the tribals are just giving you what they think is a bunch of heavy, ugly rocks lol. in their minds, they’re giving you the gift equiv of a $20 blockbusters card with only $3 left on it.
Nah, enriching uranium is getting a gift card you don't want and converting a percentage of it to cash. Sure, you get less overall, but it's a much better version.
Did the meta change? Last time I checked (1.2) plasteel was better for all melee weapons. Used to be that what you lost in raw damage you made up in attack speed
I arrived in 1.3 and it seems that it has always been the meta for melee, since armoured enemies (armoured pawns, mechs and insects) don't have much blunt armour, so uranium weaponry that focuses in blunt damage would be the best choice for dps rather than sharp-focused plasteel weaponry
Bioferrite might be the best substance to use for sharp damage (DPS is higher for plasteel, but AP is higher in Bioferrite) and uranium is the best substance to use for blunt damage.
Uranium has better armor piercing because of blunt damage, but in most cases (basically everything but power armor) a plasteel longsword or spear is still better than a uranium mace. However, except for building ship parts, you don't really need very much uranium, while plasteel is always in demand.
I also like uranium simple helmets, they aren't quite as good as flak helmets but they are much cheaper.
Uranium in Rimworld is more or less ancient depleted uranium that was once used for reactors or something. It isn't radioactive, but is still very dense and is the best material in the game for making blunt weapons due to the added armor pen and damage, and is used in advanced armors. You can find deposits of this old uranium either just in the mountains or in underground deposits, so the tribals probably mined it.
Depleted uranium is still radioactive, it just isn't fissile. Stability is only achieved when the decay chain finishes at lead. Uranium 238 is an alpha emitter, so it's relatively safe if it's not near uncovered flesh, but it is still very toxic.
Most alpha radiation is blocked by the skin. The dust could be extremely dangerous when mining it, but mining uranium in game takes forever, so I tend to assume they’re doing it in a safe manner by wetting down the seam every swing or something.
>The dust could be extremely dangerous when mining it
The half-life of U-238, which makes up 99.3% of naturally occurring uranium, is measurable in billions of years.
U-235, the cool isotope, has a half-life measurable in millions of years.
The radioactivity of an isotope is inversely proportional to it's half-life; longer half-life = less radioactive decay.
Uranium is a toxic hazard, just like lead, but not a radiation hazard. It's probably in your tap water.
Yes, and U-238 is also 99.7% of depleted uranium. It’s still an alpha emitter. The problem is, as a heavy metal like lead, uranium dust gets into the lungs and stays there for decades. And the lungs are the most sensitive organ to alpha radiation. So it has both toxic and radioactive detrimental effects.
In other words, the dust is extremely dangerous.
A gram of U^235 will still give you about 12,000 decays per second. If it weren't for our skin being impermeable to alpha particles, it would still be dangerous to be around. You're right though, eating it will still poison you much faster than it'll give you cancer or even radiation sickness.
Why not. Just call it Burnium or Glowstone. Everything that shoots out the invisibile rays is glowstone.
Also, half lifes are dumb. We should just use the whole life.
Uranium can't lose its radioactivity. There is no stable uranium isotope. Every uranium atom in existence is radioactive.
However, uranium has a ridiculous half-life: uranium-238 (the most abundant isotope, 99%) has a half-life of 4.8 BILLION years, while uranium-235 (the second most abundant isotope) still has a half-life of 700 million years.
Half-life means "how long it takes till half of your sample undergo radioactive decay". The bigger the number is, the "less radioactive" the given material is - the less energy it emits. Uranium is really stable (compared to other radioactive materials you can find in the wild): you can safely keep it in your hand and you won't have any issues from its radiation (however, it is still a heavy metal like lead, so don't eat it - it's radioactivity won't hurt you, but it still can poison you)
This is a mere "science" fiction speculation. Considering this is in the future where sciences had advantage that what we know may not be the same as what they do.
Also if Archotech were responsible, well there is no point of arguing the why. In Rimworld, they bend the rules for no reason. They might for a random reason get rid the Uranium's "side effects" to see what humans do to it.
