GregoriusT
commented
2 years ago You will definitely need to add a new Reactor PDF lol. looks through changes now
Closed Erik3003 closed 2 years ago
GregoriusT
commented
2 years ago You will definitely need to add a new Reactor PDF lol. looks through changes now
This is the second of three planned parts for the nuclear rework. Here I changed breeding to function entirely differently. Instead of the neutrons on breeding rods adding to breeding process scaling exponentially with amount, the breeding system now has a new stat, the neutron loss. That loss simply gets subtracted from the neutrons added onto a breeder rod. The remaining added neutrons get simply added to the breeding process.
The neutrons needed per breeding rod were changed accordingly, but this change is not retroactive, so old breeding rods may take a lot longer to process.
Furthermore, breeding now turns the breeder rods into "enriched rods", which need to be processed to get the breed material rather than turning straight into fuel rods. This makes automating breeding a bit less tedious, as they will always stack, lacking a durability compared to fuel rods.
The new breeding system isn't really backwards compatible, I expect all automated breeder reactors not to work anymore, because the detection that breeding was finished relied on the breeder rod turning into a fuel rod with a measurable neutron output and not measuring the change of neutrons onto a rod. There is however no risk of explosion of old reactors, because the new enriched rods won't output more heat than the breeder rods did before.
Furthermore the centrifuging output of depleted fuel rods was reduced, as before it was a bit too powerful.
The tooltips of most reactor rods were also updated and expanded to give a bit more insight into the system.
A small additional addition is a Lithium-6 breeding rod, to allow breeding Tritium.
All changes and additions have been tested.
The next part of the rework will be potentially the least backwards compatible, reworking some fuel types, which could theoretically lead to explosions in case of liquid metal reactors, as they will get buffed, but since I doubt anyone uses these currently anyway, the chance of that actually happening is fairly low. Other than that it will also include some general rebalancing, like config options to disable to 1x1 reactor core and centrifuging for U235.