NuclearBound 2

NuclearBound 2

Original project here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?resources/nuclearbound. 453/

Design document (more detailed information and info about upcoming things, you can suggest things here as well): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FmF93Fc2TF2sj6Xj442Bj554eaqgnHIYWzPUlFaS0J0/edit?usp=sharing

What is NuclearBound 2?

This mod completely reworks the way nuclear materials are treated in the game. No longer are they treated as a colourswap to coal, they now have their own intricate system of extracting every last drop of energy. The whole system is based off real life, but tweaked for a game setting so it's fun, instead of dragging on forever.

What has changed? There are 5 new machines included in this mod:

• []Nuclear Refinery, which is the centre of the mod[/] []The Light Water Reactor (LWR for short), and it's big brother, the Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR for short)[/] []The Fusion Reactor, which is a simpler way to generate power by using a small method to turn pixels into fuel[/] []And the Entropy Accelerator, which processes elements through the decay chain (more about that later)[/]

Uranium and Plutonium Ores are each split into two isotopes:

• []Uranium is now Uranium-238 and Uranium-235, each having different purposes. Both are required for creating fuel rods, but the amount of U235 determines how powerful, or enriched the fuel is. U238 is also used in the decay chain, to be synthesized into Pu239.[/] []Plutonium is split into Pu238 and Pu239. Pu238 is useless, other than being an ambient heat source, so you can just put that directly into the ship's fuel compartment. Pu239 must be turned into a fuel rod, and is the most powerful one too.[/]

Uranium Ore must be processed through the Nuclear Refinery into Yellowcake, which can then be processed into U235 and U238, since Starbound cannot handle more than 1 thing being crafted at a time. Naturally-occurring plutonium is now only Pu238.

There are new ores and fuels, too.

• []Neptunium-239, which can only be synthesized. It's slightly more powerful, so you get more bang-for-your-buck if you go the extra mile through the decay chain.[/] []Thorium-230, which is slightly less common than iron on level 3 planets and higher, is much less powerful and needs better equipment to use, but it's abundance outweighs it's cons. I plan to make a form of alloy with thorium, and depleted uranium.[/]

Decay Chain and the Entropy Accelerator The Entropy Accelerator is your gateway to the decay chain. Anything that happens