Gleba Uranium


Derive uranium ore from biological processes on Gleba!

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g Crazy cost

7 days ago
(updated 7 days ago)

I was planning to add this mod to a Gleba only run I am setting up since simply adding uranium deposits to Gleba seemed boring, but the cost seems to be insane. Sulfuric acid cost seems to be 100x compared to uranium mining, which even if those were pretty irrelevant becomes a massive cost. According to my calculations even using Kovarex enrichment, fuel cells would cost about 730 spoilage and 2200 sulfuric acid each. To even reach that point though, we would need a massive investment. This seems bad enough that I would consider going to Aquilo with solar panels.

I might just modify the files to be about 20 times as efficient. Please consider changing the mod to more reasonable values.

Edit: I did some more calculations. Reaching Kovarex would require about 16 hours of producing 100 sulfuric acid per second, which is way more production than I would ever set up in the early game. It would also require 5 bio chambers and 15 chemical plants working constantly.

7 days ago

I'll revisit the recipes - in my own testing (which I did in a mid-tier gleba start base, just a little bit before starting my own rockets to getting to other planets I didn't find them too bad - it was meant to be more difficult than Nauvis uranium - such that you are still rewarded for going to Nauvis - but perhaps it is still too steep.

Obviously you can always change the cost of things in line with what you want personally too.

3 days ago

I was interested as to why you felt the cost was OK, so I did some more rough calculations before i reached the point of building uranium processing in my own run. This time, going based on fruits/nuts to power ratio and comparing to the normal way of generating power on Gleba, rocket fuel in heating towers.

I will spare you the details, but as it turns out it is not as terrible as I thought. With Kovarex and a 2x2 reactor it is a bit under 3 times as good as rocket fuel, though it does require a lot more infrastructure. Without Kovarex, it is well under half as good as rocket fuel, so you would never want to use it for power before getting enough U235 to breed more. I suppose Nauvis just spoils us with easy nuclear, but increasing the efficiency to be worth it before getting Kovarex might be a good idea.

I write here mostly in the hope of helping you improve the mod, I set what values seem appropriate for myself. Even if you chose not to change anything, thank you at least for responding to my last post.

a day ago
(updated a day ago)

No your feedback is valid, and worth considering, to be honest I hadn't even considered people would be using nuclear on Gleba haha - cause burning rocket fuel is so simple and strong. The reason I wanted this mod was to be able to unlock nuclear fuel a little earlier for space ships on a Gleba start run - which probably adds a lot of context haha.

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