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Mute Chip
alaindustrial:mute_chip
Summary
The Mute Chip is an upgrade item that drops into a machine's upgrade slot (the first, active slot of the upgrade panel). While the chip is installed the machine is fully silent: the continuous working hum disappears, and no other sounds from the block itself play either. Pop the chip out and the sound comes back. It's pure convenience — speed, energy use and output are all unchanged. It slots into any of the mod's machines or generators the same way, but you'll only hear the effect on blocks that make sound in the first place (macerator, generator, electric furnace, geothermal generator, solar panels). In a silent machine the chip just sits in the slot doing nothing — which is expected.
Mini-example: your macerator bank hums loudly next to your base. Drop a mute chip into each one's upgrade slot and the room goes quiet — grinding speed and EU/FE cost stay exactly the same.
Energy
Uses no energy — it's an item with no energy of its own.
Inventory
Not applicable (item). It only goes into a machine's active upgrade slot; hoppers and other automation don't see the upgrade slot.
Block Properties
Not applicable (item). Stack: 64 in a normal inventory; in the upgrade slot it's 1.
How it works
While a mute chip sits in the active upgrade slot, the machine makes no sound at all — neither its working hum nor any other sound the block would normally play. Everything else about the machine is untouched: same speed, same EU/FE use, same output. Take the chip out and the sound returns.
Recipes
Crafted at a workbench (shaped 3×3): an empty chip in the centre, ringed by any wool on all eight sides.
WWW
WEW
WWWW — any wool (×8); E — empty chip (×1).
Progression
An upgrade with no tier of its own. Built on the empty chip — the shared blank that future upgrade chips will also start from.
Related
Empty Chip — the blank base this chip is built on. Upgrade system overview — how upgrade slots work.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Mute Chip