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Alloy Blast Smelter (alloy dust → molten metal in one step) and the Super EBF

Chain id: abs_super_ebf · Tags: Infinite source, Unverified

Era setup: IV

Plan modules: Tungsten and tungsten steel

Tips: 11, 1 unverified

Machines

Alloy Blast Smelter · 40 casings, 24 coils, 12 vents, mufflerMultiblock
Oak 1Controller: 4 tantalum carbide plate + 2 EV circuit + 2 aluminium cable + EV Alloy SmelterTantalum carbide plateEV circuitAluminium single cableEV Alloy SmeltercontrollerOak 120 crafts of 2 casings: 4 titanium carbide plate + 2 HSLA steel plate + tungsten carbide frame (circuit 6)Titanium carbide plateHSLA steel plateTungsten carbide frameCasing40Oak 16 crafts of 2 vents: 4 tantalum carbide plate + 2 MoSi2 double plate + 2 titanium rotor + MoSi2 long rodTantalum carbide plateMolybdenum disilicide double plateTitanium rotorHeat vent12Oak 11 Steel dust + 1 tungsten dust · circuit 2Steel dustTungsten dust1 + 1HeliumHelium · 2 B (circuit 12, 67 % time)optional
Tungsten Steel288 mB molten tungsten steel · 75 s · 1920 EU/t288 mB
gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter
Vacuum Freezer · ingot mold · mass x 3 ticksMultiblock
Tungsten Steel288 mB molten tungsten steel · 75 s · 1920 EU/t144 mB each
Tungsten Steel Ingot2 Tungsten steel ingot2
gtceu:vacuum_freezer
Hardened Industrial Furnace (Super EBF) · 40 coils, 32 casings, 24 firebox, 20 black steel frames, 12 vents, 8 pipe casingsMultiblock
Oak 1Super EBF controller: EBF + 2 IV circuit + EV sensor + 2 small tungsten spring + 2 aluminium double cable + double black steel plateElectric Blast FurnaceEV sensorSmall tungsten springDouble black steel platecontrollerOak 120 crafts of 2 casings: 4 titanium carbide plate + 2 HSLA steel plate + tungsten carbide frame (circuit 6)Titanium carbide plateHSLA steel plateTungsten carbide frameCasing32Oak 16 crafts of 2 vents: 4 tantalum carbide plate + 2 MoSi2 double plate + 2 titanium rotor + MoSi2 long rodTantalum carbide plateMolybdenum disilicide double plateTitanium rotorHeat vent12
no listed output
gtceu:super_ebf

