Chemistry in Games: Nuclearcraft

Chemistry in Games: Nuclearcraft

Nuclearcraft was a mod for Minecraft version 1.10.2 which had a pretty solid set of chemical reactions to play with.  I hopped onto my VeeTech2 modpack world to refresh my memory (and notes) about it.

First there are the Nitrogen and Helium Collectors which just output 10mb of those gasses per tick from the air.  And with an infinite water source you could hook up to an Electrolyzer to get 475mb of H2, 50mb of Deuterium and 500mb of O2.  That's some funky water.

The Isotope Separator has 18 pages of recipes of this sort:
Th ingot or dust or grit = 2 Th-232 + 2 tp Th-232 (I use "tp" for "tiny pile", "tiny clump", etc)
... same for the oxide
U ingot or dust or grit = 2 U-238 + 2 tp U-235
... same for the oxide
Yellorium ingot or dust = U-238 + tp U-235
Blutonium ingot or dust = Pu-242 + tp Pu-239
Boron ingot or dust = B-11 + 3 tp B-10
Lithium ingot or dust = Li-7 + 3 tp Li-6
The rest are used to recycle fuel pellets or rods.

The Chemical Reactor has these reactions, all done with liquids & gasses:
144mb B-10 (or B-11) + 3000mb H2 = 100mb diborane
125mb diborane + 750mb H20 = 250mb Boric acid + 750mb H2
500mb N2 + 1500mb H2 = 1000mb NH3
500mb boric acid + 500mb NH3 = 333mb BN solution + 1000 H2O
144mb molten Li (Li-6 or Li-7) + 500 F2 = 144mb LiF
144mb molten Be + 500mb F2 = 144mb molten BeF2
666mb molten S + 1000mb O2 = 1000mb SO2
1000mb SO2 + 500mb O2 = 1000mb SO3 (sulfur trioxide)
1000mb SO3 + 1000mb H20 = 1000mb H2SO4
333mb fluorite water + 500mb H2SO4 = 1000mb HF + 333mb CaSO4 solution
250 OF2 + 250mb H2O = 250mb O2 + 500mb HF
500 OF2 + 500mb SO2 = 500mb SO3 + 500mb F2

This is probably the only time I have ever seen oxygen difluoride or diborane mentioned in a game, so thumbs up for that.

Lifecycle of Boron Nitride:
[ChemReactor] 500mb boric acid + 500mb NH3 = 333mb BN solution + 1000 H2O
[Crystallizer] 666mb BN solution = amorphous BN
[Pressurizer] amorphous BN = cubic BN which you can make tools & armor out of.

Neutron Irradiator:
1000mb He-3 + 10mb Neutron fluid = 1000mb H2 + 1000mb Tritium (T2)
144mb molten Li-6 + 10mb Neutron fluid = 2000mb He + 2000mb Tritium (T2)
144mb molten B-10 + 10mb Neutron fluid = 4000mb He + 2000mb Tritium (T2)

But where does "neutron fluid" (NF) come from?  Why the fusion reactor, of course:

1000mb H2 + 1000mb T2 = 1000mb He-3 + 20mb NF
1000mb D2 + 1000mb D2 = 500mb H2 + 500mb T2 + 500mb He-3 + 10mb NF
and more

The Dissolver puts a few items into solution and the Crystallizer can precipitate the solids back out.
The Melter can produce molten items, and the ingot former can turn them back into ingots.
The Salt Mixer has one recipe: 72mb molten LiF + 72mb molten BeF2 = 144mb molten FLiBe salt mixture

There are 4 RTG (radiothermal generator) power sources: Uranium (4 RF/tick), Plutonium (100), Americium (50) and Californium (400).  These trace elements ceom from the Fuel Reprocessor where:
depleted HEP-239 fuel rod = 8 tp Am-241 + 24 tp Am-242 + 8 tp Cm-245 + 24 tp Cm-246
depleted HEP-241 fuel rod = 8 tp Am-241 + 8 tp Cm-245 + 24 tp Cm-246 + 24 tp Cm-247

These all get used to make strange radioactive fuels.

The other two materials to make armor & tools from are tough alloy, boron and hard carbon.
[AlloyFurnace] steel + boron ingot = ferroboron alloy
[AlloyFurnace] ferroboron alloy + Li ingot = tough ingot
and hard carbon is...
[Alloy Furnace] graphite + crushed diamond = 2 hard carbon

Of course the mod clso lets you make a Domino's pizza from vanilla food items, and 3 custom music discs.

Over in the Extreme Reactors mod, I always got a kick out of their fictional fuels: yellorium, cyanite, blutonium and ludicrite.  Yellorium can be mined in the world, and I think it turns into cyanite in the reactors, then blutonium, but ludicrite has to be crafted a block at a time using crazy expensive materials: both recipes use 4 blutonium ingots, then either 2 enderium blocks + 2 blaze rods OR 2 ender pearls + a nether star (!!) + 2 blocks of emerald.

The mod has two crystals with nether and end ores: anglesite (PbSO4) and benitoite (BaTiSi3O9) but I don't see any uses for them.

Some other night, I will cover the Rockhounding: Chemistry mod, which really added a ton of crafting grind between MC 1.10 and 1.12...

Right now I want to play for a while.

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