Tesla Coil

How do you defend your well-terraformed, expensive industrial landscape from pesky animals/creepers/weirdos/thieves? Try a Tesla Coil !

The Tesla Coil is defensive block that is highly effective, medium-ranged and absolutely deadly.

First of all, however, you need to charge the Tesla Coil with 5000 EU. Once charged, the Tesla Coil is on stand-by. To activate it, apply a Redstone current. As long as this current is applied, the Tesla Coil will drain 2 EUs constantly to fuel its extremely efficient targeting system.

This system will target the first living object (we will consider undead alive in this matter) within a range of ~4 blocks. Please take note, we do not take any responsibility for zapping any part of your family/friends, including yourself.

Then the Tesla Coil will unleash the power of technology in the form of an extremely powerful, wall-penetrating and lethal energy bolt. Of course this will deplete the energy reserve of the Tesla Coil, which will thus need to be recharged again.

Antennae and Extended Range
Placing bare wires on a tesla coil extends the range, because they act like antenna. They extend the range in only that direction.

The type of wire affects the range boost : Copper is 1.5x times range, Gold is 2x range, HV Cable is 3x range.

The range and damage both scale with energy stored. Also, the energy draw of the coil goes up with energy stored (even if the coil is not receiving a Redstone signal, it "bleeds energy" away like a capacitor). The scaling is the square root of the stored energy.

At 10k EU stored, the range is 4 blocks, with range boosted to 12 blocks with antenna. At 1 million EU stored, the range goes as high as 50 blocks and it does enough damage to threaten someone in quantum armor. Note that all energy stored will be discharged if any living enters that 50 block area, so it is not as unbalanced as it sounds because a monster can set your Tesla Coil off prematurely and cost you 1 million EU.

If a player is hit by an overcharged tesla, the effect for a lightning bolt is played. Is quite dramatic in multiplayer.

So you can use the teslas as they are now, or construct "lightning generators" with banks of MFSU, lots of wiring, etc.

== Recipe ==

Energy
Maximum Input: 128 EU/t before exploding.