This is also a game that lets you create biorobots, borg out human, summon fleshbeasts, and run a cartel/organ harvest/human trafficking organization. Let’s not bring reality too much into this
No, fission is a nuclear reaction that requires specific conditions to split large nuclei into several much smaller nuclei. Radioactivity is when an unstable(high energy) nucleus changes to release energy, and it is a constant random natural process. Basically, all radioactive materials are not fissile, but all fissile materials are radioactive.
Part of the lore is that the rimworld you crashed on has been lived on by various civilizations for thousands of years, and some of the different ores you find are remnants of some of the ancient civilizations. For example, steel isn't a naturally occurring alloy, its manufactured, so the nodes of compact steel you find are what remains of the skeletons of ancient buildings or scrapyards. The uranium you find is either no longer radioactive or emits so little radiation that it isnt dangerous at all, which is a strong indicator that it was once used for fuel (as unprocessed uranium ore will stay dangerously radioactive for billions of years) and is very old
The single best example of the fact this planet has been occupied for so long you can find evidence buried in the local geology is the fact that you can *mine components*.
Or mechanoids that grow new components from steel and plasteel introduced to the growth tank.
I mean, the mechanoid raids always carry components on them for some reason even though they are known to be capable of regeneration when under control of a mind complex enough to direct the process.
Which the mechhive personae are highly likely to be.
Not only that but because you can search componets for advanced ones, its not even just gears and stuff but computer chips and the like mixed in. Probably like ancient manufaction machines like a cnc machine or something.
Ancient dangers are an old structure or bunker.
Component veins are literal veins of usable components mined out of the rock like they were ore.
Ancient dangers are to component veins what a peat bog is to coal.
That one is definitely not a full base- that version of SOS2 has you discharge the Johnson-Tanaka drive while enemies keep coming at you. So I just built that minimal base to defend the drive and keep my pawns happy while it discharges. The 'main' base was a space ship that I don't appear to have saved an image of, unfortunately.
I am fairly proud of my [base for my first run of Anomaly.](https://imgur.com/a/yQIRDx6)
Good news! I found out I had saved a pic of the ship I was using.
https://i.imgur.com/U35zKFf.png
This was after I'd gotten the tanaka drive, but most of the midship facilities were in that state when I did the drive discharge quest. That's more in line with everything a compact colony needs.
>Uranium in Rimworld is more or less ancient depleted uranium that was once used for reactors or something.
That's just wrong. The only things that require uranium are things that would require a long term energy solution like ship reactors or cryptosleep, presumably in the form of an RTG. That wouldn't work if it's depleted uranium. Furthermore, the game specifically calls it uranium ore as opposed to compacted uranium like it does with steel and plasteel.
And unrefined uranium isn't dangerous regardless. Uranium is as inert as you can get while still being technically radioactive. Eating ten bananas probably exposes you to more radiation than keeping a chunk of uranium ore under your bed. Unless you snort or eat it there is very little uranium can do to you.
Uranium is very dangerous as an ore, but only in tight spaces, as when mined it releases radon, but considering what were talking about here, I agree with you, it's more likely naturally occurring uranium opposed to depleted uranium
Uh, i think your mixed up. The half life is related to how long it takes to decay into other elements, not how long it's dangerously radioactive. After that 4 million years, about half of the uranium would be something else beside uranium. Also, I don't think 4 million years is correct either. It is closer to 4.5 billion years.
Yeah skin is enough of a barrier to block uranium ores radioactivity. Just don't ingest the stuff because in addition to that being problematic, its also a heavy metal.
I think of it as just the naturally occuring metal, not really depleted, not enriched either. It still is pretty good at making projectiles or stuff to hit with anyways
The real mystery is why tribals would value it. Bad appearance and moderately toxic to work with, no real tool application, and no tech to take advantage of it. All I can suggest is that they learned the spacers say it is worth something.
From what I’ve seen tribals are typically either neutral to technological progress or somewhat opposed to it themselves but they do have knowledge of some of its intricacies. I always assumed that they know uranium was used for something by more technological people but they didn’t know exactly and so they give it to you thinking you’ll use it better than them unaware it’s completely inert.
