Singulo

Singulo 0.10.0 — Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge / NeoForge)

For Minecraft 1.20.1 / Forge or NeoForge, Java 17. JEI and Mekanism are optional.

Stage 2 power rework

• New generator: the Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Reactor (stage 2, made in the Precision Assembler).
  • Runs on muon catalysts and water (deuterium) and produces 4 kFE/t.
  • It wears catalysts twice as fast as other machines: a fresh catalyst lasts 10 minutes, and a partly used one burns for half its remaining catalyst lifetime.
  • Used-up catalysts come out as spent muon catalysts, which the Catalytic Reactor can turn back into muon bundles.
  • It uses 1 mB of water every 4 ticks. Water can be poured in with a bucket.
  • It stands by while its storage is full.
• The Cryogenic Turbine is now liquid-nitrogen energy storage instead of a generator.
  • Running it from a cooling tower used to create power out of nothing.
  • Liquid nitrogen now holds the power used to make it: 250 FE per mB. The turbine recovers up to 90% of that next to lava, and less with cooler heat sources.
  • Output is up to 4.5 kFE/t. The tank holds 32,000 mB.
• Liquid nitrogen now costs 250 FE per mB in the cooling tower. A taller tower still works faster, but it draws proportionally more power per tick, so the cost per mB is the same at any height.
• Several existing liquid-nitrogen recipes now need a fifth as much nitrogen to offset its higher production cost. Coolant cartridges still hold 100 mB; their filling cost and container cost have increased. Precision Assembler recipes consume the cartridge container too.
• Only liquid nitrogen has a fixed power cost per mB. Other cooling tower recipes (coils, wire, liquid helium and more) still get cheaper on a taller tower.
• The shellCoolantMb setting is renamed to shellNitrogenMb (default 1200 mB) so old configs do not keep the old amount.

No pipe mod needed for liquid nitrogen

• New item: Empty Coolant Cartridge, crafted from steel plates and glass.
• Fill an empty cartridge by right-clicking the cooling tower controller with it, or by processing it in the tower.
• A filled Coolant Cartridge works like a bucket: right-click a machine to pour its 100 mB of liquid nitrogen in and get the empty cartridge back.
• Cryogenic Turbines also take coolant cartridges in an input slot and put the empty ones in an output slot. Hoppers can feed and empty both slots.
• Machines without a crafting GUI that hold fluids (the Cryogenic Turbine and the fusion reactor) now accept buckets and cartridges by right-click.

Fluid Canister

• New item: Fluid Canister (stage 1, crafted from iron ingots and glass). It holds up to 1,000 mB of any liquid or gas.
• Right-click a machine to fill it from the output tank or pour it into the input tank, like a bucket.
• Hydrogen, helium, liquid helium and other gases can now be carried between machines without a pipe mod.
• The canister shows its contents in its name, tooltip and fill bar, and its window takes the color of the fluid.

Why a machine is idle

• Hover over the status text in the top right of a machine screen to see why it is not running.
• When the inputs do not complete a recipe, the status now reads Missing input, No recipe or Too small instead of Idle.
  • The tooltip names the item the machine is trying to make and lists what is missing: items and counts, fluids in mB, or the structure size.
• Out of power, output full, structure incomplete and switched off each explain what to do.

Ceramic without skeletons

• New item: Limestone Powder, crushed from calcite or dripstone blocks: 2 in the Compressor, 1 at a crafting table.
• Unfired Ceramic accepts limestone powder in place of bone meal (item tag singulo:ceramic_flux), so you no longer need to hunt skeletons for your first machines.

Charcoal for steel

• New item: Carbon Dust, made from 3 charcoal in the Compressor (2 dust). It replaces coal in steel blend and black reinforced panels (item tag singulo:carbon), so coal still goes further.

Vanilla materials from machines

• Compressor (stage 1): cobblestone to gravel, gravel to sand, sandstone to 2 sand; 4 snow blocks to ice, 4 ice to packed ice, 4 packed ice to blue ice.
• Cryogenic Cooling Tower (stage 2): water + liquid nitrogen to packed ice, lava + liquid nitrogen to obsidian.
• Catalytic Reactor (stage 2): sand + water to nether quartz.
• Entanglement Synthesizer (stage 3): entangled element + slime ball to ender pearl.
• Degenerate Compactor (stage 4): 8 coal blocks to a diamond.
• Time Crystal Incubator (stage 4): logs to coal, cobblestone to mossy cobblestone, copper block to oxidized copper. Unlike catalyst growth, these need full power to progress.
• A new handbook page lists them all.

