Cyclotron
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The Cyclotron is a multiblock machine that bombards element powders with element boxes to get heavier elements. Think of it as an advanced Breeding Reactor but for elements that consumes insane amounts of energy.
It can also create Antimatter as a byproduct for certain operations, which makes it a reliable but expensive method of large-scale advanced material production.
Recipe
The Cyclotron is made in the assembly machine with the following recipe:
Usage
The compatible elements for boxes are: Lithium, Beryllium, Carbon, Copper, and Plutonium. They are made in the assembly machine combining one powder with one insulator.
Many of the elements produced have very few uses, usually for Nitanium production or being an intermediary step for another rare element, such as one of the Rare Earth Elements or trans-schrabidic super heavy elements, notably Australium.
Due to the expense of running, it should only be used for very rare elements (for further use in Nitanium or Desh for example) or Antimatter.
Although if you can afford to run this machine consistently (possibly utilizing a mining ship), you can use this machine as a stand-in for an energy-matter fabricator (think the replicator from Star Trek), though that would be purely for flex material as it is not sustainable in any sense.
The cyclotron can store up to 100 MHE and 32,000mb of coolant. Power is consumed very quickly at 690 million HE consumed per operation. Use all three slots at once to be most efficient. A Schrabidium Energy Storage Block at the minimum should suffice for a few operations. Coolant is consumed quite slow, so you don't have to worry about that.
If it runs out of coolant, it will enter an overheat phase and shoot sparks and shrapnel all over. You have around a minute of continuous operation until it completely overheats and explodes into either: a mini-nuke explosion, a Balefire explosion, or spawn a black hole.
Antimatter and Antischrabidium
Antimatter is produced as a byproduct of operation, heavier element boxes produce more antimatter. The cyclotron has 8,000mb of internal storage for antimatter.
Antischrabidium is produced by bombarding an Antimatter cell with Plutonium. Note that this recipe will not create any Antimatter byproduct.
Power Consumption
The cyclotron is the only machine where a speed upgrade does not increase power consumption and where a power saving upgrade does not decrease speed. The following calculator can be used to figure out how much energy the cyclotron consumes every operation with any combination of machine upgrades.
Trivia
- After its rework, the cyclotron has fewer recipes than it did before.
- In reality, a cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator using a spiral-pattern varying electric field. The first known example of a cyclotron was created 1939 by Ernest Lawrence, for the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. The first sample of synthetically-produced plutonium was synthesized using a cyclotron in 1941.
- The Cyclotron appears to have 4 small tanks on its corners, presumably by the way they look: 2 for antimatter storage and 2 for coolant storage.
- Each side has a different symbol on it, see the gallery.
- The side with the "powder" symbol uses a silhouette of the powder texture used as a base for Energy Powder, Nitanium, Desh, Spark, and thermonuclear ashes instead of the typical powder texture for material powders.
- Placing in Thermonuclear Ashes, The Book of Boxcars, a Mask Man coin, and a Diamond Gavel in the respective slots activates an "enchanted" mode with a fancy render.
- It was originally supposed to unlock special recipes, but it never got to that point.
Gallery
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Side with a circle silhouette, a mask man coin
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Side with a rectangle silhouette, the book of boxcars
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Side with a silhouett, the diamond gavel
