Posts by Ranakastrasz

  • Suggestion Bat-pack and Disposable Batteries Right click recharge

    I would request that similarly to the way Rechargeable batteries, when you right click with them, send their energy to another Non-full chargeable item, Bat-packs as well as Disposable batteries ought to be able to as well.


    The disposable batteries would, when right clicked, remove one of them to recharge 1k energy. Without this feature, Even with the extremely easy method to make them, I would not do so, as they are not currently any more convenient than rechargeable batteries.


    As for the bat-pack, It would act exactly like Re-batteries do when right clicked, aside from having 60k energy available. This is not exactly necessary, however, It would be useful to me, as a E-Jetpack user, To be able to recharge my drill without having to take my jetpack off, and mining about 60 blocks, because that is rather dangerous when I use the Jetpack to avoid falling damage as well as to *jump* if I hear a creeper.

  • Reactor Calculator App Questions

    Quote from The Stick

    ...alright. I'll add in the option to toggle between the two methods in the Menu.


    Not quite what I meant. I mean to make sure the code is easy to change to the other equation in the case of it being the equation alblaka used, so that when he answers this thread to say which method it uses, you can change it easily.

  • Theoretical Reactor Design(s)

    Quote from Viktor_Berg

    Okay, so it doesn't give 1000 durability. With 6 reactor chambers, you still only need 8 plating in 1.0 to get 18000 durability, so my post can be said to be 100% accurate for 1.0 :3


    Wrong.


  • Theoretical Reactor Design(s)

    Quote from Viktor_Berg

    Just a hint:

    Insert 8 plates into the Reactor, bam, it can tolerate 18000 heat.


    Actually, The Reactor's heat capacity is determined by this


    Base of 10,000 + 1,000*Chambers + 100*Plating


    So you would have a capacity of 16000 with a fully upgraded reactor by default, and would need 20 plating to have the reactor explode exactly when you hit 18,000.
    Also, It starts setting things on fire at 45% of capacity, and starts melting things to lava at 85% of capacity.


    Just as a warning XD

  • Support request : Wiring Solarpanels to a batbox

    Quote from ZeroBlitz36

    1) Maybe the BatBox isnt in the right direction
    2) Copper insulated cables lose 1 EU at every 5 cables. The thing is all the solar panels give of 1 EU/t and also at over 5 cables distance from the batbox.


    0: You got Ninjaed
    1: That wont matter, because he checked the box manually. If you were, say, unable to look at the power stored in a Batbox, that would be possible however.
    2: See 0

  • Support request : Wiring Solarpanels to a batbox

    Yes, the cables on the left have a total length of 5, while the cables on the right have a length of 4. The cables with the length of 5 have a resistance of 1.0, while the cables with a length of 4 have a resistance of 0.8 (rounded down to 0.0)


    Solar panels output 1 Eu/tick. This is NOT combined with the other solar pannels, so the 5 cables always are enough to totally eat the 1Eu each tick. Reduce the cable length by one, or


  • Reactor Calculator App Questions

    Quote from The Stick

    It's that word "might" that concerns me, though. We aren't exactly sure if your formula is the true one, so I'm sticking to the "staircase" ramping.


    Indeed. I would request that you simply leave the flexibility to change the method to generate the multiplier, and Ofc us a Floating point variable, just so you can change it later if needed.

  • Reactor Calculator App Questions

    Quote from The Stick

    [quote='Drashian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=3773#post3773]Exactly, on 3000 heat it should take 2 fresh uranium cells to enrich a single depleted one. For outward cooling, anything that's not water or air provides precisely zilch. Nearby fire and lava are particularly bad, they actually reduce outward cooling (although never to the point where the reactor gains heat from the outside). The cooling values for those are -2 (fire) and -3 (lava) if you want them. I guess they might be useful in rare situations for creating an exactly temperature-stable reactor, so there you go.


    Alright, I see what it is. When the Reactor Heat is 0 to 2999, it takes 4 Uranium Cells, 40000 Pulses. As for external heating, lava's easy enough, simply assume that it's completely covering the reactor, like water would. But it's gonna be fun to figure out fire... simply because of how fire works - it can't be in every block surrounding the Reactor. The only question is how to figure out the maximum heating of the reactor...


    Im not actually sure that is the case btw. The equation might actually instead be this.


    40,000/2^(heat/3,000)


    meaning it is a smooth slope, rather than a staircase, if you know what I mean. I don't actually know either way, but Alblaka should be able to tell us.

  • Suggestion: Mass Fabricator Off Switch

    Quote from icedfire

    True but this method only works with the storage block until it is full and then it will start outputting again. In which case you are still going to be bleeding energy.


    Though I didn't realize until now that you are right and applying red stone to a transformer would have a similar effect as the switch did. Though that does complicate matter quite a bit. It would require more resources for the transformers and would make the electrical wiring and red stone wiring a mess. I would still hope for a way to be able to directly shut off a power hungry machine such as the Mass Fabricator.


    Uhm, Personally I dont see that as a problem. Because it means you simply lack the storage to store the amount of power you are producing. Oh look, I have maxed out Power, Id rather it disapper in a puff of smoke rather than go into my mass fabricator.


    It may be bleeding energy, but only when it is full, and then, it also is bleeding that energy into a mass fabricator, so I don't see the problem.

  • Reactor Calculator App Questions

    Quote from The Stick

    Found another question to ask in regard to breeding.



    What's exactly considered a "uranium pulse"? Since a Uranium Cell lasts for 10,000 Reactor Pulses, are you saying it takes 2 Uranium Cells to enrich a Depleted Cell on low heat?


    Sounds right. Each reactor pulse is 1 second, and each 3k heat doubles the rate of Enrichment, so I think that it is 40,000 uranium pulses as the default, 20k at 3k heat, 10k at 6k heat, and 5k at 9k heat, etc

  • Reactor Calculator App Questions

    Quote from ultimate_omega

    Same. The premade designs, no, I prefer the Trial and Error method of finding what works.


    By Premade designs, I think that the idea is to include a few save files, which you can load to get a sample. I do not expect them to be optimal,. and will complain if they are, but I think they ought to be included. If you want to try to make a design that is better, then get to your trial&error. But if you are a newbie Nuclear-engineer, I think having some working samples so you can see how a reactor works is an excellent idea.