Silicon Age: From Wafer to ExoTech

Voltage tier SV — Singular (131,072 EU/t)

• The eighth energy tier, IC2 tier 7. Singular cable, lossless and also in bundles; SV energy storage (about 2.1B EU); SV charge pad; XV↔SV transformer; SV transmitter and receiver; the Singular Core battery (16B EU). The tier colour is crimson.
• The plain Transformer upgrade still lifts an output no higher than XV, so old bases won't burn. SV comes on purpose: from the XV↔SV transformer, the adaptive transformer or the reactors.

Singular Reactor — a 7x7x5 multiblock (SV)

• 131,072 EU/t. A micro black hole held by two rings of 8 gravity coils, a lead shell, ports in the wall (helium, deuterium and argon tanks, IV+ storages). Build guide: docs/singular-build-layers.png and docs/singular-build-3d.png.
• Ignition: 700 million EU from the port storages, 50,000 mB of deuterium, a capsule and 30 s of compression. It needs at least 8000 mB of helium.
• The hole's mass:
  • the 40-70% window gives 131,072 EU/t;
  • a light hole gives up to 196,608 EU/t but may evaporate;
  • a heavy one gives 78,643.
  • Capsule feed: Economy / Normal / Boost, or Auto (holds 55%).
• Helium 12 mB/t, containment with warnings, a soft stop with argon. Accidents never break the world:
  • ejection: a pull, a flash through walls, coils drop;
  • evaporation.
• Stop gives 20% of the charge back. While the hole lives, the reactor can't be broken.
• Its own screen, WAILA, NEI and a handbook article.

Matter Compressor (IV) and Compressed Matter Capsule

• Squeezes ordinary items into "mass": a block gives 9, an item 1, heavy metals ×4. 576 mass make a capsule, the Singular Reactor's fuel.
• It refuses items with data, buckets, the mod's machine blocks and valuables.

Energy storages

• Output Splitter: up to 3 output faces, set with Sneak+left-click by the wrench.
• Adaptive Transformer: raises the output by up to 2 tiers, never above the weakest consumer on the net or a machine right next to it.
• A storage now takes the Universal Transformer, which accepts any input voltage.
• Automation takes only finished items; a capacity upgrade can't be removed while the charge is high; a switched-off storage doesn't charge items.

Tokamak XV

• A port belongs to one tokamak.
• The disruption burst goes through the lead shielding.
• Next to an SV taker it gives SV as one packet.

Generators and radiation

• The exo reactor won't light without helium; fusion and tokamak won't light without a deuterium cell.
• A blanket is replaced only when it is worn out.
• XV burns fuel by its power.
• RTG capsules decay even when it is off.
• Lead suit: 22% a piece (a config setting).
• The radiation dose survives death, capped at 25%.

Machines

• The electrolyser has 4 tanks.
• Heat sinks work while the machine runs.
• Sneak+right-click draining needs a double click and costs EU.
• Useless upgrades are refused.
• NEI follows the config.
• A machine keeps its charge in the item.
• A new "output tank holds another fluid" status.

Quarry

• New Chunk Keeping module (MV and up).
• Experience from ore with the XP magnet.
• An area card belongs to its dimension.
• After an auto-stop the quarry carries on by itself.
• A "waiting for the chunk" status.
• Other mods' protections see the owner.
• Explosion-proof with a universal transformer.
• Less server load.

Field generator, armour, tools

• Field:
  • a private zone also protects animals, frames and carts;
  • no field over someone else's field;
  • charge and settings are kept in the item;
  • the rain shield checks 5 points of the zone.
• Armour and tools:
  • the blade's execute on players is a config setting;
  • the drill leaves 15% in the chestplate;
  • the drill chest respects sides and double chests;
  • weapons and wrenches charge in IC2;
  • armour key conflicts are highlighted.

Convenience

• Blocks that hold things break only with a pickaxe, so nothing is lost by hand.
• Shift/Ctrl tooltips on all blocks.
• Other mods' wrenches rotate generators and the quarry.
• Balance settings come from the server.
• WAILA hides transmitter coordinates from strangers.
• Handbook:
  • G over an item without an article opens a search;
  • after NEI recipes you get back to the book;
  • Esc returns to the screen the book was opened from.

Fixed

• Three full bug checks of the mod: more than 60 bugs fixed.
• Energy and saves:
  • energy rolled back after a server restart;
  • old worlds' machines and generators loaded as LV;
  • the creative generator gave 64 times too much.
• Dupes:
  • items from storage slots;
  • field generator energy on breaking;
  • batteries and crystals taken with a double click.
• Field generator:
  • hurt the owner's pets;
  • dropped from item charging;
  • never came back on with a big upkeep;
  • a cluster could die on linking.
• Quarry:
  • was lost to explosions;
  • loaded chunks every tick;
  • one stack blocked its output;
  • silk touch gave odd blocks.
• Singular Reactor:
  • with 4000-7199 mB of helium the ignition failed and 560 million EU were lost;
  • it could be broken while compressing;
  • argon didn't stop the hole during Stop.
• The chunk module's ticket flapped.
• A link module could stretch a field over someone else's.
• Tooltips and screens: wrong numbers, characters missing from the game font.
• Energy net and IC2 cable performance.