Question: Reactors killing chests?

  • Can a reactor running under 70% max hull heat destroy chests? I just had a chest near a running reactor that vanished. It was within the 5x5 cube, but max hull heat was only 66%, and when it disappeared it was 61%... Unfortunately, that happened to be the chest holding all the water buckets. :P

    Unfortunately, I wasn't watching at the time, so I don't know the nature of its demise. Didn't think they were flammable (at least not in vanilla)...

  • Well, as luck would have it, the chest input tube was connected to the bottom, and a transposer was sucking buckets out the side... I came down to check on it, and the tube was popping buckets out, and the transposer was grabbing them in mid-air... so the reactor survived. It had actually cooled down to 4k heat from the 9k operating temp. :P

    It was a wooden chest... Given that you can normally bury them in lava, I didn't worry too much about their flammability...

    In any case, moving it out of the 5x5 danger area.