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Sounds awesome. You may need to somehow add metadata to blocks that allows them to simulate radiation at distances (for example, a chest with information for it being radioactive causes it to cause radiation to players with more intensity as they get closer to the chest). Or, you can replace air with ''radiation field'' around radioactive blocks, that the player can breathe in, but will be affected by the radiation.

If you limit the radiation radius to a resonable area, it will still be CPU intensive, but it won't destroy it (unless your running the equivalent to a commadore like i am when it comes to games)

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His intention is to have environment contamined with radiation which is what i'm talking about being CPU intensive and hard/nearly impossible to code.

then you have not used the ICBM mod, they do this when you set off nukes, you have to clean it up or it'll eventually spread all over the place, unless you have that disabled in the config.

It could be as simple as a block that always makes sure that radiation blocks are around it at all times, unless removed, and radiation blocks are simply invisible, non-flowing, non-suffocating lava that harms you depending on it's ''intensity''. Kinda like a cactus with no collision box.

Also, to make it not be laggy, the updates for placing/removing radiation field blocks should be very slow, like one every few seconds. This will keep lag very low, and can only be noticeable if you have 100,000 orso Uranium blocks surrounded with air and machinery that makes flowing water flow at random around the blocks (thus causing the Uranium blocks to update it's radiation field every time a flowing water block appears/disappears)

Quote from SpwnX

His intention is to have environment contamined with radiation which is what i'm talking about being CPU intensive and hard/nearly impossible to code.

UE have done it and its not cpu intensive

if i may make a suggestion for a few additional features:

1st: i think the storage block for uranium should be a nonlethal/negligible amount of radiation, since it implies 'proper storage' methods are in use.

2nd: if you get enough uranium together in one area, it's going to go critical (bang). something around 200 refined bars or so. perhaps a larger amount for storage blocks.

3rd: containment pools. a few feet of water can make the material 'safer' to work with, and since many of us are in the habit of surrounding our reactors with water, this might give meaning to it again. ref: XKCD: what-if article on the subject

4th: reactors shouldn't put out any more than a nonlethal/negligible amount of rads. they are built to contain the radiation by design and already have damage in for when the get too hot and go super-critical.

5th/6th: i like the idea of the suit ticking, but a handheld Geiger counter would be nice for when mining (if that is the intention). perhaps add the resistance and functionality to the q-suit helmet as well, since it is supposed to be very advanced.

that's my input on the subject.

Quote from GregoriusT

It can just go Bang. Uranium stored in too large Amounts (without any shielding inbetween) can cause a nuclear chain reaction and go Boom. Guess how Nukes work. They don't work like Explosion = Nuclear Chain Reaction, they work like explosion compresses two clumbs of it to critical mass, which then goes Boom.

no...reactor grade uranium can not go nuclear. Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion but a meltdown with a gas explosion.
not even weapon's grade uranium for implosion type nukes can go boom on its own. the common implosion type nuke's core is safe, the gun type nuke CAN go boom if too much is stored together, but that is at a higher purity than implosion type bombs
you are describing the gun type nuke, not the implosion type, the implosion type is simply a single sphere of either uranium or plutonium(Fat Man was plutonium) that surrounds a neutron initiator. it is compressed down to critical mass by a complicated explosive based implosion, with the neutron initiator amplifying the rate.
check out Fat Man if you don't believe me.

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I know the propability of any Nuke on the World just going off is so close to 0 that its not happened at all until now (or at least in this Quantum Universe).

I wouldn't go as far and say that, however...