Compacted Coal

Compacted Coal
A much more efficient alternative for Coal. Used as fuel for vehicles and Coal Generators.
Unlocked at	Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Item
Stack size	100
Sink value	28
Abbreviation	Comp
Fuel
Energy	630 MJ
Stack energy	63 000 MJ
11.455s in Tractor 8.4s in Truck 8.4s in Coal Generator 7s in Explorer 4.2s in Cyber Wagon

Compacted Coal is an improved version of  Coal made by combining it with  Sulfur. It is used in a small number of alt recipes, particularly most versions of  Turbofuel, or can be burned in a Coal Generator. While it does not directly generate more power than regular Coal when burned, the burn time is more than doubled (from 4 seconds to 8.4 seconds), meaning a given amount of Compacted Coal per minute can run over twice as many Coal Generators.

Obtaining

Unlocking

It is one of two MAM researches to cost a  Hard Drive, due to formerly being an alternate recipe.

 Compacted Coal is unlocked via the Sulfur Research chain in the MAM using:

1

25

25

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Compacted Coal	5 × Coal 25 / min						5 × Sulfur 25 / min						Assembler 12 sec	5 × Compacted Coal 25 / min 36 MJ/item		Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal

Alternate recipes analysis

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

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Turbofuel	6 × Fuel 22.5 / min						4 × Compacted Coal 15 / min						Refinery 16 sec	5 × Turbofuel 18.75 / min 96 MJ/item		Sulfur Research - Turbo Fuel
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
Compacted Steel Ingot Alternate	6 × Iron Ore 22.5 / min						3 × Compacted Coal 11.25 / min						Foundry 16 sec	10 × Steel Ingot 37.5 / min 25.6 MJ/item		Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production Alternate Recipe - Compacted Coal
Turbo Heavy Fuel Alternate	5 × Heavy Oil Residue 37.5 / min						4 × Compacted Coal 30 / min						Refinery 8 sec	4 × Turbofuel 30 / min 60 MJ/item		Tier 5 - Oil Processing Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal

AWESOME Sink

 Compacted Coal can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 28 points.

Tips

• It takes exactly 7 Coal Generators at 100% clock speed to burn 50 Compacted Coal per minute. This is not immediately obvious due to one generator consuming about 7.143/min.
• Sulfur used to make Compacted Coal is the rarest resource only behind Uranium, which should be taken into consideration before building large-scale production.

See also

•  Coal
•  Sulfur
•  Turbofuel

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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