Posts by Nonotan

Quote from Orich

Am I supposed to be using MOX instead of regular uranium fuel rods?

Yes, since this is a MOX reactor design thread. The reactor planner is not updated, so it doesn't have MOX fuel yet.

Quote from Orich

"heat the reactor"? Not sure how to do this? I assumed heat was generated internally?

Remove heat vents adjacent to your fuel rods, turn it on, it will gain heat gradually; turn it off before it explodes, put the heat vents back in, turn the reactor back on. Most MOX designs are heat-stable and will remain heated forever thereafter.

Heat the reactor. MOX reactors output more EU/t at higher percent hull heat. Obviously don't heat it too much or you'll have a nuclear crater.

Quote from Epic Lulz

It has been superseded by the Charger Boxes.

Not the charge-armor-and-tools-on-you-for-standing-nearby part, unfortunately.

Lapis Lazuli Dust should work in every crafting recipe that requires lazurite.

Or the steel, for that matter, unless other mods have their own oredict-registered steel.

I thought of a couple more uses for the non-dense infused gold parts, if you're interested:

Infused Gold Dust:
- Silver Dust substitute in Glass Fibre recipe

Infused Gold Ingot:
- Iron Ingot substitute in Coil and Electric Motor recipe
- 1 infused gold + 8 rubber -> 4 Insulated Gold Cable (craftingWireGold).

Infused Gold Plate:
- Battery Alloy substitute in RE-batteries

Quote from Outbreak

First of all I would like to say that I'm a beginner to IC2 :D.
I know about MOX but eventually you run out of uranium and mox...

That's the point, uranium is a consumable resource. Go mine more uranium if you want to use nuclear power.

I think a better ratio would be 5 gold + 2 redstone + 2 glowstone = 9 infused gold dust, and have recipes consume dense plates for 2x output (2 circuits/2 overclockers). It'll obey the conservation of mass (9 dust in 9 dust out instead of 5 dust in 0.5 dust out), and the new ratios would be something like:

1 Circuit:
- Normal recipe: 1 iron, 2 redstone, 2 copper, 6 rubber
- Unidye recipe: 2.5 gold, 1 redstone, 1 glowstone, 2/3 copper, 2 rubber
- GT recipe: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 copper, 3 rubber

1 Overclocker upgrade:
- Normal recipe: 12 tin, 1 circuit, 2/3 copper, 2 rubber
- Unidye recipe: 5 gold, 2 redstone, 2 glowstone, 0.5 circuit

So the gold cost goes up, but redstone/glowstone are no longer consumed in huge quantities.

Well, I have lots and lots of gold, but it's still inconvenient because of the redstone/glowstone requirements :p.

I guess if you have 50 apiaries of demonic bees making glowstone then infused gold would be fine (24 glowstone -> 2 infused gold, with 4 gold dust leftover).

Just realized infused gold recipe for circuits/overclockers is pretty much totally not worth:

1 Circuit:
- Normal recipe: 1 iron, 2 redstone, 2 copper, 6 rubber
- Unidye recipe: 2 gold, 4 redstone, 4 glowstone, 4/3 copper, 4 rubber
- GT recipe: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 copper, 3 rubber

1 Overclocker upgrade:
- Normal recipe: 12 tin, 1 circuit, 2/3 copper, 2 rubber
- Unidye recipe: 4 gold, 8 redstone, 8 glowstone, 1 circuit

Should I add Vinteum and stuff? I don't currently play on a modpack that has Ars Magica/Thaumcraft etc., so idk if it's processed differently in those mods.

Quote from Physicist

You didn't mention U-235 in the Uranium Processing, only Pu and U-238.

The nonstandard method of processing does not produce Purified Uranium, only GT Uranium which is equivalent to U238. You pretty much lose all the EU in favor of getting Plutonium faster (You get more Pu total if you do it the standard way, since you can UUM Uranium Ore).

