Realistic Fusion 2.0

Repository for the WIP Realistic Fusion mod series for Factorio.

Finished features ◈ Planned/WIP features ◈ Installation ◈ Links

Finished features

General

• RFP & RFW 1.x were split into four mods - Realistic Fusion Core, Power, Weaponry and Antimatter (RFC, RFP, RFW & RFA)
• Completely remade most of the gas/plasma/etc icons

Realistic Fusion - Core

• Added brine, a new oil-like resource
• Added lithium (with graphics borrowed from Krastorio2) & a way to extract it from brine
• Improved deuterium extraction, especially GS processing

Realistic Fusion - Power

• Added (an unbalanced, unrealistic, prototype version of) ICF¹ reactors, with awesome graphics made by PreLeyZero
• Completely rewrote nearly everything about how the reactors work using actual, real life formulas & stuff
  • By "real life formulas & stuff" I mean that RFP now literally simulates a fusion reactor in real-time, close how it should behave in real life. Sort of...
    • The model is extremely simplified because of performance constraints, but it should still be pretty accurate.
    • To get reasonable values balance-wise, I multiplied the input heater power and some of the fusion reactivities² like D-D³'s by 10.
    • It isn't technically 100% the real thing, but it uses the same equations. At least I think so... honestly, I'm just a highschool student, and this is the kind of stuff normally taught at universities, so it is pretty damn hard to get everything right.
  • Gave reactors and heaters completely custom GUIs for advanced control
  • Made MCF⁴ reactors completely modular
    • Reactors and heaters connected by magnetic confinement pipes form networks, which act as one big reactor/heater and can be controlled by clicking on any of the reactors.
    • Because it only has to check Realistic Fusion pipes it shouldn't degrade performance, unless you do something like place 10000 of them at once into a single network.

Planned/WIP features

• Add modes of operation to the reactors:
  • Manual – controlled directly through the reactor's GUI
  • Remote-controlled – same as manual but can be opened with a GUI button from anywhere
  • Programmable – controlled through circuit signals
  • Automatic – endgame tech, mod computes the optimal setting for each situation itself (ingame called "Predictive AI" or something)
• Make ICF reactors realistic
• Half-done: Revamp tritium & helium-3 production
  • Tritium is produced by:
    • In small amounts, reprocessing standard fission fuel cells
    • Reprocessing lithium-coated fission fuel cells
    • Tritium-suppressed D-D fusion
  • Helium-3 is produced from tritium decay or He3-suppressed D-D fusion
• Balance everything for actual ingame use outside of sandbox
• Completely recreate the tech tree
• Write a manual for controlling the reactor
• Write all sources into a readable format
• Improve the formulas used for reactor simulation
• Revamp RFA & RFW
• Add compatibilities for other major mods
• ? Rewrite the GUI to use a library instead of the spaghetti code mess that I've created

Installation

Note: Don't use RFW or RFA yet, they're most likely broken.

One-time

If you don't care about updates and just want to try out the current version, simply download this zip file or clone the repo directly with git:

git clone https://github.com/romner-set/realistic-fusion-dev.git

And move the "RealisticFusionPower" and "RealisticFusionCore" folders into Factorio's mods folder⁵.

With easy updates using git

Windows

1. Open the command line by pressing Win+R and typing cmd.
2. Type cd "<DIR>" where <DIR> is the folder where you want to keep the repo files (e.g. cd "C:\Users\<YOUR_USERNAME>\Downloads")
3. Paste this into the command line:

git clone https://github.com/romner-set/realistic-fusion-dev.git && mklink /J %AppData%\Factorio\mods\RealisticFusionCore %cd%\realistic-fusion-dev\RealisticFusionCore && mklink /J %AppData%\Factorio\mods\RealisticFusionPower %cd%\realistic-fusion-dev\RealisticFusionPower

Linux/macOS

Open a terminal, cd into a directory of choice and paste this into it:

git clone https://github.com/romner-set/realistic-fusion-dev.git && ln -rs realistic-fusion-dev/RealisticFusion* ~/.factorio/mods

To update, cd into the folder again and run git pull.

Links to the mod portal

• [TODO] Realistic Fusion - Core
• [TODO] Realistic Fusion - Power
• [TODO] Realistic Fusion - Weaponry
• [TODO] Realistic Fusion - Antimatter

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Inertial Confinement Fusion. Instead of heating up the gases directly like MCF⁴, ICF heats up small pellets of fuel with lasers. ↩

2. Amount of fusion reactions per volume, per second. ↩

3. The X-Y notation represents a fusion reaction between two isotopes, in this case D-D represents the fusion reaction of two deuterium (D) atoms. ↩

4. Magnetic Confinement Fusion, as opposed to ICF. All pre-2.0 reactors were MCF. ↩ ↩²

5. Windows: %AppData%\Factorio\mods
   Linux: ~/.factorio/mods
   macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/factorio/mods ↩