Dark Matter Crystal

The Dark Matter Crystal is a crafting component produced by solidifying  Dark Matter Residue in a Particle Accelerator.

It can be sunk to get rid of unwanted Dark Matter Residue byproduct.

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Dark Matter Crystal	1 × Diamonds30 / min 5 × Dark Matter Residue150 / min	Particle Accelerator 2 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Dark Matter Crystal30 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding
Dark Matter Crystallization Alternate	10 × Dark Matter Residue200 / min	Particle Accelerator 3 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Dark Matter Crystal20 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding
Dark Matter Trap Alternate	1 × Time Crystal30 / min 5 × Dark Matter Residue150 / min	Particle Accelerator 2 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	2 × Dark Matter Crystal60 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Ballistic Warp Drive	1 × Thermal Propulsion Rocket1 / min 5 × Singularity Cell5 / min 2 × Superposition Oscillator2 / min 40 × Dark Matter Crystal40 / min	Manufacturer 60 sec	1 × Ballistic Warp Drive1 / min	Tier 9 - Spatial Energy Regulation
Singularity Cell	1 × Nuclear Pasta1 / min 20 × Dark Matter Crystal20 / min 100 × Iron Plate100 / min 200 × Concrete200 / min	Manufacturer 60 sec	10 × Singularity Cell10 / min	Tier 9 - Spatial Energy Regulation
Superposition Oscillator	6 × Dark Matter Crystal30 / min 1 × Crystal Oscillator5 / min 9 × Alclad Aluminum Sheet45 / min 25 × Excited Photonic Matter125 / min	Quantum Encoder 12 sec 0 - 2,000 MW	1 × Superposition Oscillator5 / min 25 × Dark Matter Residue125 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding
Synthetic Power Shard	2 × Time Crystal10 / min 2 × Dark Matter Crystal10 / min 12 × Quartz Crystal60 / min 12 × Excited Photonic Matter60 / min	Quantum Encoder 12 sec 0 - 2,000 MW	1 × Power Shard5 / min 12 × Dark Matter Residue60 / min	MAM Power Slugs Research - Synthetic Power Shards
Dark-Ion Fuel Alternate	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

AWESOME Sink

 Dark Matter Crystal can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 1,780 points.

Tips

When combining different recipes, it is possible to create a closed loop with no excess Dark Matter Residue or Dark Matter Crystal. The total number of Dark Matter Crystals and Dark Matter Residue needs to be inserted into an equation of their production rate and consumption rate respectively.

• $DarkMatterResidue=150\times Standart+200\times Crystallization$

• $DarkMatterCrystal=30\times Standart+20\times Crystallization$

Solving the equations for the amount of Standard recipe and Crystallization recipe, the results are

• $Standart=\frac{1}{150}(10\times DarkMatterCrystal-DarkMatterResidue)$
• $Crystallization=\frac{1}{100}(DarkMatterResidue-5\times DarkMatterCrystal)$

For example: in production line of 5 Alien Power Matrix/min are 675 Dark Matter Residue/min produced and 120 Dark Matter Crystal/min needed. Inserting the numbers into the equations, the results are

• $Standart=\frac{1}{150}(10\times 120-675)=3.5$
• $Crystallization=\frac{1}{100}(675-5\times 120)=0.75$

In order to make 120 Dark Matter Crystal/min, 3.5 Accelerators with default recipe and 0.75 Accelerator with the Crystallization recipe are needed with no excess Dark Matter Residue.

For further optimization, exchange the default recipe with the Trap recipe.

• $DarkMatterResidue=150\times Trap+200\times Crystallization$
• $DarkMatterCrystal=60\times Trap+20\times Crystallization$

Again solve for the recipes

• $Trap=\frac{1}{450}(10\times DarkMatterCrystal-DarkMatterResidue)$
• $Crystallization=\frac{1}{300}(2\times DarkMatterResidue-5\times DarkMatterCrystal)$

Using the previous example, only 1.166667 Accelerators with the Trap recipe and 2.5 Accelerators with the Crystallization recipe are needed. This results in a third of coal consumption due to the fact, that the Standard recipe and the Trap recipe have the same Coal to Dark Matter Crystal conversion rate. This comes at the cost of a higher power consumption, since diamonds needs to converted in to Time Crystal via Converters.

• $450\times Trap=10\times DarkMatterCrystal-DarkMatterResidue=150\times Standart$
• $\frac{Trap}{Standart}=\frac{150}{450}=\frac{1}{3}$

In order to jump start the system, either fill the pipes with Dark Matter Residue or - much more reliable - put a half stack Dark Matter Crystal into all machines that need them to produce.

Important note: These equations only do their job until if either the Standard recipe or the Trap recipe are negative. This is possible due to boosting production via Somersloop. In this case, just use the Crystallization recipe.

History

• Patch 1.0: Made available
  • Prior, an unreleased "Dark Matter" item existed under the same class name (Desc_DarkMatter_C), while a separate "Quantum Crystal" with a matching appearance existed under (Desc_QuantumCrystal_C)