Materials and Ores

Materials and Ores

QuantaVolt adds two ores, a handful of crafting materials and the nuclear and black-hole fuels. Crafting recipes are on the Recipes page; the machines that process the materials are on Machines.

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Ores

Ore	Height range	Veins per chunk	Vein size	Needs	Drops
Uranium Ore	Y −48 to 32, triangular distribution (most common around Y −8)	4	up to 6 blocks	iron pickaxe	1 Raw Uranium
Lithium Ore	Y −16 to 80, triangular distribution (most common around Y 32)	6	up to 8 blocks	stone pickaxe	1–2 Raw Lithium
Lead Ore	Y −40 to 64, triangular distribution (most common around Y 12)	8	up to 9 blocks	stone pickaxe	1–2 Raw Lead

• Each ore replaces stone-type blocks as the normal ore and deepslate-type blocks as Deepslate Uranium Ore / Deepslate Lithium Ore / Deepslate Lead Ore. Veins are not reduced when exposed to air.
• Fortune increases the drops; Silk Touch drops the ore block itself.
• Biomes: every biome the Overworld generator can produce, including biomes from world generation mods and data packs (Fabric: all Overworld biomes; NeoForge: a biome modifier that covers every biome of the Overworld generator). At server start QuantaVolt writes one log line saying how many Overworld biomes it found and in how many the ores are missing.
• The ore features are data (quantavolt:uranium_ore, quantavolt:lithium_ore, quantavolt:lead_ore under worldgen/configured_feature and worldgen/placed_feature), so a data pack can change or empty them.

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Items

Item	Comes from	Used for
Raw Uranium	Uranium Ore	Crusher → 2 Uranium Dust
Raw Lithium	Lithium Ore	Crusher → 2 Lithium Dust
Uranium Dust	Crusher	Chemical Processor → Yellowcake
Lithium Dust	Crusher	Chemical Processor → Lithium Carbonate
Yellowcake	Chemical Processor (+250 mB water)	Centrifuge Cascade, 4 per batch
Enriched Uranium	Centrifuge Cascade (1 per batch)	Fuel Fabricator → 4 Uranium Fuel Pellets; Containment Rod recipe
Depleted Uranium	Centrifuge Cascade (3 per batch)	Byproduct, no use in QuantaVolt
Uranium Fuel Pellet	Fuel Fabricator	Fuel Fabricator: 4 pellets + Empty Fuel Rod
Empty Fuel Rod	Crafting (steel and glass, 2 per craft)	Fuel Fabricator
Uranium Fuel Rod	Fuel Fabricator	Fission Reactor fuel, 10,000,000 HU per rod
Depleted Fuel Rod	Fission Reactor (a spent rod comes out of the item output)	Byproduct, no use in QuantaVolt
Lithium Carbonate	Chemical Processor (+250 mB water)	Battery Cell, Breeding Blanket and Stellar Containment Glass recipes; Tokamak tritium breeding (2,000 lithium units per item)
Raw Lead	Lead Ore	Furnace (200 ticks) or Blast Furnace (100 ticks) → Lead Ingot
Lead Ingot	Raw Lead or Lead Ore smelted; 9 from a Block of Lead	Block of Lead, Lead Concrete, Lead Glass, radiation suit (see Safety and Incidents)
Steel Blend	Crafting: 1 iron ingot + 2 coal or charcoal	Blast Furnace → Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot	Blast Furnace (100 ticks)	Most plant parts
Biomass	Crafting: 3 wheat, 4 leaves or 2 saplings	Gasifier (7,000 mB syngas); Industrial Boiler (400 burn ticks). Not a furnace fuel.
Ash	Gasifier (1 per 4 fuel items)	Byproduct, no use in QuantaVolt
Compressed Matter	Matter Compressor: 8 compressible blocks	Fuel of the Micro Black Hole Plant and Hawking Reactor; 1 item = 1 mass unit = 10,000,000 E (energyPerMassUnit)
Singularity Capsule	Split off a running Micro Black Hole Plant (3 mass units each)	Starts a Hawking Reactor; Hawking Reactor Controller and Dimension Core recipes

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Processing chains

Uranium → fuel rods

Step	Machine	In	Out
1	Crusher (100 t, 20 E/t)	1 Raw Uranium (or 1 uranium ore block)	2 Uranium Dust
2	Chemical Processor (160 t, 30 E/t)	1 Uranium Dust + 250 mB water	1 Yellowcake
3	Centrifuge Cascade (2,400 separative work; each Gas Centrifuge does 1 per tick for 40 E)	4 Yellowcake	1 Enriched Uranium + 3 Depleted Uranium
4	Fuel Fabricator (100 t, 40 E/t)	1 Enriched Uranium	4 Uranium Fuel Pellets
5	Fuel Fabricator (200 t, 40 E/t)	4 Uranium Fuel Pellets + 1 Empty Fuel Rod	1 Uranium Fuel Rod

So two Raw Uranium give four Yellowcake, one Enriched Uranium and one Uranium Fuel Rod.

