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The tool for playing in Survival. Everyone who enters a world for the first time gets one (everyone in Survival; in Creative, only the world's owner). Hold it and use it to open it; press the power button to start it, and you switch to Survival (Easy or Hard) with only the phone in your inventory (your items until then are kept safe and come back when you shut down). The home screen shows your money, the time and how the town is doing, with four buttons: Town, Quests, Mail and Book. When a resident wants to move in or there is a blackout, an incoming call appears first when you open it. While it is started, it comes back to you if you drop it or die. If you lose it before turning it on, you can make one at a crafting table (search for the phone's name with the crafting table's magnifier). The globe button on the top edge (left of the ×) of the start screen and the power screen lets you choose the language (Japanese / English): the world owner's phone sets the world's language, anyone else's phone changes only their own screens.

The tool the teacher uses to run training (a lesson). It is first in the Tools group of the Creative inventory. Only players with operator permission can start training. When training starts, everyone taking part switches to Creative, and the time is fixed at daytime with clear weather. Everyone's current items (including armor and the off-hand item) are kept safe and come back to the same slots when training ends. There are eight buttons (Choose missions, Progress list, Give to one, Advance all, Hand out again, Demo, Language, End training); in a world with Build Space plots, Build Space appears too. The globe button at the top left of the power screen before training, and Language, set the world's language (for everyone). During training the ENECRA Phone can't be started, and items thrown with the Q key come back to the player's hand.

The mission tool students use. When training starts, it is given automatically to the left end of each student's hotbar (it can't be let go of during training), and it is collected when training ends. The top of the screen shows the mission set and how many are cleared, with tabs 1 to 4 below. Each tab shows the goal, the steps (how far along you are), the handouts and key points. The top right of the screen shows the current mission and step number (for example, Mission 3-4). In Missions 3 and 4, glowing dots mark the equipment used in the current step (only that player can see them). The globe button on the top bar changes the language of your own screens only.

A tool that puts whatever you built with a builder back to how it was before. It remembers each player's last 8 builder uses and undoes one each time, newest first (it tells you what it undid and how many more you can undo). Blocks that were there before come back, and the builder you used returns to your inventory (it drops at your feet if your inventory is full). It only undoes builders you used yourself. Things people placed by hand afterwards (connecting pipes and so on) stay. It remembers only until you leave the world, so use it right after a mistake. When you receive a builder in a quest or mission and don't have an undo tool, you get one.

A board that shows all of the world's power generation in one place (it isn't a generator; it glows softly). Right-click it to see: generators producing / connected, the town's total output (kW), homes (counting 1 home = 1.0 kW) = about how many people (3 per home), power sold (what the Power Company actually bought, in yen per game hour), the energy mix (solar, advanced solar, wind, hydro, nuclear turbines, thermal turbines, PWR and emergency diesel, largest output first) and the number of batteries and their charge. Below that are a graph of your mix of sources and the "next source to add".

A projector that shows a picture in the air. It gets power the same way as an LED (place it next to a wire, or indoors connect it to an outlet with a power cord; 150 W). Right-click it to see the 10 pictures inside; choose one, then choose the size (wide small / medium / large, tall small / medium / large). The picture floats right above the projector and faces the person who placed it. It doesn't show without power. To show your own pictures, on a PC put them in Minecraft's folder (com.mojang) > resource_packs > the ENECRA folder > textures > projector_images (for an English world, the en folder inside it) named 1.png to 10.png, then restart Minecraft (reinstalling ENECRA puts the originals back, so keep your pictures somewhere else too).

Turns sunlight into power. It makes power only while it can see the sky above, up to 1.0 kW at its strongest (one home's worth). At night (game time 13000 to 23000) it makes 0, and in rain or thunderstorms 0.2 times as much. Even one pane of glass or one leaf block in the column above it drops it to 0. Right-click it for the monitor (output, how much it would earn, a graph); sneak and right-click for a small battery panel. Bought from the Electronics Dealer, it costs half thanks to the subsidy.

A solar generator with bigger panels. It works the same way as the Solar Generator, with 6 times the output (6.0 kW at its strongest). It also makes 0 at night and 0.2 times as much in rain. It looks big, but it is one block, and it only looks at the single column above it.

Makes power by turning its blades in the wind. It ignores the time and the weather, so it keeps going at night and in rain. Its strength depends on height: 1.2 kW at Y=24 or below, 9.6 kW at Y=320 (about 2.3 kW at normal ground level, Y=64). The wind keeps changing between 0.5 and 1.2 times with slow waves and small gusts, so the numbers always move. It stops if the blades (4 blocks above the base) don't reach open sky. The monitor shows wind speed, height and rotation speed.

Makes power by turning its water wheel with water. Day, night and weather don't matter. Put water on one side of the wheel (the same amount on both sides cancels out and stops it). Falling water (a waterfall) is stronger than ordinary water, up to 450 W at its strongest. The smallest of the four generators. Sold by the Electronics Dealer (half price with the subsidy).

The path that connects generators to the things that use power (called "cables" up to v1.4). Placed next to each other, wires reach out and connect automatically, and they glow while power flows. Power drops by 1% for every block, and one network can follow up to 1024 wires (power doesn't reach beyond that). Hold a wire and right-click the green port face of a device that takes wires, and the wire is placed right there (no need to hold Shift). Port colors: green ports are for wires, light blue ports for water pipes and red ports for steam pipes (wires don't connect to light blue ports). The green wire is for outside buildings: it doesn't connect to outlets inside a house (indoors, use Indoor Wiring and power cords).

A box that stores power and sends it later. It charges by itself while generators have power to spare (it holds 400,000 J). Right-click to switch between "Send" and "Store only". A battery you place by hand starts in "Store only", so set it to "Send" before night (deciding when to use the power is the battery's job). The windows on the front and back and the meters on the sides light up in 10 steps, so you can see the charge from outside. The right-click screen shows the charge (% and kWh counted in game time, and about how many hours it can run one home). Full is 8.0 kWh = one home for about 8 hours (the same way the Electronics Dealer's menu, power selling and bills count it; a game day is about 20 real minutes, so that is about 7 real minutes).

Lights that glow when power reaches them (light level 15, the brightest). All five work the same way and use 50 W each. Only the look differs (the model homes use Black for modern, Paper Lantern for Japanese style, Brass for the log house, Filament for the brick house). They light when they touch a wire that has power, or indoors when connected to an outlet with a power cord (just placing one next to an appliance doesn't light it). Hostile mobs don't spawn within 32 blocks of a lit light. When the power stops, they stay lit for a little while (on what they stored).

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Black LED

Blue LED

How to make

Crafting table: glass x3 + LED chip x2 + electronic circuit x1 + aluminum ingot x1 (makes 4)

Sells for

682 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

In real life

A gallium nitride chip glows blue. Aluminum carries the heat away.

You get it

When you take the quest “Lights on!” (with the phone started)

Mission

Handed out in “Power to Homes” mission 2 (teacher tablet training)

Brass LED

Filament LED

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 1,000 yen

Sells for

300 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Paper Lantern LED

Builds a whole house in one go. Right-click the ground for a design screen and choose from five: the modern house, the stone-and-wood Japanese garden house, the log house, the brick house and the ice house (press the × at the top if you opened it by mistake). On a 9 x 7 floor it builds the walls, ceiling, roof and furniture, six appliances (refrigerator, microwave, washing machine, air conditioner, TV and charging stand), the ceiling light, outlets and the breaker panel. Power cords are not connected: hold a power cord and right-click an outlet and then an appliance to connect them. Connect the wire from a generator to the green port on the back of the breaker panel, on the outside wall of the house, and power comes in (the builder doesn't place a wire outside the house). The builder is used up, and comes back if you undo.

Where power enters a house. Power from outside (wires, the Power Company's grid, a switchyard) comes in here and goes out to every outlet in the house. It also has a breaker that watches for overuse and trips if you use more than your contract (when it has tripped, the first right-click only resets it). The right-click screen shows the power in use and the contract, a breakdown by appliance, an estimated bill (31 yen per kWh by day / 18 yen at night; basic fee per month 311 yen for 10 A / 624 yen for 20 A / 935 yen for 30 A), the power this house has used, your money, and your power-selling contract with the Power Company. Changing the contract (10 A = 1 kW, 20 A = 2 kW, 30 A = 3 kW) is the Electrician's job in town. Power reaches outlets inside a box 8 blocks front, back, left and right and 6 up and down from the panel through wiring in the walls (the Electrician's wiring work widens it to 12 and 8, then 16 and 10).

Where appliances get power. Placed within the breaker panel's range, it gets power without any indoor wiring (wiring in the walls). Outside the range, connect it to the breaker panel with Indoor Wiring. On a wall it is a normal outlet, on a ceiling (the underside of a block) a ceiling outlet, and on a floor a floor outlet. Up to two power cords per outlet (one plug at the top, one at the bottom). Hold or wear a wearable electric item and sneak in front of it to charge (it uses 120 W only while charging). Right-click it to see whether it has power, and the real reason if it doesn't. The four colors other than white are sold only by the Electronics Dealer.

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Wall Outlet

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 500 yen

Sells for

150 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Power use

120W (all the time)

Outlet (Black)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 800 yen

Sells for

240 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Outlet (Wood)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 800 yen

Sells for

240 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Outlet (Sky Blue)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 800 yen

Sells for

240 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Outlet (Pink)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 800 yen

Sells for

240 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

The cord that connects an outlet to an appliance. Hold a power cord and right-click an outlet and then an appliance: a thin cord runs along the corner of the wall and floor, and the appliance gets power (one cord per appliance, up to two per outlet). The cord is only for looks and doesn't block the way. Sneak and right-click the appliance to unplug it back into your inventory. Breaking the outlet or the appliance drops the cord on the floor. It can connect appliances, LEDs, ceiling lights, light rails and the cleaning robot's charging dock.

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Power Cord (White)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 1,000 yen

Sells for

300 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

You get it

When you take the quest “Leave it to the robot” (with the phone started)

Mission

Handed out in “Power to Homes” mission 4 (teacher tablet training)

Power Cord (Black)

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 1,200 yen

Sells for

360 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

The wiring inside a house that carries power from the breaker panel to outlets and sub-panels outside its range (shaped like real VVF cable). It reaches out in the directions it connects. It passes through a single wall or floor block and connects on the other side (no hole needed). It doesn't connect to the green outdoor wire, and it doesn't glow.