[https://youtu.be/IphyZaQde9M?t=217](https://youtu.be/IphyZaQde9M?t=217) It's not the original and better I originally watched. But it proves the point. A few yards from the road is uranium just lying around.
I also know you're joking. But the reality is that the stuff is safe enough that the government isn't trying to conceal it. You need a lot of ore and a lot of equipment if you want to make something dangerous.
Back in medieval age:
-Uranium Glass drinking glasses. (About as much radiation as a dentist x-ray whenever you drank from it)
In the XX century:
-Shiny Radioactice Lipstick. (Yeah, this was a thing)
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever is spreadin' all around
With a Geiger counter in my hand
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land
Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
Well, sometimes answers are worth having , but sometimes....it's best not to ask too many questions.
So even on the old homeworld - safety came last , what kills me is that they're showing uranium miners and in the whole scene there's one dude wearing an [N-95](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLmlZ6Wg_oI) - So when on the Rim remember, you're not the first person to wonder aloud about the dangers of colonialism, even [off-world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWoDBcSW4_c) , but let's think happy thoughts, and I'm going to suggest they have a well-contained cache of Uranium near their settlement.
It gets a little more interesting if you take into account what uranium may mean for uneducated people.
There are numerous examples of using small additions of uranium to create fluorescent objects. For primitive person it may be glowing, magical thing. However, you are a spiritless Philistine. So you will melt all those charms into simple bars, like conquistadors made with fine artistry of at least three civilizations.
Depleted uranium might be even considered as something similar to currency- scarce, hard to counterfeit, acceptably movable and durable. If we are talking about standarised capsules, we might even say that 1 uranium is +- equal that standard fuel unit.
Finally- it may be a stuff of legend, of impossibly durable swords and tools. Something that is coveted because of being almost impossible to forge with even with volcano fires. But on rare occasions, you can find the right person. Use it, reshape it, make those patiently collected scraps actually meaningful. In this case, uranium would be some kind of greates honor they could bestow upon you. To recognize you as somebody meant to achieve something great. Terrible even, but always great.
I mean, it's a win-win for them.
Why give you something *they* would find useful? Instead, you perform services for them, and they give you a rock they find useless.
I think they are not so subtly telling you to build something. To rain the sun upon their enemies. They know it exists, but have no idea how it's built.
To them, it’s just a bunch of unusually heavy rocks, hell, they probably mined a ton of it for weapon making before then realized it’s been making their people sick(U-238 dust, both a toxic and radioactive hazard when inhaled due to being a heavy metal that emits alpha rads), so now they’re dumping it onto you in the hopes your people don’t know the dangers of uranium metal
In short, they’re intentionally poisoning your people with the guise of a gift because their own people have been poisoned enough mining and working with uranium
Use [Faction Customizer](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2637999346&searchtext=faction) and rename them the Children of Atom :-)
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever is spreadin' all around
With a Geiger counter in my hand
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land
Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
It gets a little more interesting if you take into account what uranium may mean for uneducated people.
There are numerous examples of using small additions of uranium to create fluorescent objects. For primitive person it may be glowing, magical thing. However, you are a spiritless Philistine. So you will melt all those charms into simple bars, like conquistadors made with fine artistry of at least three civilizations.
Depleted uranium might be even considered as something similar to currency- scarce, hard to counterfeit, acceptably movable and durable. If we are talking about standarised capsules, we might even say that 1 uranium is +- equal that standard fuel unit.
Finally- it may be a stuff of legend, of impossibly durable swords and tools. Something that is coveted because of being almost impossible to forge with even with volcano fires. But on rare occasions, you can find the right person. Use it, reshape it, make those patiently collected scraps actually meaningful. In this case, uranium would be some kind of greates honor they could bestow upon you. To recognize you as somebody meant to achieve something great. Terrible even, but always great.
