As you terraform the world ofThe Planet Crafter, you need to build bigger and stronger power systems to keep all your machines and displays running. You start out with renewable sources like wind and solar panels, but you can eventually build nuclear power plants that produce immense amounts of energy.
The ultimate power source inThe Planet Crafteris the fusion reactor, which you unlock when you reach 750 micro-Kelvin. However, the reactor doesn’t call for uranium like the nuclear reactors do. So how can you get what you need?
Fusion Reactor Basics
The basic unit of Heat inThe Planet Crafteris pico-Kelvin, and 750 micro-Kelvin is equal to 750 million pico-Kelvin. You should expect to reachthe Trees or Insects terraformation stageby the time you unlock the fusion reactor. However, you may unlock the reactor sooner if you focus on building heaters and heat-multiplying rockets.
Each fusion reactor costs five pulsar quartz and four super alloy. A single fusion reactor generates 1,485 kW, which is over four times as much energy as the nuclear reactor T2. The materials you need for a fusion reactor are almost completely different from the materials the T2 reactor demands, so there’s no real point to dismantling them. 300 kW is still significant, and since the materials the fusion reactor needs are rare, it makes sense to keep the T2 reactors around as backup.
One other way you can make the most of each fusion reactor is to build machine optimizers nearby and stock them with energy multiplier fuses. You canbuy them from the space trader for 6,000 Terra Tokens, and you can also find them in safes in procedural ruins.
Where to Get Super Alloy and Pulsar Quartz
You need super alloy in a variety of machine recipes, especially by the time you unlock the fusion reactor. However, you need a lot of it for each reactor. More importantly, you also need a special mineral called pulsar quartz, and the fusion reactor may be the first recipe you unlock that requires it. As such, you’ll need to secure a regular source of both materials if you want to build as many as you’ll need to power the late-game machines.
Super Alloy
Super alloy is the easier material to get. There are a few places you can find them, one place you can mine them, and the recipe is easy enough to unlock.
Pulsar Quartz
The first timeyou collect a piece of pulsar quartz, you get the achievement “The Pink Rare Ore.” you may eventually unlock a recipe that lets you craft it in the biolab, but until then you’ll need to hunt down the locations on the map that hold it. The ore extractor can’t generate pulsar quartz (or any kind of quartz), so you’re stuck with what’s on the map until you can unlock the recipe or start visiting procedural wrecks.