A breaker panel for big houses (houses with several floors). Connected to the main breaker panel with Indoor Wiring, it gives power to the same range around itself as the main one. The power, the breaker and the bill belong to the main panel's house. If indoor wiring comes from two breaker panels, it belongs to neither. Placed facing a wall from inside the room, it takes a wall-mounted shape.

A ceiling light (50 W). Put an outlet on the ceiling (right-click the ceiling to place it) and connect it with a power cord to light it. Right-click it to switch it on and off. In the model homes it is built switched on.

An appliance that uses power around the clock (200 W). Right-click its lower part to open a 27-slot storage. While it has power, raw meat, fish, vegetables, milk and eggs inside don't go bad. When the power stops they start to spoil and eventually become rotten flesh. Breaking it drops what is inside on the ground.

An appliance that uses a lot of power only while in use (600 W). Hold raw meat, fish or a potato and right-click to cook one at a time in about 3 seconds (it comes to your hand when done). Cooked food no longer spoils. If the power goes out while cooking, it stops and continues when power returns.

An appliance that uses power only while running (500 W). Run it at night (time 13000 to 23000) and power costs 18 yen per kWh instead of 31 (it tells you the current price each time). Hold a piece of armor and right-click to wash it into gear with an energy mark (emblem) (see "Washed armor" below).

Uses 300 W while on. Right-click to switch it. Being outside at midday on a hot day or at night on a cold day makes you sluggish (you walk slower; no damage), but not within 8 blocks of a running air conditioner. The TV's Power Forecast tells you a day ahead whether a hot or cold day is coming.

Uses 100 W while on. Right-click to open its screen; turn it on to see the Power Forecast (the temperature today and tomorrow: heat wave / cold day / mild day, and the sky right now: clear / rain). The temperature forecast is always right. The sky follows normal Minecraft weather (ENECRA doesn't make it rain). Solar drops by 80% while it rains, so have other power ready.

An appliance that boils water. Switch it on and it boils for 10 seconds, then turns itself off with a click (1200 W only during those 10 seconds). On a 10 A contract (1 kW) the kettle alone trips the breaker: if it goes 3 seconds without power, it stops. It works on 20 A. Sold only by the Electronics Dealer.

The vacuum pulls in items within 6 blocks and the dust that builds up in the house (1 charge per use, 10 when full). A new one has no charge. Hold the vacuum and right-click the charging stand to leave it there; it is fully charged in about 10 seconds (a sound plays). Right-click with an empty hand to take it back. The stand uses 400 W only while charging. During a blackout charging doesn't progress (the vacuum stays there). Breaking the stand drops the vacuum with its charge kept.

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Charging Stand

Power use

400W (all the time)

You get it

When you take the quest “Cleaning Master” (with the phone started)

Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

You get it

When you take the quest “Cleaning Master” (with the phone started)

A cleaning robot bought outright from the Electronics Dealer (comes with a charging dock, 10 W). Put the dock against a wall and connect it to an outlet with a power cord, and the robot comes out and charges. When dust appears in the house, it goes out to clean on its own if its battery is at least half full (or right-click the dock or the robot and choose "Start cleaning"). Each bit of dust it picks up uses battery and fills the dustbin. It returns when its battery is low, there is no dust left or the dustbin is full (10). When it's full, choose "Empty the dustbin".

A sorting trash bin. It sorts two things: the dust collected by vacuums, and the metal scraps made by reprocessing. Hold one and right-click to choose where it goes (Burnable trash / Metal resources). Dust goes into burnable trash. Metal scraps go into metal resources: this is "clearance", where radiation is measured to confirm it is safe before it becomes a resource again, and you get the same number of iron ingots back. If you choose wrong, nothing is taken away; it tells you the right place (learning without punishment).

Wearable electric gear (worn in the chest armor slot). Wearing it is the switch: it runs automatically only while it has charge and the weather calls for it. The Fan Jacket blows air on hot-day afternoons to cool you (drying sweat = evaporative cooling); the Heated Vest glows red on cold-day nights to warm you (making heat with power). While running, you don't get sluggish even outside. Both hold the same full charge, but the jacket lasts 4 times longer than the vest: making heat uses more power. New ones are empty, so charge them at an outlet. Away from home, you can also charge them from a Portable Battery. As armor, they give 5 armor points (between leather and iron armor).

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Fan Jacket

Worn on

chest, armor 5

You get it

When you take the quest “Beat the heat” (with the phone started)

Heated Vest

Worn on

chest, armor 5

You get it

When you take the quest “Beat the cold” (with the phone started)

A battery for charging your jacket or vest away from home. The Portable Battery holds enough power to fill a jacket or vest twice (new ones are empty). Wear the jacket or vest, hold the battery and use it (right-click): it moves power into the garment until the garment is full (or the battery is empty). The amount is shown in % (the four marks on the item picture also turn green as it fills). Charge the battery on a Battery Charger at home: connect the charger to an outlet with a power cord, then right-click it while holding the battery to set the battery on it. It fills from empty in about 60 seconds (a sound plays when it is full). The marks on the charger light up one by one as it fills; the next mark blinks while charging, and they turn green when full. Right-click with an empty hand to take the battery back. It uses 200W only while charging and does not charge during a power outage. If you break the charger, the battery drops with the power it had.

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Portable Battery

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 4,000 yen

Sells for

1,200 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Battery Charger

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 2,500 yen

Sells for

750 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Power use

200W (all the time)

A stand and a shelf for displaying things (sold only by the Trader). Right-click with an item to display one (the shelf has six spots: left, middle and right on the upper and lower rows, wherever you click). Right-click a displayed item to take it back (its name, enchantments and durability are kept). Breaking the stand or shelf drops everything on it. Sneak and right-click to place a block normally.

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Display Stand

Where to buy

Trader 8,000 yen

Sells for

2,400 yen (Trader)

Display Shelf

Where to buy

Trader 25,000 yen

Sells for

7,500 yen (Trader)

Breads sold only by the Baker. Eating one fills you up and gives an effect for a while (shown on the phone if it is started, otherwise in chat): Sweet Bun = Speed for 60 seconds (walk a little faster), Bean Paste Bun = Jump Boost for 60 seconds (jump a little higher), Croissant = Slow Falling for 60 seconds (fall slowly).

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Sweet Bun

Where to buy

Baker 180 yen

Sells for

54 yen (Trader, Baker)

Food

Hunger +5

Bean Paste Bun

Where to buy

Baker 160 yen

Sells for

48 yen (Trader, Baker)

Food

Hunger +5

Croissant

Where to buy

Baker 220 yen

Sells for

66 yen (Trader, Baker)

Food

Hunger +4

A bento sold only at the Station Kiosk. Eating it restores 8 hunger (4 shanks) and gives "Full": for one game day (about 20 minutes) you don't get hungry.

Drinks bought from the vending machine (the Stationmaster's furniture). Cold Tea = Fire Resistance for 2 minutes and no sluggishness on hot days; Sports Drink = Speed for 3 minutes and no sluggishness on hot days; Hot Cocoa = Resistance for 2 minutes and no sluggishness on cold days.

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Cold Tea

Where to buy

Vending machine 160 yen

Food

Hunger +1

Sports Drink

Where to buy

Vending machine 180 yen

Food

Hunger +2

Hot Cocoa

Where to buy

Vending machine 160 yen

Food

Hunger +3

Dishes that fill you up a lot (Vegetable Soup and Pumpkin Soup = 8, Hearty Stew = 10). The bowl is left after eating. In this version there is no recipe and no shop for them (take them from the Creative inventory). The microwave's kitchen screen from earlier versions is gone.

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Vegetable Soup

Food

Hunger +8 (leaves a bowl)

Pumpkin Soup

Food

Hunger +8 (leaves a bowl)

Hearty Stew

Food

Hunger +10 (leaves a bowl)

Furniture for the room inside the Power Company's building that watches over the grid. The display panel (a big glowing screen) opens the same screen as the Town Power Monitor when right-clicked. Talk to the Power Company to choose: a power-selling contract, a meter for a power plant (an electricity meter placed partway along a wire; the 30,000 yen installation fee is paid later out of your sales), the Power Sales Report, the dispatch center screen, and selling to cities outside town. The Power Company doesn't sell generators (generators come from the Electronics Dealer and the Machine Maker).

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Dispatch Center Display Panel

Light level

7

Dispatch Console Desk

Light level

3

Substation equipment that sends the town's power to cities outside town. When the Power Company's building is built, it is built automatically on the edge of town (in an open spot 36 to 60 blocks behind or beside the building; it belongs to the town, so Builder Undo doesn't remove it). It raises the town's power (6,600 V) to 66,000 V and sends it to the outside city through underground cables. Each piece of equipment is explained below (the text shown when you right-click it).

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Main Transformer

About it

Main Transformer: Raises the town's power (6,600V) to the voltage for sending to cities outside (66,000V). It's cooled inside with insulating oil. The radiators and fans on the side cool the oil. The sideways tank on top (the conservator) holds oil that expanded as it warmed

Size

Main Transformer (3 wide, 3 deep, 4 tall)

Gas Circuit Breaker

About it

Gas Circuit Breaker: In an accident, it cuts a huge current in an instant. The spark (arc) when it cuts is put out by SF6 gas in the tank. Three tanks = three phases (the insulator tops are red, white, and blue)

Size

Gas Circuit Breaker (3 wide, 1 deep, 3 tall)

Underground Line Termination

About it

Underground Cable Lead-in Frame: Power goes to cities outside through underground cable. Brown insulators = the end of the underground cable; gray = lightning arresters that protect the machines from lightning

Size

Underground Cable Lead-in Frame (3 wide, 1 deep, 4 tall)

Substation Control House

About it

Substation Control House: Watches over the substation's machines and connects to the faraway dispatch center. It usually runs with nobody there (an unmanned substation)

Size

Control House (3 wide, 3 deep, 2 tall)

Furniture for the Electronics Dealer's shop. Right-click the appliance display shelf to compare each appliance's power use. The electric fan is an appliance that runs on power (40 W; right-click to switch it; connect it to an outlet with a power cord). Furniture comes from residents' requests and quest rewards, and once you have got a piece, you can buy it from the Items Book in the phone's Book (prices below).

