in GT6 seem complicated at first, they are really simple. Too simple imo

Yep, the whole thing is a Gameplay Experiment if anything.

@Erik3003

There is no way to measure the neutron counts with machines to control the reactor accordingly, making more advanced, non constant, mechanics impossible to implement.

Yeah I didn’t even add the Geiger Counter yet. And yeah it would just add up all 4 Neutron Counts, so you would need to do Maths to find out where to limit the Neutron Amounts.

@Erik3003

So this would allow for simple reading, but the presence of the sensor causes another problem, there are no free sides on the reactor block anymore

There is a reason the Changelog states you can do all sorts of whacky bullshit with Extenders
Also You can transmit Redstone through GT6 Blocks using special Redstone Transmission Covers so you can definitely transmit Redstone from the horizontal Sides of the Reactor.

@Erik3003

This makes critical fuels broken and thus impossible to implement in the current system.

At least with the current individual Rod Maths. That is why I’m planning to have different Modes using Coolants as sort of Selector. I could just make it do +1 Total Neutron every tick, that way it wont go critical too fast and cause the reactor to just be a block-updatey flickery mess.

@Erik3003

The model and texture of the reactor would however need to be changed and a change of state would also probably require a change of the model, not just the texture (although it could be archived with just texture changes, a model change would be easier to implement, as it’s just).

That specific Model Change is easy to do, I would just need to change one Texture and then make it render only one Rod centered. You might have noticed Rods can be placed in world too.

@Erik3003

Random fluctuations in the neutron count would be a feature that makes observing the neutrons much more useful, as it would make high neutron count critical reactors require constant observation based regulation of the control rods, to keep the reactor from spontaneously turning into a bomb.

Hrrm RNG you say.

@Erik3003

A static additive to the durability loss

I could make inactive Rods still lose durability that would be a way. But then I need to prevent automation from extracting Fuel Rods until they are depleted.

@Erik3003

If you got this far reading this wall of text, you should also post your opinion and ideas on the subject below.

I definitely got a few Ideas from this, including the Single Slot Type of Reactor, which I only didnt do last week for aesthetic reasons, even though it’s like super easy for me to do. ^^