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Diesel Generator and Trickle Charger
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Diesel Generator and Trickle Charger

Description
Adds a Diesel Generator and a Trickle Charger to the game.

They are similar in function to the Stirling Generator and the Power Accumulator, only not quite as efficient. They only require metal to maintain, rather than polymer, making their early-game footprint rather more friendly.

The Diesel Generator uses fuel to generate power, but does not require a prefab or additional research. Obviously, it doesn't really use 'diesel', as the fuel in-game is hydrogen based... but the functionality is much the same, so the name stuck.

The Trickle Charger charges and discharges at half the rate of the Power Accumulator, but stores quite a bit more electricity. It can also be built straight away.

They use the same game-models as the Stirling Generator and the Power Accumulator, but they are a different colour for ease of reference. (They're dirty/iron/grey, because it's old tech basically hammered together from spare parts.)

This mod also includes some later-game story arcs/sections, but just storyline/interest stuff rather than anything game-changing.
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Thundercraft 11 Jul, 2023 @ 9:17am 
Still no possibility of an update?
If not, can you grant permission for others to update this in your stead?
Psygnal  [author] 27 Nov, 2021 @ 6:31pm 
Sorry, haven't played the game for around a year now. Update is probably not on the cards.
BioDiesel112™ 27 Nov, 2021 @ 11:04am 
Update Please ;)
xerxes0 17 Jun, 2019 @ 9:01pm 
I tried a new game and watched it for hours game time and no extra fuel is delivered to it except for the initial 5. I once tried to modify the Stirling Engine to use fuel just like you did but I ran into the same problem of it not consuming fuel even though it is set up in the mod like that.
Psygnal  [author] 16 Jun, 2019 @ 7:28pm 
Hi Xerxes. Looks like it's working fine at this end, but I'll double-check it next time I'm in the game. Thanks for letting me know.
xerxes0 16 Jun, 2019 @ 2:00pm 
even in the open position no fuel is consumed it would seem looking at the 5/5 storage. No drones delivery anymore either.
xerxes0 16 Jun, 2019 @ 1:59pm 
Great mod, but the fuel is not being consumed??
darren67 16 Jun, 2019 @ 10:22am 
Very tasty indeed. Lovely models too...thanks for sharing all of your hard work.
Psygnal  [author] 7 Jun, 2019 @ 7:37pm 
Nice idea. :)
Tyso3 7 Jun, 2019 @ 4:31pm 
Just an idea, you could tie in a tiny amount of climate warming into the diesal generator per sol. Like 0.05 per generator or something.