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Appliance Display Shelf

Furniture

Electronics Dealer's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click to compare each appliance's power

Electronics Store Register

Furniture

Electronics Dealer's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Appliance Delivery Boxes

Furniture

Electronics Dealer's furniture; Items Book 15,000 yen

Electric Fan

Where to buy

Electronics Dealer 5,000 yen

Furniture

Electronics Dealer's furniture; Items Book 5,000 yen

Right-click

An appliance that runs on power (plug it into an outlet)

Sells for

1,500 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

Power use

40W (while switched on)

Furniture for the Baker's shop. The bakery oven (400 W; right-click to switch it) and the glass showcase (160 W all the time) are appliances that run on power: connect them to an outlet with a power cord. The Baker is open only in the early morning (4:00 to 7:00).

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Cash Register

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 40,000 yen

Chalkboard Menu

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 10,000 yen

Bread Crate Stand

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 40,000 yen

Baguette Basket

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 3,000 yen

Bakery Oven

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 1,500,000 yen

Right-click

Runs on power (plug it into an outlet)

Power use

400W (while switched on)

Glass Showcase

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 300,000 yen

Right-click

Runs on power (plug it into an outlet)

Power use

160W (all the time)

Bread Shelf

Furniture

Baker's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Furniture for the police box. Right-click the town map board to learn where the shops in town are (direction and distance). The Police Officer comes to a town where at least 6 street lights stay lit along the roads at night.

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Town Map Board

Furniture

Police Officer's furniture; Items Book 30,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for shop locations (direction and distance)

Police Box Desk

Furniture

Police Officer's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Notice Board

Furniture

Police Officer's furniture; Items Book 30,000 yen

White Bicycle

Furniture

Police Officer's furniture; Items Book 40,000 yen

Furniture for the clinic. Right-click the medicine shelf for a talk about hospitals and power (some medicines and vaccines must be kept cold; a blackout stops refrigerators and medical machines; that's why hospitals have backup power), plus whether the clinic has power right now and how many batteries the town has.

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Medicine Shelf

Furniture

Doctor's furniture; Items Book 80,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for a talk about hospitals and power

Reception Counter

Furniture

Doctor's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Waiting Bench

Furniture

Doctor's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Examination Bed

Furniture

Doctor's furniture; Items Book 100,000 yen

Furniture for the Station Kiosk. Right-click the vending machine (200 W all the time) to buy drinks (Cold Tea, Sports Drink, Hot Cocoa). The drink cooler (120 W all the time) runs on power too. Right-click the station clock for the departure chime and the town's time.

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Kiosk Register

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Magazine Rack

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 20,000 yen

Station Bento Stand

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 40,000 yen

Snack Shelf

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 40,000 yen

Vending Machine

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 1,000,000 yen

Right-click

Runs on power (plug it into an outlet). Right-click to buy a drink

Power use

200W (all the time)

Drink Cooler

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 250,000 yen

Right-click

Runs on power (plug it into an outlet)

Power use

120W (all the time)

Station Clock

Furniture

Stationmaster's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for the departure chime and the town time

Furniture for the factory. Right-click the control panel to run the nearby lathe, press machine and conveyor for 10 seconds. The Factory Manager comes to a town that uses 10 homes' worth of power through the day without stopping.

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Operation Panel

Furniture

Factory Manager's furniture; Items Book 300,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click to run nearby factory machines for 10 seconds

Lathe

Furniture

Factory Manager's furniture; Items Book 900,000 yen

Press Machine

Furniture

Factory Manager's furniture; Items Book 1,000,000 yen

Conveyor

Furniture

Factory Manager's furniture; Items Book 300,000 yen

Furniture for the weather station. Right-click the weather map screen or the anemometer to learn what the sky is doing now and what that means for solar and wind power. The instrument shelter and the rain gauge are decorations.

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Weather Map Screen

Furniture

Weather Forecaster's furniture; Items Book 100,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for the current sky and solar and wind power

Anemometer

Furniture

Weather Forecaster's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for the current sky and solar and wind power

Rain Gauge

Furniture

Weather Forecaster's furniture; Items Book 100,000 yen

Instrument Shelter

Furniture

Weather Forecaster's furniture; Items Book 150,000 yen

Furniture for the lab. Right-click the lab bench for electricity experiments (electrolysis, a lemon battery and an electromagnet, in order). Right-click the microscope to look through it (3 slides). The Professor comes when 5 residents have arrived.

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Lab Bench

Furniture

Professor's furniture; Items Book 300,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for electricity experiments (3 in turn)

Research Chalkboard

Furniture

Professor's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Microscope

Furniture

Professor's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click to look (3 slides)

Power Model

Furniture

Professor's furniture; Items Book 20,000 yen

Furniture for the Electrician's shop. The tool battery charger is an appliance that uses 60 W all the time (connect it to an outlet with a power cord). You can ask the Electrician to change a home's contract (amperage) and to do wiring work (widening a breaker panel's range).

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Electrician's Desk

Furniture

Electrician's furniture; Items Book 50,000 yen

Work Schedule Board

Furniture

Electrician's furniture; Items Book 20,000 yen

Wiring Supplies Shelf

Furniture

Electrician's furniture; Items Book 20,000 yen

Tool Battery Charger

Furniture

Electrician's furniture; Items Book 10,000 yen

Power use

60W (all the time)

Furniture for the observatory. Right-click the telescope to look through it (the starry sky and the moon on a clear night). Right-click the star chart to learn how to find stars. The Astronomer comes to the town of someone who looks up at the sky on a clear night in a place with no lights (a hidden resident).

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Telescope

Furniture

Astronomer's furniture; Items Book 80,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click to look (stars and the moon on clear nights)

Star Chart

Furniture

Astronomer's furniture; Items Book 2,000 yen

Right-click

Right-click for how to find stars

Lights for shop buildings. The pendant light lights up when connected to an outlet with a power cord (like an LED). The police box red lamp is a decoration outside the police box (it is lit while the shop has power).

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Pendant Light

Police Box Red Lamp

A fab machine that becomes 3 x 3 blocks and 3 blocks tall when placed (breaking any of its blocks turns it back into an item and drops the materials and products inside). The power inlet is at the bottom middle of the back: connect a wire there (40 kW). Right-click to open the 3 x 3 materials screen; Run processes once, and Auto processes as many times as the loaded materials allow (every one of the 9 slots needs materials, as with a crafting table). Through the glass you can watch all 19 steps, with the wafer changing at each step. 1 Silicon Wafer, 2 Copper Ingots, 8 Gold Nuggets and 2 Resin make 8 IC Chips. Semiconductors need power that never stops: if the stored power runs out partway, that run is ruined. You get it as the Chipmaker's furniture, and the Machine Maker sells it too.

The cleanroom ceiling (FFU) glows only while the factory has power (the yellow-light ceiling is for the resist room, where light must not change the chemicals). Vehicles run along the overhead rail, and the air shower blows dust off people coming in. The Semiconductor Line Console is the head of a hand-built factory (300,000 yen from the Machine Maker; 2,500,000 yen for the full set of equipment): place it, line the machines up around it (±24 sideways, ±4 up and down) and right-click to find and link the machines; it then runs on the same screen as the fab machine. Connect a wire to the console for power.

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Cleanroom Ceiling (FFU)

Yellow-light Ceiling

Overhead Rail

Air Shower

Service Chase

Semiconductor Line Console

Where to buy

Machine Maker 300,000 yen (full set of equipment 2,500,000 yen)

Sells for

90,000 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

A fab machine that becomes 3 x 3 blocks and 3 blocks tall when placed (120 kW). From 8 Scrap Iron (iron tools, armor, rails, buckets, iron bars and so on also go in as scrap) and 1 Graphite, it makes 7 Iron Ingots in 9 steps (scrap, charging, melting, tapping, ladle refining, continuous casting, cutting, cooling bed, rolling). When power runs short it stops and waits (and continues when power comes back). You get it as the Steelmaker's furniture, and the Machine Maker sells it too.

A fab machine that becomes 3 x 3 blocks and 3 blocks tall when placed (120 kW). From 8 Silica (sand or nether quartz), 4 Charcoal (coal or charcoal) and 1 Graphite, it makes 4 Metallic Silicon in 9 steps (weighing, charging, reduction, tapping, ladle refining, casting, cooling, crushing, screening). When power runs short it stops and waits. You get it as the Silicon Maker's furniture, and the Machine Maker sells it too.

Parts that carry power inside a factory. The Intake Panel (a cubicle, 2 blocks tall) is where power enters the factory; the Power Panel sends it to the machines through the Underfloor Power Line (a trench in the floor). Right-click the Intake Panel to see the incoming power (stepping 6,600 V high voltage down to the voltage the factory uses, the power in use, the contracted power); right-click the Power Panel to see each machine (running / waiting / no power line). When you rearrange a factory there are two ways to run power: [machines] hold a Power Cable and right-click the Busway (a thick square duct run along the ceiling and so on) to add a plug-in point, then right-click a machine to connect it with a thick cord. [lights] hold a Factory LED and right-click the Lighting Rail to add a light, and plug the rail into an outlet with one power cord (all the lights on the connected rail light up; 50 W each). Sold by the Machine Maker (16 Underfloor Power Lines 160 yen, 16 Busways 640 yen, 4 Power Cables 2,400 yen, 16 Lighting Rails 480 yen, 4 Factory LEDs 2,000 yen).

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Intake Panel (Cubicle)

Power Panel

Underfloor Power Line

Where to buy

Machine Maker 160 yen (x16)

Sells for

3 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

Busway

Where to buy

Machine Maker 640 yen (x16)

Sells for

12 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

Power Cable

Where to buy

Machine Maker 2,400 yen (x4)

Sells for

180 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

Lighting Rail

Where to buy

Machine Maker 480 yen (x16)

Sells for

9 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

Power use

50W (per light)

Factory LED

Where to buy

Machine Maker 2,000 yen (x4)

Sells for

150 yen (Trader, Machine Maker)

A fab machine that becomes 3 x 3 blocks and 3 blocks tall when placed (30 kW). From 5 Spent Fuel (still inside a Transport Cask is fine: it counts what is inside) and 4 Glass, it makes one each of MOX Powder, Uranium Oxide, a Vitrified Waste Canister and Hull Scrap in 7 steps (receiving and storage, shearing, dissolving, separation, purification, denitration, vitrification). The reward for the Reprocessor's request "Bring me fuel". The Machine Maker sells it too.