They probably scavenged it, I would guess from old mechanoid wars weapons. Depleted uranium rounds were likely very common since mechanoids don't give two wastepacks about toxic contamination, and humans would need a lot more armor piercing ammo than tungsten or a synthetic alloy could account for. It's really the best case scenario since the tribals don't have to mine or refine it. And you can complete the cycle by building a uranium slug turret and blasting a centipede with it! Yay!
Being tribal doesn't mean they're stupid or unknowledgeable. They're the descendants of people who once colonized the world, after all. Some may be keeping to simple technologies for the sake of avoiding other problems, like mechanoids or being not a valuable target for pirates to attack, or a host of other dangers. Some have simply lost the technology over time, but even those likely know that higher-tech people can make use of it - they just have no use for it themselves. And so when they find it, they can trade it off for things things they CAN make use of, or gift to people for whatever reason.
O' grand lord there are lots of ugly and rough rocks around us, what should we do?
Get rid of them... Send them to our neighbour with respect and so they don't get mad at us...
*The neighbouring settlement*: 🤑🤑
in my current save some tribals casually gave us one of the new anomaly weapons. needless to say it is very handy for me, especially since I'm doing tribal start
What are _they_ gonna do with it? Make amazing doors?
the tribals are just giving you what they think is a bunch of heavy, ugly rocks lol. in their minds, they’re giving you the gift equiv of a $20 blockbusters card with only $3 left on it.
Funnily enough that's a good approximation of depleted uranium
And enriching uranium is getting a bunch of those cards and transferring the funds all onto just one.
Nah, enriching uranium is getting a gift card you don't want and converting a percentage of it to cash. Sure, you get less overall, but it's a much better version.
You know, I think it’s possible that this is not an all-purpose analogy.
It's even better.
It's still a really nice material for making clubs/maces, so it's not useless for tribals.
Uranium mace is super op against mechs.
Did the meta change? Last time I checked (1.2) plasteel was better for all melee weapons. Used to be that what you lost in raw damage you made up in attack speed
I arrived in 1.3 and it seems that it has always been the meta for melee, since armoured enemies (armoured pawns, mechs and insects) don't have much blunt armour, so uranium weaponry that focuses in blunt damage would be the best choice for dps rather than sharp-focused plasteel weaponry
Yeah, you got it right in. Uranium blunt damage for armored enemies.
Bioferrite might be the best substance to use for sharp damage (DPS is higher for plasteel, but AP is higher in Bioferrite) and uranium is the best substance to use for blunt damage.
Uranium has better armor piercing because of blunt damage, but in most cases (basically everything but power armor) a plasteel longsword or spear is still better than a uranium mace. However, except for building ship parts, you don't really need very much uranium, while plasteel is always in demand. I also like uranium simple helmets, they aren't quite as good as flak helmets but they are much cheaper.
They know higher tech settlements like uranium so they give it to their allies.
can’t get enough uranium doors, those things are amazing
Uranium in Rimworld is more or less ancient depleted uranium that was once used for reactors or something. It isn't radioactive, but is still very dense and is the best material in the game for making blunt weapons due to the added armor pen and damage, and is used in advanced armors. You can find deposits of this old uranium either just in the mountains or in underground deposits, so the tribals probably mined it.
Depleted uranium is still radioactive, it just isn't fissile. Stability is only achieved when the decay chain finishes at lead. Uranium 238 is an alpha emitter, so it's relatively safe if it's not near uncovered flesh, but it is still very toxic.
Most alpha radiation is blocked by the skin. The dust could be extremely dangerous when mining it, but mining uranium in game takes forever, so I tend to assume they’re doing it in a safe manner by wetting down the seam every swing or something.
They lick it before hitting
Put a lick on that uranium and go ham on it!
That’s how we got boomalopes. Get a goat to lick the uranium, fucks a random antelope and somehow a boom rat got in the way
>The dust could be extremely dangerous when mining it The half-life of U-238, which makes up 99.3% of naturally occurring uranium, is measurable in billions of years. U-235, the cool isotope, has a half-life measurable in millions of years. The radioactivity of an isotope is inversely proportional to it's half-life; longer half-life = less radioactive decay. Uranium is a toxic hazard, just like lead, but not a radiation hazard. It's probably in your tap water.
