_Kutai_ Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Hello all! A bit over a year ago I came up with a desing to create insane amount of radbolts, thus giving birth to a lovely machine I named "Radbolt Regen", from the german word for "Rain" Unfortunately, life got in the way and I could never properly publish it, although I did make a reddit post back then. But, after all this time, I'm taking a moment here to share this knowledge with you! For those who just want to see this beauty in action I still have some old videos from back then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8B7-CK_skU&ab_channel=KutaiRaisu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi75x3afjdM&ab_channel=KutaiRaisu And also, the lovely LumaPlays has been using it in his Exploits run, to bore through the neutronium. Here's the latest showcase, with a much cleaner design, since by that time, the machine had already evolved (timestamp to go straight to goods) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxc2mgYWa2I&t=1600s With that showcase out of the way, let me tell you a bit of how it all came to be. The 1st thing I noticed is that when a radbolt travels through vacuum, it leaves a trail of flashes. These flashes always happen at a distance of 2-3 tiles from the radbolt, and the position can be manipulated by a series of factors. Turning on/off the generators, or switching the output direction. But, mostly, once you determinate which tile is receiving the flash, then that tile will be the one you will use. https://youtu.be/a1tsld61b8k Whilst playing around trying to understand what those flashes were and after a lot of testing, I realized that they were massive radioactive contaminants concentrations caused by an integer overflow, where the radbolt is leaving contaminants inside the vacuum, half of them die off, and then the game substracts the initial amount, thus tuning it into a negative number, which is rendered as the max value, which is around 2 billion. Watching this behaviour, something else happened. Two radbolts collided and a tiny drop of nWaste was left behind. I realized that the nFallout from the collision had condensed, and the "overflow flash" had been captured. Then, it was just a matter of replicating it. So I went into sandbox and I realized that, ideed, gasses can capture the radioactive contaminants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDp21N90do&ab_channel=KutaiRaisu So then it was just a matter of grabbing some gas, condensing it, moving it around and enjoing the fireworks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFetqjE6uQ&ab_channel=KutaiRaisu This is one of the older designs, where I show the overlays. A couple of things are happening all at once there, so I'll explain part for part: 1. The radbolt to the right of the gas vents is bouncing back and forth in a reflector, this is causing the contaminant flashes to happen inside the condensation chamber (best seen between 40 and 50 seconds in the video) 2. The gas vents are pouring a tiny amount of nFallout (any gas can be used as shown earlier), this gas captures the radioactive flash. 3. Cold liquid is running through the radiant pipes. This causes the nFallout to condense into nWaste, which will carry all the contaminants. Best seen at second 47-48, where a flash is clearly captured, appearing 1st on top of the gas vents, and condensed and dropped on top of the pumps. 4. The pumps take that highly contaminated liquid and slowly drip it into the generators to the right. The extremely radioactive liquid causes the generators to go into overdrive. 5. Since the radiation source is radioactive contaminants, and these die off after some time, then the loops just keeps feeding new radioactive liquid to top them off. 6. Something important to note is that if radioactive contaminants reach 2bil, the overflow will happen again, but this time, resetting the contaminants to zero. This is, however, a non issue, since a new batch of radioactive material will come along in a heartbeat. Of course, these videos were taken while I was developing the build, I had been using nFallout because the phenomenon had happened with that element at first. But, as it turns out, any gas can be used. Including steam and water, which are really easy to get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7aRxPRLhY&ab_channel=KutaiRaisu And that's pretty much it! To recap, radbolts travelling through vacuum will cause flashes of radioactive contaminants, said flashes can be captured by a gas, the gas can be condensed and used to move the radiation around. I want to thank the people in Luma's discord, in the Lab Channel. They all added something to make this system better and better, and made the whole research a pleasure, I couldn't have done this without them. I hope you enjoy this not so little machine of mine, and I'm looking forward to see what the brilliant minds of these forums can come up with! Have a wonderful day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro_L Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 On 7/29/2023 at 9:41 AM, _Kutai_ said: Hello all! A bit over a year ago I came up with a desing to create insane amount of radbolts, thus giving birth to a lovely machine I named "Radbolt Regen", from the german word for "Rain oh, it's Radbolt Regen not Radbolt Regen? I'll pronounce it rightly henceforth then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Kutai_ Posted August 10, 2023 Author Share Posted August 10, 2023 Hahahhahaa, you made me chuckle. Regen as in Ronald Reagan. So you're 100% correct, it's Radbolt Regen and NOT Radbolt Regen Reminded me of the song XD You say either and I say either You say neither and I say neither Either, either, neither, neither Let's call the whole thing off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberwarlord Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 On 8/10/2023 at 6:20 PM, _Kutai_ said: Hahahhahaa, you made me chuckle. Regen as in Ronald Reagan. So you're 100% correct, it's Radbolt Regen and NOT Radbolt Regen Reminded me of the song XD You say either and I say either You say neither and I say neither Either, either, neither, neither Let's call the whole thing off Potato tamato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primalflower Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Wait, is it regen like regenerate or regen like reagan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Kutai_ Posted September 1, 2023 Author Share Posted September 1, 2023 Like Reagan (it's the German word for rain) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4d6 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 If Luma's latest video is correct, then the last update fixed the bug that made this work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Kutai_ Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 On 10/17/2023 at 2:14 PM, r4d6 said: If Luma's latest video is correct, then the last update fixed the bug that made this work. It is correct. Rip Radbolt Regen T-T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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