Electrum Ingot

alaindustrial:electrum_ingot

MaterialsImplementedmaterialmetalsalloy

Summary

Electrum is a one-to-one gold-and-silver alloy made by the Alloy Smelter. By materials it is the most expensive recipe the smelter has: both input metals are valuable, and neither of them is ever spare in a chest.

Mini-example: put one gold ingot in any input slot of the smelter and one silver ingot in any other. Seven and a half seconds later the output holds one electrum ingot. Slot order does not matter.

The smelter returns a single ingot per operation, so the full 1200 EU/FE is spent on that one ingot. There is no electrum ore: the alloy comes out of the smelter and nowhere else, and a vanilla furnace will not make it.

Recipe (alloying)

The only route is the Alloy Smelter.

Two ingots in, one out: melting costs metal, and that holds for every alloy in the mod. Gold and silver are accepted through the conventional tags c:ingots/gold and c:ingots/silver, so silver from another mod is taken just like the mod's own.

Progression

Electrum now has an electrum plate — the Forge Hammer or the Compressor — and a reinforced version made of two plates. The ingot itself stopped sitting idle long ago: it goes into the Electrum Cable — the high-voltage line with the lowest losses — into the Reinforced Energy Storage and into the Electrum Chest. The trade-off is real all the same: silver goes into the electronic circuit and through it into nearly every machine and generator, so every ingot spent on electrum is a machine left unbuilt.

Related

Alloy Smelter — the only source of electrum. Silver — the second metal in the recipe and the main competitor for it; the gold is vanilla. Bronze, Invar, Cupronickel — the other three alloys from the same smelter.

Crafting

AlloyingEnergy: 1200 EU/FE

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Electrum Ingot

Used in

Shaped Crafting

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Electrum Cable

Shaped Crafting

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Electrum Chest