Machine Blocks

Machine Blocks 1.4.0 — The Chemistry Department

All items have been move to a new crafting bench. Machine Blocks Workbench

The G.N.O.M.E. engineering department has approved a fourth ore-processing tier, industrial item pipes, and several machines containing substances no longer accepted by the municipal drainage system.

Testing confirms that ore can be improved by exposing it to electricity, oxygen, pressurized chemicals, and increasingly confident paperwork.

Tier 4 Ore Processing

• Added a complete Tier 4 electrochemical processing chain for Adamantite, Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Iron, Mithril, Onyxium, Prisma, Silver, and Thorium.
• Added the two-block Gas Maker, which converts water and Empty Gas Canisters into Oxygen and Hydrogen Canisters.
• Added the four-block Oxidation Chamber for converting raw ore into Crude Metal Oxide.
• Added washing and grinding stages that produce four metal powder with a 40% chance of a fifth.
• Added Industrial Glass, Reinforced Glass, Conductive Metal Screens, reusable chemical drums, and related machine components.
• Added a dedicated HBU catalyst slot and the 100-use Cobalt Refining Catalyst.
• Oxidation Reagent and Electrolyte Solution drums retain eight charges and are consumed only after successful processing.
• Gas Makers and Oxidation Chambers support ordinary fuel, Wireless Power Couplers, Factory Manager control, and Modern Storage automation.

The original process was designed to remove surface contamination. It also removed the surface, several safety assumptions, and one section of the laboratory floor. Yield improvements were nevertheless recorded.

Chemical Byproducts

• Added Chemical Sludge and Industrial Slag as Tier 4 processing byproducts.
• Added recovery recipes for both materials through the Generator Byproduct Recovery Module.
• Recovered materials may include Salt, Stone, Generator Ash, and Iron Powder.

The disposal department has been renamed the recovery department. Its equipment and legal exposure remain unchanged.

Item Pipe Networks

• Added configurable item pipe networks with Transport, Pull, and Push pipes.
• Added Basic, Advanced, Elite, and Ultimate pipe tiers.
• Added item filters, route colors, configurable sides, and visible item capsules.
• Added upgrade kits that convert connected pipe sections without dismantling the network.
• Pipe upgrades preserve configuration, filters, modules, enabled sides, and items already in transit.
• Higher pipe tiers now require materials from the industrial and Tier 4 chemistry progression.

Upgrade kits affect up to eight eligible pipes per application. Requests for a kit capable of upgrading an entire factory from the parking lot remain under review.

Wireless Power Integration

• Added a public Wireless Generator power API for compatible addons.
• Addon machines can now use the same generator range, receiver limits, structure validation, and energy reservation rules as native Machine Blocks machines.
• Added Wireless Generator support for the Modern Storage Additions Cross-World Storage CPU when a permanent Wireless Power Coupler is installed.
• Wireless Generators now retain their required loaded chunks more reliably during operation.
• Improved generator and multiblock cache invalidation after block changes and chunk lifecycle events.

Cross-world storage can now be powered wirelessly. The engineering department considers the phrase “cross-world electrical fault” needlessly pessimistic.

Multiblock Reliability

• Improved Gas Maker and Oxidation Chamber structure validation.
• Corrected multiblock placement, vertical stacking, support faces, and active-state block behavior.
• Invalid or partially unloaded structures now stop processing safely.
• Improved Tier 4 processing recovery after block changes, chunk loading, and server restarts.
• Completed active processing visuals for gas separation, chemical reservoirs, oxidation, and material transitions.

Structural components are now checked before processing begins and periodically thereafter. This policy was introduced after a machine continued operating despite no longer possessing its upper half.

Documentation

• Added complete Voile documentation for Tier 4 ore processing and chemical production.
• Added construction, operation, crafting, recovery, and automation documentation for the Gas Maker and Oxidation Chamber.
• Added documentation for item pipe networks, pipe tiers, configuration, and upgrade kits.
• Expanded ore progression and machine documentation to cover the new industrial tier.

All chemical procedures have been documented in sufficient detail to establish that the operators were warned.

Use is approved. Ventilation is recommended. G.N.O.M.E. accepts responsibility only for substances listed on the original requisition form.