Four machines that turn materials into parts. Right-click to open the same 3 x 3 screen as a crafting table, where only that machine's recipes work. They need power (arc furnace 3 kW, refiner 2 kW, saw 0.5 kW, chip factory 0.8 kW): connect the green port on its back face to a generator with a wire (there are no ports on the front or sides, and it doesn't draw from a generator placed right next to it) and it stores enough power for one run (20 seconds' worth). It opens when both of these are true: (1) power is stored, and (2) the connected generators are producing at least the machine's power right now (a battery set to "Send" helps with up to 3 kW each). Then you can use it as many times as you like for 20 seconds. If not, chat tells you what is missing. Lamp colors: red = not charged yet, green = ready, bright window = running. The power used counts as the user's own consumption and is taken out of their power sales.

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Silicon Arc Furnace

How to make

Crafting table: iron ingot x2 + copper wire x1 + bricks x5 + cauldron x1

Sells for

434 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

In real life

A furnace that makes very high heat by firing sparks (arcs) between electrodes. It makes metallic silicon from quartz and carbon (different from the furnace that melts iron). It needs 3kW of power.

Refiner

How to make

Crafting table: iron ingot x5 + glass x1 + copper wire x2 + cauldron x1

Sells for

354 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

In real life

A machine that purifies materials by heating them with electricity or by electrolysis. It needs 2kW of power.

Wafer Saw

How to make

Crafting table: iron ingot x5 + diamond x1 + copper wire x2 + stonecutter x1

Sells for

36,196 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

In real life

A machine that slices silicon thin with a fine wire. It needs 0.5kW of power.

Chip Factory

How to make

Crafting table: glass x3 + copper wire x2 + gold ingot x1 + iron ingot x3

Sells for

4,440 yen (Trader, Electronics Dealer)

In real life

A factory that makes cells and chips in a dust-free room. It needs 0.8kW of power.

Ores ENECRA adds underground (they appear in new places, land loaded for the first time). Smelt Silver Ore in a furnace for a Silver Ingot; 4 Bauxite make 1 Aluminum Ingot in the Refiner.

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Silver Ore

How to make

Mine it underground (appears in newly explored areas)

Sells for

1,500 yen (Trader)

Bauxite

How to make

Mine it underground (appears in newly explored areas)

Sells for

200 yen (Trader)

Materials from abroad, bought at the Trader's shop (they can't be made on a crafting table). When you buy one, it tells you why it is imported (resin: its raw material, oil, is almost all imported; tin: the country's mines have closed; lithium: from South America, Australia and elsewhere; gallium: a little is obtained when making other metals; neodymium: a rare earth).

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Tin

How to make

4 for 4,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 4,000 yen (x4)

Sells for

300 yen (Trader)

Lithium

How to make

1 for 3,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 3,000 yen

Sells for

900 yen (Trader)

Gallium

How to make

1 for 3,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 3,000 yen

Sells for

900 yen (Trader)

Neodymium

How to make

1 for 3,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 3,000 yen

Sells for

900 yen (Trader)

Resin (Plastic)

How to make

4 for 2,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 2,000 yen (x4)

Sells for

150 yen (Trader)

Metals you can make yourself or import from the Trader. Silver goes into solder and solar cell electrodes; aluminum into solar panel frames, LEDs and batteries. Making aluminum uses so much power that it is called "canned electricity"; Japan stopped smelting aluminum in 2014 and imports all of its metal.

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Silver Ingot

How to make

Smelt silver ore in a furnace / 1 for 5,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 5,000 yen

Sells for

1,500 yen (Trader)

In real life

Taken out by smelting silver ore. It can also be imported.

Aluminum Ingot

How to make

Refiner: bauxite x4 / 1 for 3,000 yen at the Trader's shop (imported)

Where to buy

Trader 3,000 yen

Sells for

900 yen (Trader)

In real life

About 4 tons of bauxite make about 1 ton of aluminum by electrolysis. It uses so much power that it's called "canned electricity".

Copper Wire, made from a Copper Ingot on a crafting table, is the most used part (wires, coils, the phone, machines and so on). Solder is lead-free (96.5% tin, 3% silver, 0.5% copper) and attaches the parts of electronic circuits.

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Copper Wire

How to make

Crafting table: copper ingot x2 (makes 8)

Sells for

18 yen (Trader)

In real life

Made by drawing copper out thin.

Solder

How to make

Crafting table: tin x4 + silver ingot x1 + copper wire x1 (makes 8)

Sells for

407 yen (Trader)

In real life

Lead-free solder: 96.5% tin, 3% silver, 0.5% copper.

The two hearts of a generator: a coil of copper wire wound around an iron core, and a very strong neodymium magnet (invented in Japan). Turning the magnet makes electricity in the coil; they go into wind and hydro generators (the same idea as the generator in 6th-grade science).

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Coil

How to make

Crafting table: copper wire x8 + iron ingot x1

Sells for

195 yen (Trader)

In real life

Copper wire wound around an iron core. Run power through it and it's an electromagnet; spin a magnet and it's a generator.

Neodymium Magnet

How to make

Crafting table: neodymium x1 + iron ingot x2 (makes 2)

Sells for

563 yen (Trader)

In real life

A very strong magnet of neodymium, iron, and boron. It was invented in Japan.

Solder an IC Chip onto a Printed Circuit Board (a board of glass cloth soaked in resin, with copper wiring) to make an Electronic Circuit. It goes into almost everything: generators, batteries, LEDs, wind and hydro.

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Printed Circuit Board

How to make

Crafting table: glass x1 + resin (plastic) x1 + copper ingot x1 (makes 2)

Sells for

127 yen (Trader)

In real life

Copper wiring is made on a board of glass cloth soaked in resin.

Electronic Circuit

How to make

Crafting table: printed circuit board x1 + IC chip x1 + solder x1

Sells for

725 yen (Trader)

In real life

Parts like IC chips are soldered onto a printed circuit board.

What is inside a battery: lithium and aluminum foil for the plus side, graphite and copper foil for the minus side, with a resin separator between them. 3 cells make one Battery.

Add silver and aluminum electrodes to a Silicon Wafer to make a Solar Cell (it makes electricity when light hits it; made in the Chip Factory). Connect cells with copper, cover the front with glass, frame it in aluminum and seal it in resin for a Solar Panel. 2 panels make a Solar Generator, 6 an Advanced Solar Generator.

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Solar Cell

How to make

Chip Factory: silicon wafer x4 + silver ingot x1 + aluminum ingot x1 (makes 4)

Sells for

746 yen (Trader)

In real life

Silver electrodes go on the front of the wafer and aluminum on the back. When light hits it, it makes power.

Solar Panel

How to make

Crafting table: glass x3 + solar cell x2 + copper wire x1 + aluminum ingot x2 + resin (plastic) x1

Sells for

4,162 yen (Trader)

In real life

The front is glass. Cells are linked with copper, wrapped in resin, and set in an aluminum frame.

Chips made from a Silicon Wafer in the Chip Factory (a making machine). The LED Chip grows gallium nitride that glows blue (the blue LED is a Japanese invention) and goes into the Blue LED. The IC Chip has many layers of fine circuits and goes into Electronic Circuits. IC Chips can also be made in the Chip Making Machine (8 from one wafer) and in the Chipmaker's factory.

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LED Chip

How to make

Chip Factory: silicon wafer x1 + gallium x1 + resin (plastic) x1 (makes 4)

Sells for

321 yen (Trader)

In real life

Made by growing gallium nitride on a silicon wafer. The blue LED was invented in Japan.

IC Chip

How to make

Chip Factory: silicon wafer x1 + copper ingot x1 + resin (plastic) x1 (makes 4)

Sells for

69 yen (Trader)

In real life

Made by stacking many layers of very fine circuits on a silicon wafer.

The path from sand (quartz) to a semiconductor wafer. Metallic Silicon = 2 sand or nether quartz and 1 coal or charcoal in the Silicon Arc Furnace (it uses a lot of power; power is expensive in Japan, so all metallic silicon is imported) -> Polysilicon = refined to a higher purity in the Refiner -> Silicon Wafer = sliced thin with a diamond wire in the Wafer Saw (4 wafers from one). Graphite is made from 2 coal heated to about 3000 degrees in the Silicon Arc Furnace; it goes into battery minus electrodes and the electrodes for steelmaking and metallic silicon.

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Metallic Silicon

How to make

Silicon Arc Furnace: sand x2 + coal x1 / Silicon Arc Furnace: sand x2 + charcoal x1 / Silicon Arc Furnace: nether quartz x2 + coal x1 / Silicon Arc Furnace: nether quartz x2 + charcoal x1

Sells for

62 yen (Trader)

In real life

Quartz (sand) is heated very hot with carbon in a silicon arc furnace. It uses lots of power. Power is expensive in Japan, so all metallic silicon is imported.

Polysilicon

How to make

Refiner: metallic silicon x1

Sells for

74 yen (Trader)

In real life

Makes metallic silicon even purer (used for solar cells and chips).

Silicon Wafer

How to make

Wafer Saw: polysilicon x1 (makes 4)

Sells for

22 yen (Trader)

In real life

A block of silicon is sliced thin with a wire coated in diamond grit.

Graphite

How to make

Silicon Arc Furnace: coal x2

Sells for

120 yen (Trader)

In real life

Made by heating carbon to about 3,000 degrees in an electric furnace. It becomes the minus side of batteries.

Scrap iron is used iron (building steel frames, cars, appliances, cans and so on); about a quarter of Japan's steel is made by melting scrap with electricity. The other seven are how the iron looks as it changes at each step inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine (charging -> melting -> tapping -> ladle refining -> continuous casting -> cutting -> cooling bed). Iron tools, armor, rails, buckets, iron bars, cauldrons, hoppers, minecarts, anvils and so on can go straight into the machine as scrap.