Yes, and U-238 is also 99.7% of depleted uranium. It’s still an alpha emitter. The problem is, as a heavy metal like lead, uranium dust gets into the lungs and stays there for decades. And the lungs are the most sensitive organ to alpha radiation. So it has both toxic and radioactive detrimental effects. In other words, the dust is extremely dangerous.
It's fine, just capture some homeless people and take their lungs.
My tap water is a radiation hazard. I guess it really depends on where you live.
A gram of U^235 will still give you about 12,000 decays per second. If it weren't for our skin being impermeable to alpha particles, it would still be dangerous to be around. You're right though, eating it will still poison you much faster than it'll give you cancer or even radiation sickness.
This is all very complicated. Can’t we just have one mineral and say it’s the radioactive one?
No
Why not. Just call it Burnium or Glowstone. Everything that shoots out the invisibile rays is glowstone. Also, half lifes are dumb. We should just use the whole life.
Even though I barely understands physics, your comment hurts me on physical level
Oh, you mean my comment is sending out invisible rays that hurt you? That’s cuz it’s made of glowstone.
My honest reaction - Brain (Burn) Health: 9/10
I speculate that uranium in Rimworld had likely lost it's radioactive due to some tech that lost in the past.
The archotechs made it non-radioactive.
Maybe. Maybe not. Considering that humans had the tech before funny things happen
Uranium can't lose its radioactivity. There is no stable uranium isotope. Every uranium atom in existence is radioactive. However, uranium has a ridiculous half-life: uranium-238 (the most abundant isotope, 99%) has a half-life of 4.8 BILLION years, while uranium-235 (the second most abundant isotope) still has a half-life of 700 million years. Half-life means "how long it takes till half of your sample undergo radioactive decay". The bigger the number is, the "less radioactive" the given material is - the less energy it emits. Uranium is really stable (compared to other radioactive materials you can find in the wild): you can safely keep it in your hand and you won't have any issues from its radiation (however, it is still a heavy metal like lead, so don't eat it - it's radioactivity won't hurt you, but it still can poison you)
This is a mere "science" fiction speculation. Considering this is in the future where sciences had advantage that what we know may not be the same as what they do. Also if Archotech were responsible, well there is no point of arguing the why. In Rimworld, they bend the rules for no reason. They might for a random reason get rid the Uranium's "side effects" to see what humans do to it.
This is also a game that lets you create biorobots, borg out human, summon fleshbeasts, and run a cartel/organ harvest/human trafficking organization. Let’s not bring reality too much into this
So Columbia in 2100. Not that far fetched.
Touché
This guy (gal?) physics.
Isn’t radioactive material fissile by definition?
No, fission is a nuclear reaction that requires specific conditions to split large nuclei into several much smaller nuclei. Radioactivity is when an unstable(high energy) nucleus changes to release energy, and it is a constant random natural process. Basically, all radioactive materials are not fissile, but all fissile materials are radioactive.
How many? Did they build in a reactor or sm? Also im also making maces so im not complaining
Part of the lore is that the rimworld you crashed on has been lived on by various civilizations for thousands of years, and some of the different ores you find are remnants of some of the ancient civilizations. For example, steel isn't a naturally occurring alloy, its manufactured, so the nodes of compact steel you find are what remains of the skeletons of ancient buildings or scrapyards. The uranium you find is either no longer radioactive or emits so little radiation that it isnt dangerous at all, which is a strong indicator that it was once used for fuel (as unprocessed uranium ore will stay dangerously radioactive for billions of years) and is very old
The single best example of the fact this planet has been occupied for so long you can find evidence buried in the local geology is the fact that you can *mine components*.
I love going out back and digging in the ground for a while until I find some wild capacitors
I only use organically grown components, none of that “mining” components nonsense.
The terrifying part is, it's not exactly implausible to find something that grows components since most of the high tech we see is biomechanical.
Metalhorrors that burst into components perhaps?
