Just an idea for an addon

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    I'm new here, so don't yell at me for doing things wrong.


    So, I had this neat idea for an addon to IC2 but I can't program because I suck at it, but I really like making textures, so I need a programmer or someone who can actually make the mod work.



    This addon revolves around nuclear safety and expanding the nuclear portion.


    To sum up the mod's first-tier things are:


    New ores:
    Zirconium (Green-yellow), Hafnium(Orange-yellow), and Sodium(blue-grey). I know these aren't the real-life colors, but I don't want a boring and bland mine.
    Basic machines/multiblock machines:
    particle accelerators that are huge multi-block tracks that can produce Antimatter.
    This is done by putting hydrogen into the source block and fuleing with quite a lot of energy
    Hydrogen extractors (can extract from water) to extract hydrogen
    Colliders that can fuse 2 hydrogen into deuterium, and 3 hydrogen into tritium
    Deuterium can be infused into water to create D20, which instead of coolant, can be cheaper and more efficient at cooling nuclear reactors. Deuterium cells also can be made
    Tritium is used for the coolant of the new type of nuclear reactor called a Fusion reactor.


    Fusion Reactor:
    instead of using advanced metal alloys and basic scaffolding as protection, you use various assortments of the 3 new ores.


    Sodium is mainly used in the main reactor core and as a Control Rod
    Hafnium and Zirconium are used to make the frames and wiring (although :Copper Ore: and :Tin Ore: are still used).
    The core and reactor components are set up in a 3x3x3 cube, fully surrounded (even the top) by the T20 (Tritium infused water)
    This produces almost 3x more energy than a normal nuclear reactor. However, it is significantly more dangerous and needs much safety.


    Safety:
    New "absorbent blocks that can absorb lots of the radioactive material spit out by the reactor (mainly made of sand and lead)
    New more high-tech monitoring system
    Lots of more protective gear (Tier II Hazmat suit, full suit)
    A system that can auto-insert T20 cells into the reactor


    Now, what does Antimatter do?


    It is used in explosives that can explode a large amount
    It is used in Fusion Reactors as the main fuel (instead of Uranium)








    This is all I have so far, and I'd like some opinions and whatnot to help refine this addon :)
    -Ecliptic

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    The electrolyzer already allows water to be turned into oxygen and hydrogen ;)


    The whole concept sounds interesting, as well as probably very expensive resource wise. How big is huge for particle accelerators? Like 10 blocks big or 5 chunks big?

    145 Mods isn't too many. 9 types of copper and 8 types of tin aren't too many. 3 types of coffee though?

    I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you read was not what I meant.


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    I see this too much.

    Well, I was thinking it could vary in size. Like, you could make it bigger for a faster Antimatter production, but it would at least be a square-shaped tube (3x3x3 size) and minimum length would be a 3x3 square, if that makes any sense.

    Thats a really cool idea!
    I'm currently working on my own addon for IC2, and I might implement some of this in the future. Except for the ores, since I already have a lot of them, so I don't want to add too many new ones. But I was already planning to implement a solid electrolyzing machine, to produce sodium hydroxide from brine, so why not sodium from NaCl? :D Zirconium would probably be added as a byproduct of processing Ilmenite, Rutile or Cassiterite. Hafnium could probably be a byproduct of processing titanium ores as well.


    Deuterium would probably be obtained by centrifuging water. Tritium will probably be obtained by fusion, or in nuclear reactor (if the IC2 adds tritium fuel rods back).
    I'm not planning on adding any sort of fusion reactor since I don't want to completely copy Gregtech, but I was already planning on implementing some sort of a particle collider to produce antimatter, micro black holes and other cool stuff (with an added bonus of a random part of the collider ring exploding if you don't cool it properly or have a power shortage while its working :thumbup: ). And if I ever add a fusion reactor it will probably use Deuterium+Tritium as a fuel, with no chance of exploding, but it could probably overheat and turn into a huge pile of scrap and molten metal.
    If you want explosions, I might do some sort of an antimatter storage device (probably a big expensive multiblock), which would store antimatter and need to be powered constantly to do so, exploding if it has antimatter in it and you cut the power input. The explosion strength would vary depending on the amount of antimatter stored, from barely noticeable to o-my-god-where-did-my-enite-neighbourhood-go-?!


    Unfortunately I'm also a bit of a noob at using Forge and IC2 API :| , so it will probably take a lot of time, especially since I'm currently working on more early game stuff and haven't finished my ore generation yet.