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Crystal CPU: exquisite emerald + europium → raw crystal chip (10 %) → 9 parts → loop at 100 % → EBF with helium → laser engraver

Chain id: zpm_crystal · Tags: Infinite source, Unverified

Era setup: ZPM & Classic Stargate

Plan modules: Crystal circuits and the UV circuit

Tips: 8, 2 unverified

Machines

HV Autoclave in the cleanroom · 10 min · 320 EU/t · 10 % chipHV
Exquisite Emerald GemExquisite emerald (2 flawless = 4 emeralds)1Europium16 mB europium per autoclave run16 mB
up to 512 EU/t10 min
Raw Crystal Chip10 %
gtceu:hv_autoclave
HV Forge Hammer · 5 s · 480 EU/tHV
Raw Crystal Chip1
up to 512 EU/t5 s
Raw Crystal Chip Parts9 Raw crystal chip parts9
gtceu:hv_forge_hammer
HV Autoclave in the cleanroom · 10 min · 480 EU/t · 100 %HV
Raw Crystal Chip Parts9 Raw crystal chip parts1Europium16 mB europium per autoclave run16 mB
up to 512 EU/t10 min
Raw Crystal Chip1
gtceu:hv_autoclave
EBF 5000 K or more · 45 s · 480 EU/t · emerald plate + 1 B heliumMultiblock
Raw Crystal Chip1
45 s
Engraved Crystal Chip1
gtceu:electric_blast_furnace
LuV Laser Engraver in the cleanroom · 5 s · 10 000 EU/t · lime lensLuV
Engraved Crystal Chip1
up to 32 768 EU/t5 s
Crystal CPU1
gtceu:luv_laser_engraver

Flow

How to build

  1. Drawers first, one per input: exquisite emeralds, raw crystal chips, raw chip parts, emerald plates, lime lenses. Drums: molten europium, helium. Every machine has its own drawer behind a Modular Router or Pipez item pipe with an Item Filter, and a Robot Arm cover in Keep Exact mode on its output. — functionalstorage:oak_1, gtceu:exquisite_emerald_gem, gtceu:raw_crystal_chip, gtceu:emerald_plate
  2. Seed autoclave inside the cleanroom: exquisite emerald + 16 mB europium → 10 % chance of a raw chip after 10 min at 320 EU/t. Feed one gem at a time and let a drawer hold the failures’ spare gems. — gtceu:hv_autoclave, gtceu:exquisite_emerald_gem, gtceu:europium_bucket
  3. Hammer: 1 raw chip → 9 parts (100 ticks, 480 EU/t). A Robot Arm with an Item Filter takes the chip out of the seed autoclave into the hammer, but ONLY while the stock is below your target; keep the first chip until the part loop has produced a second one. — gtceu:hv_forge_hammer, gtceu:raw_crystal_chip_parts
  4. Loop autoclave (second machine, cleanroom): 1 part + 16 mB europium → 1 raw chip in 10 min at 480 EU/t, 100 %. Its output goes back to the chip drawer; one chip per 10 minutes per machine, so add machines until you cover your crystal computer plan. — gtceu:hv_autoclave, gtceu:raw_crystal_chip, gtceu:europium_bucket
  5. EBF with 16 HSS-G coils (5400 K): input bus with the raw chip + emerald plate, a fluid input hatch fed with 1 B helium per run → engraved crystal chip in 45 s at 480 EU/t. Muffler hatch free above. — gtceu:electric_blast_furnace, gtceu:hssg_coil_block, gtceu:engraved_crystal_chip
  6. Engrave: LuV Laser Engraver inside the cleanroom, 1 engraved chip + the lime lens in a ghost slot → Crystal CPU in 5 s at 10 000 EU/t (a LuV cable line). Output into a drawer with Keep Exact 4. — gtceu:luv_laser_engraver, gtceu:crystal_cpu, gtceu:lime_glass_lens
  7. Easy to miss: each crystal computer (the second ZPM circuit) eats ONE crystal CPU, so a handful is plenty; the long part is the 10 minute autoclave clock, so start it a session before you need the circuits. — functionalstorage:oak_1, gtceu:crystal_cpu

