Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Tiered Thorium Reactors and Refinery
246 Comments
Epsilon 6 Mar, 2024 @ 7:00pm 
I know I'm coming in a couple of years after the most recent update here, but would it be possible to get a small grid version of the Thorium refinery? Same size, smaller, I don't care, I'd just like to be able to get everything into a small grid.

Bonus request - allow modules on the refineries because it feels like it takes forever to refine Thorium.
nukeguard  [author] 30 Aug, 2023 @ 1:18pm 
not that I know of
universe727 30 Aug, 2023 @ 7:38am 
Are there any conflicts this mod has with other mods?
Siv 20 Mar, 2022 @ 2:07pm 
May I mod this for my server (unpublished)?

May I publish a compatibility patch to enable thorium fuel cycle breeding as a source of plutonium-238 for a set of Pu238-based RTG and TPV mods? Thorium-232 -> Pu238 is more realistic than my available Pu238 sources and I'd rather use your mod's thorium system than reinvent everything..

Thanks!
VS-lockon 21 Nov, 2021 @ 8:17am 
on top that i like use this over the deuterium reactor for 2 reason one this dose not use ice and me use hydrogen thrusters bc i like the idea refueling my ships instead of ion ion an atmospheric op to me
VS-lockon 21 Nov, 2021 @ 8:03am 
@jay-krustov you do know Keen remove uranium just spawning on planets right also when gun use uranium make ammo so have Thorium is nice
jay-krustov 19 Apr, 2021 @ 11:52am 
Hi again, nice that you updated this mod but the intension was for the other one.
Anyway i tested it again but the uranium spawn is still affected. Also the amount of stone that is need for one Thorium are a lot higher. Iam sorry to say that but i end up again to unsubscribe this one and will stay with the old and more balanced one without ore generation !
( https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=459057791 ) <- this nailed it i-m-o
nukeguard  [author] 18 Apr, 2021 @ 2:42pm 
totally agree
nukeguard  [author] 15 Apr, 2021 @ 11:30am 
I shall fix
jay-krustov 14 Apr, 2021 @ 3:53pm 
I read a lot comments and there are a good amount of people that have also some trouble/problems with that. It is like an Survival Impossible Mod where i must use windturbines, solarcells and batteries. For these people who want an Survival Impossible Mod this is a good choice. For all other i can´t give a recommendation for the "newer" mod but i can really recommend the "old" one. So please lay hands on the "old" mod or better to say "balanced" mod, there isn´t much to do, i would appreciate that. I will leave there also a comment.
jay-krustov 14 Apr, 2021 @ 3:53pm 
Hi nukeguard, first of all great work you are do with your mod´s.
And this isn´t meant in an offending way, it´s only german "straightness" ;P

Over the years i tested your "new" Tiered Thorium Mod several times and every time it messed up my game so i get back to your "old" Tiered Thorium Mod, let me explain:

Two days ago i set up a new savegame and search 7 Uranium spots and marked them. I put in your newer mod and wooosh...all Uranium are gone. So i search around additional 6 hours (with creative port) for any Uranium or Thorium and i found only a very little tiny spot of Thorium but way to less to be usefull. Uranium seems to dont spawn anymore and i don´t need an reactor Mod that give me an reactor that i can´t use most of the time and further more don´t let me use other like Arc Reactors. I use some other Mods like stone sifter and gravel sifter so the refineryblock that use an extreme amount of stone isn´t that practical too.
nukeguard  [author] 31 Mar, 2021 @ 3:51am 
yes, it really does, this was one of my first reactor mods and has been on the workshop for a long time now
lolic_lol 31 Mar, 2021 @ 1:13am 
Imho, too weak and expensive to build and maintain compared to a deuterium reactor from the same author. Need a rebalance?
zombie_hunter 28 Mar, 2021 @ 6:53am 
MOD_ERROR: Tiered Thorium Reactors and Refinery, in file: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\805678675\Data\Thorium_BlueprintClasses.sbc
Resource not found, setting to null. Resource path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\805678675\Textures\GUI\Icons\buttons\large_block_highlight.dds
darkthought1 14 Dec, 2020 @ 6:01pm 
Maybed a small change, have it still pull some thorium out of gravel?
Glington 16 Nov, 2020 @ 2:28pm 
Or jus maybe have In other words tiered Thorium Refinery as well
Glington 15 Nov, 2020 @ 1:54pm 
Thorium Refinery is slow when you do the ore not the stone any way to edit how fast it refind the ore or no settings for it?