Lithium → Lithium Carbonate

Crusher: 1 Raw Lithium → 2 Lithium Dust. Chemical Processor: 1 Lithium Dust + 250 mB water → 1 Lithium Carbonate.

Gasifier fuels

Each batch takes 160 ticks per Reaction Chamber and 250 mB of steam.

Fuel (item tag)	Syngas per item
Coal, Charcoal (quantavolt:gasifier_fuel/coal)	34,000 mB
Coal Block (quantavolt:gasifier_fuel/coal_block)	306,000 mB
Biomass (quantavolt:gasifier_fuel/biomass)	7,000 mB

Compressible blocks

The Matter Compressor accepts 8 of any item in quantavolt:compressible: Cobblestone, Cobbled Deepslate, Stone, Deepslate, Dirt, Gravel, Sand, Netherrack, Andesite, Diorite, Granite, Tuff, Blackstone, Basalt, End Stone.

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Tags shared with other mods

QuantaVolt puts its own items into the common c: tags, and most of its recipes and machines read tags, so equivalent materials from other mods work where the tag says so.

Tags QuantaVolt fills:

Tag	Contents
c:ores, c:ores/uranium, c:ores/lithium, c:ores/lead (block and item)	the six ore blocks
c:ores_in_ground/stone, c:ores_in_ground/deepslate (block and item)	the stone and deepslate variants
c:raw_materials/uranium, c:raw_materials/lithium, c:raw_materials/lead	Raw Uranium, Raw Lithium, Raw Lead
c:ingots/lead, c:storage_blocks/lead (block and item)	Lead Ingot, Block of Lead
c:dusts/uranium, c:dusts/lithium	Uranium Dust, Lithium Dust
c:ingots/steel	Steel Ingot
c:steam (fluid)	Steam

Tags QuantaVolt reads:

Tag	Used by	Default contents
quantavolt:materials/uranium	Crusher	Raw Uranium + c:raw_materials/uranium
quantavolt:materials/lithium	Crusher	Raw Lithium + c:raw_materials/lithium
c:ores/uranium, c:ores/lithium	Crusher	any mod's uranium / lithium ore
c:dusts/uranium, c:dusts/lithium	Chemical Processor	any mod's uranium / lithium dust
quantavolt:materials/yellowcake	Centrifuge Cascade	Yellowcake
quantavolt:enriched_uranium, quantavolt:uranium_pellets, quantavolt:empty_fuel_rods	Fuel Fabricator	the QuantaVolt items
quantavolt:fission_fuel	Fission Reactor	Uranium Fuel Rod
quantavolt:breeding_lithium	Tokamak	Lithium Carbonate
quantavolt:materials/structural_steel	recipes	c:ingots/steel (any mod's steel)
quantavolt:materials/lead	Furnace and Blast Furnace → Lead Ingot	Raw Lead + c:raw_materials/lead
c:ores/lead	Furnace → Lead Ingot	any mod's lead ore
c:ingots/lead	lead recipes (blocks, glass, concrete, suit)	any mod's lead ingot
quantavolt:radiation_shielding (block)	radiation	Block of Lead, Lead Concrete, Lead Glass + c:storage_blocks/lead
quantavolt:blast_shielding (block)	non-explosive incidents	Reinforced Concrete, Reinforced Glass
quantavolt:gasifier_fuel/*	Gasifier	see above
quantavolt:compressible	Matter Compressor	see above
quantavolt:steam (fluid)	all steam inputs	Steam + c:steam (other mods' steam)
quantavolt:thermoelectric/hot, hot_strong, cold, cold_strong (block)	Thermoelectric and Stirling Generator	see Machines

Some c: tags inside QuantaVolt's tags are optional: if no other mod provides them, nothing breaks.