Flow

How to build

  1. Input drawers first: one per dust (steel, tungsten, later RTM parts), a helium drum with a pump cover, and an output drum for each molten metal. The Alloy Blast Smelter takes dust directly from an input bus with a ghost circuit set to the number of components; one recipe per circuit, so keep one smelter per alloy line. — functionalstorage:oak_1, gtceu:steel_dust, gtceu:tungsten_dust, gtceu:helium_bucket
  2. Make the blast-proof materials first, in EV Mixers: tantalum carbide (1 tantalum + 1 carbon, no circuit), titanium carbide (circuit 3), molybdenum disilicide (1 molybdenum + 2 silicon), tungsten carbide (circuit 2). HSLA steel in the HV Mixer. Each dust is smelted or blasted into ingots, then bent into plates and double plates: one mixer per recipe, never one mixer with changing circuits. — gtceu:ev_mixer, gtceu:tantalum_carbide_dust, gtceu:titanium_carbide_dust, gtceu:molybdenum_disilicide_dust
  3. Casings: MV Assembler with ghost circuit 6 (16 EU/t): 4 titanium carbide plates + 2 HSLA steel plates + 1 tungsten carbide frame → 2 High Temperature Smelting Casings in 2.5 s. 40 casings for the ABS and 32 more for a Super EBF is 36 crafts. Frames: assembler, 4 rods + ghost circuit 4 → 1 frame (64 ticks, 7 EU/t). — gtceu:mv_assembler, gtceu:high_temperature_smelting_casing, gtceu:tungsten_carbide_frame
  4. Heat vents, crafted by hand: 4 tantalum carbide plates, 2 molybdenum disilicide double plates, 2 titanium rotors, 1 molybdenum disilicide long rod → 2 vents. 12 for the ABS, 12 more for the Super EBF. Long rod: forge hammer on 2 rods; double plate: bender circuit 2. — gtceu:heat_vent, gtceu:double_molybdenum_disilicide_plate, gtceu:titanium_rotor
  5. Controller by hand: 4 tantalum carbide plates (top and bottom row), 2 EV circuits, 2 aluminium cables, the EV Alloy Smelter in the middle. Build the 24 coils of the ABS with at least the tier of the highest-temperature alloy: Nichrome (3600 K) covers tungsten steel (3000 K), RTM alloy (3000 K) and HSS-G needs RTM coils (4200 K). — gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter, gtceu:ev_alloy_smelter
  6. Run the first alloy: 1 steel dust + 1 tungsten dust in the bus, ghost circuit 2, an EV energy hatch (1920 EU/t), 75 s → 288 mB molten tungsten steel in the output hatch. Pump it into a Vacuum Freezer with the ingot mold in its bus slot: each 144 mB → 1 ingot. Add helium (circuit 12 and a helium hatch) to cut the time to 67 %. — gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter, gtceu:tungsten_steel_bucket, gtceu:vacuum_freezer
  7. Super EBF: controller shaped from an EBF + 2 IV circuits + EV sensor + 2 small tungsten springs (bender, 1 tungsten rod → 2) + 2 aluminium double cables + a double black steel plate. Build 40 coils, 32 casings, 24 steel firebox casings, 20 black steel frames, 8 steel pipe casings and 12 heat vents, with exactly one energy hatch. Use it for single-metal EBF recipes at IV power. — gtceu:super_ebf, gtceu:black_steel_frame, gtceu:steel_firebox_casing
  8. Easy to miss: the ABS also makes RTM alloy and nichrome without the mixer (circuit 3 and 2). Once it runs, the mixer and the first EBF of the tungsten, RTM and nichrome lines are replaced; keep the mixers for the Super EBF recipes that want dust. — gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter, gtceu:rtm_alloy_dust

