Silicon Age: From Wafer to ExoTech

New

Energy

• Three new tiers above EV: IV (8,192 EU/t), QV - Quantum (16,384 EU/t) and XV - Exo (32,768 EU/t). Each has an energy storage (up to 2B EU), a charge pad, its own cable and a transformer.
• Universal transformer upgrade: a machine or field generator takes any voltage without exploding.
• 14 new generators:
  • solid fuel, water wheel, wind turbine, RTG;
  • thermoelectric, geothermal, hydrogen fuel cell;
  • Nano / Quantum / Exo solar panels;
  • high-pressure plasma reactor, tokamak, Exo singularity reactor;
  • creative generator.
• Overdrive and Economizer generator upgrades. Solar panels depend on the sky, weather and time of day. The combustion generator takes several fuels. Reactors ramp up smoothly.

Quarry

• Silicon Quarry LV / MV / HV / EV: a six-tab screen, an area with a map and a laser frame in the world, a zone colour picker, swappable drill heads, an ore scanner and an area card.
• Exo Drilling Rig (XV): its laser brings ore up from the deep. Ore lenses raise their ore's chance.
• 21 quarry modules, module slots grow with the tier. Among them:
  • trash disposal, centrifuge, vein miner, twin drill;
  • fluid guard, gentle mode;
  • head repair (the quarry pauses until the head is whole), energy saver;
  • for the rig - resonator, stabilizer and a deep scanner (other mods' ores).

Tools and armour

• Wrenches in three tiers: turning machines, dismantling with charge and contents kept, copying settings.
• New armour look. Nano - tactical, Quantum - white ceramic with gold and cyan circuits, Exo - dark armour with a violet -> magenta -> blue shimmer and a processor on the chest.
• The worn armour model has 3D parts: pack, pauldrons, orbs, fins, anti-grav rings.
• Armour lights glow in the dark and show the charge: they flicker when low and pulse red when empty. They go out when the piece's function is off.
• Animated lights, a light colour choice and a Set aura function.
• New drill icons in IC2's manner: a tier chip, a charge strip, a crystal tip on the Exo drill.

Field generator

• An Upgrades tab: energy storage and transformer upgrades.
• Wireless charging now charges IC2 items (EU) and other mods' RF items too. A new Charge Booster upgrade (x2, up to 4).
• A Charging page on the Functions tab: priority, buffer reserve, sparks, live numbers.

Interface

• New look for machine, generator and storage screens.
• Text no longer runs out of buttons and screen edges.
• Long tooltips wrap.

Fixed

• Machines were always placed facing south - they now face the player, and any wrench turns them.
• A cable under too high a voltage no longer blows up the machines next to it - it burns out, as in IC2.
• A machine blown up by over-voltage no longer breaks the blocks around it.
• The quarry's ore scanner is no X-ray any more: button only, costs energy, only counts the ore.
• The Exo Drilling Rig kept hauling with a full buffer and bloated the world save - it now stops.
• The quarry pushed output through a neighbour's wrong face. Washing treated a stack of 2 ores as one.
• Vein mining could drop TPS. The fluid guard worked in someone else's private zone.
• A wrenched quarry or generator lost the fluid in its tanks and part of its energy.
• Another player could take a quarry's output and put modules into a quarry and a field generator.
• A private field zone didn't protect transformers, tanks, cables and pipes.
• A broken machine could duplicate an item.
• A filter put into a filter could blow its item data up until the save broke.
• Tank upgrades didn't take other mods' ingots. The boiler didn't burn charcoal. No more "Unknown recipe class" warnings.