PS:Finally found uranium after 12 hr of search only to be found a little but right next to me floating on earth gravity well a small asteroid
SilentReaper 15 Nov, 2020 @ 11:12am 
So I've been thinking a little bit. Since the ratio at which stone is refined in the thorium refinery is so high at like 100k:1, I was wondering where all the stone went. Refining kilotons of stone into a few kilos of thorium with no waste? Anyways, my thought was to create another resource. Call it waste or something, and make it an ingredient to another process maybe? Anyways, I don't have any specific ideas of what you could do with it, I'm just tossing out a thought, do with it as you will.
Glington 12 Nov, 2020 @ 7:43pm 
Uranium so freaking rare no days that I am having more luck hunting / buying uranium then finding it (I been exploring for a while and still no Uranium in this world)
on a side note I might find it on the alien planet or was it Mars where the uranium spawn
I like this mod like most mod you make or are helping making
Thx again for having a look at it too
nukeguard  [author] 12 Nov, 2020 @ 5:47pm 
yep, it shouldn't replace uranium, should just be additive to asteroids and be in the random spawn pool
nukeguard  [author] 12 Nov, 2020 @ 5:45pm 
I'll check spawn files again
Glington 12 Nov, 2020 @ 4:31pm 
maybe it just my bad luck with Uranium deposit thx for the reply
nukeguard  [author] 12 Nov, 2020 @ 4:21pm 
it should not be replacing
Glington 12 Nov, 2020 @ 2:25pm 
this replace Uranium deposit on asteroids?
I did find Thorium but no Uranium deposits
nukeguard  [author] 9 Jul, 2020 @ 1:41pm 
thanks for telling me
youranxiety 8 Jul, 2020 @ 10:41pm 
@nukeguard it looks like this person is using the throium reactor for their mod, idk if you gave permission or not, just wanna make sure they aren't stealing it https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2024947077
nukeguard  [author] 27 May, 2020 @ 12:48pm 
also not really an issue, block variants changed and I have not changed this mod yet
meRlinX_AT 27 May, 2020 @ 11:44am 
there is an error in the logfile

Created definition for: Thorium Reactor Tier 1
Warning: BlockVariants are obsolete. Use block groups instead for block: MyObjectBuilder_Reactor/SBLGLevel1
nukeguard  [author] 16 Apr, 2020 @ 4:03pm 
you're welcome!
Ripped R2 16 Apr, 2020 @ 8:34am 
As an absolute nerd obsessed with the idea of thorium reactors in real life as a cheap, safe power source I will never stop loving this mod ever when my completely over the top application leads to it becoming overpowered, thank you so much for making this mod and keeping it up to date.
nukeguard  [author] 2 Apr, 2020 @ 6:53am 
no it's not critical, it's just an icon missing
zombie_hunter 2 Apr, 2020 @ 2:32am 
the error is not critical?
nukeguard  [author] 1 Apr, 2020 @ 5:15am 
I know that error, keen changed a filename of an icon, i'll get that :-D
McCloud Jr 1 Apr, 2020 @ 4:25am 
I just loaded up a world that uses this mod and everything went fine.

You may have a corrupted file.

Easiest way to fix this is to go here-

[Drive Letter] :\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850

and look for 805678675 then select it and do Shift+Del this skips the recycle bin and steam will auto download the mod again

this simple trick fixes 90% of problems
zombie_hunter 1 Apr, 2020 @ 12:00am 
MOD_ERROR: Tiered Thorium Reactors and Refinery, in file: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\805678675\Data\Thorium_BlueprintClasses.sbc
Resource not found, setting to null. Resource path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\805678675\Textures\GUI\Icons\buttons\large_block_highlight.dds
mankol 30 Mar, 2020 @ 9:21am 
ok,
Pads 30 Mar, 2020 @ 6:42am 
@mankol It seemed to work in my game and I use Better Stone v7.0.3f. The stone isn't changed at all so there really shouldn't be any impact.
nukeguard  [author] 29 Mar, 2020 @ 11:38pm 
i don't know, never used Better Stone
mankol 29 Mar, 2020 @ 7:44pm 
this mod work with Better Stone v7.0.3f?
Pads 17 Mar, 2020 @ 8:11am 
At least you can refine stone to get some as well. Too bad Uranium doesn't work that way.
Arklysss 29 Feb, 2020 @ 10:42am 
i really hope that you will be suffering in the pain between finding this fucking thorium
nukeguard  [author] 16 Nov, 2019 @ 6:02pm 
on any asteroid not yet discovered
Wolverine 16 Nov, 2019 @ 3:33pm 
Will Thorium spawn for asteroids on an existing world?
nukeguard  [author] 12 Oct, 2019 @ 7:31pm 
all pink is fixed, converted all models to use keens textures
VS-lockon 3 Oct, 2019 @ 5:30am 
nukeguard in the next up date will the fuel being pink on the outer bit be fix ?
James Fire 28 Sep, 2019 @ 3:09pm 
I would not have a problem with that.
nukeguard  [author] 28 Sep, 2019 @ 2:22pm 
I can add it to that, but will make it slower than the thorium specific one
James Fire 28 Sep, 2019 @ 12:20pm 
I was able to do it in the regular refinery ages ago.