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Transmutation Chamber

Description

This peculiar device is the focal point of your research. The Transmutation Tablet embedded within its mechanical shell allows it to convert items to and from EMC. However, the intense magical effort required for this necessitates a few conditions:

First, it must be linked to the soul of an alchemist. It will use that alchemist's EMC to store and retrieve items, just like a Transmutation Table or Tablet. Perhaps a talisman bound to you would be of use?

Second, without the masterful hands of a person, the conversion process is inefficient. Any items inserted or withdrawn that cost 10 EMC or more will impose an extra 1 EMC per item in the stack. That is to say, if you extract 30 diamonds at 8192 EMC each, an extra 30 EMC will be lost to this inefficiency. Using rare minerals, it might be possible to increase this threshold...

Third, because it is a machine and not an alchemist, it's prospects for learning new items are limited. It knows how to craft anything you do, so if you find yourself in possession of new items needing to be inserted, you would do well to add them to a Transmutation Table yourself. Alternately, research into machine learning algorithms may prove fruitful...

Finally, because it is drawing directly from your own knowledge, it's impossible to control what items are exposed. Very simple automation (eg, extracting items via hopper) will be troublesome. However, if you can narrow down what is attempted to be extracted, then it should be fine.

Recipe

Recipe

  • 4 x Obsidian
  • 4 x Iron Block
  • 1 x Transmutation Tablet

Notes

Hooking this block up to something like an Applied Energistics Storage Bus is intended and encouraged. However, be aware that AE has no idea that the items this block claims to have don't actually exist until requested. As a result, if you are short on EMC but have enough for any single ingredient, AE will withdraw and then re-insert the items a few times. This is harmless, but may cost some extra EMC due to the inefficiency penalty.

A limitation in ProjectE prevents offline players from learning new items. This limitation is not avoided by Equivalent Integrations. So, even if you have inserted an Alchemical Algorithms to allow the chamber to learn new items, it will not work if you are offline.