HI, another noob question :) upgrading reactor

I would like to upgrade my current reactor to one with more chambers. I currently have 3, and would like to upgrade to 9.

Is this as simple as taking reactor offline, placing back in crafting table and adding more reactor chambers?

Is the footprint still one block?

I want to upgrade my reactor from the "Beginner Reactor 3", that I built using the recipe from the New Design sticky, to the "HIgh Efficiecy zero running cost" from the same sticky. The Beginner 3 has worked well for two builds, but I'm getting to the point 100 EU/t isn't quite satisfactory. OK, it works, but I want more power

Thanks in advance.

As an aside, for the second build, in that world I skipped the standard solar panels completely and went right to the beginner reactor. Time and resources much more well spent IMO. I haven't done an actual cost benefit analysis, but my previous experience building an array with 0ver 100 panels, for what you get, I wont ever do that again. After that I built a few advanced panels for my miner.

Choco, HA!

Ok, so because I am a noob I hadn't done the thing I see a lot of people talking about, going in creative mode to experiment.


I now have a working 9 chamber reactor. We'll see if it blows a huge hole in my creative world.


Containment? Nah.

Yes Spwn, took me a couple minutes to figure out that additional reactor chambers must touch the main reactor.

So, report.

12 uranium cells
15 overclocked heat vents
15 component heat vents
5 heat exchangers
1 reactor heat exchanger
1 component heat exchanger

Pretty cheap IMO, I wish I had built this one to start with.

So far, no degradation or heat or adverse affects that I can tell. I thought it was cool till I hooked it to an MFSU, then threw 5 Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panels on a seperate MFSU to see which would fill faster.

Choc, re-read my comment.

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By reactor chambers do you mean the reactor blocks themselves? Ultimate Hybrid Solars beat any other power sources anyway space wise

Yes, they are called reactor chambers are they not? There are 3 inside the basic reactor block, then an additional 6 (edited from 3 :/) reactor chambers can be attached to the outside of that original reactor, making 9 columns total inside. Semantics really, I'm sure you already know this.

Yes, the Ultimate Hybrids are pretty amazing. And expensive. I just built a matter fabricator and recycler so I can manufacture iridium and something else.

I've also just discovered underwater mining in my creative world.

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Oh ok, thought you meant the extension ones

I did. According to IC those are labeled Reactor Chambers. 3 Reactor Chambers assembled with a generator and advanced circuit are a Nuclear Reactor. Then, to increase the number of cores, you add additional Reactor Chambers to the outside of the Nuclear Reactor, with each Reactor Chamber having 3 columns respectively.

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You are living up to your sig.

On another note, this reactor is a leap above the Beginner Reactor. 5x the EU for twice the cost. I wish I had built it first.

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I thought you meant you could place the Reactor Chambers without them touching a normal Nuclear Reactor.
And yes, my sig fits my descriptions well

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lol. No. Here's what I originally wrote.

"Yes Spwn, took me a couple minutes to figure out that additional reactor chambers must touch the main reactor.

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My bad

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