[Addon v2.0.288+] Advanced Reactors is shutting down

Updated to alpha 8. Yay!!!

Once again, I took too long to get you and update - I was working with omurestu to fix all the bugs and balance problems he discovered (many thanks). The new version is much more balanced (especially breeder reactors - which can be significantly hotter now).
I also managed to get audio working, so reactors make sounds now.

Two important notes that I highlighted in the opening post:

(1) The Weeping coolant cell code has changed (in the backend) which broken compatibility with previous weeping coolant cells. The old items are now considered by the game as broken and the game will delete them when you first load alpha 8. I apologize.

(2) Reactor chamber heat capacities have changed greatly. Especially Containment and Ender chambers which were rebalanced with much less heat capacity. This could cause an explosion if you update while they are hot.

I also removed a test block I was experimenting with, you will get a single missing block message, its fine (the block was not obtainable).

It should also be noted that containment values have been buffed. Containment reactor chambers now absorb considerably more of the explosion than they used to. So mush so that 6 containment chambers should be able to completely absorb a high power meltdown (6 chambers absorbs 88.3% of the blast). Meanwhile, 6 Infernal chambers can absorb 92.5% of the blast.

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Keen as to fiddle around with the working heat levels now

Just be careful about updating while your reactor is on and hot, it could be bad.

and fixed the download link

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Nice mod, just 2 days with it and i love it, also i'm reporting a visual glitch, when i turn on a reactor with something that isnt vanilla redstone (like redstone behabiour of mfe, minefactory rednet cable or sending the rs output via computercraft) the reactor seem to keep turned off but it is working.

Yeah, I noticed this as well myself, I believe I am not correctly syncing some state information across the network but I'm not 100% sure. It is on my radar to try and fix soon.

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Is there a Random heat tick thing? I not, can you add it to a config so Nuclear control becomes useful? :3

What do you mean by random heat tick? The reactors do produce environmental effects at high temperatures (like fire, lava, melting...). And the infernal reactor vent also randomly vents bonus heat via fire. Are those the effects you are talking about, or am I missing it?

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Also, some kind of planner for it perhaps? Who ever made the T3 for IC2/GT should make one for this if you cant.

I will check with Talonius and try to get integrated.

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Are you going to do anything with steam? Perhaps making the reactors require water, then the total heat (not of the hull) that the vents output -5% (Water isnt that efficient ;p).

I hadn't planned on doing too much with steam, I wanted to rebalance the output algorithm (its currently first-come-first-server, but I would prefer an equal-opportinity approach), but I could try this. If I model such a system after the railcraft boiler its possible these reactors will consume immense amounts of water, it would make the pipe configuration interesting (need lots of input pipes to keep the water level up).

I will take a look at these after I sort out the last couple of errors in the way of the 1.6 update.

Also, the forge fluid system is being implemented now, so the steam reactors will have to wait for that to finish.

Straight port to 1.6.1 uploaded, the audio is broken. Its deeper than just Advanced Reactors - IC² also has audio problems. It looks like Forge updated the sound system and I was unable to figure out the new system - probably because Forge has *not* made an "official" release yet.