Power Shard

Power Shards are special items used for overclocking buildings. Each shard increases the maximum allowed clock speed by 50%. A building can accept a maximum of three shards, which means a maximum running speed of 250% for production buildings or 202% for power generation buildings (due to overclocking not being linear).

Resource acquisition
Additional power shards can be randomly obtained as drops from the FICSMAS calendar.

Maximum throughput requirements
It is best to use Power Shards to overclock raw resource extractors (Miners, Oil Extractors, and Resource Well Pressurizers) to saturate a conveyor or pipe throughput. The total required Power Shards equals 1,145, leaving 286 of the non-renewable shards. This can be used to overclock 95 Water Extractors to attain maximum raw resource production.

The minimum number of required Power Shards to maximize throughput is as follows: * Pure nodes only require 2 Power Shards to achieve 162.5% / 780 items per minute limit * Water Resource Wells are power inefficient versus Water Extractors, however provide a higher output per Power Shard.

AWESOME Sink
Power Shards can not be sunk into the AWESOME Sink

Usage
Power Shards are used solely for overclocking. See Clock Speed for more details.

Tips

 * Overclocking production buildings is not advised, as more of them can be built instead. Overclocking power generators causes the resulting production speed to result in numbers with decimal spaces, making them considerably harder to work with.
 * Underclocking a building does not require any power shards.
 * Power Shards are renewable by taming Lizard Doggos, as they have a chance to find new Power Slugs.
 * It is a common misconception that Power Shards wear out after a certain period of time, they do not. The disadvantage of overclocking is increased power consumption (or uneven consumption rate for generators) as mentioned above, not that the shards are temporary.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.4: Copy paste now autofills Power Shard slots if available
 * Patch 0.3.4.14: Production times changed to work better with Constructor sounds. Crafting clicks adjusted.

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