Fuel rods, RBMK rooms, and forbidden spheres make MW. They also make heat, because nature enjoys footnotes.
The mandate
More megawatts.
A small, sharp, retro industrial builder where every helpful structure creates a new administrative personality disorder.
Ancestry, regrettably documented
A touch of C&C. A small cartoon injury report.
We wanted a hint of classic Command & Conquer in the structure language: compact industrial buildings, legible base silhouettes, the pleasant feeling that someone in a sidebar is about to approve a bad idea.
Then Happy Tree Friends wandered through the safety briefing and improved morale by making it worse. Cute forest energy. Dark outcomes. Educational, depending on what you think education is.
Operational clarity
The manual is mostly alarms.
Build fast, upgrade badly, then discover that stability is not a mood. It is a number, and it has been falling while you were reading this.
Coolant pumps, towers, and control rods keep the facility calm enough for the UI to remain polite.
Storage begins as planning. Then it becomes architecture. Then it becomes a character flaw.
Heat becomes invoices. Invoices become upgrades. Upgrades become why the siren has a second verse.
Manifest-approved hardware
Structures currently trusted by the game.
Cross-checked against the runtime asset manifest. No imaginary buildings. Those are for committees.
Fuel Rod Assembly
Cheap MW with a healthy respect for heat.
Coolant Pump
Earns credits while pretending the plan is sustainable.
Cooling Tower
A large vertical apology to thermodynamics.
Control Rod Cluster
Says no to neutrons. A rare public service.
Nuclear Waste Dump
The place where "later" gets a fence.
Containment Spire
Insurance likes exactly three. Very spiritual.
Turbine Hall
Turns useful heat into civilization's favorite grief: billing.
RBMK Control Room
Historic confidence, now clickable.
Plutonium Extractor
Revenue likes it. Stability has filed a complaint.
Thorium Breeder
Eats waste chunks and judges procurement in silence.
Demon Core
Large output. Catastrophic heat. Read the screwdriver policy never.
Solar Panel
Morally excellent. Operationally decorative.