Motor

"I prefer walking when it comes to transport. Less chance for accidents. But to each their own!"

- Caterina Parks's assistant Steve

The Motor is a mid-game crafting component used in the creation of motorized machines.

Alternate recipes analysis
The following shows different ways to produce 1 Motor / second, or 60 / min:
 * Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: . The lower the better.
 * Energy per item can be used to measure how much power is consumed for the entire production chain. The lower the better.
 * Space refers to building space, excluding belts and pipes. The lower the better.
 * Among multiple ways to produce each of the ingredient, the recipe with the lowest WP is chosen. See also:
 * Rotor
 * Stator
 * Crystal Oscillator
 * Electromagnetic Control Rod

Tips

 * In the early game, there are Motors scattered around some Crash Sites which can be fed into the AWESOME Sink for some quick Coupons.
 * It may be convenient to set up an entire vertically integrated factory making Motors from base elements. Using default recipes, one Motor takes 31.5 Iron Ore, nine Copper Ore and eight Coal. Creation from scratch involves two Smelter, one Foundry, four Constructor and three Assembler recipes.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced Electric Motor alternate recipe
 * Patch 0.3.3.3: Nerfed the Sink Points by half.
 * Patch 0.3.2.0: Tweaked some resource meshes - Motor, Reinforced Iron Plate, Mycelia, Steel Pipe, Cable, all packaged liquids

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