Carbon Ceramic
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Summary
Carbon Ceramic is the end of a chain that starts with a stack of coal. The block is assembled at a workbench from four ceramic plates and comes apart again without loss, like a vanilla ingot and its block.
Mini-example: a stack of coal → dust → four rods → two doubled ones → a briquette with slag → four plates → one block.
The full chain — six rungs and five different mechanisms:
| Step | Mechanism | In | Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macerator | 64 coal | 64 coal dust · 19,200 EU/FE |
| 2 | Compressor | 16 coal dust ×4 | 4 rods · 1,040 EU/FE |
| 3 | Workbench + forge hammer | 2 rods ×2 | 2 double rods |
| 4 | Alloy smelter | 2 double rods + slag (4 / 2 / 1) | 1 briquette · 1,200 EU/FE |
| 5 | Quench press (water + piston) | 1 briquette | 4 plates |
| 6 | Workbench | 4 plates (2×2) | 1 block |
21,440 EU/FE per block in total, 90 % of it paid by the milling.
One stack of coal, one block. The price in coal does not depend on the grade of the slag; the grade only decides how much slag goes in, and that is where sorting your junk in the Recycler pays off.
Block Properties
A dense solid block. Any pickaxe breaks it, and it drops itself.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Tool | any pickaxe |
| Drop | itself |
| Blast resistance | 30 — the same as the reactor shell |
Recipes
4 plates → 1 block (workbench, 2×2 square). 1 block → 4 plates (workbench, shapeless).
The cycle is reversible and lossless: the block is a way to store plates densely and a building material at the same time, not a dead end.
Progression
Ceramic arrives in the middle of the tech tree — it needs a macerator, a compressor, a Recycler and an alloy smelter. Before it, coal in this mod was only generator fuel; after it, coal has a floor you can pour any stockpile into.
A reactor-room wall of 5×5×3 is about twenty blocks, which is twenty stacks of coal.
Related
Carbon rod — the start of the chain. Carbon briquette — the fired middle. Ceramic plate — what the block is assembled from. Recycler — the source of the slag, and the sorting rule that pays off here. Alloy smelter — the machine that fires the plates.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Carbon Ceramic
Used in
Shapeless Crafting
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×4Ceramic Plate