Rad-proof the ranch

[Lord_earthfire]

radiation used to not actually hurt critters and non-human (or non-monkey) mobs, but something about the radiation rework changed it to actually hurt critters. one can argue that now it's Compelling Emergent Gameplay to get one's chickens to safety before the storm hits, but the 30-60 seconds a radstorm gives you really doesn't give you time to think, let alone concoct a solid chicken evac plan

Radiation deals significant amount of burn damage now as well. Before the rework, chickens survived radstorms. But they turned out horribly mutated, which, due to radiactive gene, made the ranch unworkable without significant rad protection. It required killing all chickens by hand while getting horrible irradiated. My first rancher shifts with radstorms i was not dying due to the radstorms, but due to taking care of the radioactive chickens afterwards.

After the rad rework, radstorms simply kills most if not all chickens. And i consider that a much better to what it was before.

Having that said, i believe i have much less problems since i simply optimized my gameplay in a way that makes radstorms trivial. I can see how other playstyles of the ranch could face serious problems with radstorms.

And honestly, i saw interdictors being installed only once. But i think the problem is people simply doesnt know it exists. And the wiki only talks about it when it goes over ion storms and the black hole generator.