New element: nihonium

• The Particle Accelerator now has two item input slots. With a ring of side 16 or more, a zinc ingot and a bismuth ingot fuse into Nihonium (element 113), the same pairing RIKEN used to discover it.
• Two nihonium melt into a Nihonium Ingot in the Kiln, the Compressor presses it into a Nihonium Plate, and the Precision Assembler builds a Nihonium Frame.
• Stage 4 machines and controllers (Time Crystal Incubator, Degenerate Compactor, Casimir Cavity, Degenerate Furnace, Probe Station, Void Collector) now use a Nihonium Frame instead of a Basic Frame.
• Stage 5 machines and cores that still used a Basic Frame (Core Controller, Singularity Encapsulator, Halo Collector, Gravitational Containment Tank, Event Horizon Shield core, advanced Worldline Anchor, Tipler core, Wormhole Generator core, Wormhole Stabilizer) now use a Nihonium Frame too.
• Nihonium plates and meteoric iron get late-game uses: nihonium for pressure parts and shielding, meteoric iron for magnets and rotating parts.
  • Gyro Drive: 1 nihonium plate + 2 meteoric iron instead of 4 steel plates.
  • Horizon Bus: 1 nihonium plate instead of 2 steel plates (still 8 per craft).
  • Hawking Collector and Jet Collector: 2 nihonium plates instead of 4 steel plates.
  • Casimir Cavity magnetic shield: 1 steel plate + 1 meteoric iron instead of 2 steel plates.
  • Magnetic Bottle: 1 meteoric iron instead of 1 steel plate.
• Zinc and bismuth do not need new ores, so existing worlds can make them without exploring new chunks:
  • Zinc Dust: crush 8 tuff in the Compressor, then fire it in the Kiln into a Zinc Ingot.
  • Bismuth Ingot: refine 8 raw copper with water in the Catalytic Reactor to get 6 copper ingots plus 1 bismuth ingot as a by-product.
• Zinc and bismuth ingots from other mods (c:ingots/zinc, c:ingots/bismuth) work too.
• Gold synthesis: a bismuth ingot and carbon dust in the accelerator (any ring size) make a gold ingot, as carbon nuclei strip four protons from bismuth. Glenn Seaborg's team did this for real in 1980.
• The Catalytic Reactor now has a second output slot for by-products, and JEI shows by-products under the main result.
• Accelerators and Catalytic Reactors in existing worlds keep their items: outputs and the upgrade slot move to their new positions when the world loads.

Oxygen, phosphor and more stage 1 options

• Basic oxygen furnace: the Kiln now has an oxygen tank. 2 iron ingots, 1 coal (or carbon dust) and 250 mB of oxygen make 2 steel ingots, using less coal than steel blend. Oxygen from the Electrolyzer finally has a use.
• Phosphor: mix zinc dust, copper and gunpowder into Unfired Phosphor at a crafting table and fire it in the Kiln for 4 glowstone dust (a ZnS:Cu glow-in-the-dark phosphor). The Archive Terminal no longer needs a Nether trip. Zinc dust and ingots are now stage 1.
• New generator: the Hydrogen Fuel Cell (stage 1). It turns hydrogen and oxygen back into power at 4.8 FE per mB of hydrogen, up to 240 FE/t, returning 60% of what the Electrolyzer used. Right-click it with an empty hand for its status.
  • Electrolysis now has a fixed power cost per craft, so upgrades cannot make hydrogen cheap enough to turn the fuel cell into free power.
• New machine: the Peltier Cooler (stage 1) freezes 1,000 mB of water into ice with power. Compress the ice into packed and blue ice.
• New building blocks: Bismuth Crystal Block (bismuth ingot fired in the Kiln) and Glowing Bismuth Crystal.
• Recycling: the Compressor crushes iron and gold tools and armor into nuggets, about two thirds of the ingots used. Damaged items work too.
• Cryo-milling in the cooling tower with liquid nitrogen: a bone gives 6 bone meal, a blaze rod 4 blaze powder and wool 4 string.

Textures

• Multiblock controller screens (Cooling Tower, Degenerate Compactor, Casimir Cavity) now line up with the recessed screen in the block model.
• Cooling tower blocks and the heat exchange core are weathered with drip streaks, grime at the bottom, rust spots and mineral stains.

Existing worlds

• The first time you open a Cryogenic Turbine that was placed before this version, a chat message explains that it is now energy storage and points to the fusion reactor.

Fixes

• Multiblock ports could stop working until the controller was broken and placed again. This happened when a port was placed again in the same spot, or when only the port's chunk was reloaded. Controllers now relink any unlinked port on every structure check.
• Multiblock ports can now replace any block that looks like a shell panel, such as the casing at the corners of the cooling tower walls and the shield tower plinth. Before, some identical-looking casing blocks did not accept ports and the structure stopped forming.
• The multiblock formation effect now also plays when the controller is the last block placed. It is still skipped right after a world or chunk loads.

Published as Beta. Please report issues on the issue tracker.