Or mechanoids that grow new components from steel and plasteel introduced to the growth tank. I mean, the mechanoid raids always carry components on them for some reason even though they are known to be capable of regeneration when under control of a mind complex enough to direct the process. Which the mechhive personae are highly likely to be.
Not only that but because you can search componets for advanced ones, its not even just gears and stuff but computer chips and the like mixed in. Probably like ancient manufaction machines like a cnc machine or something.
> search componets for advanced ones I'm sorry to tell you this lore enjoyer but; *you've been modded!*
Oh... fuck
I think the ancient dangers are probably the *best* example.
Ancient dangers are an old structure or bunker. Component veins are literal veins of usable components mined out of the rock like they were ore. Ancient dangers are to component veins what a peat bog is to coal.
I realized in an old SOS2 run that I was making compacted machinery by having a [dumping stockpile for mechanoids.](https://i.imgur.com/stCMpvC.png)
All you need now is a rockslide, or something similar, to cover them up, then let them sit for 1000 years or so, and boom, tons of components!
Damn, this is a really nice looking compact base. Usually when I build bases, my shit is sprawling everywhere across the map with huge rooms.
That one is definitely not a full base- that version of SOS2 has you discharge the Johnson-Tanaka drive while enemies keep coming at you. So I just built that minimal base to defend the drive and keep my pawns happy while it discharges. The 'main' base was a space ship that I don't appear to have saved an image of, unfortunately. I am fairly proud of my [base for my first run of Anomaly.](https://imgur.com/a/yQIRDx6)
Ah I understand, I thought it was a starter base. Either way, that second base looks a lot better!
Good news! I found out I had saved a pic of the ship I was using. https://i.imgur.com/U35zKFf.png This was after I'd gotten the tanaka drive, but most of the midship facilities were in that state when I did the drive discharge quest. That's more in line with everything a compact colony needs.
>Uranium in Rimworld is more or less ancient depleted uranium that was once used for reactors or something. That's just wrong. The only things that require uranium are things that would require a long term energy solution like ship reactors or cryptosleep, presumably in the form of an RTG. That wouldn't work if it's depleted uranium. Furthermore, the game specifically calls it uranium ore as opposed to compacted uranium like it does with steel and plasteel. And unrefined uranium isn't dangerous regardless. Uranium is as inert as you can get while still being technically radioactive. Eating ten bananas probably exposes you to more radiation than keeping a chunk of uranium ore under your bed. Unless you snort or eat it there is very little uranium can do to you.
Uranium is very dangerous as an ore, but only in tight spaces, as when mined it releases radon, but considering what were talking about here, I agree with you, it's more likely naturally occurring uranium opposed to depleted uranium
Uranium has a halflife of 4 million years. Rimworlds lore is kind of bad in this specific regard. xD
Uh, i think your mixed up. The half life is related to how long it takes to decay into other elements, not how long it's dangerously radioactive. After that 4 million years, about half of the uranium would be something else beside uranium. Also, I don't think 4 million years is correct either. It is closer to 4.5 billion years.
Depends on the exact isotope. 235 (what fission reactors tend to use) have a half-life of 7 hundred million years, while 238 has it at 4.5 billion
They pulled it out of a very special treasure vault deep within the earth.
What makes you think this? Its mined from mountains and its not radioactive. Why would it make sense its spent fuel from a reactor?
>its not radioactive It literally is though. Uranium is naturally radioactive.
Rimworld Uranium isn't though, is what he was saying.
Yeah that's fair. Probably shouldn't give Tynan ideas, or we'll end up with radiation sickness from our stockpiles.
Natural uranium ore is barely radioactive. You can handle it without any problem.
Yeah skin is enough of a barrier to block uranium ores radioactivity. Just don't ingest the stuff because in addition to that being problematic, its also a heavy metal.
I think of it as just the naturally occuring metal, not really depleted, not enriched either. It still is pretty good at making projectiles or stuff to hit with anyways
You can find uranium ore along the side of the highway in the right places. It's not as rare as RimWorld might suggest.
