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

As of alpha10 Advanced Reactors supports localization!!!
Localizations are hosted in this public mercurial repo if people want to submit more. If enough people want I could move it to a git repo on github. I would like to open source the entire mod, but I'm using some derivative code from IC² and open sourcing would probably cause licensing problems.

Check here for details of heat capacity values (from alpha 8 onward).

Also, code changes in the weeping coolant cell in alpha 8 made the new (finished) item incompatible with the old one, so the game will delete your old weeping coolant cells when you first load the new version. I apologize for this and will try not to do it in the future.

Introducing the Advanced Reactors addon for IC² 2.x. After numerous hours of nuclear engineering and studying reactor designs, we are proud to bring you the next level of Nuclear Reactors. Maintaining some backwards compatibility (old reactors still function but they are no longer craftable) and adding many new features to nuclear reactors, you will be able to construct many new variations of old reactors to improve things like safety, breeder efficiency, heat dissipation, or even total EU output. An important message from our engineers: The new reactor cores and chambers are not compatible with classic reactor cores and chambers, so mixing new components with classic will not work.

This mod is becoming much more complex than I had anticipated, as such I have to move most of the information off this thread to its own website. Advanced Reactors homepage

Also there have been recent requests pertaining to license, so I am officialy stamping a license on this
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Appropriate restrictions are waived for the IC² team as required by their publishing regulations. If I have personally granted you permission before this license was in effect, then you continue to have permission so long as you respect the new license.

Recipes

Changelog

Installation
(1) Download and install Forge for Minecraft 1.6.2 (just Forge, no ModLoader required)
(2) Download the latest version if IC2*
(3) Download the AdvancedReactors jar and place it in your mods directory.
(4) Have fun

*Note: If you are using IC2 2.0.194 or earlier, use 1.0.1-exp. 1.0.2-exp updates to IC2 changes that happened in 2.0.195.

I suspected the lapis plate would conflict, I'm just not sure what a good alternative would be. I'm investigating options.

Quote from vinterdo

It is compatible with Nuclear Control ?

It does in fact work correctly with Nuclear Control 1.5.1b. w00t!

It can read the on/off state

Thermometers (analog and digital) work as well as thermal monitors

It can read all three tiers of reactor cores and it displays the correct max heat values

I'm glad you asked, as I forgot to check this, but my reactor code follows the same apis that classic IC² does so this was expected.

Quote from SirusKing

If GT is installed, Extracting one of his Lazurite Plates?

I love that idea, but how to I get the item/itemid from gregtech? I'm trying to find it with the API, but I'm a little lost.

Updated to alpha 2, obsidian dust+plate recipes should respect the ore dictionary properly now, and the obsidian neutron reflector as well. Fixed the internal names for the plates (plateDenseObsidian, plateDenseLapis, plateInfernal).

The gregtech incompatibility with the Lapis plate is still being addressed.

Being the new guy on this one, I have no problem covering this case. I think I found the solution too, I was able to get this code working:

ItemStack unifiedLapisPlate = null;
    if (ModLoader.isModLoaded("GregTech_Addon")) {
      ArrayList<ItemStack> laz = OreDictionary.getOres("chunkLazurite");
      logger.log(Level.INFO, "laz size=" + laz.size());
      if (laz.size() > 1) {
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "Gregtech detected - the Lapis Plate will be disabled and recipes that use the Lapis Plate will now use the Lazurite Plate");
        // we need to do some sort of assertion to make sure we get the right one here
        unifiedLapisPlate = laz.get(1);
      }
      else {
        unifiedLapisPlate = new ItemStack(lapisPlate, 1);
      }
    }
    else {
      unifiedLapisPlate = new ItemStack(lapisPlate, 1);
    }

It does have an embedded assertion that the Lazurite plate is in position 1 in the list (position 0 is the Lapis block for me). So unless there's something odd I'm missing, I will have this fix in alpha3 soon.

Yeah that seems to be a much shorter solution. and I have it working now.

Alpha 3 posted now, it addresses the Lapis Plate incompatibility with Gregtech.

Updated to alpha 4: Steam powered!

Quote from Epic Lulz

Steam output when Railcraft is installed? If so, make the reactor require water. Or maybe a seperate Nuclear Firebox + Nuclear Boilers.

Steam output Added!
The IC2 config option enableSteamReactors toggles them (I felt there was no reason for a new config option)
As of right now, it just mimics everything IC2 does, so they don't require water input.
I did however notice that the steam distribution algorithm (based off IC2) doesn't equally distribute steam to all outputs (like boilers do), so I plan to change that.
I ran several tests of advanced reactors vs classic reactors and EU output and steam output are consistent.

I also updated compatibility with GregTech Thorium/Plutonium cells as well as GregTech coolant cells.
The Th/U/Pu cells all now have the same restrictions: tier 1 reactors can only use single cells, tier 2 can use up to dual cells, and tier 3 can use quad cells. As for coolant cells, standard coolant cells are always usable, but GregTech coolant cells are more complex components, so tier 1 reactors can only use single cells, tier 2 can only use up to triple cells, and tier 3 can use up to hex cells.

Quote from skavier470

numbers maan, what do they mean?
but seriously give us the values of these components.

I don't understand, what are you asking for?

Quote from skavier470

as it uses the same ic2 api is it working with gregtechs replacer and other logistic stuff?

So far it has been playing nice with gregtech.