Still, I'm curious how much energy each mod produces from the same resources. I'm not sure about Mekanism's generators vs IC2's generators balance. Some items, like IC2 circuits, are interchangable with Mekanism's variants, but that's about it. I've also added Mekanism to my modpack, but this one doesn't seem to give two cents about Industrialcraft and it's recipes. Apart from ore generation, they do work well (and I was planning to disable AS ore generation anyway).

Both options contain some very cool features.įrom what I've discovered so far, Atomic Science does cooperate very well with IC2, so much that even the recipes for AS items and blocks follow IC2 standard - they use IC2 circuits, advanced alloys etc. I would really mix and match UE and IC2 modpacks if I wasn't so worried about the balance. Can IC2 uranium ore be used the same way as UE uranium ore (ore dictionary detects them as the same?)? What is the efficiency of uranium inside each of those reactors and how does it compare? Is one of those reactors OP compared to how the other mod treats the energy? Generally speaking - would it be balanced? So I thought, why not install BOTH? I gladly would, but I'm not sure about interaction between two mods. I really don't like the way recipes and resources are treated in UE mods. I've only tried a pack of Universal Electricity mods once (AS, Mekanism, ICBM etc.), and got quickly dissapointed and annoyed by them, since i got used to IC2's features too much. Since I remember, I was always a devoted fan of Industrialcraft. which is pointless, since it turns those reactors into a late game item, since RC Turbines are expensive and hard to get.Īs much as I want to try these things out, I've stumbled upon a problem. No actual steam and turbines is involved, unless you select a certain option in the config. Usually it consists of a checkerboard of OC Vents and Component Vents. Sure, setting up a configuration of vents seems more complicated than building a Atomic Science reactor, but besides very ambitious individuals, setting one up in IC2 ends at looking a best design up on the internet, building it, and letting it merrily run on it's own. Here, there's some reactor chambers for ya. A white block with a 'radiation' sign on it. The fusion reactors are even more elaborate. A reactor chamber, control rods and turbines. Reactors in this mod are actual nuclear reactors - not a multiblock as much as an entire contraption of different blocks working together. Things I like about stuff with Universal Electricity is that most of the stuff there resembles real machines, instead of just white square blocks with textures on them.Ītomic Science is no different. Since a long time, I've wanted to try out Atomic Science mod, being part of Universal Electricity.

Atomic science 1.7.10