Rimatomics Walkthrough - Basics

hello and welcome to the introductory room atomics tutorial by me what we'll be going over today is how to get your first reactor up and running and briefly just how rhematomics really works so unlike other forms of power the generator the big nuclear reactors here and here don't actually produce power not like a geothermal what they do is they produce steam which goes through this steam pipe into these turbines which feeds cold water back into the reactor the turbines get cooled by these cooling systems there's other cooling systems and from the turbine high voltage cables transmit power to the high voltage power transformer and that is what gives you your power source that's why this thing is transmitting oh 117 000 watts lovely and that's six so that's a lot of what anyway let's jump into the basics tutorial welcome to my new save as you can see i am an extremely good rimworld player we are only 9 or 10 days in and look at all these beautiful vanometric power cells no i didn't put them there in dev mode how dare you ask such a thing anywho so what we're going to do today is just go through the initial steps to getting your nuclear reactor up and running we're gonna use keanu reeves here uh to help he's he's a fairly advanced human being as you can see just like real life so what we're gonna do to start off go to research you better have research pal if you're using even more than three mods because if you're not this is going to be hard if you're not i'm sorry i can't help you but you've got to look for room atomics and research rhematomics keanu is going to go off and do that in the blink of an eye and we're going to speed it up so he does it even faster we need to build this room atomics research bench which you find in this tab down in the architect menu put it there and keanu moves at the speed of light doing it so this bench you've got a few things you can do you can order trade ships and you can uh well research you can also open this research tab here and all kinds of research are purchased which is why you need to have silver near a trade beacon oh and by the way i have stack double xl if you don't that's fine it's just uh you're gonna need a lot of space for all these resources because it's pretty resource intensive so to start with we are going to get this just the nuclear research reactor right all the other things are pretty good but frankly radiation is not much of an issue until you uh have fully expended fuel in a reactor but until then you're not really going to be seeing much uh much radiation and even if you do it's actually not that dangerous as you can see here the rim atomics research bench is uh technically a workbench akin to you know like a butcher's table or something um i think that's just how they had to get into the mod so you can prioritize it but be careful if you do because highly passionate and hard-working pawns will sit there so long that they get really upset and then they'll kick over your anti-grain warheads and you know anti-grain warheads better dropped on mechanoids than kicked i know you should try to tell the pawns that and they don't listen so now that you've done that step one complete so you can actually already click you can get the research react from here but in case you'd rather click of the reset click on the architect tab just because you know consistency then you can do that too amazing so 200 steel 400 silver 35 uranium eight components and two seconds if you have keanu once kian has built it he is going to complete the next step which involves researching and it's very similar to sort of you know research here or research here except that they they do it here instead right i think he just went up to play some pool which i would do if i had a jade golden pool table away we go more advanced research is now available marvellous marvelous so got nuclear power this is where it's at these actuators are something that you'll get to build after you build your first reactor and all they do is just speed up how fast the reactor can switch off if something goes wrong um pretty useful because sometimes things go wrong and you don't want things to explode click research then click start project you will probably click research once and then ignore it and wonder why you aren't researching your shiny new gun and it's because there's a second step to doing that yeah all right fairly straightforward and as you can see uh it is a very very thorough in-game tutorial right so at this point i wouldn't blame you if you just kind of click off the video and jump into it because they will talk you through every single part of this but a lot of people surprisingly aren't particularly comfortable just jumping into a nuclear power modern room world they're thinking i don't want to have chernobyl in my world i'd i'd just rather have geothermal power vents and wouldn't we all keanu man you let me down here do you really need to sleep oh penny if only i was actually playing the game you're just gonna have to die bit harsh but it's true all right you've had enough sleep experiment with research reactors high risk seven intellectual so here's the thing this step has a chance for catastrophic failures now according to me and anyone who knows what the word catastrophic means especially in the context of nuclear power that's not exactly true uh looking at the code itself uh it looks like the worst that you can get is short bursts of radiation and the worst i have ever ever had at this step was a uh i think a facility breakdown which just meant that he had to you know stick a component in it and get back to work um and i have tested this about 15 times now because i was kind of confused but yeah nah it's not a problem and uh it's a frustrating thing because my first research reactor was built way away from the rest