Macerator

The Macerator is an all-purpose grinding machine, capable of breaking down many ores and other items into dust, which can be later smelted.

The main use for the Macerator is doubling mining profit. Each ore block (except for Tungsten) placed into the Macerator creates two ore Dust. Each piece of dust can be smelted into a single ingot. Smelting ore directly only yields one ingot, whereas macerating first yields two ingots.

Note: All nether ore, when macerated, yields two of the overworld ore, except for those ores which drop items. Coal, redstone, diamond, and lapis lazuli are the nether ores which, when macerated, yield double what the overworld ore would drop.

The Macerator can turn 1 ore into 2 ore dusts, and 1 ingot into 1 dust. Macerating a Blaze Rod gives you 5 Blaze Powder and similarly it can turn a Bone into 5 Bonemeal.

Like all other IndustrialCraft blocks, the Macerator can be powered through direct connection (through cable), by placing it next to an energy storage block (such as the BatBox) or by placing energy storage items into it (such as the Single-Use Battery or RE Battery). In combination with BuildCraft, one can fill the macerator with a pipe connecting to the top of it, and retrieve the dust with a wooden pipe connected to any of its four sides.

Usage
For a list of ore dusts, go here: Dusts

Note that grinding 1 blaze rod produces 5 blaze powders instead of 2, producing a large bonus in EMC. The blaze powders can then be pumped into a condensor and turned back into rods to start the process over again. This method produces EMC significantly faster than a condensor with a mk3 energy collector on each side.

Energy
🇪🇺 Maximum Input: 32 EU/t before exploding. Storage before upgrades: 800EU

Upgrades
The four slots on the right are used to upgrade the machine. The three upgrades that are available are the Overclocker Upgrade, the Transformer Upgrade and the Energy Storage Upgrade.

The following table shows the amount of time it takes to macerate compared to how many overclockers are in the macerator and how much EU/t the macerator now requires with the added overclockers: It can also be upgraded to a Rotary Macerator.

Removal & Recovery
There are several ways of removing and recovering a Macerator with varying degrees of success.


 * By hand - Destroys block, returning nothing, 100% of the time
 * By Pickaxe - Destroys Macerator, returns a Machine Block 100% of the time.
 * By Bronze Wrench or Electric Wrench in normal mode - Recovers Macerator 80% of the time, returns a Machine Block 20% of the time.
 * By Electric Wrench in loss-less mode - Returns Macerator 100% of the time.

Video Tutorials
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