Insulated Tin Cable

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Summary

✅ Safe to touch: the rubber sheath completely prevents contact shock at every energy flow, regardless of neighbouring cable tiers or configured damage.

The Insulated Tin Cable is the rubber-upgraded version of the Tin Cable. It keeps tin's narrow 8 EU/FE/tick throughput and 8 EU/FE packet cap, but halves attenuation from 0.006 to 0.003 per block. It is the most efficient wire for solar farms and other low flows over long distances.

Insulation does not make tin a replacement for copper: any flow above 8 EU/FE/tick still needs a copper line. The rubber sheath provides complete contact-damage protection. The old wool-and-water-resistance concept is retired; adds neither a wool recipe nor water resistance.

Energy

At the full 8 EU/FE/tick segment flow, insulated tin delivers 8/8/7/6/1 EU/FE over 10/20/50/100/1000 blocks; bare tin delivers 8/8/6/5/1 EU/FE. The 1 EU/FE minimum preserves 's exact top-off invariant.

In a mixed network, the higher packet cap determines the network loss. At equal caps, a bare grade takes priority over its insulated counterpart, so inserting one insulated block cannot improve an entire bare line. The reduced 0.003 rate therefore applies only to an entirely insulated tin network.

Block Properties

A thin wire with a rubber sheath that connects to neighbouring blocks. Any tool breaks it, and shears are especially handy.

Dyeing

An insulated cable can be dyed in any of the 16 vanilla colours — purely cosmetic.

• Right-click with a dye on the cable dyes one segment and uses 1 dye (free in creative), with the dye sound. If the segment already has that colour, nothing happens and no dye is used.
• Shift + right-click with a dye dyes the whole connected run of the same grade: it follows the drawn connections and stops at another grade, a bare cable or a machine; up to 256 segments, 1 dye per 8 segments painted, as far as the dyes in your hand reach.
• A bare (uninsulated) cable cannot be dyed: no dye is used and the action bar shows "Only insulated cables can be dyed".
• Right-click with water on a dyed segment washes the colour off — the segment is plain black rubber again; Shift + right-click washes the whole connected run of the same grade (same walking rules, up to 256 segments). The water is used up: 250 mB for one segment, a bucket (1000 mB) for a whole run; nothing is used in creative; the dye is not returned.
  • A water bucket gives its water only whole: it comes back empty for one segment or a run.
  • A water bottle washes one segment — with Shift too — and turns into an empty glass bottle.
  • The Portable Fluid Tank with water pays by the amount: 250 mB a segment, 1000 mB a run with Shift; when it holds less than a bucket, Shift washes only the segment under the cursor.
  • Any container the item fluid API can take water out of works — our capsule, other mods' tanks — and the container itself decides what it turns into; it pays the same way as the tank (the capsule, like a bucket, gives only a whole bucket).
  • A bucket or a bottle in hand never pours its water beside the line and is never drunk: with nothing to wash (an undyed segment or a bare cable) nothing happens and no water is used. A tank with nothing to wash is placed as usual. Cauldrons, rain and nearby water do not wash the colour off.
• Crafting: 8 insulated cables of one grade around 1 dye (like stained glass) give 8 cables of that colour; an already dyed cable can be re-dyed the same way. The recipe shows in JEI/REI and in the recipe book (unlocked once you hold the cable).
• Colour does not change connections (cables of different colours connect as before), loss, the segment buffer, shock safety or the cable breaker.
• Only the black rubber sleeve changes colour; the small conductor-coloured flecks stay, so the grade is still recognisable. Undyed cables look exactly as before; black dye gives a slate grey so it differs from undyed.
• The colour is kept when the cable is broken (wrench dismantling included) and on middle-click pick-block; the item tooltip shows "Color: …"; stacks of different colours do not merge. Old worlds load unchanged — cables read as undyed.
• Works the same on Minecraft 26.3 and 26.2, on Fabric and NeoForge.

Recipes

• Six tin cables and three rubber on a crafting table give 6 insulated ones.
• There is no wool alternative.
• Processing recipes: none.

Related

• Tin Cable — the cheaper bare version.
• Insulated Copper Cable — a wider LV line for flows up to 12 EU/FE/tick.
• Rubber — the sheath material.

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