Hey, I know this sounds silly, but can the explosion be bigger?

3.6 - not great, not terrible

if you want something better than this for realism go get rimatomics by dubs

before people even ask for this mod to update VFE Power needs to update first lol
but dev hope you are doing well

Hello everyone, please DO NOT ask "1.6????", I'm already struggling with a lot of modding and IRL stuff, asking for updates won't make things faster, I'm already aware I should update. Thanks for your comprehension. Other suggestions are welcomed.

Does this mod work with Rimatomic and multiply the explosions for them?

should have been part of the mod from the start

Anyone else notice it took away the toxic zone from the original mod or did I mess something up?

There is no graphite on the roof.

If you just put vents to the outside I dont think its even possible for them to break down sadly.

It partially was a haha commies moment, the exact issues that caused the Chernobyl meltdown were experienced at another plant operated by the military\research nuclear bureacracy years earlier, avoiding critical failure, but because of internal and external political considerations, as well as the usefulness of RBMKs for weapons grade fuel enrichment, the incident was covered up, no avoidance training was given to the civilian nuclear bureaucracy, and no corrected safety measures were implemented into the reactors themselves. The incident itself was also caused by the intersection of poorly constructed testing procedures, and demands from the politburo that the plant be brought to a certain level of generation by a specific time. It could more accurately be called haha bureaucracy and haha incompetent authoritarians moments.

Give this guy an award

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Might think of adding nuclear fallout or heavy pollution events to the map tile after the boom... and I think those contribute to heavier insect activity too?
Even if it's just a short one of about a season so players don't have to pick up and leave their whole base every time some raider gets into the wrong room.
It's a little harsh, but hey- so's the rim.

Maybe days after the explosion it also starts spawning insect hives over the time like the Ancient Reactor from Regrowth: Wastelands?
Another reason why u have to take care of your lil nuclear boi :v

@Thranos, well you learn something everyday. I always thought it was a "haha commies moment" because it just seemed like something they would do. I am incredibly fascinated by history, but I have only skimmed over of actual causes of the reactor failures to get to what I thought was the more fun stuff, that being the Liquidators in this example.

Fukushima, for example, failed due to the backup generators being below sea level, and the plant itself only FIVE METERS above (on a coastal plant lmao), and had issues that had been noted as far back as the 1970s, which is quite literally the time in which it was built.

It released less than ten percent of what Chernobyl did.

@Gamerhell
It wasn't even "haha commies", it was a reactor that was already outdated even by the standards at the time, being run with the safeties off to do a test by people who were under-educated in their field, and most critically, they tried to cover it up instead of immediately responding and containing it after it blew. And blow it did, in quite literally THE worst possible way a reactor that old could.

No nuclear incident in the world since has even come REMOTELY close to that level of "every single possible thing going wrong in the worst possible way", in no small part due to the fact that reactors became less and less able to even potentially melt down like that as the technology advanced.

Great mod. Also RIP Vivian and Ed

I think a failed to make my initial point, but ended up successfully making an entirely different one.
Task failed successfully?

@Dez The Dapper Bocchi, I don't know, personally my colonies are not full of communist great value "nuclear scientists" that think turning off safety features for a nuclear reactor test is fine, whether or not it's low power or not, which then leads to a reactor failure so big, the only reason why it did not take out half of Europe with it was because of the Soviet tried and true method of throwing (un)willing "volunteers" at the problem to fix it, potentially sacrificing their lives in the process... wait, where was I going with this? Oh yeah, my colonists' AI may be braindead, but they are not on communist levels of moronic.

The reactor is made by five to ten people in less than a day on some planet in the galactic boonies.

Thus it is obvious the reactor is of a shittier design and operated even worse than Chernobyl.

The point being made by that dude below, I think, is that most people are unfortunately dumb as hell and genuinely believe that nuclear reactors in real life can and will explode like nuclear bombs, because of decades of disinformation and scaremongering.

You can thank the unholy union of the fossil fuel industry and Greenpeace for this.

That being said, this is RimWorld and the nuclear reactor from VE:P is already comically unsafe, so why not explode?

Yeah obviously real life reactors dont do this but massive explosions are cool af

Rule of cool trumps everything.

sir we have boomalopes in this universe i think we can afford nuclar reactors exploding xD

" Nuclear reactors don't explode.
An atom bomb works by taking a subcritical mass of a fissile material and using an extremely precise array of explosives to compress it into a supercritical mass. Reactors don't do this. They use fissile material to heat water into steam which powers a normal-ass steam turbine. A reactor will never go supercritical. If a runaway reaction occurs, the nuclear fuel will get hot enough to boil the metal casing of a reactor, and...what has a lower boiling point than most metals? That's right - water. (explosion)"
-SsethTzeentach, Master of Hakuchido (白痴道 - white idiot path or 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐝)

to put it really simply - Reactors don't go BIG BOOM. Atom Bombs go BIG BOOM cause reaction. Reactors go ˢᵐᵒˡ ᵇᵒᵒᵐ cause hot.

great mod, thank you

This is a certified Greenpeace Disinformation classic.

Fantastic

Now that's what I call style.

and to the commisioner

Thank you so much