With the advent of the Industrial Craft 2 modification, life in the cubic world has changed a lot. On the one hand, many tools have appeared that make the extraction and processing of resources much easier. On the other hand, there was a need for energy sources. Players who install this "mod" create entire complexes for the production of energy and still experience its lack of Minecraft. A nuclear reactor will allow you to get the maximum energy with a minimum occupied volume. But is it that simple? Let's figure it out.
Issue price
In order to build a nuclear reactor in Minecraft , you will need a huge amount of resources: from simple coal to advanced materials like composite plates. Therefore, do not even hope to create a nuclear power plant immediately after the start of the game. Only having serious reserves of resources and a powerful infrastructure can we begin to plan the construction of a reactor. Iron alone will require at least a couple of hundred units, let alone diamonds, uranium and other hard-to-reach materials.
Where to place?
There is only one rule here - the farther from home, the better. If you are not yet able to conduct high-voltage wires over a considerable distance, then you need to do anything, but not build a nuclear reactor. Minecraft is a game that does not endure rush. If you cannot take energy from the reactor, then just waste your time in vain, and placing it next to the house, you run the risk of getting a funnel with a radius of a hundred meters right in front of the threshold.
The closer the nuclear reactor is to important buildings, the more layers of reinforced blocks should cover it. Ideally, 3 layers will be enough, but it will cost a lot of time and resources.
When to build?
As mentioned above, the construction of a nuclear reactor is only worth it when you have substantial reserves of rare resources. But minerals alone will not be enough. Advanced mechanisms, the availability of capacious energy storages and fiber optics - this is just a little that you can not do without when building a power plant in Minecraft. A nuclear reactor is a complex and expensive project, and therefore you should not build it if it is not necessary.
What will the reactor give?
The energy. From two million units per uranium rod. And if you combine the rods with reflectors and use forced-cooling circuits, then you simply won’t be able to spend the resulting amount of energy. True, it is worth remembering about the possibility of overheating the core in Minecraft - a nuclear reactor that has been left unattended will easily turn your wonderful castle into a pile of stones. There is only one device that justifies the risk of its construction - the matter generator.
All schemes for creating a reactor can be found on the official website of the modification (and this is about fifty recipes for crafting, both the reactor blocks themselves and the resources). The layout of the rods and cooling systems is also presented there - from the safest models to unstable industry monsters that can, with careful use, provide energy to the whole server (or turn it into one giant crater if it is overlooked).