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Scrap Iron

How to make

Used iron (iron tools, armor, rails, buckets, iron bars, cauldrons, hoppers, minecarts, anvils, etc.). It goes straight into the Electric Steelmaking Machine

In real life

Used iron (building steel frames, cars, appliances, cans, etc.). About a quarter of Japan's steel is made by melting scrap iron with electricity.

Scrap Bucket

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 2 "Charging"

In real life

A big basket of scrap iron carried over the electric furnace by an overhead crane. Its bottom opens to drop it into the furnace.

Molten Steel

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 3 "Melting"

In real life

Steel melted at about 1,600 degrees by arcs between the electrodes and the scrap. The graphite electrodes wear down a little too.

Ladle of Molten Steel

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 4 "Tapping"

In real life

The furnace tilts to pour the molten steel into a big pot called a ladle (tapping).

Refined Molten Steel

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 5 "Ladle Refining"

In real life

In the ladle furnace, thin electrodes keep it warm while the composition is adjusted.

Hot Billet

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 6 "Continuous Casting"

In real life

Continuous casting: it's cooled and hardened in a copper mold into long billets. It's still glowing red.

Cut Billet

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 7 "Cutting"

In real life

A gas flame cuts it to set lengths.

Cooled Billet

How to make

Made automatically inside the Electric Steelmaking Machine at step 8 "Cooling Bed"

In real life

It cools slowly on the cooling bed. A black oxide skin (scale) forms on the surface.

How the material looks as it changes at each step inside the Metallic Silicon Machine (weighing -> charging -> reduction -> tapping -> ladle refining -> casting -> cooling -> crushing). Finally it is screened to an even size (10 to 100 mm) and becomes Metallic Silicon.

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Mixed Charge

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 1 "Weighing"

In real life

Silica (quartz) and charcoal are weighed and mixed in set amounts.

Furnace Charge

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 2 "Charging"

In real life

The charging machine scoops from the raw material bins, puts it in the furnace, and stirs it (stoking).

Molten Silicon

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 3 "Reduction"

In real life

Heated close to 2,000 degrees under the electrodes, carbon takes the oxygen from the quartz (SiO2 + 2C -> Si + 2CO).

Ladle of Silicon

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 4 "Tapping"

In real life

The tap hole opens and the molten silicon pours into a ladle.

Refined Silicon

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 5 "Ladle Refining"

In real life

Oxygen and air are blown in to remove impurities (calcium, aluminum) as slag.

Cast Silicon

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 6 "Casting"

In real life

The ladle tilts to pour it into molds.

Metal Silicon Lump

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 7 "Cooling"

In real life

It cools and hardens in the mold. A bluish silver.

Crushed Metal Silicon

How to make

Made automatically inside the Metallic Silicon Machine at step 8 "Crushing"

In real life

A crusher breaks it up. Then sieves sort it by size (10 to 100 mm).

Spent Fuel is fuel (fuel assemblies) that has been used up in a reactor. It collects in the Spent Fuel Pool behind the BWR and can be taken out with a right-click (you can also carry it in a Transport Cask). Take it to the Reprocessor's plant or the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine and it passes through the other four forms (shearing -> dissolving -> separation -> purification) to become MOX Powder and the rest.

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Spent Fuel

How to make

Spent fuel from a reactor (collects in a waste container). It goes into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine still in the waste container (as many as it holds)

In real life

Fuel used up in a reactor (fuel assemblies). It's cooled in a water pool for years, then taken to the reprocessing plant. It goes into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine still in its waste container.

Sheared Fuel

How to make

Made automatically inside the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine at step 2 "Shearing"

In real life

A shearing machine cuts the fuel assemblies into 3 to 4 cm pieces. The fuel inside comes out.

Dissolved Fuel Solution

How to make

Made automatically inside the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine at step 3 "Dissolving"

In real life

The cut fuel is dissolved in nitric acid: a liquid with uranium, plutonium, and fission products mixed. The cladding that doesn't dissolve is taken out as metal scraps.

Separated Solution

How to make

Made automatically inside the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine at step 4 "Separation"

In real life

An organic liquid is mixed in to separate uranium and plutonium from the fission products (solvent extraction).

Purified Solution

How to make

Made automatically inside the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine at step 5 "Purification"

In real life

Uranium and plutonium are each purified once more.

Builds the boiler side of a coal-fired power plant in one go. The spot you right-click becomes the middle of the front row of the area. It builds the coal feed line (coal yard -> belt conveyor -> coal mill), the furnace and burner panel, the steam drum, the flue gas line (DeNOx unit, electrostatic precipitator, FGD unit, chimney), feedwater, the thermal control panel with the station power panel right below it, and the small parts (coal pipes, the furnace ash hopper, heat transfer tubes). It doesn't build the turbine building, so use it with the Turbine Builder (the same building as the BWR). The Machine Maker sells these two and the Transformer & Switchyard Builder (Compact), three builders, as a coal-fired plant (320 kW).

Where coal is stored. Hold coal and right-click to put it in; the pile grows (up to 64 per yard). If an empty belt conveyor is next to it, it sends one piece per second. Stacking coal yards makes a silo, and coal on upper levels drops down. Lump coal isn't sent through pipes (as in a real plant: lumps travel on conveyors, and only powder goes through pipes).

The belt conveyor carries coal from the coal yard to the pulverizer (you can see coal moving on it). The pulverizer grinds coal into a powder like flour (it burns all at once and evenly). It holds up to 8 pieces' worth of powder and blows it with air through the coal pipe to the burners (the pipe shows powder flowing while it runs). All of these run on power: they stop if the station power panel has no power.

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Belt Conveyor

Coal Mill

Coal Pipe

Where coal is burned to turn water into steam. Pulverized coal is blown in from the burner panel, and when lit, flames reach into the furnace (twice as big on high output). The heat transfer tubes are bundles of tubes that pass the fire's heat to the water and steam (in a real boiler even the walls and ceiling are tubes). Heavy ash from the burnt coal falls into the hopper at the bottom of the furnace. The steam drum is a thick drum that separates steam from water; it is where feedwater comes in and where the steam pipe starts (while firing, the connected steam pipe glows white). You can see the fire through the furnace window.

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Boiler Casing

Furnace Window

Boiler Furnace

Burner Panel

Steam Drum

Furnace Ash Hopper

Heat Transfer Tubes

Three stages that clean smoke before it goes out. DeNOx unit = turns NOx (nitrogen oxides) into nitrogen and water with ammonia -> electrostatic precipitator = collects fine ash with static electricity -> FGD unit = removes SOx (sulfur oxides) with limestone water -> out through the chimney. The ash collected by the precipitator (fly ash, a raw material for cement) and the gypsum made by desulfurization (a material for plasterboard) build up one for every 5 coal (up to 20) and can be taken out with an empty hand by right-clicking. Burning always leaves something behind; using it instead of throwing it away is part of thermal power today.

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DeNOx Unit

Electrostatic Precipitator

FGD Unit

Chimney

Chimney Top

Gypsum

Fly Ash

The switch for a thermal power plant. It runs when you send power by wire to the station power panel next to it (right below it if you used the builder): the conveyors, the pulverizer and ignition all need power. Right-click to start (ignite) or stop (put out the fire), and to switch output between low (about 130 kW) and high (about 240 kW). Before starting, it checks the power, the key parts (steam drum, furnace, pulverizer, coal yard), feedwater, the pulverized coal path and the coal, and refuses with the reason if anything is missing. While running, it watches and shows coal feed, feedwater, the coal path, the steam path and the flue gas.

Builds a turbine building in one go (for both thermal and BWR plants). The spot you right-click becomes the middle of the front row. The turbine (3 x 3 x 5), bearing pedestals and generator (3 x 3 x 3) line up on the turbine pedestal, with the condenser (3 blocks) right under the turbine, the circulating water pump beside it (with intake water below) and the feedwater pipe to the condenser, and the condensate pump in front. At the Generator Terminal past the generator (the green port at the bottom of the generator's end), the Transformer & Switchyard Builder (Compact) can build the step-up transformer and switchyard. It doesn't build a reactor or boiler: use it together with the BWR reactor builder or the Thermal Boiler Builder, and connect them with steam pipes.

Builds a compact step-up transformer and switchyard at the exit of a thermal or BWR plant in one go. Right-click the Generator Terminal of a turbine building (the green port at the bottom of the generator's end), and in front of it a row is built: the Plant Inlet (green port) with the Isolated Phase Bus Terminal Box, the Generator Step-up Transformer, the Gas Circuit Breaker, the Line Take-off Structure and the Plant Outlet (green port) (3 blocks wide, 4 high, 8 blocks from the Generator Terminal to the Plant Outlet). There is a one-block gap between the Generator Terminal and the Plant Inlet: connect them with two wires (in front of the terminal and below it). If the space in front is blocked, right-click open ground: the Plant Inlet and terminal box go where you clicked, with the same row behind them (connect a wire from the Generator Terminal to the Plant Inlet's green port). Power goes in only at the Plant Inlet's green port and out only at the Plant Outlet's green port: run a wire from the Plant Outlet to a house or a transmission line. The step-up transformer raises the voltage of the generator's power (about 20,000 V) to send it far (transformation), and the switchyard (gas circuit breaker and take-off structure) connects and disconnects transmission lines. While the connected generator is producing, the transformer's fans turn and the indicator lamps are red (running, closed); when it stops they are green (stopped, open). Right-click each piece of equipment for an explanation at the bottom center of the screen. It comes in the Machine Maker's thermal and BWR sets (three builders). If you built in the wrong place, undo it with the Builder Undo.

Parts for building by hand. The turbine is 3 x 3 x 5: turbine bearings at both ends of the 3-block hollow inside, surrounded by casing, structural glass and the steam inlet. The structural glass is a window that shows the blades spinning inside. The turbine steam inlet sits right above a turbine bearing and is where the steam pipe ends. Outside the bearing, two bearing pedestals, then a generator bearing, then the 3 x 3 x 3 generator in a row carry the rotation to the generator. The turbine pedestal is the reinforced concrete base for the turbine and generator (in a real plant too, the condenser sits between the pedestal's columns, right under the turbine).

