Black Powder

Black Powder is an intermediate item used to craft Rifle Cartridges and Nobelisks.

Obtaining[]

Black Powder is unlocked via the Sulfur Research chain in the

MAM using:

50

25

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Black Powder	1 × Coal 15 / min						1 × Sulfur 15 / min						Assembler 4 sec × 2	2 × Black Powder 30 / min 30 MJ/item		Sulfur Research - Black Powder
Fine Black Powder Alternate	2 × Sulfur 7.5 / min						1 × Compacted Coal 3.75 / min						Assembler 16 sec	4 × Black Powder 15 / min 60 MJ/item		Alternate Recipe - Compacted Coal

The following shows different ways to produce 1 Black Powder / second, or 60 / min:

Recipe	Coal /min (WP)	Sulfur /min (WP)	Total WP	Total Energy /item (MJ)	Space (m²)	Building counts
Default	30 (9.96 )	30 (43.86 )	53.82	40.86	300.01	2.1
Fine	15 (4.98 )	45 (65.79 )	70.77	79.85	690.02	4.72

Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: (resource consumption rate / maximum extraction rate) * 10,000. 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.
Building space and building count are summed for all buildings, excluding belts, pipes, power poles, power lines and other logistic infrastructures. The lower the better.

Black Powder is used in the Sulfur Research chain in the

MAM for additional unlocks.

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Nobelisk	2 × Steel Pipe 20 / min						2 × Black Powder 20 / min						Assembler 6 sec × 5	1 × Nobelisk 10 / min 90 MJ/item		Sulfur Research - The Nobelisk Detonator
Smokeless Powder	2 × Black Powder 20 / min						1 × Heavy Oil Residue 10 / min						Refinery 6 sec	2 × Smokeless Powder 20 / min 90 MJ/item		Sulfur Research - Smokeless Powder

Black Powder can be sunk into the

AWESOME Sink to yield 14 points.

Version 0.6.0.0 altered the default recipe for Black Powder but did not change the Fine Black Powder alt. At present this recipe is almost entirely inferior as a result, with a 3:4 Sulfur ratio rather that the default's 1:2, half the production speed, the need for an additional Assembler to make Compacted Coal, and the only upshot a slight saving in coal use.

Patch 0.6.0.4: Increased stack size from 100 to 200
Patch 0.6.0.0:
- Default recipe:
  - Changed recipe craft time from 8 to 4 seconds
  - Changed Black Powder output from 1 to 2
  - Changed Sulfur cost from 2 to 1
Patch 0.1.6: Renamed Gunpowder to Black Powder
Patch 0.1.5: Introduced

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