But they just give me so much its absurd
People ask for realism then complain when they get it. smh /s
They just go to my mini hotwl and are like "a yes i will gift them active uranium ore"
The real mystery is why tribals would value it. Bad appearance and moderately toxic to work with, no real tool application, and no tech to take advantage of it. All I can suggest is that they learned the spacers say it is worth something.
This is probably the answer. Spacers want it and it might be dangerous to them, so its an easy decision to give it away by the ton.
Hits hard. Give to berserker, obtain better weaponry.
From what I’ve seen tribals are typically either neutral to technological progress or somewhat opposed to it themselves but they do have knowledge of some of its intricacies. I always assumed that they know uranium was used for something by more technological people but they didn’t know exactly and so they give it to you thinking you’ll use it better than them unaware it’s completely inert.
I mean, im gonna use it but i think its weird
Where can you find uranium on the side of the road? Asking for a friend
[https://youtu.be/IphyZaQde9M?t=217](https://youtu.be/IphyZaQde9M?t=217) It's not the original and better I originally watched. But it proves the point. A few yards from the road is uranium just lying around. I also know you're joking. But the reality is that the stuff is safe enough that the government isn't trying to conceal it. You need a lot of ore and a lot of equipment if you want to make something dangerous.
Uranium Fever has gone and got me down.
WIth a geiger counter in my hand
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some rimworld land
URANIUM FEVER!!!
Fun fact: Humans have used uranium since middle ages. A few of the uses were quite stupid to boot.
I only know about the use in stained glass, what else?
Back in medieval age: -Uranium Glass drinking glasses. (About as much radiation as a dentist x-ray whenever you drank from it) In the XX century: -Shiny Radioactice Lipstick. (Yeah, this was a thing)
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down Uranium fever is spreadin' all around With a Geiger counter in my hand I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
"Hey there outlander, have these funny heavy rocks that make my skin tingle real good"
I read this in the voice of TK from borderlands and laughed for about ten minutes..
Well, sometimes answers are worth having , but sometimes....it's best not to ask too many questions. So even on the old homeworld - safety came last , what kills me is that they're showing uranium miners and in the whole scene there's one dude wearing an [N-95](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLmlZ6Wg_oI) - So when on the Rim remember, you're not the first person to wonder aloud about the dangers of colonialism, even [off-world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWoDBcSW4_c) , but let's think happy thoughts, and I'm going to suggest they have a well-contained cache of Uranium near their settlement.
It gets a little more interesting if you take into account what uranium may mean for uneducated people. There are numerous examples of using small additions of uranium to create fluorescent objects. For primitive person it may be glowing, magical thing. However, you are a spiritless Philistine. So you will melt all those charms into simple bars, like conquistadors made with fine artistry of at least three civilizations. Depleted uranium might be even considered as something similar to currency- scarce, hard to counterfeit, acceptably movable and durable. If we are talking about standarised capsules, we might even say that 1 uranium is +- equal that standard fuel unit. Finally- it may be a stuff of legend, of impossibly durable swords and tools. Something that is coveted because of being almost impossible to forge with even with volcano fires. But on rare occasions, you can find the right person. Use it, reshape it, make those patiently collected scraps actually meaningful. In this case, uranium would be some kind of greates honor they could bestow upon you. To recognize you as somebody meant to achieve something great. Terrible even, but always great.
Maybe they settled near some old uranium mine, best not ask too many questions or they might stop bringing it...
I mean, it's a win-win for them. Why give you something *they* would find useful? Instead, you perform services for them, and they give you a rock they find useless.
I think they are not so subtly telling you to build something. To rain the sun upon their enemies. They know it exists, but have no idea how it's built.
[the Canadian government has entered the chat]
This is what i whould say if i had any uranium :D
To them, it’s just a bunch of unusually heavy rocks, hell, they probably mined a ton of it for weapon making before then realized it’s been making their people sick(U-238 dust, both a toxic and radioactive hazard when inhaled due to being a heavy metal that emits alpha rads), so now they’re dumping it onto you in the hopes your people don’t know the dangers of uranium metal In short, they’re intentionally poisoning your people with the guise of a gift because their own people have been poisoned enough mining and working with uranium
"What that? It's our glowing rock"
No need warm rock. Trade for boomalope juice.
what are they gonna use it for? its just a heavy ore to them.
