Compacted Coal

Compacted Coal is an improved version of Coal made by combining it with Sulfur. It is used in other alternate recipes and can be burned in a Coal Generator.

Unlocking
There are currently two ways to unlock the Compacted Coal recipe:
 * 1) Unlocking it by scanning Hard Drives[verification needed]
 * 2) Researching the dedicated node in Sulfur Research  This still costs a Hard Drive, but provides a direct unlock and only takes 3 seconds to research.

It is currently unclear whether unlocking the recipe either way prevents it from being unlocked the other way, thus wasting a Hard Drive.

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

Tips

 * 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 0.6.0.4: Can no longer be unlocked from Hard Drive research (?)
 * Patch 0.6.0.0: The Compacted Coal alternative recipe is now available in the MAM Sulfur research tree
 * Patch 0.3:
 * Energy value increased from 600 to 630MJ
 * Changed the conversion from 150% to 100% which reduced the maximum production by 33%.

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