Add Heavy Water requirement for TA5 Fusion Reactor#282
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Cool feature, but this is a hard breaking change for servers with existing TA5 Fusion Reactor setups — currently running reactors will stop the moment this hits master, leaving every dependent factory without power. For that reason I can't accept this as written. Your need to add a Ideally the setting also gates the liquid filter recipes (heavy water output) so a server that stays on the old behavior doesn't get the maintenance chain unlocked either. |
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This merge request adds Heavy Water as a new gameplay requirement for the TA5 Fusion Reactor.
The Fusion Reactor remains a powerful late-game energy source, but it now requires a continuous supply of Heavy Water while running. This prevents it from being a completely maintenance-free perpetual energy source, while still allowing players to automate its fuel supply chain.
Changes
Gameplay Motivation
Previously, once built, the TA5 Fusion Reactor behaved almost like a perpetual energy source: it provided a very large amount of power without any ongoing material cost.
With this change, the reactor still remains valuable and highly efficient, but it now requires periodic maintenance through its Heavy Water supply chain. The limiting factor is not energy, but the Isotope Membrane Filter consumed during Heavy Water production.
Players can still run Heavy Water production using energy from the reactor itself, but they need to maintain the production line and replenish the isotope membrane filters over time.
Heavy Water Production
Heavy Water is produced in the TA4 Liquid Filter from water or river water using Isotope Membrane Filters.
During operation, the Isotope Membrane Filter slowly degrades and is eventually converted into a Spent Isotope Membrane Filter. River water causes slower membrane degradation.
Fusion Reactor Changes
Heavy Water must be supplied directly to the Fusion Reactor Controller.
During operation, the controller gradually consumes Heavy Water. If the internal Heavy Water buffer is empty, the reactor cannot continue normal operation and reports the missing resource.
Compatibility
Existing Fusion Reactor setups will need to be extended with a Heavy Water supply line.
Existing TA4 Liquid Filter behavior for previous recipes is preserved by the recipe-based Liquid Filter system that has already been merged in #281