Where should the Uranium be?
AlphaBlueArx
Join Date: 2015-05-11 Member: 204402Members
Join Date: 2015-05-11 Member: 204402Members
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Radiation does not create uranium.
or it's not much of a relevant factor?
Uranium is a fairly common element that can be found just about anywhere on Earth. Is much, much more common than silver and gold combined. For balance purposes it might be more difficult to come by... just like diamonds.
I'm not saying they exist here and only here but some alien elements or even I dunno the rarest elements on earth in the subnautica world would feel a little better.
If the outputs are like the ones in the experimental mode uranium produces 3 times more power than thermal, maybe they could add a fast neutron reactor upgrade that would allow the reactor to reproduce its fuel from its waste.
Which is the base of the 4th gen reactors.
most of the super rare elements on earth are rare for a reason that would be common to any planet though. Osmium, iridium, and platinum, for instance, are rare because, while there is actually a fair bit of them on earth, they are so dense that they tend to find there way down into the mantle and core, where they cannot be mined. Only traces from asteroid impacts can be found at the surface. The very rarest elements are highly radioactive ones that decay extremely quickly. And my understanding is that the periodic table has been filled in, and that there are unlikely to be any undiscovered elements. That is not my area of expertise though.
Voting for twisty bridges though.
But in reality we should have the stuff everywhere but you have to mine for it, because lets face it most of the stuff in the world would be in the ground. Because the currents grinding down rock and shifting sand, would have buried most of the stuff (excluding scrap). Also how cool would that be to have massive ore and mineral deposits around the world, so you could dig and find one that yields huge amounts of quartz, silver, or something else.
Uranium and other elements are absolutely, 100% NOT exclusive to Earth.
These elements are prevalent throughout the entire universe as long as they're still made of protons and neutrons.
There could be pockets of Uranium on literally every planet in the galaxy.
And since the planet has magnetic poles (Because we can use a compass) it means it has a magnetic metal core, so something like iron, nickel, or cobalt.
So yeah. There are going to be a ton of elements and materials present on this planet that there are on earth. Because base elements are still comprised of the same atoms, the same protons and neutrons on Subnautica Planet as they are on Earth, as they are on Jupiter, as they are on The Planet Of The freaking Space Amazons.
So there ya go. Little science lesson for ya.
Honestly I'd rather Uranium be more rare, in deeper biomes. Since we won't even need it until we make it to El Arrecife Magnifico.