Rubber

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ComponentsLVImplementedcomponentoilrubbermaterialssulfur

Summary

Rubber is the end product of the oil chain:

oil → Polymerizer → raw rubber
raw rubber + 4 sulfur dust + heat below → Vulcanizer → rubber

Raw rubber is the intermediate item made from one bucket of oil. It can no longer be smelted in a furnace: finished rubber requires sulfur, EU/FE and external heat for the Vulcanizer.

Mini-example: one oil bucket gives one raw rubber. With four sulfur dust, a campfire produces one rubber, lava produces two, and an Electric Heater produces three.

Obtaining

Stage	Input	Output
Polymerizer	1000 mB oil + 400 EU/FE	1 raw rubber
Vulcanizer, campfire	1 raw rubber + 4 sulfur dust + 400 EU/FE	1 rubber
Vulcanizer, lava/magma	the same materials and EU/FE	2 rubber
Vulcanizer, Electric Heater	the same materials + 800 EU/FE for the pair	3 rubber

Better heat saves raw materials instead of merely making the operation faster.

Uses

Rubber is the material for insulated cables and the path into MV. Until those recipes are revealed, it can be stockpiled. The Incubator can duplicate finished rubber at a very high cost, so the Vulcanizer is the main production path but not literally the only possible source of the item.