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Turbine Casing Panel

Turbine Bearing

Structural Glass

Turbine Steam Inlet

Bearing Pedestal

Generator Casing

Generator Bearing

Turbine Pedestal

The generator terminal is where the power made goes out to the wire (320 kW per generator = 320 solar generators' worth). Right-click for a monitor of rotation speed (1500 rpm) and output; sneak and right-click for the battery panel. On the Town Power Monitor it appears as "nuclear turbine" or "thermal turbine". The stator coil is the winding inside the generator: while generating, its three sets light up in turn, showing three-phase AC being made in sequence (right-click to see which phase).

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Generator Terminal

Stator Coil

The steam pipe connects the main steam nozzle (BWR) or the steam drum (thermal) to the turbine steam inlet. Putting the nozzle and inlet directly against each other doesn't carry steam (you need at least one pipe). The water pipe carries water and connects pumps, condensers, condensate storage tanks, reactor nozzles and steam drums (its core glows while water flows). Both connect when placed next to each other.

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Steam Pipe

You get it

When you take the quest “Run a thermal plant”, “Run a nuclear plant” (with the phone started)

Mission

Handed out in “Power to Homes” mission 3 (teacher tablet training)

Water Pipe

You get it

When you take the quest “Run a thermal plant”, “Run a nuclear plant” (with the phone started)

Mission

Handed out in “Power to Homes” mission 3 (teacher tablet training)

All of these pumps run on power (feedwater 0.3 kW, circulating water 0.6 kW, condensate 0.2 kW). Port colors: green ports are for wires and light blue ports for water pipes (a water pipe doesn't connect to a pump's green port, and a wire doesn't connect to its light blue port). Even with a wire connected, a pump doesn't run if the network's generation is less than the power it uses (the screen shows the network's generation and the power used). The water pump pushes water into the reactor or boiler (if it keeps pumping raw water from the sea or a river, it clogs with debris and shellfish: right-click to clean it). The High-Performance Pump does the same job and doesn't clog (right-click for a comparison table). The circulating water pump, the biggest pump in the plant, sends cold sea or river water to the condenser. The condensate pump sends water from the bottom of the condenser to the water pump (without power, the water from the condenser beyond it doesn't come back).

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Water Pump

High-Performance Pump

Circulating Water Pump (CWP)

Condensate Pump

The condenser cools the steam that has finished turning the turbine with cold water, turning it back into water (3 blocks make one condenser; while the turbine is turning, the tubes and the water flow inside the window move). It cools if there is water around it or a circulating water pump is connected by water pipe. Cooled, it makes the fuel last longer. Connect water pipes to the light-blue ports at both ends. The condensate storage tank holds clean water (pure water) that is safe to put in the reactor. It is for starting up and goes down during operation: to keep running, make a closed loop where water comes back from the condenser (condenser -> condensate pump -> water pump -> reactor). Right-click to see the water left and whether the loop is closed.

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Condenser

Condensate Storage Tank

The panel where power enters the plant. Until it is running, a power plant can't do anything without borrowing power from outside. Place it next to the main control panel (BWR) or the thermal control panel (right below it if you used a builder) and send power to it by wire from an outside generator. The BWR's own power use (the main control panel and pumps) totals about 2.2 kW, so one generator may not be enough. It passes power through, so it doesn't stop power if placed partway along a line.

Builds everything around the reactor in one go. The spot you right-click becomes the middle of the front row. It builds the pressure vessel (5 x 5 x 8, with viewing windows) with two fuel assemblies and a control rod inside, the control rod drive room, the steam separator and steam dryer, the main control panel in front with the station power panel right below it, the emergency diesel generator, two recirculation pumps on the left and right, the water pump, condensate storage tank and water pipes on the right, and the fuel tank, spent fuel pool and fuel pipes at the back (you place the steam pipe from the main steam nozzle to the turbine yourself). Uranium fuel and the turbine building aren't included. A newly built reactor always starts in "Shut down (control rods fully inserted)". The Machine Maker sells it together with the Turbine Builder and the Transformer & Switchyard Builder (Compact), three builders, as a BWR plant (320 kW).

The outermost guard that holds the water and steam inside at high pressure. Only when the base, body and dome are complete without a single missing block is the "structure complete". The curved corner shows the roundness of the cylinder, and the shielding window is a wall you can see through while it blocks radiation (the builder uses it for everything except the corners and nozzles). The control rod drive room under the pressure vessel holds the machines that move the control rods in and out (BWR control rods enter from below because of this room).

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RPV Shell

RPV Corner

RPV Dome

Shielding Window

CRD Housing

The reactor nozzle is where water goes into the reactor, and it is also the operator's small control panel (connect water pipes here; hold uranium fuel and right-click to load it; right-click with an empty hand for fuel, temperature, water level, feedwater and core flow). Even during an emergency shutdown, you can restart from here once it has cooled. The main steam nozzle is the outlet for the boiled steam, where the steam pipe starts (on the side, as in a real plant). The recirculation nozzle is the thick port the recirculation pump connects to.

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Reactor Nozzle

Main Steam Nozzle

Recirculation Nozzle

Freshly boiled steam carries water droplets. The steam separator spins it to separate the water and send it back to the reactor, and the steam dryer removes the last moisture by passing it between corrugated plates. Only dry steam goes to the turbine, so the blades aren't worn away by droplets. With both, the reactor nozzle screen shows a "dryness" of 99.9% (it can still generate power without them).

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Steam Separator

Steam Dryer

The plant's central control room. It shows the current state and what to do next, so look here first when you're unsure. Button 1 = start (withdraw control rods) / stop; button 2 = SCRAM (emergency shutdown) / reset. Starting works only when the structure is complete, there is fuel and water, spent fuel hasn't built up too much in the reactor, SCRAM is reset and station power is available, and in addition a turbine is connected by steam pipe from the main steam nozzle, its condenser is cooled, and there is a loop returning water from the condenser to feedwater (condenser -> water pump -> reactor). If anything is missing, pressing it doesn't start the reactor and shows what to do next.

The column at the center of the reactor. Only when a control rod sits on top of two fuel assemblies is it recognized as a reactor. The fuel makes heat, and the control rod holds back the fission. The position goes from notch 00 (fully inserted) to 48 (fully withdrawn), read the same way as in a real control room. A normal withdrawal takes about 8.5 seconds; an emergency shutdown drives them in all at once in about 1.5 seconds. The reactor's records (fuel, temperature, water level and so on) are tied to the control rod's position: breaking the control rod erases the records.

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Control Rod

Fuel Assembly

One uranium fuel runs the reactor for 4 minutes, and the reactor can hold up to 5 (20 minutes) (it lasts longer if the condenser lets you reuse water). Sold by the Trader (all uranium ore is imported). The fuel tank holds up to 10; connected to the reactor by fuel pipe, it sends one automatically when the reactor drops below one. The fuel pipe also carries used fuel to the spent fuel pool (or a transport cask).

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Uranium Dioxide Fuel

Where to buy

Trader 2,000 yen

Sells for

600 yen (Trader)

Mission

Handed out in “Power to Homes” mission 3 (teacher tablet training)

Fuel Tank

Fuel Pipe

A pump that circulates the water in the reactor and sweeps away the bubbles around the fuel: this is how a BWR changes its output. Send it power by wire (0.5 kW) and right-click to switch the flow between low, medium and high. Without power, natural circulation gives half the output. If they all stop during operation, the reactor quiets itself even without moving the control rods.

A thick container for carrying spent fuel (up to 20). Connected to the reactor by fuel pipe, it collects used fuel. Right-clicking only shows what is inside (it doesn't empty it). When full, the band on the lid turns red. Break it to carry it with its contents (the count is written on it); place it again and it keeps collecting. You can take the cask as it is to the Reprocessor, the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine, or the receiving pool of a hand-built reprocessing plant. The BWR builder puts a spent fuel pool behind the reactor (right-click it to take out all the fuel inside).

The reactor's emergency power supply (not a generator for selling power). It normally sleeps, and wakes up by itself to generate (2.4 kW) when a reactor within 16 blocks has an emergency shutdown or gives off decay heat. It is a backup to keep the main control panel and pumps running even if outside power stops. The BWR builder builds it near the station power panel, together with a wire. There is no fueling to do.

A drill tool that causes a simulated earthquake. Using it shakes the screen with a rumble, shows "high acceleration trip" to players nearby, and every running reactor shuts down on the spot. You can then practice checking that the emergency diesel generator starts up properly.

Builds the whole set of equipment inside the containment (4 loops): the reactor vessel (with shielding glass windows), 4 steam generators, 4 reactor coolant pumps, the pressurizer, the volume control tank, the boric acid batching tank, the main control panel with the station power panel, and the primary coolant piping. When it is finished, chat tells you where the pipe outlets (main steam and feedwater) come out of the front wall and where the main control panel is. Fuel assemblies and boric acid (powder) aren't included: load them yourself. Sneak and right-click to read about the team mission crews. The Machine Maker sells it with the turbine-generator and transformer/switchyard builders as a PWR plant (400 kW).

An upright cylindrical vessel where uranium fission heats the primary water (without boiling it). The Reactor Vessel block is the center of the plant: right-click it with an empty hand to see the primary pressure and temperature. The shell is steel about 26 cm thick, and the bottom head is the hemispherical bottom (the in-core instrument guide tubes come out the bottom here, a shape unique to PWRs). The control rod drive mechanisms stand on the head. Breaking part of the vessel during operation counts as a loss of coolant and causes an emergency shutdown.

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Reactor Vessel

Reactor Vessel Shell

Reactor Vessel Corner

Reactor Vessel Bottom Head

Reactor Vessel Head

Vessel Shell (Rounded)

Shielding glass is a viewing window that blocks radiation while letting you see the core (in a real plant, thick glass with lead in it). The builder opens a window in the middle of each side of the reactor, so you can see the height of the fuel assemblies and the control rod clusters. Inspection window glass is a window for seeing inside equipment.

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Shielding Glass

Inspection Window Glass

A column of fuel rods bundled in a 17 x 17 grid that gives off the heat of fission (a real plant lines up 193 columns about 4 m tall). With it in your inventory, press "Load fuel (crane)" on the main control panel: one loads 9 assemblies' worth (2 levels of the core). Two loads make 18 = full, and the head closes automatically.

