yeah i need to do a pass on rimatomics with code to inject all the work types into mechs

i see. no rush or anything, just hope to eventually see a bit more functionality is all. tried to patch it myself but its extremely evident that i have no skills with C#. thank you for responding!

Ah yes, that would be fantastic if lifters could do the nuclear work.

I wonder too if mechanoids might get affected by radiation - not that I want to nuke my base to find out, but it's something I wondered.

Realistically, radiation makes electron-hole pairs in electronics. For "old" electronics that are bigger it's less of a problem, but the smaller and more dense circuits and components are, the more likely a single interaction can cause issues, and the more quickly it would cause issues. I imagine the mechs in rimworld have incredibly dense and complex electronics compared to IRL technology, and would be affected quite a lot unless they were built specifically to mitigate this. Once you start getting into archotech, I imagine it's completely immune, and power cables/large machinery is probably mostly immune. But mechs would probably not be immune, realistically. Simple shielding on the mech could prevent this, or other more creative upgrades like archotech-upgraded internals, self scanning and repairing microelectronics inside, or simply building the electronics much larger and more robust, making a very simple, dumber mech that is very large (and thus slow) but immune to radiation damage. I.e. a huge unwieldy nuclear-only robot.

yes i have radiation damage hediff for mechs, since they are easily replaced it's not a problem

So, can lifter do nuclear job now? I don't see any related work types in it's description.

Originally posted by Alk:

Realistically, radiation makes electron-hole pairs in electronics. For "old" electronics that are bigger it's less of a problem, but the smaller and more dense circuits and components are, the more likely a single interaction can cause issues, and the more quickly it would cause issues. I imagine the mechs in rimworld have incredibly dense and complex electronics compared to IRL technology, and would be affected quite a lot unless they were built specifically to mitigate this. Once you start getting into archotech, I imagine it's completely immune, and power cables/large machinery is probably mostly immune. But mechs would probably not be immune, realistically. Simple shielding on the mech could prevent this, or other more creative upgrades like archotech-upgraded internals, self scanning and repairing microelectronics inside, or simply building the electronics much larger and more robust, making a very simple, dumber mech that is very large (and thus slow) but immune to radiation damage. I.e. a huge unwieldy nuclear-only robot.

Maybe... When you have the mod Android Tiers, you could make it so that the tier 1 and 2 wouldn't be Radiation resistant, and the tier 3 could be partialy resistant and the tier 4+ completly resistant, or whatever...
There could be an upgrade, the rimatomics could add for that mod

Radiation Resistance upgrade tier 1-4

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Tier 1 RRu - 25% rad. resistance

Tier 2 RRu - 50% rad. resistance

Tier 3 RRu - 75% rad. resistance

Tier 4 RRu - 100% rad. Resistance

There could be more effects of them, and the cost?

Tier 1 - 10 steel, 5 components, 5 plasteel

Tier 2 - 15 steel, 10 components, 5 plasteel, 10 uranium

Tier 3 - 25 steel, 15 components, 5 adv. Components, 10 plasteel, 20 uranium, 15 gold

Tier 4 - 60 steel, 30 components, 15 adv. Components, 25 plasteel, 25 uranium, 10 gold, 1 (Custom, rimatomics stuff)

To make it a bit expensive
(Configurable, meaning to turn it off, or on)... Just an idea...