Extreme Reactors Tutorial: How to Build the Best Reactor Setup | Modded Minecraft

Hey guys Wells Knight here and welcome to a little bit of a tutorial video today we are gonna be taking a look at extreme reactors I recently built an extreme reactor in my project ozone light in my Hermit skies series there were a lot of comments saying you did it

Wrong it was you build to the you don’t know what you’re doing you’re supposed to build it this way and that information was incorrect and it kind of got me thinking you know there’s probably a lot of people who don’t really know how this mod works and the

Actual mechanics of it so we’re gonna take a little bit of a look at it today with some science and we’re going to kind of talk about how to build a reactor that is kind of the best bang for your buck so to speak so what this

Video is not going to be I’m not going to show a block for block design of how you should build a specific reactor I’m going to talk instead about the mechanics of the extreme reactors or big reactors I may refer to it as big reactors it used to be big reactors back

In 1.7.10 and then it was ported after the mod author kind of left and somebody else kind of picked it up so now it’s called extreme reactors but the mechanics are the same anyway so basically what I am gonna show is the mechanics of how this works and I’m

Gonna give examples you can see I’ve prepared this big huge thing so let’s kind of get into it um also I should mention I’m in project ozone light right now is the mod pack so you’re gonna see numbers for like power generation those numbers are going to vary depending on

The mod pack you’re playing and depending on how extreme reactors is configured in the config files so don’t worry too much about the specific numbers that are being generated the power the fuel consumption and the actual power generation those as I said will change depending on what pack

You’re playing but the mechanics are going to be the same so the first thing you need to know about big reactors or extreme reactors is that coolant is important you’re gonna I mean well first of all there’s the mod itself and how you make a reactor it’s pretty straightforward you need

Need a reactor base you need a controller you need at least one access port I like to have two and one of them set to outlet mode to output used fuel and then you need at least one control rod and one fuel rod and the fuel rod goes there like so

And then you do the whole thing and once it’s all done it will form just like this and that’s how you know you did it right if you right-click on it it will tell you what’s wrong with it so if you’re having trouble right click anywhere on the multi block structure

And it will tell you what you’ve done wrong so anyway you build a reactor right and then you want to cool the rod you want to make sure that it’s properly cooled the only blocks that matter for coolant are the blocks in the cardinal directions of the fuel rods the

Diagonals do not matter as far as what material you use and you’ll get better coolant and better efficiency and power generation depending on the material you you use I’m not gonna go over every single material you can use because it’s gonna vary from pack to pack generally

The best coolant is going to be jellied cryo theum if it is in the mod pack that you’re playing is from thermal foundation and it’s a little tricky to get if you don’t have gel would cryo theum or if you’re maybe building your first reactor a good option is resonant

Ender or liquefied ender liquefied ender pearls they’re the same thing that’s also a very good option as well you can use tons of other stuff though you can use air you can use water you can use iron blocks whatever and you’ll get different numbers depending on what you

Use but the only blocks that actually matter when it comes to the coolants are the ones in the cardinal directions of the raht the diagonals don’t matter so to demonstrate that we’re going to activate both of these react they’re identical except for this one has resin and Ender everywhere and this

One has resin Endor only in the cardinal directions and if we look at these seven point seven for one point six six seven point seven three Emmy it’s the same you can see basically the same thing right the menthe then the numbers are identical okay so essentially when you’re building a

Reactor you are balancing a couple things you’re balancing your space constraints and depending on the mod pack you’re playing you may have those you know if you’re playing a Skyblock you really don’t have to worry about space so much although you may have to worry about the materials here you’re

Getting the resources you need you’re balancing power generation and you’re balancing fuel efficiency okay so the higher you build your reactor and the more fuel rods are in your reactor the more power it’s going to generate the wider you build your reactor the more efficient it’s going to be so if you’re

Looking for something that’s super efficient and uses very little fuel you want to build it wide if you want to generate lots and lots of power you want to build it tall the taller you build it the less fuel-efficient it’s gonna be so bear that in mind and to demonstrate we

Have one two three four five reactors here that are all identical except for how wide they are they all just have one rod in them and that it’s basically a one tall rod okay and if we look at all these this one is generating three point

Eight to six point two eight from having coolant seven point one three 7.33 and so on and so forth and you can look at the fuel consumption here one point five three one point five four as you go bigger you’re gonna get more power and more now these have been

Running for a while so it’s a little bit skewed cuz yeah there we go we’re kicking out the cyanide ingots and that’s when it’s going to be the most power and the most fuel consumption but basically the wider you go and the more actual blocks of coolant there are

Between the power rod and the wall of the reactor the more efficient it’s gonna be so now we get to kind of the important part and this is the part that really confuses people and that is how should you place your rods most efficiently and a lot of people say yeah

You should do like a checkerboard pattern like this do five rods and put them in a checkerboard pattern the problem with that is that you are limiting the amount of potential coolant right and the other thing too is that when rods are placed next to each other directly next to each other they

Essentially array T each other and make them generate more power so if we compare this reactor this thing is generating forty two point nine thousand RF per tick and is using roughly two point three nine or 0.23 nine mil abou ckets of fuel okay if we look at this

One it’s four point four three and point two so compare those this one over here generates a little bit more power and it’s more fuel efficient considerably more fuel efficient actually 0.2 0.2 three point two four almost same amount of rods but this one’s in like a plus

And this one’s in the checkerboard pattern that everyone seems to want to use so this is actually a better design than this one and that’s because these rods are touching and they’re able to irradiate each other and basically give themselves like a little bit of a boat right so to further demonstrate that

Here we have nine rods these nine rods are all in a checkerboard pattern here we have nine rods and these nine rods are all just right next to each other with as many of them touching as we possibly can have okay eight point three point three three point seven seventy

Nine point seven point three nine so remember more power more fuel efficiency less power less fuel efficiency checkerboard touching you actually want to have them touching and the important thing is how much coolant you have on the outside now I haven’t done a lot of testing to see what would

Happen if we were to have like another set of fuel rods like this that may lower it significantly but if you’re talking nine rods or less which is going to be most reactors this is the way to go the design that I personally use is

This one this is the one that I built in hermit Skye’s it’s basically eight rods in a box like so and with one coolant thing right in the middle there and this guy generates 0.7 seventy one power and used a little bit less than 0.3 which is a little bit activate this guy

I must have oh yeah because when I put the block down and turned it off there we go so it’s a little bit bit less power than this and a little bit more fuel efficient obviously the more rods you have the more fuel you’re going to

Use but the big takeaway that I want to give is that the checkerboard pattern is not your best bet everyone seems to think of it I think it is and to be honest there’s not really any right or wrong way to do big reactors I mean it’s

Kind of one of those mods where as long as you have a functional reactor you’re probably going to be okay but if you’re looking to make like the most efficient design you possibly can to balance your power generation and your fuel consumption you actually want to build something like this or

Something like this not something like this and you can make it as big as you want or bad you know and tall as you want or whatever there’s a lot of options out there for you it may be better in some cases to build you know to smaller reactors than one really

Big reactor it all depends the one that I have in hermit skies is a little bit taller than this I think it’s two blocks taller than this one and in that packet generates about 231 RF or eternity 231,000 RF per tip but as I said project doesn’t like the the the amounts have

Been greatly increased in the config files from what the the defaults are so there you go that is kind of the the quickened Duty of the quick and dirty tutorial on big reactors just kind of want to set the record straight about the checkerboard versus the non checkerboard guys if you enjoyed the

Video and found it helpful you know what to do links in the description below so check those out as well otherwise my friends thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next one