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IV: tungsten, nether star, IV circuits and power

Phase id: p10 · Era: IV

Tungsten steel, the nether star loop, the first IV circuit, IV power and the IV machine parts. Typical pace (community reports, not independent samples): players report about 2 days in IV (only 2 runs, range 1 to 3).

Tungsten and tungsten steel

  • Module key: plan:tungsten · step 55
  • Chain: Tungsten and tungsten steel: chemical bath → electrolyzer → EBF 3600 K (nichrome coils) → Vacuum Freezer; also Alloy Blast Smelter (alloy dust → molten metal in one step) and the Super EBF
  • Uses: gtceu:steel_ingot, gtceu:hydrochloric_acid_bucket, gtceu:helium_bucket, gtceu:nichrome_coil_block
  • Makes: gtceu:tungsten_ingot, gtceu:tungsten_steel_ingot
  • Stock: gtceu:tungsten_steel_ingot in 64
  • Power: EV chemical bath and electrolyzer 960 EU/t; EBF 1920 EU/t (3000 K steel, 3600 K tungsten)
  • Watch out:
    • Tungstic acid is an EV chemical bath recipe (960 EU/t), not a reactor one.
    • One tungsten costs 7 tungstate dust: that ratio paces the era (a motor needs about 17 dust).
    • Tungsten steel: EV mixer 1 tungsten + 1 steel dust, EBF 3000 K 50 s per ingot, then the Vacuum Freezer.
    • Tungsten dust goes into the mixer OR the 3600 K furnace, never both: two drawers.
    • The Alloy Blast Smelter is an EV craft (EV alloy smelter + 2 EV circuits + 4 tantalum carbide plates): do not wait for IV. The CAT (super_abs) is ZPM.

Nether star loop and elemental powders

IV circuit and IV hatches

IV power: thorium Nuclear Reactor (or more turbines)

  • Module key: plan:ivpower · step 58
  • Chain: IV power: thorium fuel rods in the Nuclear Reactor, or fuel in the Extreme Combustion Engine, into an IV Dynamo Hatch
  • Uses: gtceu:micro_processor_mainframe, gtceu:iv_energy_output_hatch, gtceu:distilled_water_bucket, gtceu:nitrobenzene_bucket
  • Makes: gtceu:nuclear_reactor, kubejs:thr_fuel_rod
  • Stock: kubejs:thr_fuel_rod in 4
  • Power: reactor 4 096 EU/t out per rod; canner 1 920 EU/t
  • Watch out:
    • Reactor controller: 2 IV circuits, an EV robot arm, 2 EV fluid regulators, an EV emitter, a Large Chemical Reactor and 2 heat vents. Rod: canner 600 ticks at 1 920 EU/t; reactor 588 ticks, 4 096 EU/t, 5 B distilled water per rod.
    • Fuel per mB: high octane gasoline 3 200 EU/mB, gasoline 1 600 (combustion engines); nitrobenzene 1 280 (gas turbines only). Large Gas Turbine is EV, the Large Combustion Engine needs 1 IV circuit, the Extreme Combustion Engine 1 LuV circuit.
    • Community reports: the reported setups stay on nitrobenzene turbines in IV and none used the thorium reactor; scaling the EV turbine line with 16A hatches is the common choice.

IV components, RTM coil, Shellite