Tips

  • The Alloy Blast Smelter is an EV craft, not an IV one: the controller is 4 tantalum carbide plates + 2 EV circuits + 2 aluminium cables + an EV Alloy Smelter (GCYMRecipes.java:105), so build it as soon as the carbide lines run. The boosted version (super_abs, Chambered Alloy Transmuter) is a ZPM assembly-line item, do not confuse them.
  • What the ABS does (AlloyBlastRecipeProducer, applied to every alloy that has a blast temperature): the same inputs as the EBF alloy mix, but straight as dusts in the bus (1 dust of each component, no mixer), circuit = number of components, output molten metal of N ingots (144 mB each) in 3/4 of the EBF time times N. With 1 B of helium per ingot and circuit +10 it takes 67 % of that time. The coil tier must still meet the blast temperature.
  • Worked examples (all verified from material blast data): tungsten steel, 1 steel + 1 tungsten dust, circuit 2: 288 mB in 1500 ticks (75 s) at 1920 EU/t, 3000 K. RTM alloy, 4 ruthenium + 2 tungsten + 1 molybdenum, circuit 3: 1008 mB in 7350 ticks (6 min 7 s), 1920 EU/t, 3000 K, 52.5 s per ingot against 70 s in the EBF plus the mixer. Nichrome, 4 nickel + 1 chromium, circuit 2: 720 mB in 4875 ticks (4 min 4 s), 1920 EU/t, 2700 K.
  • Molten metal needs the Vacuum Freezer with the ingot mold (the freezer recipe takes 144 mB → 1 ingot in mass x 3 ticks, no helium below 5000 K). Molten tungsten steel is also what the LV Fluid Solidifier turns into rotors and pipes. Unverified: the freezer EU/t of those fluid recipes (the source leaves it unset); copy the 480 EU/t of the solid ingot freezing and check it in EMI.
  • ABS structure (multis card): 40 High Temperature Smelting Casings (at least 30, hatches may replace the rest), 24 heating coils of any tier (the tier sets the allowed temperature), 12 heat vents, 1 muffler hatch. The casing recipe gives 2 per craft: 4 titanium carbide plates + 2 HSLA steel plates + 1 tungsten carbide frame, circuit 6, 50 ticks at 16 EU/t (GCYMRecipes). The heat vent: 4 tantalum carbide plates + 2 molybdenum disilicide double plates + 2 titanium rotors + 1 molybdenum disilicide long rod, 2 per craft (crafting table). Controller recipe: 4 tantalum carbide plates + 2 EV circuits + 2 aluminium cables + 1 EV Alloy Smelter (GCYMRecipes).
  • Materials from EV mixers (GCYMRecipes): tantalum carbide = 1 tantalum + 1 carbon dust → 2 (150 ticks, 1920 EU/t); titanium carbide = 1 titanium + 1 carbon, circuit 3 → 2 (160 ticks); molybdenum disilicide = 1 molybdenum + 2 silicon → 3 (180 ticks); HSLA steel = HV Mixer (140 ticks, 480 EU/t): 2 invar + 1 vanadium + 1 titanium + 1 molybdenum → 5; tungsten carbide = tungsten + carbon, circuit 2 → 2. Tantalum: crushed tantalite from the sieve with a diamond mesh (5 %, kjs sieving.js). Unverified: the EBF temperatures of these carbides and of HSLA steel, read the recipe in EMI before building the blast part.
  • Super EBF (Hardened Industrial Furnace, kjs startup super_ebf.js): runs plain Electric Blast Furnace recipes with the EBF overclock, a StarT throughput modifier and batch mode, but accepts exactly ONE energy hatch and exactly one maintenance hatch. Structure: 40 heating coils, 32 high temperature smelting casings (at least 5, buses and hatches replace the rest), 24 steel firebox casings, 20 black steel frames, 12 heat vents, 8 steel pipe casings, 1 muffler. Controller (shaped): 1 EBF + 2 IV circuits + 1 EV sensor + 2 small tungsten springs + 2 aluminium double cables + 1 double black steel plate.
  • The Super EBF (HIF) is an IV craft: 2 IV circuits + EBF + EV sensor + black steel parts, so it exists well before LuV. It runs any EBF recipe, so with HSS-G coils (5400 K) it makes naquadah (5000 K, 7680 EU/t, 30 s); trinium (7200 K, LuV hatch) and naquadria (9000 K, ZPM hatch) need naquadah coils or better, and europium (6000 K, 7680 EU/t) needs naquadah coils too. The naquadah coil block is an assembler recipe at 30 720 EU/t, so a LuV-class machine can build it as soon as naquadah exists.
  • Which one when: the ABS is for alloys and gives molten metal (needs a freezer step), and runs unboosted EBF recipes at 75 % time. The Super EBF is for plain EBF recipes (a single metal ingot such as iridium or tungsten) and boosts throughput. Unverified: the factor of the throughput modifier; read the multiblock tooltip in game.
  • Sub-steps people skip: (1) coils are counted for temperature, not for the casing number, so put the best coil in; (2) a muffler hatch with free space above it is mandatory in both; (3) one energy hatch only in the Super EBF, so use a hatch that fits the recipe voltage (an EV one for 1920 EU/t, an IV one for 7680 EU/t); (4) black steel frames and firebox casings are separate crafts; (5) set the circuit by the component count, or by +10 when helium is in the hatch.
  • Unverified whether the ABS recipes need exactly the molten tank to be empty between alloys, and the recipe of the muffler hatch at these tiers.

Bill of materials

Item Qty
gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter 1
gtceu:super_ebf 1
gtceu:vacuum_freezer 1
gtceu:nichrome_coil_block 64
gtceu:ev_energy_input_hatch 2
gtceu:mv_mixer 1
gtceu:ev_mixer 1
gtceu:mv_assembler 2
functionalstorage:oak_1 10
modularrouters:modular_router 6
gtceu:lv_robot_arm 8
gtceu:item_filter 8
pipez:item_pipe 16
pipez:fluid_pipe 6
gtceu:steel_drum 3

Needs / Feeds

  • Main source for: gtceu:alloy_blast_smelter, gtceu:super_ebf