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Zefram
38e85e9775 Manual section on uranium enrichment 2014-08-13 02:45:44 +01:00
Zefram
df7bf8c713 Manual sectioning
Expand list of sections yet to be written.  Arrange sections both written
and unwritten into a two-level structure, with a bit of consequential
reordering.
2014-08-13 00:25:15 +01:00
Zefram
7112e742f4 More manual
Added section on chests.  Fixed another stray British spelling.
Backslashed literal underscores to avoid them being interpreted as
emphasis markup.
2014-08-11 13:04:53 +01:00
Zefram
5692c29a45 More manual
Sections on rubber and electrical power.
2014-08-09 13:59:46 +01:00
Zefram
eed803349c More manual
Added sections on the technic-specific kinds of item processing, and on
generic metal mechanics, and the specific trickery around iron (merging
in notes_on_iron).
2014-08-08 23:22:36 +01:00
Zefram
ddb522d4cc Fix stray British spellings in manual 2014-08-08 19:36:43 +01:00
Zefram
e3b44be6ec Change "altitude" to "elevation" in manual
Vanessa finds "altitude" to carry too much of an aviation connotation.
Zefram finds "elevation" to carry insufficient connotation of being
relative to sea level, so also adds a clarifying note.  Beware of changing
this terminology without negotiation, as it aroused surprisingly strong
opinions.
2014-08-08 17:40:28 +01:00
Zefram
488070c1ee Start on user manual 2014-08-08 16:41:31 +01:00
Kevin Zheng
7cfb3874a3 Evenly distribute charge across multiple batteries 2014-08-06 12:08:48 -05:00
ShadowNinja
ab567e21ca Remove non-functional tetris machine 2014-08-04 13:43:57 -04:00
Zefram
4996d1824c Make nuclear reactor core harder to break
With breaking an active reactor core now causing instant meltdown, having
it breakable by hand is too hazardous.  Change it to match steel block,
which constitutes the main part of the rest of the reactor structure.
2014-08-04 12:54:47 -04:00
Zefram
a2d1fefe14 Realistic range of radioactivity of uranium blocks
Fully-depleted uranium doesn't lack noticeable radioactivity.  The
radioactivity of enriched uranium is dominated by the U-234 fraction,
not U-235.
2014-08-04 17:03:56 +01:00
Zefram
fc87eca4cd Fix technic_run declaration for hydro generator 2014-08-04 14:58:38 +01:00
Zefram
8275091347 Improve injector interface
Make the injector's mode button lag-resistant.  Display the mode on
the button, as is done with other machines' toggle buttons.  Describe
the modes using the same words that are now used to distinguish the
corresponding pipeworks objects.  Expand name to "self-contained
injector", now that the pipeworks objects are also called "injector".
Show injector item image along with the item name at the head of the form.
2014-08-01 18:25:20 +01:00
Zefram
daa6135211 Update alloying craft guide to match machine
The alloy furnaces have been changed to lay out the input slots
horizontally.  The craft guide should match that, for mnemonic value.
2014-08-01 17:56:32 +01:00
Zefram
beb480bec2 Redescribe alloying in craft guide
Change "Alloy cooking" to "Alloying", for consistency with the
descriptions of other recipe types.
2014-08-01 17:50:40 +01:00
Zefram
0003ec6a79 Make carbon steel alloying quicker
Taking the same time per alloying cycle as other alloys meant that carbon
steel was being produced painfully slowly, becuase it processes much less
material per cycle than other alloys.  This change halves the cycle time,
which leaves it still processing less material per second than other
alloying processes, but by a less drastic margin.
2014-08-01 17:40:35 +01:00
Zefram
2a7ee141eb Fix behaviour on decabling a forcefield emitter 2014-08-01 17:30:21 +01:00
Vanessa Ezekowitz
88bdac62e3 Merge remote-tracking branch 'zefram/zefram/centrifuge' 2014-07-30 15:36:27 -04:00
Zefram
12d0c6522b Correct breakability of sandstone CNC nodes
default:sandstone has cracky=3, but the CNC nodes had cracky=2.
2014-07-30 20:28:30 +01:00
Zefram
0dfac3f484 Make granite harder than regular stone
In real life granite is renowned for its hardness.
2014-07-30 20:25:35 +01:00
Zefram
60bc80692b Remove a noisy debugging print 2014-07-28 13:29:39 +01:00
Zefram
b0faa70873 Uranium enrichment via centrifuge
Replacing the extractor-based system, uranium to be used as reactor fuel
must now be enriched in stages using the centrifuge.  Uranium metal can
exist at 36 levels of fissile content, from 0.0% to 3.5% in steps of 0.1%.
One round of centrifuging splits two dust of a particular grade in to one
dust each of the two neighbouring grades.  Uranium of each grade can exist
as dust, ingot, and block, with all the regular metal processes to convert
between them.  Uranium from ore exists in lump form, and is 0.7% fissle.
The blocks are radioactive to a degree dependent on fissile content.
Thus the chemical refinement and processing of uranium now follows the
standard pattern for metals, and is orthogonal to isotopic enrichment.
Each form of uranium (dust, ingot, block) intentionally looks identical
regardless of fissile grade.

