Shielding Alloy Ingot
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Summary
Shielding alloy is the mod's fifth alloy and the only one that had a large consumer from day one: a whole reactor room is built out of it. The Alloy Smelter melts it from palladium and tempered iron — the mod's rarest metal and its cheapest one.
Mini-example: put one palladium ingot in any input slot of the smelter and three tempered iron in another. Seven and a half seconds later the output holds three shielding alloy ingots. Slot order does not matter.
Three ingots per operation is a record among the mod's alloys — the others give one or two. That is exactly why palladium, which used to be mined "for later", suddenly stretches far enough to build with: one ingot out of the Nether becomes three alloy ingots, and therefore three plates.
| Form | How you get it |
|---|---|
| Ingot | alloying 1 palladium ingot + 3 tempered iron in the Alloy Smelter → 3 ingots |
| Shielding plate | an ingot plus the Forge Hammer on a crafting table, or the Compressor, 260 EU/FE |
| Reinforced shielding plate | 2 plates + 1 depleted uranium, by hammer on a crafting table only |
The alloy has no ore, a vanilla furnace will not make it, and there is no way back into dust — just like the mod's other alloys.
Recipe (alloying)
The only route is the Alloy Smelter.
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Load | 1 palladium ingot + 3 tempered iron |
| You get | 3 shielding alloy ingots |
| Cost per operation | 1200 EU/FE |
| Duration | 150 ticks (~7.5 s) |
| EU/FE per ingot | 400 |
Four ingots in, three out — the smallest melting loss in the mod: bronze turns four into two, and the other three alloys turn theirs into one. Per ingot the shielding alloy is the cheapest as well: 400 EU/FE against bronze's 600 and 1200 for invar, cupronickel and electrum.
The smelter reads palladium through the conventional tag c:ingots/palladium, so palladium from another mod is taken just like the mod's own. Tempered iron, on the other hand, is accepted only as the mod's own item: it has no conventional tag, and no foreign ingot can stand in for it. Making it is easy though — it is a vanilla iron ingot smelted once more, one for one.
Rolling: plate and reinforced plate
The ingot crafts into nothing by itself: everything that builds a reactor room asks for plates.
| Tier | Input | By hand | By machine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shielding plate | 1 ingot | Forge Hammer on a crafting table, −1 hammer durability | Compressor, 260 EU/FE, 130 ticks (~6.5 s) |
| Reinforced shielding plate | 2 plates + 1 depleted uranium | the same hammer on a crafting table | — (no machine route: its compressing recipe asked for two ingredients against one input slot and never matched) |
The reinforced plate is the exception among the mod's reinforced plates. Every other alloy is happy with two of its own plates; this one also wants depleted uranium, the waste product of the nuclear chain. There are two ways to get it: it collects in the ash slot of the Incubator when a uranium ingot burns out there, or the Thermal Centrifuge spins a uranium ingot straight into two of it for 800 EU/FE.
The point of that price is that the reinforced plate goes into exactly two things in the whole room: the airlock door and the controller. That is not the mass of the wall, it is its handful of smart parts.
Where it goes
So far the alloy has exactly one family of consumers — the reactor room and its fittings. Plates per
| What you craft | Shielding plates | Reinforced | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reactor Casing | 2 | — | 8 |
| Reactor Glass | 1 | — | 8 |
| Reactor Lamp | 1 | — | 1 |
| Reactor Inlet | 2 | — | 1 |
| Reactor Outlet | 1 | — | 2 |
| Reactor Button | 1 | — | 2 |
| Reactor Airlock Door | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reactor Controller | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Control Rod Drive | 3 | — | 1 |
| Fuel Rod Cladding | 1 | — | 1 |
| Reactor Column | 1 | — | 2 |
| Shielding Chest | 4 | — | 1 |
Read the table like this: the mass of the room is casing, and casing takes only two plates per eight blocks. What is expensive in a reactor room is not the walls but the door and the controller. The palladium estimate for a whole room lives in the reactor casing spec.
The fuel rod cladding is the one consumer that comes back: a spent rod returns it, so its plate is spent once for the reactor's entire service life rather than every cycle.
Related
Alloy Smelter — the only source of the ingot. Palladium — the rare input of the recipe; it is what the Nether trip is for. Tempered Iron — the cheap input, three ingots per operation. Reactor Casing — the main consumer, and the budget for a whole room. Bronze, Invar, Cupronickel, Electrum — the other four alloys from the same smelter.
Crafting
AlloyingEnergy: 1200 EU/FE
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Used in
Shapeless Crafting
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Shielding Plate