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Uranium, Plutonium, and Solarium.. What are they used for?

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by nickiselias, Dec 7, 2013.

  1. nickiselias

    nickiselias Space Hobo

    Anyone know what Uranium Plutonium and Solarium are used for? i have made them into their rods but is there any use for them currently?
     
  2. Graylen

    Graylen Big Damn Hero

    As far as i know Plutonium works as fuel ( 6 per ore ) but thats about it.
    I"m guessing they are future ore tiers that aren't implemented yet.
     
  3. jampine

    jampine Poptop Tamer

    Solaruim sounds quite si-fi....y? so I guess it used for some high tech weapons or armour.
    As for the other two, why don't we just burn them like coal....
    10 mins later: BAD IDEA! (but really,y they're likely to be very efficient fuel resources, just watch the giger counter)
     
  4. Bertshet

    Bertshet Pangalactic Porcupine

    I wouldn't mind using these in other forms, not just armor or fuel, but to craft other useful things for bases/housing and so on.
     
  5. jampine

    jampine Poptop Tamer

    uhhhhhh, uranium armor? I think your space GP might want a word with you........
     
  6. Bertshet

    Bertshet Pangalactic Porcupine

    Just saying things could be combined to make unique things. Never know. Maybe it could make you glow.
     
  7. Alternative

    Alternative Void-Bound Voyager

    I like this concept - maybe not with the gamma-radiation spewing material - a system where you can modify past armours with different attributes depending on their tier. Such as the smaller tier armours not being able to have a high value modification.
     
  8. Bertshet

    Bertshet Pangalactic Porcupine

    Well I was thinking, maybe solar power for some use or another.
     
  9. Alternative

    Alternative Void-Bound Voyager

    There is already the toxic backpack to convert sunlight into energy though, but a modular system for electrical energy comes to mind, perhaps?
     
  10. Bertshet

    Bertshet Pangalactic Porcupine

    The possibilities. OH MY!
     
  11. SKRUZO

    SKRUZO Void-Bound Voyager

    Here is what i know from personal experience. Uranium, Plutonium and Solarium are fuels. They rank in that order. That, i believe, is all that is known at this time.
     
  12. NanakoAC

    NanakoAC Orbital Explorer

    i'm guessing fuel. For starships just now.
    Hopefully in future they could be used to power emplaced base generators, and maybe portable personal generators too (energy shielding!)
     
  13. GSGregory

    GSGregory Ketchup Robot

    DId no one responding read the patch notes? They are all fuel guys.
     
  14. Ironangel2k2

    Ironangel2k2 Big Damn Hero

    Powered armor has to have some kind of power source right? A miniature nuclear power plant isn't too outside the bounds of reason.
     
  15. Synthlight

    Synthlight Pangalactic Porcupine

    All three work as fuel if you refine them into rods. Solarium Rods are the most efficient and most rare. Any of them are better than coal and Uranium seems to litter T10 worlds.
     
  16. GSGregory

    GSGregory Ketchup Robot

    None of them have to be smelted into rods.
     
  17. Synthlight

    Synthlight Pangalactic Porcupine

    True. I forgot about that part.

    But this now makes me wonder, are the rods more efficient than the raw ores? (Do you get more fuel from two ores or one rod?)
    Or is the fact that you can use it in the ore form a glitch?
     
  18. GSGregory

    GSGregory Ketchup Robot

    Rods are more efficient.
     
  19. Beatness

    Beatness Astral Cartographer

    With the current build, uranium is best fuel source past like tier 5/6ish. It has no other use at the moment I believe. Plutonium is same I think. Don't smelt into rods, just save the ore and put it in your fuel thinger.
     
  20. Gopherborn

    Gopherborn Void-Bound Voyager

    Solarium is the most efficient fuel source, only found on level 10 planets.
     

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