Ore Acidizer

The ore acidizer in all its glory.

The ore acidizer (also referred to as a crystallizer or just acidizer) is a useful machine, used for processing various items for utility, ore multiplication, and more. It is powered by electricity and requires various solvents depending on the item.

The acidizer represents a hike in power consumption, requiring improved generation or the use of upgrades to counteract. However, its recipes tend to be superior alternatives to other methods.

Ore Acidizer GUI

Crafting

It is made in the Assembly Machine:

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The ore acidizer requires desh, which gates it at post-oil.

Operation

The acidizer requires both power and fluid. The fluid consumed as well as the duration depends on the recipe (ranging between 1 to 30 seconds). Since it consumes 1 kHE/t at base, this means its energy consumption can vary between 600 kHE and only 20 kHE; the former is more common, often for processing ores into their crystalline form.

It can also accept 2 upgrades, with 3 valid (stacking up to level 3):

• Speed: Each level reduces duration by 25%, but increases consumption by 100%. Curiously, the total energy consumption remains unchanged at level 3.
• Effectiveness: This upgrade gives a chance to not consume the input per operation. This chance increases by 5% per level, but fluid consumption also increases by 100% (starting at 5% and 200% respectively).
• Overdrive: Overdrive divides the duration, with the divisor starting at 3 and increasing by 2 per level. This comes with no downsides.

It possesses an energy buffer of 1 MHE and a fluid tank of 8000 mb. The acidizer has 2 ports per side, leaving a total of 8 ports for fluids, energy, and item I/O.

Recipes

The acidizer is most notable for its ore processing, including 23 recipes just for crystallizing ores:

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Additionally, bedrock ores can be run through the acidizer to multiply the output or even obtain special byproducts.

It also features several utility recipes which make some resources automatable or easier to obtain:

• Desh from DeshReady™ blend
• Mercury from cinnabar and redstone
• Nether quartz from silicon ingots, using oxygen
• Boron from borax
• Cordite from sawdust, using nitroglycerin
• Chemical dyes using wood oil and various powders

Finally, multiple resources can only be obtained from the acidizer, including cadmium, crystalline fullerite, and arsenic.

Trivia

• The machine features a ladder, which now finally works.
• The original model was made after this image.
  • It may be just a hopper or a component of a rotary kiln since a similar looking machine can be seen in a lime cement plant in Wyoming.
  • Notably, the machine only featured 2 energy/fluid ports placed at an inconvenient height.