Codex Processing Crystallizer

Crystallizer

The Crystallizer grows crystals: a seed item, a fluid and a protective gas become quartz, amethyst, the silicon boule for wafers, and the quantum crystal of the late game. It is a tier II machine.

Property	Value
Tier	2
Energy buffer	400,000 E
Max. input	32,000 E/t
Input slots	1
Output slots	1
Upgrade slots	3
Recipe type	Crystallizing

The Crystallizer window: 1 input slots, 2 progress, 3 output slots, 4 upgrade slots, 5 energy and tank bars, 6 value, status and redstone lines, 7 buttons (redstone mode, telemetry, codex).

What it does

Put the seed into the input slot, fill the fluid tank and the gas tank, and give the Crystallizer energy. One run takes the seed, the fluid and the gas at once, uses energy every tick and puts the crystal into the output slot.

Recipes

In	Out	E/t	Ticks
Nether Quartz, 250 mB Water, 5 mB Argon	Amethyst Shard	500	200
4 × Amethyst Shard, 250 mB Liquid Nitrogen, 100 mB Argon	Quantum Crystal	8000	600
Silicon, 250 mB Water, 500 mB Oxygen	Nether Quartz	500	200
8 × Silicon, 50 mB Argon	Silicon Boule	600	400

• Silicon boule: eight silicon from the Chemical Reactor grow under argon into a Silicon Boule. The Metal Former with the Plate Die cuts it into eight wafers for circuits.
• Quartz from silicon (with water and oxygen), amethyst from quartz (with water and argon).
• Quantum crystal: four amethyst shards in liquid nitrogen under argon. This is the most demanding recipe: plan the energy for it.

Important

One gas, one fluid The Crystallizer has one fluid tank and one gas tank. A tank holds one kind at a time and pipes cannot drain the input tanks. Once argon is in the gas tank, no oxygen fits until the argon is used up. Give each crystal its own Crystallizer, or at least one per gas.

Energy and upgrades

The Crystallizer takes energy on every side, from a Pipster cable, a generator next to it or any FE or Team Reborn Energy source. When the buffer holds less than one tick of the current run, the run waits and keeps its progress.

The three upgrade slots at the right edge take one kind each:

Upgrade	Up to	Effect per upgrade
Speed Upgrade	2	half the time, 2.8 times the power
Efficiency Upgrade	3	0.85 times the power
Parallel Upgrade	2	2, then 4 copies per run, 1.25 times the power per doubling on top

Upgrades count from the next run. The buffer and the maximum input grow by the same factor as the power. A parallel run only starts as many copies as the input slot and the tanks hold and the output has room for.

Automation

• Pipes, hoppers and other mods can put items into the input slot from every side, but only items that a recipe uses.
• Fluid and gas pipes can fill the tanks from every side, but only with fluids and gases that a recipe uses.
• Items can only be taken out of the output slot.
• Upgrades can be inserted the same way; each slot takes only its own upgrade.
• When the output is full, the finished run waits until there is room.

Redstone

The R button in the top right corner switches the redstone mode: always runs, runs with a signal, or runs without a signal.

What the status line says

Status	Meaning
Idle – waiting for inputs	No recipe fits the seed, the fluid and the gas (or something is missing).
Running	A run is in progress.
Waiting for energy	The buffer is too low; the progress is kept.
Output full – take the products out	The crystal of the finished run does not fit.
Paused by redstone	The redstone mode stops the machine. A Grid Monitor that pauses machines shows the same text.

Building it

The Crystallizer needs a Machine Frame, a Copper Coil, two amethyst shards, glass and steel plates.

Glass	Glass	Glass
Amethyst Shard		Amethyst Shard	→ Crystallizer

When you break it, it keeps its fluid, its gas, its energy and its redstone mode; items, upgrades and the seed of a running job drop.

In the world

While it runs, the crystal grows on the heating plate from a speck to its full size, slowly turning, while the ring above it circles. White sparkles rise from the plate, and the machine gives off a little light.

Tip

Argon supply Argon is only one part in a hundred of what the Air Separator makes. For boules and quantum crystals run the separator long before you need the argon, and store it in a Gas Tank.