The rod cluster hangs thin rods like spider legs and inserts them into the core from above (different from the BWR's cross-shaped control rods, and inserted the opposite way). The control rod drive mechanism is a tube standing on the head; a magnetic jack moves the drive shaft inside up and down one step at a time by re-gripping it. In an emergency shutdown the magnets are released and the rods drop all at once under their own weight. Placing one gives you 2 blocks.

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Control Rod Cluster

Control Rod Drive Mechanism (2-block set)

The in-core instrument guide tube measures uneven power in the core from below (in a PWR the control rods enter from above, so the bottom is free for this shape). Primary coolant is the water in the reactor vessel. It is pressurized to 155 bar, so it doesn't boil even at 320 degrees: that is where the name "pressurized water reactor" comes from. It is the block you see inside through the windows.

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In-core Instrument Guide Tube

Primary Coolant

Light level

4

The red primary piping and the ports that connect pipes to vessels. Hot radioactive water (320 degrees) passes through, always in a closed loop back to the reactor. If the steam generators, pressurizer and reactor coolant pumps aren't connected with red piping, "the primary loop is broken" appears and it can't run. The reactor coolant pump keeps circulating water between the reactor and the steam generators. The flywheel on its motor keeps it turning by momentum even if power is lost, protecting the core. Placing one gives you 7 blocks.

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Primary Coolant Pipe

Primary Coolant Nozzle

Reactor Coolant Pump (7-block set)

The heart of a PWR, where the primary heat boils the secondary water. Primary water flows only inside the tubes (heat transfer tubes) and doesn't mix with the water outside: radioactive water goes no further than here. It is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top because the top needs room for the steam separators and moisture separators. The head is the main steam outlet. A real one is 21 m tall and stands higher than the reactor vessel.

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Steam Generator Lower Shell

Steam Generator Shell

Steam Generator Shell (Corner)

Steam Generator Jacket (Rounded)

Steam Generator Cone

Steam Generator Upper Shell

Steam Generator Head

A tall vessel (only one) that pressurizes the primary loop so it doesn't boil. From the bottom up it holds heaters -> water -> the water surface -> steam -> spray. Heating the water swells the steam above the surface and raises the pressure; spraying cold water lowers it. Placing the upper head adds the safety valves, relief valves, manhole, instruments and spray nozzle. The relief tank turns steam released from the valves back into water.

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Pressurizer Shell

Pressurizer Jacket (Round)

Pressurizer Interior

Pressurizer Upper Head (Top Set)

Pressurizer Relief Tank

A system that takes out and puts back a little primary water at a time, keeping its cleanliness and amount. In a newly built plant, while it is cold and stopped, right-click the volume control tank to fill the primary loop with pure water (filling; not needed the second time). Diluting the boron is done from here too. The charging pump is a high-pressure pump that pushes the tank's water back into the primary loop.

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Volume Control Tank (CVCS)

Charging Pump (CVCS)

Boric acid absorbs neutrons: a "chemical control rod". Hold boric acid (powder) and right-click the batching tank to dissolve it in warm water into boric acid solution (up to 4 batches). Each startup uses one batch. Without the tank or without boric acid solution, the main control panel won't start the plant. Place it next to the volume control tank.

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Boric Acid Batching Tank (2-block set)

Boric Acid (powder)

Where pipes pass through the containment wall. This is the only place allowed to go through the wall, and only secondary pipes pass through it.

The secondary pipes. The main steam pipe carries steam from the steam generator heads to the turbine (its port is the orange main steam nozzle). The feedwater pipe returns water condensed in the condenser to the steam generators through the condensate pumps, heaters and feedwater pumps (its port is the light-blue feedwater nozzle). Between the reactor builder and the turbine-generator builder, you lay these two pipes yourself. If the feedwater pipe isn't connected, the main control panel won't let you raise output.

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Main Steam Pipe

Main Steam Nozzle

Feedwater Pipe

Feedwater Nozzle

The main control panel is the brain of the plant. Right-click it to see the current stage, the state of the primary and secondary loops, and a "hint (what to do next)"; the button below advances to the next stage (when you can't advance, the button becomes "Refresh"). Loading and refueling, and stopping during operation (SCRAM), are here too. The station power panel, placed right below the main control panel, receives power by wire from outside power plants (if it is missing, has no wire or has no power, the reason is shown and you can't go on).

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Main Control Panel

Station Power Panel (PWR)

Builds the whole row of turbine building equipment: the shaft line of main steam stop valve and control valves -> high-pressure turbine -> (moisture separator reheaters on both sides) -> 3 low-pressure turbines -> generator -> exciter, the condenser right below, the feedwater line (condensate pumps, feedwater heaters, deaerator, feedwater pumps), the circulating water pumps, intake and discharge, and the generator's terminal box and isolated phase bus. When it is finished, chat tells you where to use the transformer/switchyard builder next. Sneak and right-click to choose "full set" or "leave the connections" (the 6 circulating water pipe risers are placed by hand = the turbine crew) (during team missions it leaves them automatically).

Connect the main steam pipe to the turbine steam inlet. From there it passes the valves to the high-pressure turbine. The stop valve shuts off all steam in an emergency, and the control valve adjusts the amount of steam to match the output. The valve actuator is the hydraulic moving part that opens and closes the valves; on a trip signal they all close at once.

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Turbine Steam Inlet

Main Steam Stop & Control Valves

Valve Actuator

The first turbine to spin, on steam from the steam generators. The steam that leaves it has its moisture removed and is reheated in the moisture separator reheaters, then passes to the low-pressure turbines through the crossover pipe (the thick gold pipe).

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High-Pressure Turbine Casing

HP Turbine Casing (Round)

Crossover Pipe

A long cylinder (on both sides of the shaft line) that removes droplets from the steam leaving the high-pressure turbine and reheats it. Wet steam would damage the low-pressure turbine blades. Droplets hit the zigzag of corrugated plates (the moisture separator element) and fall off, and main steam passing inside the reheater tube bundle reheats the steam outside. A quiet piece of equipment with no moving parts.

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Moisture Separator Reheater

MSR Shell (Round)

MSR End Nozzles

Moisture Separator Element (Chevron)

Reheater Tube Bundle

Three of them squeeze out the power left in the steam. Through the window you can see rows of blades, getting larger stage by stage, spinning. The steam that leaves goes back to water in the condenser right below.

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Low-Pressure Turbine Casing

LP Turbine Casing (Round)

The bearing pedestal rises from the floor and holds the rotating shaft on a film of oil (the metal parts never touch). Placing one gives you 3 blocks, and breaking any one removes them all. The shaft gland is where the shaft passes through the end wall of the casing: a seal that lets the shaft through without leaking steam.

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Bearing Pedestal (3-block set)

Shaft Gland (casing end wall)

The vessel right under the low-pressure turbines that cools steam with seawater and turns it back into water. Inside is a vacuum, so the steam flows in easily. The waterboxes are the seawater inlet and outlet (sneak and right-click with an empty hand to switch the whole set between inlet and outlet). Seawater flows inside the thin tubes and cools the steam outside them (a real condenser has over 10,000 tubes). The tubesheet is the thick plate the tubes are fixed into. The water collects in the hotwell and is sent out by the condensate pumps. Without a condenser, the main control panel won't let the turbine turn.

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Condenser

Condenser Shell

Condenser Shell (Flare)

Condenser Water Box

Condenser Tube Bundle

Condenser Tubesheet

Hotwell Condensate

Condensing Steam

The feedwater line that sends the secondary water, now water again, back to the steam generators. The condensate pump draws water from the bottom of the condenser, the LP feedwater heater warms it with steam taken from partway through the turbine, the deaerator removes the oxygen dissolved in it (left in, it would rust the pipes), the feedwater pump sends it on, and the HP feedwater heater warms it further. The warmer the water when it goes back, the more efficient the power generation.

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Condensate Pump

LP Feedwater Heater

Deaerator

Feedwater Pump

HP Feedwater Heater

The third loop of water (circulating water). The intake takes in water from the sea, and its bar screen stops debris: it isn't cooling water unless water (sea or river) touches it within 2 blocks to the side or below. The circulating water pump lifts the water and sends it through the circulating water pipe to the condenser's waterboxes, and the warmed water (about 7 degrees warmer in a real plant) goes back to the sea through the outfall. Seawater and secondary water never mix.

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Circulating Water Pump (3-block set)

Circulating Water Pipe

Water Intake (Bar Screen)

Discharge Outfall

The machine that turns on the same shaft as the turbine and makes electricity (a real one is cooled inside with hydrogen). The stator is the part that doesn't turn, with coils in an iron core; when the rotor (a spinning magnet) turns inside, electricity is made in the coils. Through the window you can see it turning and the copper-colored coils.

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Generator Casing

Generator Casing (Round)

Generator Stator (Core / Coil End)

A small generator (at the very end of the shaft line) that supplies the power for the generator's magnet. A rotating rectifier turns it into DC to strengthen the rotor's magnet. It has no brushes, so there are no sparks. Without it, the generator makes no power even when it turns.

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Exciter

Exciter Casing (Rounded)

Exciter Armature (Rotating Rectifier)

The terminal box is the end of the stator windings, where the generated power comes out (right-click for the output and the stored power). The isolated-phase bus carries the generator's power (about 20,000 V) to the main transformer, with each phase in its own aluminum tube: three in a row. Its shape (straight, vertical, bend, T) is decided just by placing it; sneak and right-click with an empty hand to switch the phase between A, B and C. The phase marker plate shows the phase at a glance (red = A, white = B, blue = C).

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Generator Terminal Box (Power Outlet, per phase)

Isolated-Phase Bus

Phase Marker Plate (A red / B white / C blue)

Builds the whole place that sends the plant's power out to the transmission lines: main transformer -> outdoor switchyard (3 buses, 2 circuits) -> transmission tower, in that order. The spot you right-click becomes the middle of the front row. Use it where chat tells you after using the turbine-generator builder. Sneak and right-click to choose "leave the connections" (the 3 isolated phase bus drops are placed by hand = the power line crew) (during team missions it leaves them automatically).

