Anti solar flare equipment

[tylers2001]

anyone else every had devilstrand that is about an hour away from harvestable and a solar flare happen? It is absolutely devastating. so why cant we make something with some copper net around it so the radiation waves are collected in that? and same thing with batteries.

[daft73]

anyone else every had devilstrand that is about an hour away from harvestable and a solar flare happen? It is absolutely devastating. so why cant we make something with some copper net around it so the radiation waves are collected in that? and same thing with batteries.

Best bet is to grow devilstrand, outside..it does not suffer from destroyed crops.

[RemingtonRyder]

I have a modpack with hardened, uranium-powered hydroponics. I don't know if it's exactly balanced, but in my current game I'm yet to make any more than eight of those basins.

Minor weakness is that a solar flare can still kill devilstrand if the temperature dips too low with the heating being off. If you have wood though, campfires will stave that off.

[NephilimNexus]

What you'd need is a Farraday Cage, which in turn would be a special kind of insulated wall.  That's the easy part.  The hard part would be reworking how solar flares work.  Right now it's obviously just a blanket "shut everything down automatically" command, but a more realistic one would be to simulate a large EMP wave that sweeps across the planet's surface, passing through (and effecting) everything that isn't EMP-hardened in some way.

Do that and now your new shock-resistant structures come into play to save the day.

[daveboy2000]

afaik Ratys is working on a mod to harden against solar flares, so it's just a matter of patience.

[Kasdar]

afaik Ratys is working on a mod to harden against solar flares, so it's just a matter of patience.

Its part of his fusebox mod.

[daveboy2000]

yeah, he was still working on it when I posted that. :p