Tips

  • Recipes (CircuitRecipes, GT fork): raw crystal chip = 1 exquisite emerald + 16 mB molten europium in an Autoclave, CLEANROOM, 12 000 ticks (10 min) at 320 EU/t, with only a 10 % chance (chancedOutput 1000 of 10 000, tier boost 2000). The pack REMOVES the olivine, mutagen and bacterial sludge autoclave variants (mass_removals.js), so the emerald is the only way to the FIRST chip. Then the loop: Forge Hammer 1 raw crystal chip → 9 raw crystal chip PARTS (100 ticks, 480 EU/t), and 1 part + 16 mB europium in an Autoclave (cleanroom, 12 000 ticks, 480 EU/t) → 1 raw chip at 100 %. So one lucky chip becomes 9, then 81, as fast as you have autoclaves: the era text ‘loop the chip parts’ is exactly this.
  • Unverified the autoclave tier boost. In GT each voltage tier above the recipe adds the ‘boost’ to a chanced output, which would make an IV autoclave about 50 % per exquisite emerald. The only fixed fact is 10 % at the base tier; test with one machine tier up before you grind emeralds.
  • Exquisite emerald: gem conversion in MaterialRecipeHandler, laser engraver recipes with a NON-consumed white lens: 2 emeralds → 1 flawless emerald (300 ticks, 240 EU/t), 2 flawless → 1 exquisite. So 4 emeralds per exquisite gem; the cutter reverses it. Emeralds come from the sand sieve (guide base chapters: 16 emerald per 64 sand in the Mechanical Sieve) or gem ore processing. Since the loop makes chips for free after the first one, you need only one or two exquisite gems.
  • Engraved crystal chip (BLAST_RECIPES engraved_crystal_chip_from_emerald): 1 emerald plate + 1 raw crystal chip + 1000 mB helium in an EBF at 5000 K or more (HSS-G coils, 5400 K, are enough), 900 ticks (45 s) at 480 EU/t. The emerald plate is a Bender product of an emerald gem (Unverified plate machine/time). Helium: the same air/gas helium the vacuum freezer lines use.
  • Crystal CPU (laser_engraver crystal_cpu): 1 engraved chip + a lime lens that is not consumed, cleanroom, 100 ticks at 10 000 EU/t. 10 000 EU/t is above an IV machine (8192 V), so this needs a LuV Laser Engraver (LuV hull + LuV emitter + LuV sensor; see luv_components2). The Crystal SoC is a second engraving at 40 000 EU/t with a blue lens: a ZPM-tier machine, and not needed for the era.
  • Europium: 16 mB per chip is nothing; the real europium use is fine wire for ZPM motors and voltage coils (luv_fusion chain: 144 mB per 28.8 s run). So the LuV fusion reactor is also the start of the crystal line.
  • Sub-steps people skip: (1) two autoclaves, one per recipe, because the part recipe and the gem recipe share an output but not an input; (2) cleanroom filter: both autoclaves must stand inside the cleanroom; (3) the lens stays in the engraver, keep a spare lime lens; (4) never hammer your LAST raw chip: put 1 or 2 aside as seed; (5) the EBF needs the helium input AND a 5000 K coil, a plain Kanthal furnace does not start the recipe.
  • Unverified the plate recipe of emerald, the exact lens id, and whether a Large autoclave multi exists in this pack for bulk loops (check the multis list).

Bill of materials

Item Qty
gtceu:hv_autoclave 2
gtceu:hv_forge_hammer 1
gtceu:electric_blast_furnace 1
gtceu:hssg_coil_block 16
gtceu:luv_laser_engraver 1
gtceu:cleanroom 1
functionalstorage:oak_1 10
modularrouters:modular_router 8
gtceu:lv_robot_arm 8
gtceu:item_filter 8
pipez:item_pipe 16
pipez:fluid_pipe 3
gtceu:steel_drum 2

Needs / Feeds

  • Main source for: gtceu:crystal_cpu, gtceu:engraved_crystal_chip, gtceu:raw_crystal_chip, gtceu:raw_crystal_chip_parts