Galvanic Bath
alaindustrial:galvanic_bath
Summary
The Galvanic Bath is an LV electroplating machine: fibre and silver dust are submerged in water, a current is passed through them, and the silver plates onto the fibre as a conductive track. The result is flux thread, the half-product of the Fluxweave material. It is the first machine in the mod to consume items and a fluid at once, and it is the entry point to the EU/FE armour line.
Fibre means vanilla string or cotton fibre — one recipe accepts both through the # tag. Choosing between a spider farm and a cotton trellis is a matter of playstyle, not progression.
Energy
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Role | consumer |
| Buffer (EU/FE) | 800 |
| Max input (EU/FE/tick) | 32 (LV ceiling) |
| Max output (EU/FE/tick) | n/a |
| EU/FE/tick | 2 |
Throughput: accepts up to 32 EU/FE/tick on every face except the front, which is energy-inert and draws no cable arm. Anything above the limit is simply not transferred; nothing breaks.
Processing
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Duration (ticks) | 500, i.e. 25 s |
| Water per operation | 4000 mB, i.e. 4 buckets |
| Tank capacity | 10,000 mB (10 buckets) |
| Auto-eject | no |
The water is not part of the recipe JSON. No recipe family in the mod takes items and a fluid at the same time, so the water volume is a fixed config cost the machine checks and debits itself. A datapack can override the fibre, the silver and the energy cost, but not the water volume.
The tank is one-way: water can be poured in but never pulled out. What enters is feedstock, not storage, so a neighbouring pump cannot siphon it back.
Inventory
| Slot | Accepts | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fibre | # (string, cotton fibre) | 1 per operation |
| Silver | 1 per operation | |
| Fill (in) | any fluid container: bucket, vacuum capsule, another mod's cell | — |
| Fill (out) | the emptied container, filled by the machine | — |
| Result | , machine-filled only | up to 64 |
Automation may feed both input slots and the fill slot, and may pull from the result slot and the emptied-container slot.
Interface
Type: container Shows: the water level in the tank (with fluid name and millibuckets on hover), the energy buffer and the progress arrow. The reason it is idle appears as a tooltip on the arrow: needs fibre, needs silver dust, needs water, no matching recipe, output blocked. Water gets its own line because it is not part of the recipe — without it, an empty tank would read to the player as "no matching recipe".
Block Properties
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Hardness | 3.0 |
| Blast resistance | 6.0 |
| Tool | pickaxe |
| Drops energy NBT | no |
Sound
While running, the bath emits a faint ionic electrical hum of electrolysis — the loop (pattern A, default 0.35). It falls silent when idle.
Recipes
Crafting — a machine casing, two copper coils, two electronic circuits and two silver plates.
Progression
Tier: LV Requires: machine casing, copper coil, electronic circuit, silver plates. Unlocks: flux thread, then Fluxweave cloth, then the Fluxweave LV armour set.
Related
Polymerizer — the reference for a machine with a tank Vulcanizer — the reference for a machine with two item inputs Trellis — the source of cotton fibre
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Galvanic Bath