If technic_worldgen is used alone, it defines only one grade of uranium
(as before), but defines it in the regular metal pattern, with lump, ingot
produced by cooking lump, and block crafted from ingots.  It identifies
the metal only as "uranium".  The multiple grades of uranium are defined
by the technic mod, which identifies each grade as "N.N%-fissile
uranium".  The single grade that was registered by technic_worldgen
is redefined to be described specifically as "0.7%-fissile uranium".
For the redefinition to work, technic_worldgen must load before technic,
so technic now declares a dependency on technic_worldgen.

Each fuel rod is made from five 3.5%-fissile ingots, each of which in
turn requires one to start with five 0.7%-fissile dust, so each fuel rod
is now derived from 12.5 uranium lumps (or 25 if the lumps were first
cooked rather than being ground).  This replaces the 20 lumps required
by the former recipes.  After setting up and priming the centrifuge
cascade, enriching a full set of fuel for the reactor (six fuel rods)
takes 14700 centrifuge operations.  It's intended to be a practical
necessity to automate the centrifuge.  In the absence of EU upgrades
for the centrifuges, these operations consume 5.88e8 EU, about 0.97%
of the 6.048e10 EU that the fuel set will produce in the reactor.
The intent is that, in this respect as in others, operating a reactor
should carry a very high up-front cost, but ultimately be very profitable.
2014-07-28 13:18:51 +01:00
Zefram
d60e3fe939 Reduce dependencies of technic_chests
technic_chests was depending on the technic mod, for the top-level
"technic" table and the technic.swap_node function.  Resolve that by
sharing the top-level table and inlining the one use of the function.
It was also depending on technic_worldgen, for the definitions of
cast iron and wrought iron.  Make the use of cast iron conditional on
technic_worldgen, falling back to default "steel".  Change the use of
wrought iron to directly use default "steel", to which it is aliased
anyway.
2014-07-26 19:45:31 +01:00
Zefram
9f0b41fe71 Make technic_worldgen loadable before technic
There was a small amount of dependency of technic_worldgen on the
technic mod, for configuration loading and the top-level "technic" table.
Resolve that by sharing the configuration and top-level table between the
two mods.  This means that technic_worldgen can be loaded before technic,
permitting other mods to depend on it without depending on technic.
2014-07-26 19:20:45 +01:00
Zefram
dd65a68ce9 Add centrifuge
The centrifuge, currently only existing in an MV variety, is a machine
that separates a mixed substance into its constituents.  Currently the
main use is to reverse alloying of metals.  The alloy separation recipes
intentionally only operate on the dust form of metals, making this less
convenient than the original alloying.  It also only recovers metal
constituents, not the carbon that went into cast iron or carbon steel.

This change incidentally generalises the technic recipe and
machine infrastructure to handle recipes with multiple outputs.
As unified_inventory's craft guide can't yet handle that, these recipes
are not registered there.
2014-07-26 18:01:05 +01:00
Zefram
84cf6504c5 Make outer layer of reactor structure optional
As the layers of reactor structure now have a practical purpose,
in attenuating the modelled radiation from the core, it is no longer
necessary to make so much of it mandatory in order to motivate players
to build it.
2014-07-25 17:27:55 +01:00
Zefram
d59055dd2b Audible siren to warn of reactor meltdown
The siren sounds a "danger" tone continuously while it is active and
damaged, such that meltdown is imminent.  It sounds a one-off "clear"
tone if it has been sounding "danger" and the danger has passed, either
because the structure is repaired or because the reactor has become idle.
2014-07-25 15:38:40 +01:00
Zefram
67b90f3ad1 Grace period before reactor meltdown
The meltdown check now doesn't trigger meltdown immediately on reactor
structure being compromised.  Instead, there's a grace period of up to
100 s, during which the reactor can be repaired.  The check doesn't just
look at whether the structure is damaged at all: it looks at how damaged
it is, counting the number of faulty nodes.  The amount of damage is
integrated over time, and the grace period is actually 100 node-seconds,
so greater damage causes meltdown more quickly.  If the active core is
dug then it melts down immediately, preventing the tactic of digging
the core to avert meltdown.

