4censord
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2 years ago Also, maybe a more endgame radiation cleaner:
Using high energy plasma from its integrated fusion reactor, the $NAME
is able to effectively annihilate any radioactive contamination.It would be a multiblock, looking like someone bolted a laser cannon
onto a fusion reactor. The fusion reactor would be made from the normal
fusion reactor parts, the laser cannon would use SPS parts.
There would be a new block, $NAME Controller crafted from:
- A fusion controller
- A Laser
- Some SPS parts
- a Geiger counter?
Startup would be like with the fusion reactor, a hohlraum with dt-fuel and a laser pulse
During operation it would consume deuterium and tritium, working faster at higher consumption rates, and use some loads of power.
Maybe it needed to be cooled, then it would be the same principle as the fusion reactor
While running it would:
- Cleanse radiation in the surrounding chunks, the radius being in the 10s of chunks
- Remove radiation from players, eventually giving some temporary negative effect in the process
- Destroy all Uranium ore in the affected chunks, turning them to stone, cobble or gravel, or maybe to lead?
It might also destroy all machinery and pipes containing radioactive material.
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Describe the feature you'd like
Once radiation exists, it's kinda... there. There's no way to deal with it, other than allowing it to naturally decay, and that's kinda... bad. My suggestion has 2 parts
Part 1: Management Once you have radiation, it just kills you. Makes it rather hard to live in this post-nuclear wasteland. Instead, there should be ways to mitigate the hazard (besides the hazmat suit). basically it needs ways to heal the damage you take from it.
Part 2: Cleanup Once an area is afflicted, it takes a while to recover. Avoiding it tends to make the issue worse, due to chunk loading. There needs to be some way to actively reduce radiation in an area.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Iodine pills/radx/radaway (also milk, since it's already a sort of panacea): Buffs to remove radiation, instantly and/or over time, or just to not take damage from that radiation for a limited time so you can survive long enough to seek other options (or make it to the source of the radiation and survive long enough to fix the problem)
Clean Room generator: If the room this block is in is sealed, reduces the amount of radiation they're considered to be exposed to by a certain amount (potentially to zero). Alternatively can just affect a radius around it. Lets you have a base/outpost in an irradiated area.
Radiation shower: Directly reduces the radiation on a player, creates irradiated water, which needs to be treated to make clean water and spent nuclear waste, which can be treated as normal. Works better with foam below
Radiation Foam: solid block like sponge/concrete powder, but can be entered like cobweb. Absorbs Radiation in an area. When Saturated irradiated foam, which must be dealt with. Simplest use is with a nozzle like a bucket. Easier and safer way, as irradiated foam only creates radiation when destroyed from environmental decay or burning
Atmospheric filter: Uses energy to reduce radiation in an area. Creates nuclear waste, which must be dealt with using established processed. Lower maintenance and potentially faster than foam, but requires more complex infrastructure on site.
Additional context
Radiation in real life is a long term hazard that renders an area unlivable for extended periods of time. However this is a game, and in this game you can go to hell, and create a pocket Eden, in direct opposition to all that might try to prevent it. Radiation should also be solvable, assuming you're willing to invest enough time and resources.