Mods / Let's Fix U Up!
Author: Noobly20932
Side: Both
Created: Sep 8th at 9:25 AM
Last modified: Sep 8th at 12:55 PM
Downloads: 134
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.20.12, outdated):
lets-fix-u-up-1.0.1.zip
1-click install
Uranium is a material that exists in vanilla VS, in an unusable and frankly rather janky state. Its ore does not generate in the world. It melts at 1133°C, but it will never harden when cast, merely becoming "soft uranium" once reaching 0°C. While technically being workable even without heating, it requires a Tier 7 anvil to work it (I can't even find a mod that makes anvils of such high tier!). Worst of all, it's GREEN! Uranium isn't green! Literally unplayable!
Certain mods, such as Expanded Matter, make uranium available in survival, adding uranium ore veins to the depths. This exposes players to the jank of a scrapped feature. I intend to fix this feature with this mod.
What this mod does:
- Retextures material to be gray instead of green
- Material now hardens at 566°C
- Ensures Uranium Plate recipe exists
- Names Uranium Ore as Autunite
- Adds Uranium stuff to the Handbook
- Material now requires a Tier 1 (Copper) Anvil to work (still requires a Tier 4 (Iron) Pickaxe to mine)
What this mod does NOT:
- add Autunite to worldgen
- make Uranium obtainable through other means (you will need to find other mods for that)
- make Autunite nuggets meltable
- add any special use to Uranium (sorry Primitive Fission Reactor fans)
It is recommended to use something such as Expanded Matter if you want to make use of this mod, though other mods do re-implement urnaium ore.
Want Uranium to NOT be gray? Open the zip file, navigate to the assets/game folder, and delete the textures folder.
| Mod Version | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.0.1 | 117 | Sep 8th at 12:55 PM | lets-fix-u-up-1.0.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
1.0.1
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| 1.0.0 | 17 | Sep 8th at 9:35 AM | lets-fix-u-up-1.0.0.zip | 1-click install | ||
1.0.0
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CKitt Genuinely have no idea. Try it and see.
Safe to use on 1.21.4? People on my server want uranium cooking pots. 😅
Shava I don't have any intentions of making uranium glass, but I know someone who did, and I might just ask them if it has this effect when used to make a greenhouse.
Edit: They don't. It's still a good idea though.
Noobly20932 In the real world, these techs have real consequences in their crafting.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_girls
In a sandbox game, the only conceivable consequence is numbing you to the real world issues, lol. Want to create a uranium cooking pot in VS? It's just a funny unless you code in the risks.
IRL it's safe to have old pieces around and on display (but not to use for cooking/eating,...), but the history of the manufacture of uranium (and other flourescent glasses) is just tragic. If you used a uranium glass cooking pot, you might get away with it if there were no scratches/chips (ever). If you crafted one, though, you'd probably pay a high cost. This is why making glass of nuclear waste is controversial -- in a perfect world, it's sealed. The world is hardly perfect that way, heh...
But in game, because it reflects UV, I can see using it to great visual effect (and some benefit of protection from harmful UV) as greenhouse glass for crops that burn without shade (e.g. some cabbages) for the glarey winter where UV is a higher fraction of the available light for growth. In a game, this isn't a consequential aesthetic choice, so go for it! (My dad was a chemist, and my mom was a botanist -- both born in the early 1920s, so I come by my geeky streak honestly!)
Who doesn't need better growth for winter cabbages in VS?
Shava Occasionally, uranium glass and radium paint does turn up in day-to-day life, usually in antique shops. It's not unbelievable for anyone to claim to have seen such, though they truly aren't as common as they had been. I think I saw some uranium glass while exploring an antique shop myself, though I'm not entirely sure, as I didn't have a blacklight on hand.
ulture Oh, well that's what Bricklayers uses it for. Me? I made a uranium cooking pot.
Uranium glass does glow a bit in natural sunlight, especially in dim weather with a lot of glare despite overcast.
And yes, I've seen it. I'm very old, lol...
In sun, the color is more like a shimmer, and seemed more yellow than green. It's pretty un-earthly. Nothing like the actual green flourescence in true UV, which is not even a little subtle.
And yes, I had a radon wristwatch when I was a kid.
@DanaCraluminum the only plausible use for uranium in VS's tech level is uranium glass, which would be a cool feature. Although VS's tech level also won't let the player make UV lights, so you'll never see the coolest thing about uranium glass (its green glow under UV)
DanaCraluminum I'm not that good at modding VS. Of all the things I've tried making, this is the first mod that has actually made it to being finished. The first thing that wasn't utterly broken. Well, if you ignore that texture pack I made a year or so ago, anyway.
But.. where is a nuclear reactor?