Radbolt Reflector

Radbolt Reflector is a utility building used with radbolts. Its main effect is to alter the path of a traveling radbolt, but it does not improve how efficiently that radbolt survives its flight. In practice, a radbolt takes an additional 0.4 seconds to pass through the reflector compared with normal flight.

Because the reflector does not reduce radbolt loss during travel, it should be treated as a routing or timing component rather than a way to conserve beam quality. If a setup depends on precise delivery timing, the extra delay needs to be accounted for, especially in chains where multiple redirecting devices are used one after another. The delay is small, but it is still a fixed cost that can affect tightly packed automation or generation loops.

• A radbolt takes 0.4 seconds longer to pass through the building than it would in a normal straight flight.
• The reflector does not reduce radbolt loss while the radbolt is in transit.
• Its value is therefore in directing radbolts, not in preserving their efficiency over distance.
• When designing radbolt routes, the reflector should be placed with the travel delay in mind so that downstream consumers receive pulses when expected.

For setups that rely on consistent timing, this means the reflector can change throughput rhythm without offering any compensating efficiency benefit. If the goal is simply to move a radbolt from one point to another as quickly and cleanly as possible, the added travel time makes the reflector a factor to consider rather than a free shortcut.