I am having a strange problem with my big reactor. I noticed that after every crash/restart my reactor would lose around 25% of its fuel. I tried to make a similar situation by logging off and logging in after 10 minutes to see if unloading the chunk would lower my fuel - it did. Here you can see screen shots of the reactor. Screen shot 1 shows 97%.1 full of fuel. Then I logged off and waited 10 minutes to make sure the chunk was properly unloaded and then I logged in again. Screen shot 2 is 15 minutes after logging off, you can see that my fuel level has dropped to 75.2%. 25% of fuel costs nearly 5000 yellorium ingots so it's a pretty big loss each time. Does anyone know why this happens? What can I do to fix it? Thanks, -T
Yes it does, 32x32x32 over 4 chunks. I don't fully understand what you mean. Yes, they are chunk loaded when I am online but they are not chunk loaded when I'm offline.
Ok, I guess it's a chunk load order issue then. Try building one that fits in one chunk and see if the problem is still occuring.
Oh I see, I was not aware of this. But it does not explain how so much fuel is missing in 10 minutes. The reactor has a positive gain on fuel (laser drills) if left loaded so in theory it should never go down. I understand, I will try this out but doesn't this contradict SirWilli's post that Big Reactors maintain a chunkload?
I understand, if that's the case I don't think there is a solution. The reactor is too big to fit in a single chunk and building it took over 3 weeks. I will leave it as is and take the 25% fuel loss rather than rebuild a new one. Thanks for your help Xfel and SirWilli
How much power are you producing / needing? I hav a few designs that will fit inside of one chunk. Passive cooled: One MFR Drill Active cooled: Four MFR Drills.
Thanks for the help but I'm running 40+ laser drills. Judging from what you've said I don't think your solutions are well suited to my problem. The passive reactor can produce about 1 million+ rf/t though it normally hovers between 700k~900k depending on energy requirements.