Topic ran out of space, posting second part here:

Non-GT Ores and Special Processing:

Copper Ore:
- UMac Route: 2 Cu, 1/10 Co, 2/9 Co, 2/9 Au, 2/10 Ni (↑ Co)
- IndG Route: 2 Cu, 1/4 Co, 1/4 Au, 2/9 Au, 2/10 Ni
- IndG Route: 2 Cu, 1/4 Co, 1 Au, 2/9 Au, 2/10 Ni (↑ Au)
- IndG Route: 3 Cu, 1/4 Co, 1/4 Au, 3/9 Au, 3/10 Ni (↑ Cu, Ni)

Tin Ore:
- UMac Route: 2 Sn, 1/10 Fe, 2/9 Fe, 2/9 Zn, 2/10 Zn (↑ Fe)
- IndG Route: 2 Sn, 1/4 Fe, 1/4 Zn, 2/9 Zn, 2/10 Zn
- IndG Route: 2 Sn, 1/4 Fe, 1 Zn, 2/9 Zn, 2/10 Zn (↑ Zn)

Apatite Ore:
- UMac Route: 8 Apatite Dust, 2/10 Phosphorus Dust, 2/9 Phosphorus Dust, 2/9 Phosphorus Dust, 2/10 Phosphorus Dust
- IndG Route: 2 Apatite, 24/4 Apatite Dust, 4/4 Phosphorus Dust (↑ Apatite, Apatite Dust, Phosphorus Dust)

Certus Quartz Ore:
- Fortune Route: 2.5 Certus Quartz, 2 Certus Quartz Dust (↑ Certus Quartz, Certus Quartz Dust)
- UMac Route: 2 Certus Quartz Dust, 1/10 Quartzite Dust, 2/9 Quartzite Dust, 2/9 Quartzite Dust, 2/10 Quartzite Dust (↑ Quartzite Dust)
- IndG Route: 1 Certus Quartz, 6/4 Certus Quartz Dust, 2/4 Quartzite Dust

Sulfur Ore:
- Fortune Route: 5.5 Sulfur
- UMac Route: 8 Sulfur, 1/10 Sulfur, 2/9 Sulfur, 2/9 Sulfur, 2/10 Sulfur
- IndG Route: 8 Sulfur, 2/4 Sulfur, 2/9 Sulfur, 2/10 Sulfur (↑ Sulfur)

Saltpeter Ore:
- Fortune Route: 3.5 Saltpeter
- UMac Route: 8 Saltpeter, 1/10 Saltpeter, 2/9 Saltpeter, 2/9 Saltpeter, 2/10 Saltpeter
- IndG Route: 8 Saltpeter, 2/4 Saltpeter, 2/9 Saltpeter, 2/10 Saltpeter (↑ Saltpeter)

Uranium Processing (No Thermal Centrifuge):
- UMac -> UMac -> Industrial Centrifuge: 1/10 Pu, 2/10 Pu, 2/9 Pu, 2 U238
- Expected Plutonium Output of this process, after breeding: 0.559259 (↑ Pu)
- Plutonium Output of IndG -> TCent Route, after breeding: 0.533951

Centrifuged Ore UMac Byproduct:
All this information is technically in the previous posts, but consolidated here for ease of reading. All numbers apply to a single item of centrifuged ore. Ores not listed (Coal/Redstone/Galena/Uranium etc.) either cannot be smelted or don't have a centrifuged form. UMac route always is 1/10 of the byproduct, smelting always is 1/9 of the main product. This means if the byproducts is the same as the main ore, always smelt, and if it isn't, decide whether you want the main metal or the byproduct more.

• Copper: Ni
• Tin: Zn
• Tetrahedrite: Zn
• Cassiterite: Sn
• Iron: Sn
• Nickel: Fe
• Gold: Ni
• Iridium: Os
• Pyrite: 10/9 iron when smelted, 1/3 iron after UMac. Never UMac this.
• Sphalerite: 10/9 zinc when smelted, but yields Cadmium via UMac. This is currently the only way to get Cadmium in the game.
• Sheldonite: 10/9 platinum when smelted, but yields 1/10 Iridium via UMac and produces cooperite dust equivalent to 1/6 Pd, 1/2 Pt, 1/6 S, and 1/6 Ni.

Install NEI.

I'm not sure if Greg fixed his coolant cells -> vacuum freezer thing yet (I think he did), so yeah, CRCS definitely should be possible.

Quote from Blaster

I haven't tested it, but theoretically yes

Alright, so I made this:

Withdraws uncharged armor, charges it, places it back onto the armor stand. You can hide the entire thing underground if you wanted.

Just throw in extra fuel rods and take them out once the reactor is hot. Heating cells have long since been removed.

Wait, can you automate bibliocraft armor stands with adv regs?

Omicron: Nuclear control allows you to 100% automate reactor heating and cell swapping esp. when combined with GT, so microcycle MOX can be doable as long as you math component levels to a point where they do not melt.

Glass fibre was too cheap; now it's too expensive in IC2 exp and still dirt cheap in GT.

(Mwahahaha)