Particle Accelerator

Particle Accelerator
Uses electromagnetic fields to propel particles to very high speeds and energies. The specific design allows for a variety of processes, including matter generation and conversion. Warning: Power usage is extremely high and unstable, and varies per recipe.
Unlocked by	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Class name	Desc_HadronCollider_C
Building
Overclock­able	Yes
Conveyorinputs	2
Conveyoroutputs	1
Pipelineinputs	1
Dimensions
Width	24 m
Length	38 m
Height	32 m
Area	912 m2
Ingre­dients
10 ×  Turbo Motor
10 ×  Supercomputer
25 ×  Fused Modular Frame
50 ×  Cooling System
500 ×  Quickwire

The Particle Accelerator is a building used to craft advanced late-game recipes. Unlike most other production buildings, its power consumption fluctuates and varies per selected recipe. The least power is consumed at the beginning of a crafting cycle and it increases to the maximum throughout the duration of the crafting cycle.

Recipes

Recipe	Ingredients	Duration	Products	Unlocked by
Dark Matter Crystal	1 × Diamonds30 / min 5 × Dark Matter Residue150 / min	2 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Dark Matter Crystal30 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding
Diamonds	20 × Coal600 / min	2 sec 250 - 750 MW	1 × Diamonds30 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Ficsonium	1 × Plutonium Waste10 / min 1 × Singularity Cell10 / min 20 × Dark Matter Residue200 / min	6 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Ficsonium10 / min	Tier 9 - Peak Efficiency
Nuclear Pasta	200 × Copper Powder100 / min 1 × Pressure Conversion Cube0.5 / min	120 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Nuclear Pasta0.5 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Plutonium Pellet	100 × Non-Fissile Uranium100 / min 25 × Uranium Waste25 / min	60 sec 250 - 750 MW	30 × Plutonium Pellet30 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Cloudy Diamonds Alternate	12 × Coal240 / min 24 × Limestone480 / min	3 sec 250 - 750 MW	1 × Diamonds20 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Dark Matter Crystallization Alternate	10 × Dark Matter Residue200 / min	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	2 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	2 × Dark Matter Crystal60 / min	Tier 9 - Quantum Encoding
Instant Plutonium Cell Alternate	150 × Non-Fissile Uranium75 / min 20 × Aluminum Casing10 / min	120 sec 250 - 750 MW	20 × Encased Plutonium Cell10 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Oil-Based Diamonds Alternate	10 × Crude Oil200 / min	3 sec 250 - 750 MW	2 × Diamonds40 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Petroleum Diamonds Alternate	24 × Petroleum Coke720 / min	2 sec 250 - 750 MW	1 × Diamonds30 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Turbo Diamonds Alternate	30 × Coal600 / min 2 × Packaged Turbofuel40 / min	3 sec 250 - 750 MW	3 × Diamonds60 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion OR MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel

Overclocking

Main article: Clock speed

The Particle Accelerator can be overclocked using Power Shards. Overclocking increases the input/output speed of the Particle Accelerator at the cost of greatly increased power demand proportional to output.

Clock Speed	Power (MW)	1 Nuclear Pasta	1,000 Nuclear Pasta
10%	23.8 ~ 71.5	20 min (1200s)	13 days 21 hrs 20 min
25%	80.0 ~ 240.0	8 min (480s)	5 days 13 hrs 20 min
50%	200.0 ~ 600.0	4 min (240s)	2 days 18 hrs 40 min
75%	341.8 ~ 1025.5	160s	1 day 20 hrs 26 min 40 s
100% (Default)	500.0 ~ 1500.0	120s	1 day 9 hrs 20 min
150%	854.6 ~ 2563.7	80s	22 hrs 13 min 20 s
200%	1250.0 ~ 3750.0	60s	16 hrs 40 min
250%	1678.9 ~ 5039.6	48s	13 hrs 20 min

Tips

• Given the massive power consumption of the Particle Accelerator, it is highly advisable to build more of them and underclock each, if there is enough space and materials to do so. For example, building twice as many and underclocking all to 50% reduces total power consumption by 20%, as well as allowing them to run at different intervals.
• Prior to update 5, the collision box of the building was a solid cuboid. This meant most other buildings could not be built through the empty spaces of it, except Railways and similar. Update 5 added complex clearance (complex collision meshes) to many buildings, including this one, allowing other buildings to be built inside much of its empty space.
• Power Storages can be used to mitigate the effects of the fluctuating power consumption. To calculate the number of Power Storages required for this, we must consider the maximum charge rate of Power Storages and the recipe being used in the Particle Accelerator. While Power Storages can discharge unlimited amounts of power, they can only charge at a maximum rate of 100MW. For that reason, we need a number of Power Storages that is sufficient to consume all the excess power during the periods in which the Particle Accelerator is using less than average power. The Power Storages and Particle Accelerator together then have a fixed combined power demand of the average power consumption of each recipe.
  • You would need 2.5 Power Storages per Particle Accelerator configured with either the Plutonium Pellet or Instant Plutonium Cell recipe. Average power consumption of the Particle Accelerator would be 500MW with minimum power consumption of 250MW, leaving a maximum of 250MW for charging Power Storages.
  • You would need 5 Power Storages per Particle Accelerator configured with the Nuclear Pasta recipe. Average power consumption of the Particle Accelerator would be 1000MW with minimum power consumption of 500MW, leaving 500MW for charging Power Storages.

Trivia

• In Patch 0.4.0.11, the Nitrogen Gas usage of the Instant Plutonium Cell recipe was removed, which meant that there was no recipe which used the building's Pipeline input until Patch 1.0, which added several recipes with pipeline inputs.
• The building is named "Hadron Collider" internally, which was its in-game name until it was properly implemented in Update 4.

Gallery

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  A setup of Particle Accelerators creating Plutonium Pellets.

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  The Hadron Collider, as it appeared in the Closed Alpha.

History

• Patch 1.0:
  • Changed 100 Electromagnetic Control Rod cost to 50 Cooling System
  • Changed Fused Modular Frame cost from 20 to 25
• Patch 0.4.0.0: Reintroduced as Particle Accelerator with a new design, building cost and fluctuating power demand.
• Patch 0.1.5: Removed. Before its removal, its cost was 10 Heavy Modular Frames, 20 Cables, 10 Supercomputers, 5 High-Speed Connectors and 10 Motors. Its description stated that it could be used to produce Dark Matter (an unreleased item) and a power usage of 750 MW, however, the building did not function.
• Unknown Closed Alpha patch: Introduced as Hadron Collider, but unobtainable without save editing.