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Machines
NeroTech's first machines run on Earth ores and Nero Energy (NE) stored in each machine's internal buffer. They are built on Neroland Core's machine/energy/upgrade framework, so energy and upgrade modules behave identically across the ecosystem. Every machine is directional, opens a GUI on right-click, and survives relog (state is saved server-side).
A working Earth-tier chain is generator → ore processor → fabricator: a Nero Generator (or Solar Array) powers the processing machines, which it feeds via Core's shared energy network.
Machines store NE in a Core EnergyBuffer. Generators produce NE and push it to adjacent
machines/storage through Core's loader-neutral energy lookup; consumers pull from their own buffer as
they work. Because generation talks only to Core's energy surface (never to NeroTech-internal classes),
power can later migrate to NeroPower as a package move rather than a rewrite. NE bridges to Forge
Energy (FE) at I/O boundaries via Core's conversion ratio.
All throughput, capacities and rates are server-config (config/nerotech.properties, managed by
Core; server-authoritative and synced to clients).
The entry-level power source. Burns a solid fuel (coal, charcoal, coal block, blaze rod, dried kelp block) into NE, then pushes it to neighbours. One fuel slot; four upgrade slots.
Daytime, fuel-free generation. Output scales with daylight and requires sky access (it stops at night or when roofed over). On Earth it runs fully standalone; per-planet output modifiers arrive with the Nerospace tier (Stage 4).
Niche: the Solar Array is NeroTech's basic single-block panel — low output, but it takes upgrade modules and side config like every Tier-1 machine. It is deliberately not the same product as Nerospace's Solar Panels (three tiers, adjacent-panel array pooling, airless-dimension 2× bonus): those are the scalable solar line. Both generate onto the same Core energy network, so they complement rather than duplicate each other.
Turns raw Earth ore into 2 dust — the core of the material economy (iron/copper/gold ore, deepslate
ore, and raw metal all yield the matching c:dusts/<metal>). One input slot, one output slot. Consumes
NE per tick while working; stalls cleanly when unpowered.
Converts refined materials into NeroTech components (e.g. iron ingot → Machine Frame, copper dust → Nero Coil, gold dust → Circuit Board). Same powered, recipe-driven behaviour as the Ore Processor.
Recipes for the Ore Processor and Fabricator currently ship as an in-code baseline (isolated for a later datapack
RecipeType/RecipeSerializerswap), mirroring the Nerospace approach.
Machines have four upgrade-module slots. Modules are Core upgrade types — Speed (more work per cycle / faster processing), Efficiency (less NE per unit of work), Capacity (larger buffer), and Range — read as aggregate modifiers each tick. NeroTech invents no bespoke upgrade system; modules are interchangeable with any machine built on Core's framework.
Placing your first NeroTech machine opens Core's industrial_power progression gate — NeroTech is
the canonical opener of that milestone. Later tiers gate behind reached_orbit (Stage 4).