of my base deep into a mountain when in reality you can stick it right next to the research bench and get a nice little 10 upgrade which is why this thing is now operating at 136 efficiency the more you know there's my cassowary actually it's a night over yeah from alpha animals i recommend it very highly okay so now that we have experimented we need to build a reactor core here's your first nuclear reactor now it doesn't look like the ones i showed you earlier because it's but it's a reactor core and it will make you a lot of power so now that he's built that what he's going to need to do is research at the reactor core the only thing is as it says in the tab this uses construction so if you're not using keanu and you need to use normal mortal people then you're gonna have more than likely a second or third like a different person doing this step um but you know that shouldn't be too much of an issue unless you just told them to build i don't know a shitload of carpet in your rec room if you're wondering why the rec room isn't getting done it's because of this or if you're wondering why this isn't getting done it's because you're rec room just let your pawns live in filth and get the nuclear reactor done that's what i would do and it's what you should do yeah there he goes nice little particle effects thank you dub wise seriously this mod's really impressive i'm like i don't understand how dub wise accomplished all of this doesn't even use much cpu all right he is done build a turbine generator so we talked about this before you saw the turbine generators unfortunately the one we're building now isn't going to look anywhere near as good and unfortunately unfortunately i forgot to build a machining table because i always forget to build the machining table so you need to build a machining table and at the machining table you can make turbine blades how many turbine blades do you make well it makes 10 per bill and the thor turbine uses 250 turbine blades so i'm going to have to punch it into a computer but i'm pretty sure we're looking at making 25. who's to say i'm not exactly the best at maths it's a lie i'm pretty good at maths all right off he goes 60 70 80 90 oh 100 comes next how exciting ah i wonder how penny's going oh there she is well damn she's not bad oh teeter-totter no she's bad never mind i did not make you to sleep at least he's not sleeping very long with a legendary ergonomic double bed vanilla furniture expanded boys and girls i'd really recommend it i'd recommend pretty much every mod that i get funny that okay oh yeah this is important to tell you so this alpha right strangely enough oh wait no i don't have the reactor console yet never mind never mind got ahead of myself and off he goes rather slowly if you ask me there we go we're on a time frame here mate okay build a turbine generator is finished so now we need to connect the reactor to the turbine so steam pipe is color-coded red cold water pipe is color-coded blue or if you are color-blind then it's gray and blue cool excellent build a cooling systems here's where it gets fun you've got three cooling options as you may have noticed in the last one in my last save i always use water cooling because it's objectively the best but just for this i'm going to show you all three so got a cooling tower got some water cooling and you have this radiator so pros and cons water cooling and tower cooling they both uh provide the same amount of cooling and they use the same electricity which is uh 550 550 watts uh the radiator does one tenth as much cooling and uses twice as much electricity and if you're wondering why you would ever use this i agree don't use this i think the only reason to use it is if you're doing an ice sheet play through and you know well i mean if you're doing an ice sheet play through you're already insane so that's fine uh do i have power yep good that will power on so yeah don't use this unless you need to heat up a giant underground cabin and you decided that i don't know heaters are just too much work this thing is massive obviously takes a lot of resources to build uh and can only be placed outside you can't put a roof over it which kind of makes sense it's a cooling tower um two reasons to use this are one because uh you don't have any water on the map which is unfortunate if you chose a map without water on purpose and the second reason to use it is because it's it's pretty awesome it's very aesthetic it kind of fits the nuclear feel and i completely understand if you choose to do that it gets a cool little steam thing going when it's engaged and then water cooling which is just better in every single way and you should definitely do water cooling and nothing else if you can but you know if you can't well that's unfortunate so i just need to power that on good so see as you can see 550 550 950 and it doesn't cool anywhere near as much it is smaller i'll grant you that it's small so back at room atomics coolant pipe bright blue even if you're colorblind you can see this one so important thing uh mistake that some people make this is attached to the turbine not this which can you maybe should be able to tell because this doesn't light up when you click the uh thing oh and i forgot to mention that yeah if you have two different pipes next to each other and you place blueprints side by side it will look as if they're attaching to each other excuse me how rude it'll look as if they're attaching to each other but they're not uh it's just a sort of quirk of how these are coded coded build a power transformer so this is the transformer i mentioned earlier this is what will connect to your conduit grid um where am i going to put it you know what we're going to put it here i would recommend not putting it here and keeping it away from the rest of your uh nucleus setup but for now