So like many people relatively new to playing with IC2 installed, I set my noobish sights on building myself a reactor beneath my castle. However, being an engineering student, I have that quirky tendency to need to plan everything out before I start something, as opposed to "mining straight down" and ending up with a brand-spankin'-new crater where that costly reactor used to be. As someone who also takes an interest in working with Java, I thought I'd give myself a project, something to get back in the swing of coding, so I thought I'd make a reactor simulator. I've noticed there are one or two versions people seem to use to a fair extent, but I thought I'd try and make one that seems a little more intuitive, is not browser-based, and might (hopefully) have a good save feature, in addition to satisfying a few unmet desires of the nuclear mine-gineering community (for example, I've noticed a few people that want to be able to power on/off the Redstone signal to their reactor mid-cycle, in order to allow for cooldown).
Screenshots will be up in a little bit (gotta put some more time into the GUI before it can be shown), but I do have a few questions first:
- Regarding reactor component heat capacities: I understand that components also have heat capacities of 10000, but does this also apply to Uranium Cells, Depleted Isotope Cells, other heat-producing cells, etc.? Do empty buckets (or water/lava buckets, or blocks of ice for that matter) still store 10000 heat? What about melted components?
- If a component melts, does it become scrap? Where does its heat go?
- Does any non-air/non-water block (including torches, Redstone wire, etc.) count as an "other block" for purposes of external cooling? These "other" blocks do not affect cooling one way or another, right?
If I think of any others, I'm sure I'll let you guys know....
Any suggestions/requests for features would also be greatly appreciated.
Good to finally be on the forums.
- MastaSchmitty
P.S. I still think the little Advanced Machine emoticon looks like a cube from Portal. 