Energy Crystal

alaindustrial:energy_crystal

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Summary

The Energy Crystal cannot be crafted directly. The bench gives you a blank — a shell with an EU/FE buffer that accepts energy in any charge slot and gives nothing back. Once the buffer fills to the brim the blank disappears and the finished crystal takes its place.

The finished crystal is an ordinary item: no charge bar, no charge line, nothing to charge or drain. The energy was the price of making it, not its contents. From then on it is simply a crafting material.

Mini-example: drop the blank into a CESU charge slot and go do something else. Come back and the slot holds the finished crystal.

Energy

Field	Value
Making price	100,000 EU/FE
Blank intake	128 EU/FE/t
Time in a CESU	~39 s
Finished crystal's buffer	none

128 EU/FE/t is a hardware ceiling rather than a choice: no charge slot in the mod fills an item faster. The crystal prices are chosen against that speed, so the time in the table is what you will actually see.

How it's used

Any charger will do: a Battery Box slot, a CESU slot, a Charging Station, a worn Energy Pack, a right-click transfer from a Battery, and even another mod's charger — the item exposes item energy on both loaders.

The finished crystal only ever goes into crafting.

Block Properties

Not applicable (item).

Recipes

What you craft is the blank: diamond dust in the corners, redstone on the edges, tempered iron in the middle. The finished crystal has no recipe at all — charging the blank is the only way to get one, and recipe viewers show an information page for it instead.

Progression

The ladder: Energy Crystal → Lapotron Crystal → Resonant Crystal. It goes into the next tier's blank — Lapotron Crystal. Every blank fills from empty: a finished crystal carries no charge, so there is nothing to carry into the next rung.

Battery — the first EU/FE carrier, where the energy branch begins. CESU — the fastest charge slot in the mod.