Compacted Coal

Compacted Coal is an improved version of Coal made by combining it with Sulfur. It is commonly used in alternate recipes involving fuels and Coal-related items.

Unlocking
Its recipe is unlocked exclusively as an alternate recipe. It will only appear in the selection if has been researched in the MAM.

Alternate recipes analysis
Alternate recipes analysis for is not applicable as there is only a single recipe to create.

Tips

 * In contradiction to its description Compacted Coal is not actually a more efficient fuel source for Coal Generators when considering net power. Since at 100% clock speed it takes 180MJ for an Assembler to make 5 compacted coal the net energy of one compacted coal is actually 594MJ. Compared to using 2 Coal, which are worth a total of 600MJ, using 1 Coal + 1 Sulfur actually results in less net power. This can be counteracted by using Assemblers underclocked to 73.7957% or less.
 * At 100% clock rate for a Coal Generator it takes exactly 7 Generators to consume 50/min Compacted Coal. This is not immediately obvious due to rounding issues with the per minute burn rate of compacted coal, but works out in a full equation. (60s / 8.4s) * 7 = 50/min.

History

 * Patch 0.3: Fuel value re-balance from 600 to 630MJ, also nerfed the conversion from 150% to 100% which reduced the maximum production by 33%.

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