Uranium, what to do with it?

[JimmyAgnt007]

If it does become toxic we need a 'radioactive' filter on storage zones like the 'rotten' options.

[sparda666]

No mine just blindly mines every block to extract the oar, they only mine the blocks needed. 

Now there's a funny mental image.

Im honestly imagining people with blindfolds digging through the mountain uncovering wooden paddles

[Jimyoda]

No mine just blindly mines every block to extract the oar, they only mine the blocks needed. 

Now there's a funny mental image.

Im honestly imagining people with blindfolds digging through the mountain uncovering wooden paddles

Wish I had the artistic talent to draw that.

(Replace 'blindfolds' with a) cataracts or b) eyes shot due to hunting accidents or c) eyes missing because your incompetent doctor who was installing a bionic leg, slipped and accidentally stabbed him - in both eyes.)

[TLHeart]

or your grenadier threw a grenade close, and destroyed both her own eyes.  Yet she still works, and moves around the colony just fine.

[Klitri]

It is very preciouse as nuclear fuel for shure but its completly unreal to just handle it like steel, as implemented in Rimworld (and most other Games, to be fair), for multiple, simple scientific reasons. To start its very unlikely to be found as a vein of pure metal - that would form a natural reactor and deteriorate fast as such. Also its very toxic because even a few milligram will simply ray you to death from inside in a few days and ofcourse if you find or even start smithing it these milligrams will end up inside you.
If at all it should be in the game as something you have to refine from for example pitchblende but even then only with extreem caution and hightec chemistry and machines.

But then again uranium should not exist in Rimworld. Our earth crust contains 2.4 ppm uranium. That is 0.00024 percent.

If you would move this correlation into Rimworld simulation, giving that one minable block of ore usualy results in 35 units of ore, you would have to mine 14.58 million worldblocks to gain 1 unit of uranium.

Friendly reminder that this isn't real life, as if it was realistic I doubt colonists would be capable of constructing batteries, wind turbines, solar panels and turrets out of just steel.

[b0rsuk]

Uranium doesn't burn at all, which makes for better turrets than plasteel.

[RickyMartini]

Uranium doesn't burn at all, which makes for better turrets than plasteel.

True, uranium is the best material for turrets. Too bad it is so rare, you can find plasteel for your turrets 100x easier than uranium. Easily.

[rmurdocci]

Uranium doesn't burn at all, which makes for better turrets than plasteel.

True, uranium is the best material for turrets. Too bad it is so rare, you can find plasteel for your turrets 100x easier than uranium. Easily.

Question: Does this mean an uranium turret is indestructible? I mean, fire is usually not my main concern while protecting my turrets... How does "doesn't burn at all" help?

Thanks for your comments!

EDIT: spelling

[RickyMartini]

No, because turrets still take melee and bullet damage. It just means the every flame vanished as soon as it hits the turrets. Good for defense against centipedes.

[rmurdocci]

No, because turrets still take melee and bullet damage. It just means the every flame vanished as soon as it hits the turrets. Good for defense against centipedes.

Gotcha, thanks for the answer!

[lusername]

Why the heck is uranium non-flammable in Rimworld, anyway? REAL uranium is extremely flammable to the point where it may spontaneously ignite on its own! There's a reason we fire this stuff at enemy tanks: It punches through them like butter and THEN IT CATCHES FIRE.

[RickyMartini]

Well uranium behaves more or less like steel.

It's interesting tough since it's still flammable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophoricity

[RedPhanthom]

Would be nice if we could use Uranium as a Power Source, Make a Reactor and use 1 Uranium that produces set amount of energy for set amount of time.

[warden]

Would be nice if we could use Uranium as a Power Source, Make a Reactor and use 1 Uranium that produces set amount of energy for set amount of time.

I've been pining for this every time i play the game. A single piece would have to give energy for a considerable amount of time, though, since it's so rare.

[Wolfen Waffle]

Also note that nothing in Rimworld is actually ore. It's remnants of past civilization, or chunks of crashed starships. That's how we can dig steel out of the ground, and it's likely how the uranium got there as well.

That's all actually very new to me...