Compacted Coal

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

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

1

25

25

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Ionized Fuel As byproduct	16 × Rocket Fuel40 / min 1 × Power Shard2.5 / min	Refinery 24 sec	16 × Ionized Fuel40 / min 2 × Compacted Coal5 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Ionized Fuel
Rocket Fuel As byproduct	6 × Turbofuel60 / min 1 × Nitric Acid10 / min	Blender 6 sec	10 × Rocket Fuel100 / min 1 × Compacted Coal10 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Rocket Fuel
Compacted Coal Alternate	5 × Coal25 / min 5 × Sulfur25 / min	Assembler 12 sec	5 × Compacted Coal25 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Dark-Ion Fuel Alternate As byproduct	12 × Packaged Rocket Fuel240 / min 4 × Dark Matter Crystal80 / min	Converter 3 sec 100 - 400 MW	10 × Ionized Fuel200 / min 2 × Compacted Coal40 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding AND MAM Sulfur Research - Ionized Fuel
Nitro Rocket Fuel Alternate As byproduct	4 × Fuel100 / min 3 × Nitrogen Gas75 / min 4 × Sulfur100 / min 2 × Coal50 / min	Blender 2.4 sec	6 × Rocket Fuel150 / min 1 × Compacted Coal25 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Rocket Fuel

AWESOME Shop

Name	Cost	Contents
Compacted Coal	1	100x  Compacted Coal

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Compacted Steel Ingot Alternate	2 × Iron Ore5 / min 1 × Compacted Coal2.5 / min	Foundry 24 sec	4 × Steel Ingot10 / min	Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production AND MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Fine Black Powder Alternate	1 × Sulfur7.5 / min 2 × Compacted Coal15 / min	Assembler 8 sec	6 × Black Powder45 / 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 AND 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 and SAM, 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%.