Ship reactor
Ship reactor
Powers a ship on its journey between stars. Takeoff requires a long powerup process that is likely to attract raiders.
Base Stats
Building
- Size
- 6 × 7
- Minifiable
- False
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- impassable
- Cover Effectiveness
- 75%
- Blocks Wind
- True
- Terrain Affordance
- Heavy
- Power
- 1000 W
Creation
- Required Research
- Starship reactor
- Skill Required
- Construction 8
- Work To Make
- 65,000 ticks (18.06 mins)
- Resources to make
350 + 
280 + 
70 + 
8- Deconstruct yield
- 175 + 140 + 35 + 4
- Destroy yield
- 87 - 88 + 70 + 17 - 18 + 2
A ship reactor is a ship part needed to take off. Activating the reactor causes 15 days of raids but must be done to launch, creating the primary challenge of the Ship launch ending.
Acquisition
Ship reactors require the Starship reactor research project to be completed in order to be constructed. Each requires 350 Steel, 280 Plasteel, 70 Uranium, 8 Advanced components, 65,000 ticks (18.06 mins) of work, and a Construction skill of 8.
Summary
It has a 15-day activation time, during which the colony will be attacked by many raids. The raids will stop once the reactor is fully activated. It can't be built under a roof, but you can build a roof above it afterwards.
The reactor may be powered on despite the rest of the ship not being built yet. This currently can be exploited since building the whole ship first will increase your colony's wealth, increasing the strength of raids.
Analysis
It can also be used to power a base like a normal generator, constantly providing 1000W regardless of conditions, though its cost and size makes it extremely inefficient for such even in the endgame. For example, a battery plus two solar generators costs 270 steel and 8 components (total market value 790) and can provide an estimated 1100 W all day at roughly 15% the cost; and a chemfuel generator provides a constant 1000 W at 100 steel and 3 components (295 market value) plus 4.5 chemfuel per day (621 market value per year) while occupying only a 2x2 region.
Version histor
- ? - Recipe changed from Steel 300, Plasteel 500, Uranium 150, Component 25 -> Steel 500, Plasteel 500, Uranium 100, Advanced Component 20
- ? (Possibly 1.0) - Recipe changed from Steel 500, Plasteel 500, Uranium 100, Advanced Component 20 -> Steel 350, Plasteel 280, Uranium 70, Advanced Component 8