Talk:Nether Reactor

About the nether reactor
I made the whole Nether Reactor then I spawned into the room of Netherrack. After 45 secs I got Melon Seeds, Nether Quartz and Sugar Canes only .I saw the Burnt out nether reactor which is made of 26 Obsidian and a Nether Reactor Core. I Mined netherrack to get nether brick. Minecraftaddict154 04:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Use?
I watched the video and this seems to be a way into the Nether. The Zombie Pigs are somewhat derpy, but the guy spawned in an obsidian room with Pigmen attacking him. Stpehen


 * It's a bit clearer in the second part of the video, but the reactor builds an obsidian cube around itself; there is no separate Nether dimension. -- Orthotope 05:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Tool
Something that doesn't make much sense is that although it requires at least an iron pickaxe to mine diamond, and at least a stone pickaxe to mine iron, it only takes a wooden pickaxe to mine this. It doesn't make much sense, unless this is just vandalism or misinformation, why a wooden pickaxe can mine something made out of iron and diamond. It's almost like saying an iron pickaxe can mine obsidian. #trigger_hurt (I 18:57, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably just an oversight... remember, they only just fixed the same issue for the emerald block in PC Minecraft. Report it on Mojira? --Mental Mouse 22:10, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

--Musui 15:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Reactor spawns gold?
I haven't seen the reactor spawn gold, but the spawned pigmen drop gold... is this a mistake, or is spawned gold just really rare?

The reactor des not spawn gold, just the Pigmen. Meeples10 22:09, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

What happens if you light up the reactor?
That is, as soon as that room appears, start placing torches. Does that interfere with the Pigmen spawning? --Mental Mouse 22:11, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I put down two torches in the few moments between the room appearing and items beginning to spawn. First items appeared, then three zombie pigmen appeared.  I slew them, and began to run around gathering items when three more appeared, slew them and a final three appeared before the reactor burnt out.  A steel sword was good enough to kill them easily.
 * --Musui 15:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * So, sounds like there's no particular problem with lighting the place up. Thanks! --Mental Mouse 16:23, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Loot
After activating the nether reactor (and killing 9 pigmen), I had the following extra items in my inventory:


 * 5x Bamboo
 * 4x Gold ingots
 * 10x Small brown mushrooms
 * 15x Glow dust
 * 9x Pumpkin seeds
 * 6x Cacti
 * 7x Red and white mushrooms
 * 1x Bow
 * 1x Bone

--Musui 15:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

I can't get enough gold how?
I can't use it because you need 36 gold!😱😱😱😱😱

Check out branch mining. --Musui 15:32, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Day/Night Cycle Changed
Just for fun, I decided to mine the Nether Reactor Core block immediately after activating it. I was able to reclaim the four gold blocks and have a Nether Spire with no holes in it, but it seems to have fubar'd the day/night cycle for that world.

Instead of the normal ten minutes of daylight and seven minutes of night with 90 second twilight in between, the world now seems to be in perpetual night. The only exception is after sleeping, when there is daylight for roughly 30 seconds, twilight for 5 seconds, and then perpetual night again.

Is this just a bug in version 0.5.0, or is it some form of in-game karmic justice for messing with the Nether Reactor?


 * As far as I can tell, the Reactor is supposed to set the time to night while it's active; breaking the core before it's done prevents the usual deactivation effects from happening. You could try building another Reactor and let it finish properly, see if that fixes the day/night cycle. -- Orthotope 09:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Really annoying
It takes 36 gold each time. I got 2 gold blocks back. Make sure you have an empty inventory before using the reactor.
 * Supposedly you are able to retrieve at least some of the gold blocks before they turn to obsidian. 83.14.232.226 13:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Mined Obsidian Box, No Reactor Core.
Mined 25 blocks of Obsidian, no Core within, around, or under box. Reactor did produce items. P1nesap 15:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC)