Hello there and friendly greetings!
I am fairly new in DF world and got hooked immediately. And almost immediately I noticed a huge thing missing in this game!
Just kidding here but bear with me...
Uranium is missing. And so is missing the preparation of uranium isotopes.
I understood that there are no explosives in the games, yet I came across this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2911116219&searchtext=powder and something clicked in my brain.
Also, this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903409449&searchtext=explosive+cat is available so here is my idea.
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NEW ORE + NEW WORKSHOPURANIUM : you can find it in caves in the form of
Uranium 238, nonfissile.
ENRICHER : workshop to process U238 into
Uranium 235, fissile & U235 into
Plutonium 239, fissile
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At this point, you combine the blast powder inside an iron (from the Blast Powder MOD)
Then combine the arquebuse with the U235 inside another cartridge and you obtain a
small atomic bomb!
You can even go further by using the ENRICHER workshop to turn the U235 into Plutonium 239, fissile.
Then put P239 and a small atomic bomb inside another cartridge to obtain a
small hydrogen bomb!
At this point it would be possible to use the damage dealt by this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903409449&searchtext=explosive+cat to calculate and reproduce the yeld of these two bombs.
The points are:
- I totally don't know how to make mods. I don't know how to make new ore and I don't know how to make new workshop, let alone to make them work together! That's why I asked for help here!
- Uranium should be relatively rare to find
- The average yeld of those weapons should be, more or less, 1/5 of Mark III and Little Boy respectively (~21Kt and ~16Kt) that would be ~4Kt and ~3Kt. I don't know how to convert those values in "dwarf fortress yeld measurement" tho....
So, any help is absolutely greatly appreciated here.
Also, if anyone should or would like to work on this mod on their own, I kindly ask that they remember me and at least give me credit for the idea. Thanks in advance.