Incidentally move the meltdown check into its own ABM, from the
technic_run callback, so that it applies even when the reactor is not
connected to a switching station.
2014-07-25 14:24:25 +01:00
Zefram
ec008d7045 Material-dependent radiation shielding
Radiation is attenuated exponentially by passing through shielding
material.  Radiation resistance values are assigned to all bulk-material
nodes, and the radiation damage ABM traces the path of each radiation ray
to count up the shielding.  The relative radiation resistance values are
essentially real, but the effectiveness of all shielding is scaled down
by a factor of about 70 for game purposes.  Strength of the existing
radiation sources is increased by varying amounts to compensate for
shielding.  Uranium block and ore, both usable as shielding, are made
slightly radioactive, the latter only very slightly.
2014-07-25 03:42:21 +01:00
Zefram
17c5b66524 Inverse square law for radiation damage 2014-07-24 17:38:53 +01:00
Zefram
e64fdbf03b Fix celeron55 credit 2014-07-23 18:47:04 -04:00
Zefram
e11f0f8817 Tweak corium light settings
Flowing corium appeared too dark.
2014-07-23 18:45:50 -04:00
Zefram
c5e9480d99 Config setting to nerf corium
For use on servers that have a mainly creative purpose, the setting
enable_corium_griefing=false will prevent corium from flowing far or
unpredictably and from destroying nodes other than water.  All reactor
meltdowns will stay contained.
2014-07-23 17:24:52 -04:00
Zefram
366fc3bc65 Better reactor meltdown
Reactor `explosion' now replaces the reactor core with a corium source
node.  Corium is a new liquid, which flows a bit like lava, but has
the additional feature of destroying nodes to which it is adjacent.
It also randomly turns into a solid form, chernobylite, which makes an
attractive building block.  It thus gradually melts its way through the
reactor shielding layers; a meltdown gets worse over time if not cleaned
up promptly.

The mechanism for an active reactor core to damage nearby players is
generalised into a "radioactive" node group.  Corium and chernobylite
are radioactive, to varying degrees.  Players receive a varying amount of
damage from a radioactive node, depending on proximity.  Staying outside
a reactor cube is sufficient to be safe from the active core, but not
sufficient to be safe from a melted core.
2014-07-23 20:21:59 +01:00
Zefram
62e04b9c0d Improved can usage
Make the use of cans more like the digging and placement of ordinary
nodes, and specifically make it much closer to the use of buckets.
The main change is that left-click with a can is now only used to take
liquid; placing liquid is now done with a right-click.  This makes the use
of cans a lot less error-prone, compared to the old scheme of determining
the operation based on the type of node pointed to.  Other changes are
that liquid placement is now permitted to replace any buildable_to node,
and the cans obey node protection.
2014-07-23 20:21:59 +01:00
Zefram
6771ad9d33 Genericise can logic
Factor out the logic common to water and lava cans.  Provide it in the
form of a technic.register_can() function, which can be called by other
mods to register cans for other liquids.
2014-07-23 20:21:59 +01:00
Zefram
cca72f43f1 Tweak mesecon control of forcefield
Drop support for negative mesecon control.  This requires users of
negative mesecon control to invert their mesecon signal externally.

Comment on rationale for the way toggle buttons in formspec are managed.
2014-07-23 16:49:08 +01:00
Zefram
6a4cb16392 Fix mesecon control of forcefield
The code formerly attempted to make the forcefield emitter controlled
both manually and by (inverted) mesecon signal, but the two interfered
with each other.  In particular, a newly-placed emitted would be
informed that it was getting no mesecon signal, and would therefore
enable itself.  Fix this by adding explicit modes for how the emitter
will respond to mesecon signals: ignore them, obey them positively,
or obey them negatively.

The manual control could have been incorporated into this mode setting
by having two "ignore mesecon" modes: always-enabled and always-disabled.
But it seems more useful to have a separate manual master switch, so that
the emitter can be manually disabled without losing the mesecon mode.
So it is now implemented that way.
2014-07-23 16:49:08 +01:00
Zefram
1bf52c2d5a Better chest color button layout
Where possible (which it currently is for the gold chest), don't break
the centering of the player inventory in the chest formspec because
of the color buttons.  Where the color buttons don't fit next to a
perfectly centered player inventory (which doesn't currently occur for
any technic chest), move the player inventory only as much as necessary
to accommodate the color buttons.
2014-07-23 16:49:08 +01:00
Zefram
1d7cb74053 Bring wooden chest fully into the chest system
Re-register most aspects of default:chest and default:chest_locked,
using the technic chests code, so that the wooden chests fit properly
into the sequence of chest types.  This mainly affects the formspec,
which now uses the style of the other chests, rather than the bare style
used by the default mod.
2014-07-23 16:49:07 +01:00
Vanessa Ezekowitz
2d9e06c479 actually make the reactor core melt down when it should
(turns into a lava source, boils away the surrounding water)
2014-07-23 11:08:11 -04:00
Vanessa Ezekowitz
29c7ff5228 don't attempt to force-load blocks if they're already loaded. 2014-07-23 10:00:13 -04:00
ShadowNinja
ad0c310b6b Remove dependency on moreores that was accidentally left in place 2014-07-21 13:21:13 -04:00
ShadowNinja
14b30bfd0d Clean up constructor 2014-07-21 01:52:13 -04:00
ShadowNinja
7d5edcf23e Remove swap_node compatability code 2014-07-21 00:40:53 -04:00
ShadowNinja
87fc21443c Add hack for uninitialized players in flashlight 2014-07-21 00:14:55 -04:00
ShadowNinja
37c06a9110 log_mod -> log_mods and get setting as boolean 2014-07-21 00:13:45 -04:00
ShadowNinja
22a4bcf80d Remove mods that aren't strictly required from depends.txt 2014-07-20 23:49:38 -04:00
hdastwb
dd468c3aaa Merge pull request #152 from goblin/coal_alloy_return_bucket
alloy furnaces and generators should not eat fuel buckets
2014-07-18 20:19:15 -04:00