we're going to put it there these things can explode if you overload them which is why in the last save that i showed you they were all boxed within uh concrete walls concrete walls are also a mod you may have figured out i have a lot of mods um because when they explode they uh well they explode it's kind of self-explanatory we built a power transformer what's next ah right of course connect the power transformer high voltage cable kind of self-explanatory has a yellow line so a yellow color coating so uh just like in real life the power that comes off generators not just nuclear generators but any generator is typically super super high voltage and not necessarily a very high current um oil at least not a relatively high current and so you need to convert that to in a transformer hence the high voltage line the reactor console now this is honestly a work of art by dub wise i'm very very impressed with what he's done here uh hurry up keanu we are on the clock because few things remember i mentioned this alpha before well corresponds with this alpha you can change this and you can change this when they match with each other a small sort of graphic that represents the control rods inside here will pop up on this and it will be updated constantly again somehow not using very much cpu maybe that's just because dubwise is i don't know maybe he's even better than keanu hard to say is a very bold claim but well sometimes bold claims need to be made keanu bro we have work to do you are no longer limited to building one of each part of the reactor system you can expand by adding more cores more turbines and coolers as you saw that i did and perform research using room atomic's research bench to improve upon the design well we're going to improve the design don't you worry so see if i turn this to pi disconnected if i turn this to pi you see the same grid of 21 rod rod spots i don't know to call them chunks as you can see here but it gets better it gets better so you need fuel rods well what you do you make pellets and you make fuel rods each fuel rod needs 100 uranium pellets each pellet bill will give you 30 uranium pellets once again galaxy brain math skills we need at least four these are cabinets to speed up the uh working speed here hence this uh once again a mod uh don't worry i'll post the mod list below i'm not gonna leave you guys out to dry uh this is mostly just to get everything working as fast as possible so we have a rod he wants to play billiards he's not allowed this is how you manage your core minimize this so you can see what the hell's going on and he's going to sit there open it up he's going to sit there close this he's not going to sit there he's going to clean dirt i guess he got over billiards anyway we are managing the reactor dropping one in the very center as i understand it not that i've actually tested this if you decide to drop it here with everything else empty i don't think the reactor works don't click start for the love of god just close the thing and let him do it or if you have more than one person you know just wait for them to do it what they're gonna do this is kind of like a unique version of hauling nuclear so i recommend having one person set to one on nuclear and uh not someone with social skill because that person can be given uh the radiation suits right and the suits slow them down and they uh reduce their social impact which i find ridiculous because who doesn't love talking to someone in full radiation gear anyway i am extremely funny of course uh we've got one fuel rod in so what we're gonna do i'm gonna start the reactor and uh very gently increase the flux level just careful we don't want to yeah it's one fuel rod in the worst reactor you have available it's it's connected to three cooling systems it's fine don't you worry you're all good and now you have power so with one fuel rod this is generating 1.7 megawatts so this screen here will tell you like the power generation is how much this turbine is outputting right this will also tell you how much oh kilowatts not megawatts mega is a million yup thousand million million yeah so this will tell you the turbine power as well but this will also actually tell you you know what the grid has and it will never match this because if you have even one thing connected to the grid which guess what you do because all of these things cost electricity it's always going to be lower so we've got 1.7 kilowatts we only have 15 kilowatts available and that is with all of these yeah quantum foam generators aren't they fun anywho that's boring you want more so let me give you more what i've done in the meantime is have keanu build uh several dozen fuel rods no i didn't dab mode them in i am once again offended that you asked and i'm going to show you how we power this thing down and then get the fuel rods in i'm also going to talk you through this little storage pool here so if you want to get this thing actually filled and producing more than you know half of one geothermal you need to turn it off first because shock horror they cannot put fuel rods into a reactor that is 315 degrees celsius which is some very high number of degrees fahrenheit i don't know why americans still use it but they do while it's turning off we can press this button bam insert all rods into their slots remove all spam fuel removal fuel blah blah blah so we can do that too but we're not going to so i have 20 fuel rods here how do i get them into there well the way this thing works is these three spots here are stockpile zones so this is what you know you can organize your fuel storage around it's pretty straightforward like cracks not cracked processable blah blah mox fuel rods as far as i can tell are just better fuel rods uh you make them from the sort of processed fuel if you don't want to make warheads um personally