Raises the generator's 20,000 V or so to a high voltage for transmission (275,000 to 500,000 V). The tank is full of insulating oil, cooled by the radiator's fins and fans (the fans turn only while generating). The conservator gives the oil room to expand and shrink. The LV bushing receives the isolated-phase bus; the HV bushing is the outlet to the transmission line. The builder builds the full set; blocks you place by hand become the parts for any missing spots and repair it.

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Main Transformer Tank

Main Transformer LV Bushing

Main Transformer Radiator (OFAF fan)

Main Transformer Conservator

Main Transformer HV Bushing

Main Transformer Nameplate

Main Transformer Manhole

Outdoor equipment that gathers the plant's power and distributes it to each transmission line. The gantry is the steel frame that holds the buses and incoming lines in the air; the bus is an aluminum tube that connects just by placing it. The circuit breaker is the only machine that can cut a line while current is flowing (in an accident it cuts in about 0.05 seconds). The disconnector opens after the current is cut to make a "visible gap". The current and voltage transformers measure current and voltage and send them to the protective relays, and the surge arrester sends lightning's high voltage into the ground. The control building, with protective relay panels and batteries, is the brain of the switchyard.

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Switchyard Gantry

Switchyard Bus

Circuit Breaker (4-block set)

Disconnector (4-block set)

Current / Voltage Transformer (4-block set)

Lightning Arrester (4-block set)

Switchyard Relay House

Placing one tower gives you a 26-block, 2-circuit tower. Place an overhead power line right below the hanging fitting at the tip of a crossarm and it connects (6 hanging points = in a real tower, 3 lines make one circuit). The overhead line carries power like a wire on the ground (in ENECRA it all flows as one). From the switchyard, along the towers, to the town's substations and homes. The tower's steel frame doesn't conduct power.

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Transmission Tower (26-block set)

Overhead Power Line

The parts in this chapter are for a reprocessing plant you build by placing parts by hand (the plant's shape from an earlier version). The main ways to reprocess are the Reprocessor in town (bring spent fuel) and the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Machine. The Reprocessing Control Panel is the plant's switch and receives power when you connect a wire. Right-click it to run the 6 steps in order over about 20 seconds (auto-run). Before running, it checks that all the plant's parts are there (it tells you what is missing), that there are at least 5 fuel assemblies in the pool, and that at least 60 J of power is stored. It searches for parts within 18 blocks of the panel, so put the panel in the middle of the plant.

The receiving pool is the plant's entrance. Hold a transport cask or spent fuel and right-click it, and the fuel sinks into the water (the cask comes back to you empty; up to 20; 5 are used per run). The transport cask in this chapter is a decoration for the plant's look (the cask that carries fuel is the one in the BWR chapter). The travelling crane is a carriage that runs above the pool and carries the fuel to the shear during auto-run.

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Receiving Storage Pool

Transport Cask

Travelling Crane

The shearing machine cuts the incoming fuel assemblies into 3 to 4 cm pieces (the blade appears when you place it). The pieces fall down a chute into the dissolver. Metal pieces that don't dissolve, such as cladding, collect in the metal scrap container. The dissolver dissolves the cut fuel in nitric acid. From here on, everything moves as liquid.

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Shearing Machine

Dissolver

The centrifugal extractor spins to separate the mixed liquid into uranium, plutonium and fission products, and the separation tower receives them. The purification towers clean the separated uranium and plutonium. In the game you can tell them apart by color (yellow = uranium, purple = plutonium, green = fission products).

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Centrifugal Extractor

Separation Tower

Purification Tower

The denitration furnace combines the cleaned uranium and plutonium and drives off the nitric acid to make powder = MOX powder. The product storage is the shelf at the exit: right-click to take out one MOX Powder, sneak and right-click to take out one Uranium Oxide. In reality, 1,000 kg of spent fuel yields 100 kg of MOX fuel and 130 kg of recovered uranium fuel.

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Denitration Furnace

Product Storage

A furnace that melts the fission products left after separation into glass at high temperature and solidifies them, and a store for the solidified vitrified waste canisters (up to 20; right-click to take one out). Vitrified waste is meant to be cooled for 30 to 50 years and then buried deep underground (geological disposal), but the site hasn't been decided yet, so it isn't in the game either. The metal scrap container collects the metal pieces that don't dissolve from shearing (cladding and so on) (right-click to take one out).

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Vitrification Melter

Vitrified Canister Storage

Metal Scrap Container

Build the frame with steel, enclose it with wall panels, show the inside with inspection window panels, lay walkways with grating, and make the bodies of tanks and columns with vessel shells. The process pipe connects the steps; its shape changes with the directions it connects, and during auto-run you can see liquid flowing through its window (sight glass). It can pass through walls and inspection windows.

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Reprocessing Steel Frame

Reprocessing Wall Panel

Vessel Shell

Inspection Window Panel

Walkway Grating

Process Piping (with Sight Glass)

MOX powder is a mix of uranium and plutonium, and can be put into the BWR reactor nozzle to generate power (only one at a time = pluthermal). Uranium oxide is the recovered uranium (about 95% of spent fuel is still uranium). Vitrified waste and hull scrap don't go back to fuel (sort hull scrap into "Metal resources" in the Trash Bin and it becomes iron ingots again = clearance).

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MOX Powder (Mixed Oxide)

Uranium Oxide (Recovered Uranium)

Vitrified Waste Canister

Metal Scrap

Builds an electrified loop line all at once (reusable). It builds the track (two 48 m straights and two 25 m radius semicircles: about 253 m around, an area of about 56 x 99 blocks), catenary poles and beams, the overhead wire 5 m above the rails, a station with a 1 m high platform, two substations, DC and AC (connected by wire), and the dead section with signs at their boundary, and puts one commuter train (2 cars) at the station. An outline of the area appears before you place it. Under the track goes ballast that doesn't fall, and if there is water or air below, a bridge pier goes in every 8 m. Once built, connect power to a substation or the wire and trains can run.

Puts a whole train on the track (full scale: 1 block = 1 m). Right-click ENECRA track or a curve to choose "commuter train (2 cars)" or "limited express (3 cars)". Near a station it is placed with the front car beside the platform, starting with the doors open. Placed on a connected loop, it starts running on auto-run (stopping at stations with a station name sign). Trains on the same track don't collide: they wait when they get close to the train ahead. It can't be placed on track that is too short (it tells you how many more meters are needed). The builder is used up, and comes back if you undo.

Lays a 90-degree curve (25 m radius, big enough for full-scale trains to turn) from track laid by hand (reusable). Right-click the end of ENECRA track, or the middle of a straight, and choose to turn right or left. It places the curve's ballast and the track for the exit block, and if there is overhead wire above the starting track, the curve gets overhead wire too. It clears soil and stone in its way (you can undo it). It won't lay track if chests, signs or other machines are in the way. The curve is drawn track, so you can't break or place it one block at a time by hand.

ENECRA's own track that trains can run on (concrete sleepers, rails and ballast). These trains don't run on Minecraft rails. Only where overhead wire or a catenary pole with power is 1 to 5 blocks directly above do the rail heads glow yellow and trains can run. Track connects automatically to its neighbors; at a corner it looks curved, and with track one level up next to it, it becomes a slope. When you extend the track, the overhead wire and poles extend automatically. Right-click it to see whether it has power or not (on a junction block, to switch the route). A single block can't decide its direction, so lay at least two connected blocks.

Where train power starts: it receives power from a power plant and sends it to the overhead wire. There are two kinds, DC (1,500 V) and AC (20,000 V, 60 Hz). It receives power when a powered wire (from a power plant, switchyard or transmission line) connects to any of its six faces. The more power comes in, the farther along the overhead wire it reaches (in reality too, voltage drops with distance, so substations are placed every few kilometers). Two substations connected by wire share power. Right-click for receiving or blackout, the power coming in, how many blocks of overhead wire it reaches, and the power trains are using. Trains use power when they accelerate (Commuter Train 10 kW, Express Train 15 kW; 30% of that while cruising at top speed; nothing while stopped or coasting). What the generators connected to the substation can't cover comes from the surplus on the Power Company's grid, and if that's still not enough, trains run slowly.

The feeder wire is the thick power path from the substation to the catenary poles (just place it; it reaches out in the directions it connects, and the next pole gets a receiving arm). Catenary poles stacked vertically get an arm-topped head only on the top one. The catenary is the wire over the train: only 1 to 5 blocks directly below a live catenary does power flow into the track (catenaries connect to each other and to poles just by placing them, including up and down). The catenary beam is the arm that hangs the catenary from a pole. Breaking a catenary makes the catenary and track on the cut-off side disappear on the spot.

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Feeder Wire

Catenary Pole

Overhead Wire (Contact Wire)

Catenary Beam

Overhead wire without power at the boundary between DC and AC (the Electrified Line Builder places two, 8 blocks each). Trains pass through on momentum (the cab display shows "Dead section"). The signs stand beside the track at both ends of the section. The real one is north of Tsuruga Station in Japan, a little before the entrance to the Hokuriku Tunnel. The quest "Cross the AC/DC border" is cleared when you are nearby as a train passes through it.

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Dead Section (AC/DC Boundary)

Dead Section Sign

Placed near the track (within 6 blocks), it makes that spot a station. Trains on auto-run stop with the middle of the train in front of the sign, open only the doors on the platform side, and leave after a chime. Right-click it to see whether it is working as a station. Breaking it removes the station.

A door to line up along the edge of a station platform (a platform screen door). It keeps people from falling onto the tracks. When a train stopped at the station opens its doors, only the platform doors in front of those doors open at the same time, and they close when the train's doors close (a little wider than the train door: up to 1.5 blocks past each end of the door). Place them on the platform floor (1 to 3 blocks above the rails), about 2 to 4.5 blocks to the side of the track center (up to two rows back from the platform edge). They don't open for a train on the far track of an island platform. Right-click for an explanation.

Parts that support the track. The ballast is gravel that doesn't fall even with nothing under it. The bridge pier is a column that supports the track where there is water or air below. The Electrified Line Builder places them automatically, but you can place them by hand too.

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Bridge Pier

Track Ballast (Doesn't Fall)