mlieThe Natural Wells Mod adds late-game systems for producing vanilla resources through difficult, power-hungry machines built around natural wells. Steam geysers are replaced by natural wells, which no longer spawn naturally on the map and must instead be created by building and activating an excavator, then waiting 3 days.
Natural Wells Mod Features
Natural wells
Steam geysers are now natural wells. They do not spawn on the map anymore, and are created after building and activating an excavator.
Once a natural well has been created, you can build several advanced machines on it.
General content
- Geothermal generator: Provides uninterrupted electricity generation. Available in two sizes, 5×5 and 3×3, with proportional costs and power output.
- Powered drill: Produces infinite resources, including wood, chemfuel, steel, plasteel, silver, gold, jade and uranium. It requires a large amount of work and electricity, is operated by miners, and works faster when linked to a ground-penetrating scanner. Rare and precious resources are harder to extract.
- Steel extractor: Automatically produces 150 steel every two days. Requires 1200 W and deteriorates after 1 year.
- Uranium power cell: Produces 3000 W and consumes 220 uranium per year. It is destroyed if left empty and does not need to be placed on a natural well.
- Overpressure bomb: Creates a large explosion that destroys everything in a wide area. It does not trigger from damage, except EMP, and must be activated manually by colonists. Clicking the bomb shows the explosion range. Walls can protect colonists, but armor and clothing will not prevent death.
- Matrix chunks and electric stonecutter: Adds Matrix Chunks, a very resistant type of chunk that can be transformed into other blocks. Matrix Chunks can only be found in natural wells and extracted with powered drills. The electric stonecutter is required to process them, and it also cuts other chunks 3 times faster than the vanilla stonecutter. It does not need to be placed on a natural well.
Balance
The Natural Wells Mod is intended to be difficult, but not impossible to play.
Why drills produce wood fro–NO, DON’T DO THIS;
Value change suggestions are welcome in the comments.
Compatibility notes
The Natural Wells Mod is not recommended for existing saves, although it may work. It works fine with other mods, but patches are needed to add modded resources to the powered drill.
When troubleshooting the Natural Wells Mod:
- See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: Tremeloes.
