Electric Compressor

Electric Compressor

Mod	Galacticraft
Type	Tier 2 Machines
Tool	?
Stackable	Yes (64)

The Electric Compressor, also known as Electric Ingot Compressor, is a Tier 2 machine block that is used to compress different kinds of ingots and convert them into compressed metal sheets and platings.

It has the same use as the non-electric Compressor. Its advantage is that it is not necessary to use coal or wood to power it. Instead it has to be powered with energy.

In Galacticraft 3, it is classified as a Tier 2 Machine to receive a speed buff if powered with Tier 2 energy.

Usage

Currently it is used to make:

• Compressed Iron
• Compressed Aluminum
• Compressed Copper
• Compressed Tin
• Compressed Steel
• Compressed Bronze
• Compressed Meteoric Iron
• Compressed Desh
• Compressed Titanium
• Heavy-Duty Plating
• Tier 2 Heavy-Duty Plating
• Tier 3 Heavy-Duty Plating

The ingredients go in the crafting grid. Most compressor recipes (e.g. Compressed Iron) are shapeless, just requiring two ingots: but for Heavy-Duty Plate correct placement is important.

Electric Compressor UI

Crafting Recipe

• 4 Compressed Steel
• One Anvil
• One Compressed Bronze
• 2 Aluminum Wires
• One Advanced Wafer

Automation

In all versions of Galacticraft, the output slots of the Electric Compressor are accessible from below - for example, place a Hopper beneath it to move its output into a chest (or use another mod with item-moving pipes).

In Galacticraft 2, the input slots (crafting grid) can be accessed from the top side of the Electric Compressor. But because it is a crafting grid, except for the simplest compressor recipes (e.g. Meteoric Iron Ingot -> Compressed Meteoric Iron) you will likely only be able to automate it if using another mod which can place recipe items precisely in a crafting grid, for example Logistics Pipes.

In Galacticraft 3 prior to version 3.0.6.236, the position is similar to Galacticraft 2 except that the input slots can be accessed from 5 sides of the machine - all sides except the underneath.

In Galacticraft 3 from version 3.0.6.237, smarter automation has been added to this machine so that can be automated in several situations even if using 'dumb' inputs like hoppers or Buildcraft pipes. It works like this:

• if there is already a functioning recipe laid out on the Electric Compressor's crafting grid, input pipes will add ingots (or other items) to the existing recipe item stacks to replenish them
• if that recipe has the same item twice over (e.g. Compressed Copper needs 2 copper ingots, Compressed Tin needs 2 tin ingots etc), input pipes will automatically add ingots to both stacks, to keep the 2 item stacks even in size - so the pipes add an ingot to one stack, then an ingot to the other stack, etc
• if there is no recipe (or no functioning recipe), then the input pipes will try to create a recipe, basically adding ingots in random places to see if that makes a functioning recipe or not. This will work out fine for the simpler (shapeless) compressor recipes. For example, fill a hopper with a stack of aluminium ingots and it will automatically place one ingot in the crafting grid, then the next ingot in the crafting grid in a different spot, so making the recipe for Compressed Aluminium (it's a shapeless recipe requiring 2 aluminium ingots). Now that the compressor has a functioning recipe, the hopper or input pipes should be able to top-up and replenish those input stacks as long as you have a good supply of the same ingots
• but this this will not work for a shaped recipe like Tier 1 Heavy-Duty Plate, that recipe can only be automated either (1) if you set it manually and then your automation maintains enough ingredients in the Electric Compressor to keep it functioning all the time, so that it never empties the crafting grid or (2) if you use Logistics Pipes or a similar mod, as mentioned above
• if the crafting grid has items on it which do not make a functioning compressor recipe, then no automatic system will be able to remove those items or re-arrange them into a functioning recipe, the player will have to fix that before automation can work.

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