[0.5.6beta]Efficient Ore Condensing Machine

Foreword

In this condensed mineral mining machine design, small-scale mining machines have a mineral output of7 ores/s, large-scale mining machines have a mineral output of31.5 ores/s

By switching betweenSmelting RuneandGravity Rune, the products of the mining machine can be changed. It is recommended to directly produce metal ingots and other materials through Smelting Rune in the early stage. After MV, you can switch to Gravity Rune to produce raw ore.

Small(Large)Mining machineConsumables: 3*Enchanted Arcane Turret, 2(3)*Redstone Repeater, 1*Suspended Hourglass, 1(2)*Sand, 7(21)*Floating Silence Fruit, 1(3)*Mineralizer, 4*Redstone Dust(Several Redstone Dust and Redstone Alloy Wires), 1*Storage Controller, 137*Copper Upgrade, 33*Drawer 2x2, 1*Drawer 1x2, Several Building Blocks, Unlocked Smelting Rune or Gravity Rune, Pickup Rune, Place Block Rune, Penetration Rune(, Range Rune)

If you have your own large-scale storage methods, you can ignore the drawer-related requirements, such as building a large vault, or if the game difficulty is set to easy and you already have an AE system.

Silencers are used because the mana condensers are very noisy. Large mana condensers can even cause the playback device to crackle. Silencers can help eliminate noise. If you have installed a silent mod or turned off the in-game sound, you can omit the silencer material.

One of the materials for mana condensers is pixie dust. To craft it yourself, you first need to open the pixie portal. However, in the Adventure Dungeon structure, you can find all types of Botania flowers, so you can obtain mana condensers early by exploring dungeons.

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Small mining rig construction method

First, arrange three spell towers and silence oranges according to the style in the image below, with the towers facing inwards. Silence oranges can be replaced with other incomplete blocks if silencing is not required.

However, note that replacing the silencer with a half slab will halve the speed of theoriginal ore production modeThis is because the half slab is too short, and 4tick is not enough for the original ore to become a solid entity and fall on the half slab, resulting in only one ore being produced per two cycles.

The solution is to remove the repeater in the red circle and replace it with redstone dust, add an extra orchid, or use Withered Soil for the original orchid.

(However, a better way is to just use a silencer.)

7 ore are converted by Condensing Ore into 15 ticks (2 ticks each, 1 tick to start), with a cycle of 20 ticks. The right turret activates first in each cycle, followed by the left turret activating 16 ticks later, and then the next cycle begins 4 ticks after that.

After removing repeaters, it becomes 8 ticks for conversion and 12 ticks until the next cycle, which is enough for ore entities to land on the half-slab.

Enchanting Soil can halve the cooldown of flowers placed on it. Condensing Ore can then convert 7 ores in 8 ticks.

Then place four building blocks on each of the left and right sides. On the left of the right magic turret, place a 1*2 drawer and install 4 copper upgrades; Behind the magic turret on the upper left, place a storage controller and put 1 copper upgrade inside the storage controller.

Write spells for the top-left, middle-left, and middle-right spell turrets respectively: Touch->Pick Up->Range*8; Touch->Smelt(or Gravity)->Penetrate*6; Touch->Place Block->Penetrate*6

Place a wall of 33 2x2 drawers in front, install copper upgrades, and whether to use glass is a matter of personal preference.

For the early game, copper upgrades are relatively expensive. 33 2*2 drawers are just enough to hold all the products from raw ore mode and smelting mode. Raw ore is not needed in the early game.Some drawers can be left empty without copper upgrades, while others can have a small number of upgrades installed first. After the miners run for a while and produce copper, more copper upgrades can be added.

Also use building blocks and glass to seal the back.

Place the condensing orchid behind or inside the machine.The range of the condensing orchid is 7*3*7 centered on itself.The four positions shown in the diagram can work normally. Making floating condensing orchids mixed with silencers is also a good option.

Then, prepare the drawers for classification, link the drawers to the storage controller, and provide magic, mana, and stones to begin mineral production (you can refer to the classification method below, or not classify at all).

Large mining machine construction methods

Large mining machines can be upgraded from small mining machines, or they can be built directly.

First, build a frame as shown in the figure. Behind it is the drawer wall. To the left of the left turret is a 1*2 drawer, which is used to store stones.

There are two sands in the hourglass.

Write Touch->Place Block->Pierce*6 for the left and right turrets respectively; Touch->Smelt (or Gravity)->Pierce*6

Afterward, fill the left and right sides with building blocks, build the redstone contraption and place collection turrets. Place an auto-encoder next to the collection turrets. After obtaining AE, you can replace it with an ME interface.

Place Condensed Mineral Orchid and Mana-Storing Soil, 7 Condensed Mineral Orchids can be used to replace Mana-Storing Soil, Flame Mineral Orchid is placed on both sides in the image, Flame Mineral Orchid can convert alien stones into alien minerals, which can be used to process useless alien stones obtained from alien mining.

⚠️ Be sure to pay attention to the precautions at the bottom of the tutorial when handling alien stones.

Afterwards, seal this side

Now, feed in stone, magic source, magic power, and it will function normally.

Operation cycle 40 ticks, first 24 ticks for condensing orchids to convert minerals, each condensing orchid converts a maximum of 23 minerals per 24 ticks, 3 condensing orchids convert 69 minerals per 24 ticks > 3*3*7=63, remaining 16 ticks for mineral processing, 63 minerals every 2 seconds

Stone production

The stone production speed of the High-Pressure Steam Rock Crusher is 1 stone per 16 ticks, which is 1.25 stones per second, and its steam consumption is 14mb/t.

Small mining rigs consume 7 stone/s, large ones consume 31.5 stone/s, which requires 6 and 26 high-pressure steam rock crushers respectively.

Here are two designs, one for an 8 high-pressure steam rock breaker and one for a 32 high-pressure steam rock breaker arrangement.

The first type, 8 rock crushers are arranged in four columns surrounding the lava in the middle, while their exhaust ports also face the lava in the middle. There are four water pipes at the two corners, satisfying the adjacent needs of lava and water. The blue pipes are cobalt item pipes, and the white pipes are steel pipes, used to transport stone and steam. Stone is output from the middle through an ender chest, and steam is input from above, which can be connected to your own steam production network. The trapdoors around the edges are used to prevent water from flowing out, and closing the trapdoors looks much better.

The second type is basically an expanded version of the first type, with eight crushers on each floor and a total of four floors. The graduation save file I screenshotted here has 64 crushers implemented, just ignore the bottom half.

The center doesn't need to be lava. I'm using Floating Muting Mandarins, which can significantly reduce the noise from the rock breaker. The rest is not much different from the first type.

Revision Content: How to Break Through the Spell Turret Sigil Quantity Limit

2026/9/3 Revision: Note that some planets have high ore strength and require reinforced talismans to affect them. The Wizard's Sword from the Wizard series equipment can break the limit on the number of talismans, and its description is:

The Wizard's Sword casts a spell starting with Touch before dealing damage. Additionally, the Wizard's Sword adds an extra augment after the last effect component of all spells. Spells without forms, such as Ignite -> Extend Duration, need to be added to the scroll rack.

Set the spellbook as shown in the figure:

Copy to the Wizard's Sword:

Wizard's Sword applied to Magic Turret:

As you can see, not only did we achieve the goal of adding reinforcement runes, but we also gained an extra space for writing runes, which can improve the upper limit capability of the spell turret.