Particle Accelerator

The Particle Accelerator is a building used to craft advanced late-game recipes. Unlike other production buildings, its power consumption fluctuates and varies per selected recipe. The least power is consumed at the beginning of a crafting cycle, and it increases to the maximum throughout the duration of the crafting cycle.

Overclocking
The Particle Accelerator can be overclocked using Power Shards. Overclocking increases the input/output speed of the Particle Accelerator at the cost of greatly increased power demand proportional to output.

Tips

 * Given the massive power consumption of the Particle Accelerator, it is highly advisable to build more of them and underclock each, if there is enough space and materials to do so. For example, building twice as many and underclocking all to 50% reduces total power consumption by roughly 33%, as well as allowing them to run at different intervals.
 * As the collision box of the building is a solid cuboid, most other buildings cannot be built through the empty spaces of it, except Railways and similar.
 * Power Storages can be used to mitigate the effects of the fluctuating power consumption. To calculate the number of Power Storages required for this, we must consider the maximum charge rate of Power Storages and the recipe being used in the Particle Accelerator. While Power Storages can discharge unlimited amounts of power, they can only charge at a maximum rate of 100MW. For that reason we need a number of Power Storages that is sufficient to consume all of the excess power during the periods in which the Particle Accelerator is using less than average power. The Power Storages and Particle Accelerator together then have a fixed combined power demand of the average power consumption of each recipe.
 * You would need 1.25 Power Storages per Particle Accelerator configured with the Instant Plutonium Cell recipe. Average power consumption of the Particle Accelerator would be 375MW with minimum power consumption of 250MW, leaving a maximum of 125MW for charging Power Storages.
 * You would need 2.5 Power Storages per Particle Accelerator configured with the Plutonium Pellet recipe. Average power consumption of the Particle Accelerator would be 500MW with minimum power consumption of 250MW, leaving a maximum of 250MW for charging Power Storages.
 * You would need 5 Power Storages per Particle Accelerator configured with the Nuclear Pasta recipe. Average power consumption of the Particle Accelerator would be 1000MW with minimum power consumption of 500MW, leaving 500MW for charging Power Storages.

Trivia

 * In Patch 0.4.0.11, the Nitrogen Gas usage of the Instant Plutonium Cell recipe was removed, meaning the Pipeline input is left unused.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Made officially available, renamed from Hadron Collider