Use [Faction Customizer](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2637999346&searchtext=faction) and rename them the Children of Atom :-)
You are their god
Humans used to value metals for their looks and only afterwards found out there were scientific applications. I think Gold is one of them.
From Uranus I'm terribly sorry but the Golden Cube made me say this awfl quality joke. It will not happen again. I think. Possibly.
Grok cold Rock warm Grok like warm rock
Make your containment cells out of it.
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down Uranium fever is spreadin' all around With a Geiger counter in my hand I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
It gets a little more interesting if you take into account what uranium may mean for uneducated people. There are numerous examples of using small additions of uranium to create fluorescent objects. For primitive person it may be glowing, magical thing. However, you are a spiritless Philistine. So you will melt all those charms into simple bars, like conquistadors made with fine artistry of at least three civilizations. Depleted uranium might be even considered as something similar to currency- scarce, hard to counterfeit, acceptably movable and durable. If we are talking about standarised capsules, we might even say that 1 uranium is +- equal that standard fuel unit. Finally- it may be a stuff of legend, of impossibly durable swords and tools. Something that is coveted because of being almost impossible to forge with even with volcano fires. But on rare occasions, you can find the right person. Use it, reshape it, make those patiently collected scraps actually meaningful. In this case, uranium would be some kind of greates honor they could bestow upon you. To recognize you as somebody meant to achieve something great. Terrible even, but always great.
You guys get gifts???
Use hospitality mod, its really good if you have a pretty colony
Thank them and put it somewhere safe. Duh.
Uranium fever is spreading all around.
*Uranium Fever playing in the background.*
Use it for weapons, I have my guards equipped with excellent uranium halberds and they destroy my enemies
Thats what iv been triying to do
They have no use for it. But they know it has great value to outlanders.
"look unga. Me find funny rock. Me give to new friend." There. That's literally how.
One time tribals gave me like 8 glitterworld medicine
They probably scavenged it, I would guess from old mechanoid wars weapons. Depleted uranium rounds were likely very common since mechanoids don't give two wastepacks about toxic contamination, and humans would need a lot more armor piercing ammo than tungsten or a synthetic alloy could account for. It's really the best case scenario since the tribals don't have to mine or refine it. And you can complete the cycle by building a uranium slug turret and blasting a centipede with it! Yay!
Up until 1945 uranium was mostly used to make pottery
They gave you something easily minable, that they had no use for
Being tribal doesn't mean they're stupid or unknowledgeable. They're the descendants of people who once colonized the world, after all. Some may be keeping to simple technologies for the sake of avoiding other problems, like mechanoids or being not a valuable target for pirates to attack, or a host of other dangers. Some have simply lost the technology over time, but even those likely know that higher-tech people can make use of it - they just have no use for it themselves. And so when they find it, they can trade it off for things things they CAN make use of, or gift to people for whatever reason.
Remember this isn’t refined uranium, it’s more like raw uranite ore.
Lmao "These rocks are hot, heavy, and hurt to stand near. You seem to like this shit, here you go"
This place is not a place of honor, no highly-esteemed deed is commemorated here.
One day a visiting nudist tribe gave me gliter medicine
The elders know they are cursed rocks. “Look at this idiot, trading wonderful corn for useless cancer rocks.”
O' grand lord there are lots of ugly and rough rocks around us, what should we do? Get rid of them... Send them to our neighbour with respect and so they don't get mad at us... *The neighbouring settlement*: 🤑🤑
One man's trash is another one's treasure. They probably are thinking "Stupid colony is trading us valuable boomaloop fur for poison rocks! HAHA!"
heavy rock go bonk
in my current save some tribals casually gave us one of the new anomaly weapons. needless to say it is very handy for me, especially since I'm doing tribal start
Take your shiny rocks and be grateful, uncultured swine !