Tutorial/Mass-Fab Macerator

== Mass-Fab Macerator==

The Mass-Fab Macerator (MFM) is a factory that uses macerators to generate EMC extremely rapidly, far exceeding the output of a Power Flower. However, the MFM requires EU to run, and Solar Panels and arrays are tedious to manufacture without a factory of their own. However, the player can start small and slowly upgrade the MFM over time, making it more and more effective.

This is not to be confused with the Mass Fabricator, which is a separate entity.

Basic Principle
A Macerater can process either Bones or Blaze Rods into more EMC than they were fed (unlike a crafting table). The product is then fed into an Energy Condenser to turn it back into a bone or blaze rod, starting the process over again. A macerator grinds a bone into 5 bone meal instead of 3, creating 64 free EMC. It grinds a blaze rod into 5 blaze powders instead of 2, creating a massive bonus of 2304 EMC per iteration. Bone is plentiful, but the player should acquire a blaze rod as soon as possible because it makes the MFM 36 times faster at generating EMC! This is equivalent to 10 having overclockers in the macerator and enough power to run it.

Construction
The final goal is a small factory composed of 2 Rotary Macerators, 4-5 Filters, 2 Energy Condensers, 10+ Pneumatic Tubes, 2-4 Timers, a Blaze Rod, and enough power to run the macerators at full speed with 16 Overclocker Upgrades each (plus 3 Transformer Upgrades and ~8 Energy Storage Upgrades as necessary). Typically that means 3-4 HV Solar Arrays and 1-2 MFSUs. However, that's a lot to build, particularly in early game. Luckily you can start small.

Construction of the MFM factory is split into 6 stages, each stage getting progressively more effective.

Stage 1: Manual Fabrication

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Stage 2: Basic Automation

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Stage 3: Improved Speed

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Stage 4: High Speed

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At this point, you should probably switch to a higher-density output object. Diamonds are likely to fill up chests very quickly unless you're piping them directly into another machine for processing. Dark Matter, Red Matter, and Red Matter Furnaces are excellent choices for high-density storage. The Red Matter Furnace is the highest EMC item in the game (save for a Klein Star, but that's another matter).

Stage 5: Maximum Speed

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Stage 6: Mass-Production

Now that you've perfected your factory (or perhaps even before), it's time to start mass-producing copies of it to further amplify production.

Simply make another MFM next to the first one. You can share power thorugh a centralized cluster of HV arrays and MFSUs, improving efficiency of components.