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 |
|---|---|---|
| Base (first) | tag #: fibre (#) or kelp ash | 1 per operation |
| Reagent (second) | tag #: silver dust (#c:dusts/silver) or sulfur dust (#c:dusts/sulfur) | 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 |
Two recipes. Fibre + silver dust → flux thread; kelp ash + sulfur dust → iodine (the water leaches the salts out of the ash, the sulfur frees the iodine). Same price: 1000 EU/FE and 4 buckets of water. With ash or sulfur already in, the status line asks for exactly what is missing ("Needs kelp ash", "Needs sulfur dust").
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