Compacted Coal

Compacted Coal
A much more efficient alternative to Coal. Used as fuel for vehicles and coal generators.
Unlocked by	MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Class name	Desc_CompactedCoal_C
Item
Stack size	100
Sink points	28
Abbrev­iation	Comp
Fuel
Energy	630 MJ
Stack energy	63,000 MJ
Coal Generator 8.4 sec (7.14286 / min)
Truck >8.4 sec (<7.14286 / min)
Tractor >11.45455 sec (<5.2381 / min)
Explorer >7 sec (<8.57143 / min)
Cyber Wagon >4.2 sec (<14.28571 / min)

Compacted Coal is an improved version of  Coal made by combining it with  Sulfur. It is used in a small number of alt recipes, particularly most versions of  Turbofuel, or can be burned in a Coal Generator. While it does not directly generate more power than regular Coal when burned, the burn time is more than doubled (from 4 seconds to 8.4 seconds), meaning a given amount of Compacted Coal per minute can run over twice as many Coal Generators.

Obtaining

Unlocking

It is one of two MAM researches to cost a  Hard Drive, due to formerly being an alternate recipe.

 Compacted Coal is unlocked via the Sulfur Research chain in the MAM using:

1

25

25

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Compacted Coal Alternate	5 × Coal25 / min 5 × Sulfur25 / min	Assembler 12 sec	5 × Compacted Coal25 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Compacted Steel Ingot Alternate	6 × Iron Ore22.5 / min 3 × Compacted Coal11.25 / min	Foundry 16 sec	10 × Steel Ingot37.5 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal OR Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production
Fine Black Powder Alternate	2 × Sulfur7.5 / min 1 × Compacted Coal3.75 / min	Assembler 16 sec	4 × Black Powder15 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Turbo Heavy Fuel Alternate	5 × Heavy Oil Residue37.5 / min 4 × Compacted Coal30 / min	Refinery 8 sec	4 × Turbofuel30 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing OR MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Turbofuel Alternate	6 × Fuel22.5 / min 4 × Compacted Coal15 / min	Refinery 16 sec	5 × Turbofuel18.75 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel

AWESOME Sink

 Compacted Coal can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 28 points.

Tips

• It takes exactly 7 Coal Generators at 100% clock speed to burn 50 Compacted Coal per minute. This is not immediately obvious due to one generator consuming about 7.143/min.
• Sulfur used to make Compacted Coal is the rarest resource only behind Uranium, which should be taken into consideration before building large-scale production.

See also

•  Coal
•  Sulfur
•  Turbofuel

History

• Patch 0.6.0.4: Can no longer be unlocked from Hard Drive research
• Patch 0.6.0.0: The Compacted Coal alternative recipe is now available in the MAM Sulfur research tree
• Patch 0.3:
  • Energy value increased from 600 to 630MJ
  • Changed the conversion from 150% to 100% which reduced the maximum production by 33%.