i don't really like using warheads they're kind of boring you just delete a settlement or blow up your own base accidentally because you don't turn it down to low yield anyway different story so these three are storage zones which you know you control with this these two when there's a fuel rod in there the arm here will come grab it and put it in this one is where the arm will put fuel rods if you've said that you want to get the fuel rod out which is what you do here so if i put this here would you look at that it's like a claw machine that works now there is something you should know about this pool and maybe you'll get to see what it looks like right so if i speed this up a little bit oh yeah right i have to actually do this so everyone will haul nuclear fuel rods but the only people who will put it into a reactor are people who have this work tab so if you have hauling animals like this they will put them back into the loading bay where they will be loaded back into the thing so to prevent that from happening disable loading and then get rid of everything they will still put them into the loading bay but then the arm won't put them back into the pool which is quite useful when you know you want to load your nuclear reactor if you have a less enhanced pawns this actually works more efficiently strangely enough because my dudes do this so quickly that they fill this up before this arms had time to get another fuel rod there and then they get distracted because apparently every pawn and remote has adhd so empty put loading back on afterwards because yeah you'll be a little confused in the future if you don't any who manage the reactor all right oh that's a bit awkward isn't it all right fine i've been exposed i used god mode i'm not actually a very good rimworld player i'm not pete complete so you are about to see here the problem we are running into is that the turbine is not good enough it's just not cutting it it's not gonna do it which is fine we can just turn it down i'm gonna turn down more there we go as far as i can tell uh the turbine is actually pretty resilient and won't get damaged very quickly uh but it will eventually get damaged so you now have nuclear power congratulations you are a good rimworld player you've got 89 kilowatts yeah you got 90 kilowatts this thing will tell you how uh so that 89.7 as you can see will correspond to get over here keanu god you are just not behaving today mate will correspond to this and this cooling capacity share will correspond to this and this electricity will correspond to yeah you get it oh and as you can see by the way just a quick thing i won't leave it up there long enough to destroy the turbine but with this thing fully powered fully powered it's still not going to get above the temperature it's supposed to the only way this will ever get damaged is if you disconnect any like a cooling pipe the cool border pipe from this with the hot water pipe enabled and with auto scram and flare scram switched off which we're going to do in a second just for fun but the point is you have to deliberately destroy your reactor it is never ever going to get destroyed on its own although i am going to show you what an exploded reactor looks like it looks fun okay so audio scram flare scram so i've decided to re-record this section so you can see what these portable radiation detectors actually look like it was wrong of me not to show you and i apologize so as i said before got a disconnect auto scram and flare scram really just auto scram and you have to have this coolant pipe or cold water pipe deconstructed if you deconstruct the coolant pipe that will cause it to blow up as well as will uh what was gonna say as will not expanding your cooling even if you build say the huge reactor that you saw earlier basically don't be an idiot speaking of being an idiot this reactor is overheating and it is uh emitting radiation and it's getting damaged and the more damage it gets the more radiation radiation it will admit and uh it's going to continue to get damaged it is now at double speed nearly at 50 percent at any point during this you could just build a cold water pipe or you could turn auto scram on it'll switch off you could pretty much do anything and really i'm trying to get across here if i may be frank is just that this is very safe this is a very safe and simple not a problem reactor no issues oh there is one time it's an issue which is when that happens it's not good you don't want to fight ragnaros no one wants to fight ragnaros oh except psychos so keanu guess what it's time to build a sarcophagus uh the sarcophagus in room atomics is a lot more effective than the ones in real life but that's fine i'm not bothered by that uh that's what the portable detections look like and uh there is still a roof over this which is not ideal um let's see what else do i need to do nothing really i suppose i can tell you that uh one yeah the portable detectors you don't craft them you don't do anything like once you research that they're working so no stress no fuss well how's keanu looking yeah not great not great that's probably going to keep going up slowly but surely okay well uh the basic tutorial is now finished uh you are now free to go play room atomics and blow up your own base if you wish hope you enjoyed the video 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Keywords: rimworld, rimatomics, walkthrough, nuclear, power, mods, explosion, fallout, randy, random

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Length: 29min 51sec (1791 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/droid6077]

Thanks! Finally someone decided to make a guide for rimatomics.

I have had the mod for 2 colonies now and i still haven't used it coz i was too lazy too read through everything. Looks like I'll be using it in my next colony.