

See Reactor Design Principles for more info.īig Reactors come in two variants, Passive and Active. As reactors are generally designed from the top down this means you want to start with a reactor that will allow you to expand up or down once you have the need and required resources. Even during the early stages of the game it is strongly recommended to build a reactor that will allow you to expand. Reactors, passive reactors at least, can be designed to produce anywhere from 270 RF/t to around 2,000,000 RF/t at its maximum size.

One should however note that building the smallest (3x3x3) variant of this reactor will only produce about 270 RF/tick so it is really not that useful for anything other than its educational value or in the very earliest stages of the game. Once you are familiar with the basics then the rest of this guide will prove much more useful as a How-to-Design and How-to-Manage your setup. Several tutorials already exist to help you get started with a basic reactor so please reference them if you are new to the mod. Yellorium is made from Yellorite Ore which can be mined near the bedrock layer (Y elevation 0-9 on most servers).

In order to make even the smallest 3x3x3 reactor you are required to have a supply of Yellorium ingots, both for the crafting of the parts and also as fuel which will be needed to burn to make energy. It requires at a minimum 22 Reactor casings, a Reactor Controller, an intake port to get fuel into it, an export port to get waste out, a fuel Control Rod, and a Reactor Power Tap which supplies power to whatever cable you attach to it. 5.1 "Grow As You Go" Big Reactor StrategyĪ basic Big Reactor is a small 3x3x3 multi-block structure.
