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wicked cool radiation death beam created by infinite liquid storage


db48x
  • Branch: Live Branch Version: Linux Fixed

I built an infinite liquid storage next to a nuclear reactor, with the expectation that the storage would block radiation and help keep the environment nearby livable. It works fine at normal quantities of water; having more water in the storage blocks more radiation. However, at some point the amount of radiation starts to increase again, and at extreme densities the radiation becomes a very awesome death beam. The tooltip still says that the water is blocking 100% of the radiation.

The first screenshot shows a 2×2 storage with walls made of bunker tiles, and ~20t of water in each cell. Similar results are obtained when using airflow tiles instead.

The second screenshot shows the same area but with only 1t of water in each cell.

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Steps to Reproduce

Create a high–density water storage in the radiation field produced by a research reactor. It must be at least 2 tiles deep, but it can otherwise be any shape.

Reactor in Rocket YT, death beam.sav The Scientific Crashpad.sav




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A developer has marked this issue as fixed. This means that the issue has been addressed in the current development build and will likely be in the next update.

I forgot to mention the second save file (“The Scientific Crashpad”, a perfect random name). It’s just a less–complicated test map with just enough stuff to show the bug and nothing else. As you can see in the screenshot, the beam is only created inside the radiation field of the reactor, and extends radially away from the reactor to the edge of the field. Different water densities create different beam strengths.  If you examine the test map,  you will see that the beam strength can be higher than the ordinary field strength, but only by about 10% as far as I can tell. A wide water container creates a wide “beam”, as rays are traced through each water tile.

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