I think it would be interesting to brainstorm a way to integrate some of the plutonium mods that float around. Requiering plutonium that takes fuel recycling to get would make the tech tree more challanging, and make nuclear reactors an actually requiered part of the progression.

This is a good idea. I would like to support plutonium in nuclear science.

I have not played with any of the plutonium mods, so if I'm missing any, please let me know. From a quick mod portal search for "plutonium", Plutonium Energy seems to be the major one that is Factorio 2.0 compatible. So this is brainstorming for compatibility when that mod is also present.

It should be reasonably trivial to add a nuclear science pack cost to Plutonium Energy's technologies.

I could also add an alternative nuclear science pack recipe that requires fissile plutonium and offers a better science pack yield.

Potentially, I could add in a mod option that significantly nerfs the basic recipe to soft the require the player to setup plutonium breeding.

Please let me know your thoughts. It would also be great to get your input into the other comment thread about the other ingredients to the science pack.

It should be reasonably trivial to add a nuclear science pack cost to Plutonium Energy's technologies.

I like this and it seems like an easy win. There are other mods that work with Plutonium like "Bluetonium" and other related mods like "Schall Uranium Processing" but they don't seem to have quite the download count so maybe they go lower on the priority list (that could also just be mod age, idk)

I also kinda wonder how hard it would be to programmatically walk the tech tree and add the science. I'll make a separate post about that.

I could also add an alternative nuclear science pack recipe that requires fissile plutonium and offers a better science pack yield.

Potentially, I could add in a mod option that significantly nerfs the basic recipe to soft the require the player to setup plutonium breeding.

I really like the idea of alternate but better recipes.

Version 0.2.0 includes a draft of Plutonium Energy compatibility.

I haven't looked at Bluetonium or Schall Uranium Processing yet.

Hello I am receiving error on startup. Super excited to try the mod though! Kovarex reaction always felt weird and gamey to me, so I have always played with a plutonium mod.

Failed to load mods: atan-nuclear-science/utility.lua:13: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
atan-nuclear-science/utility.lua:13: in function 'set_crafting_category'
atan-nuclear-science/compatibility/plutonium-energy.lua:22: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'require'
atan-nuclear-science/data-updates.lua:2: in main chunk

I'm struggling to reproduce the crash you've encountered. I've pushed version 0.2.1 which fixes a different bug. If your problem persists, can you let me know your full mods list, please?

Hello I am receiving error on startup. Super excited to try the mod though! Kovarex reaction always felt weird and gamey to me, so I have always played with a plutonium mod.

Failed to load mods: atan-nuclear-science/utility.lua:13: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
atan-nuclear-science/utility.lua:13: in function 'set_crafting_category'
atan-nuclear-science/compatibility/plutonium-energy.lua:22: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'require'
atan-nuclear-science/data-updates.lua:2: in main chunk

It would help if you include your modlist in the error report.

Thanks for following up, all. Deleted and redownloaded my modlist and now everything works as it should. Thanks again for making this!

Edit: Was messing with mod settings after reinstall and reproduced the error. Disabling plutonium ammo recipes in the Plutonium Energy mod causes the crash.

This is fixed in version 0.2.3.

In the latest version, the plutonium recipe for science packs is uncraftable. It exists, but it is not unlocked anywhere.
I have plutonium energy and Ceryx installed, if that helps.

In the latest version, the plutonium recipe for science packs is uncraftable. It exists, but it is not unlocked anywhere.
I have plutonium energy and Ceryx installed, if that helps.

Good spot, thank you. Refactoring for 0.3.0 messed this up.

Fixed now in 0.3.3.