Synthesizing Sky Alloys and Accumulation Processors

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Sky alloys and Accumulation Processors in MEGA Cells provide the metallurgic and logic foundations required to manufacture multi-megabyte digital storage components. Standard Applied Energistics materials cap storage capacity at standard tiers, making these specialized conductive alloys and processors essential for managing massive automated storage networks.

In-World Transform Reactions

Manufacturing sky alloys does not rely on traditional furnace smelting. Instead, items are transformed through catalytic in-world crystal reactions.

Tossing raw components into a pool of water triggers an instant chemical transformation:

Sky Steel Ingot: Throw 1 Charged Certus Quartz Crystal, 1 Iron Ingot, and 1 Sky Stone into water. The materials react instantly with a flash of light, producing 2 Sky Steel Ingot.
Sky Bronze Ingot: Throw 1 Charged Certus Quartz Crystal, 1 Copper Ingot, and 1 Sky Stone into water to produce 2 Sky Bronze Ingot.
Sky Osmium Ingot: Throw 1 Charged Certus Quartz Crystal, 1 Osmium Ingot, and 1 Sky Stone into water to produce 2 Sky Osmium Ingot.

These reaction yields provide the specialized metal casings needed for distinct digital media types: Sky Steel encases digital item storage, Sky Bronze houses fluid storage, and Sky Osmium contains chemical gas storage.

Inscriber Processing and Circuit Logic

Advanced storage tiers require logical calculation chips capable of addressing millions of bytes of data. This is handled by the Accumulation Processor.

First, players must press the circuit substrate:

In an Inscriber, place 1 Inscriber Accumulation Press in the top slot and 1 Certus Quartz Crystal in the middle slot.
Powering the machine stamps the crystal into 1 Printed Accumulation Circuit.

Next, assemble the final processor in the Inscriber:

Place 1 Printed Accumulation Circuit in the top slot.
Place 1 Redstone Dust in the middle slot.
Place 1 Printed Silicon in the bottom slot.

The inscriber binds the layers into 1 finished Accumulation Processor.

Applying Components to Network Hardware

Accumulation Processors serve as the central processing unit for every MEGA component from 1M up to the highest mega tier. In addition, Sky Steel and Sky Bronze ingots can be fashioned into specialized cell housings:

Item Cell Housing: Formed from Sky Steel plates to protect item storage matrices.
Fluid Cell Housing: Formed from Sky Bronze to provide pressurized fluid containment.
Chemical Cell Housing: Formed from Sky Osmium to safely store volatile gases and radioactive compounds.

Having an automated setup of inscribers and water drop dispensers ensures a continuous supply of sky alloys and processors as your base storage demands expand.