NTM: Space
NTM: Space is one of the most expansive forks for Nuclear Tech Mod, adding many planets to explore with fully simulated atmospheric compositions based on NTM's highly advanced fluid system, and new machines to aid the player in progressing with wildly different resources available. For the fans of Mark Watney style survival, there is even a Martian world type to test your ability to survive, and thrive, without many resources we take for granted on Earth, like coal.
Ideally, you'll need to have some experience with base NTM before playing this, but it's welcome all players! Check out the Getting Started guide to get up and running, and once progressed to producing oil, be ready to come back here to make your way into space!
The mod is available to download from GitHub.
NotEnoughItems is highly recommended as per usual!
Vanilla mod changes
- Changes to Machines
- The
Teleporter now requires N-MASS(II) Driver Fuel to operate across dimensions (it can store up to 16 buckets).
- The
- Chemical changes
- Natural Gas can no longer be cracked, although the Hydrotreater and Chemical Plant recipes remain, with an additional one to combine it with Chlorine Gas, then run through the Alkylation Unit (see below) to effectively convert it into Unsaturated Hydrocarbons.
Solar System
See: Solar System (NTM: Space)
New Resources
Nickel
- Nickel is a very useful resource only found on bodies other than Earth. Nickel can be used to increase high-speed steel yields and produce
stainless steel, that can be used to create space-grade machinery.
- Nickel is a very useful resource only found on bodies other than Earth. Nickel can be used to increase high-speed steel yields and produce
- Zinc
- A metal required for the production of rubber, via vulcanization.
- Gallium
- Gallium is an important part of GaAs chips, used to create higher tiers of vacuum circuitry, allowing you to travel to more distant celestial bodies.
- Curium
- Curium is a new radioactive element, and is a new type of RBMK Nuclear Fuel.
New Machines
In NTM: Space, many more machines are available in order to make use of all the natural resources available on the many celestial bodies included:
- Alkylation Unit
- The Alkylation Unit (Alky) is designed to convert lighter hydrocarbons (such as natural gas found commonly on many celestial bodies) into useful heavier hydrocarbon products. From natural gas it can produce unsaturated and aromatic hydrocarbons, commonly used for rubber and bakelite, and even produce BTX via the use of high-performance solvent. As a utility, it can also alkylate petroleum gas into light oil.
- Atmospheric Liquefaction Tower
- This machine can extract atmospheric gases for terraforming celestial bodies and for using the gases for industrial processes. Commonly used with the cryogenic distillation machine in order to distill the atmospheric gases into useful individual fluid products.
- Cryogenic Distillation Machine
- The Cryogenic Distillation Machine can split atmospheric gases into 4 useful fractions, like for example, taking trace amounts of nitrogen out of the Dunaian atmosphere to produce soil for planting crops.
- Gas Giant Harvester
- Similar to the rocket transporter pad, it can collect gases from nearby gas giants. Currently used to collect Joolian gases from the surface of Laythe.
- StarDar
- The StarDar is your base of operations for mission planning, helping you to locate and scan potential landing zones on planets, and program drives that can be inserted into your rocket's astronavigational systems to make journeys to said planets.
- Drive Processor
- Processes drives that have been programmed by the StarDar, allowing them to be inserted into rocket navigation computers, enabling your journey to the stars!
- Vacuum Solderer
- A machine that can only function in a vacuum, and produces vacuum circuits. Vacuum circuits can be placed into the drive processor to enable it to process higher tier planetary drives. Your basic progression is as follows:
- Tier 0: Travel to either Mun, Minmus or your space station, and use the vacuum environment to create tier 1 processor chips.
- Tier 1: Travel to Moho, and find mineral deposits that you can extract gallium from. Gallium can create tier 2 processor chips.
- Tier 2: Travel to Dres, and collect niobium with lanthanium, either via bedrock ore, or via ore deposits, lanthanium and hafnium made by processing niobium will allow you to produce tier 3 chips.
- Tier 3: Travel to Laythe and collect Jool Gas and process out the neon, with the neon, produce corrosion protection armor inserts.
- Beyond: Corrosion protection can enable you to safely travel to Eve, one of the most treacherous planets available.
- A machine that can only function in a vacuum, and produces vacuum circuits. Vacuum circuits can be placed into the drive processor to enable it to process higher tier planetary drives. Your basic progression is as follows:
- Vehicle Assembly Base
- This structure is one of the most vital parts of your space-faring efforts. It'll allow you to stack your rockets and plan out each segment of your journey. Note that each rocket stage allows for one launch from a celestial body to another, so a two-stage rocket can make a round-trip between, say, the Earth and the Mun.
- It's a very good idea to start off with a two stage rocket when traveling off of Earth for the first time, you'll want a return stage or you may find yourself stranded on an alien world with a diminishing supply of oxygen!
- Rocket Launch Pad
- This is the only launch pad capable of supporting the various fuel loads and complex requirements of the stacked rockets. This is the only way to fuel up a rocket too, so you'll want to make multiple stages for launching from bodies without a pad. The pad itself has a GUI that'll indicate what your rocket requires to be launched.
- Rocket Transporter Pad
- A much smaller rocket pad, capable of transporting resources continuously between linked pads, throughout any system. Since infinite resources are now split between many bodies via bedrock ore, you'll need to utilize these in the late-game to produce enough materials for Dyson swarm production.
- Air Vent
- This simple machine can be hooked up to a tank of oxygen to produce a breathable atmosphere within an enclosed space. Make sure you don't have any holes or have left any doors open while this is operating, or it'll vent precious oxygen into space!
- Orbital Stations
- Orbital Stations are structures placed in orbit that can travel around the solar system without needing bulky and expensive rockets; in order to make one, simply program an orbital station drive in the StarDar, make a rocket with the orbital station as the payload, and then launch it.
- Orbital Stations can also orbit other planets by using station thrusters and an orbital station computer with a hard drive of the planet, there are currently 4 station thrusters:
- LPW-2 Station Thruster: Fueled with jet fuel and liquid oxygen.
- Xenon Station Thruster: Fueled with xenon and electricity.
- LPW-3N Station Thruster: Powered by a PWR that uses liquid hydrogen as coolant.
- HTR-F4 Station Thruster: Uses plasma from a plasma heater combined with electricity to produce thrust.
- CO2 Scrubber
- This machine allows you to recover CO2 from a pressurized room. This is occasionally useful when building space stations.
- Microgravity Algae Films
- This machine is made of specialized layers of laythe plants that will convert CO2 directly into liquid oxygen. They however only function when in orbit.
- Radiators
- Since normal condensators will leak steam when in a vacuum, this machine can be used instead.
Dyson Swarms
Rocket Designs
See: Vehicle Assembly Base (NTM: Space)
Trivia
- Each planet's name is a reference to the game Kerbal Space Program.
- The design of the Hard Drives matches that of the game Voices of the Void.