Mekanism ore processing calculator

How the tiers and upgrades work

Each tier adds a machine in front of the last one. 2x enriches ores into two dusts; 3x purifies them with oxygen into clumps first; 4x injects hydrogen chloride to make shards; 5x dissolves ores in sulfuric acid, washes the slurry and crystallizes it. Ore blocks give the full multiplier. Raw ore gives less per item, but a block of raw metal counts as nine raw ores, so storing raw metal as blocks costs nothing.

Speed upgrades make a machine ten times faster at eight upgrades, but its power use grows with the square of that speed. Energy upgrades divide the draw back down: eight of each leaves a machine ten times faster at ten times the power per tick, which works out to the same energy per item as an unupgraded machine. A factory runs three to nine operations side by side and draws power for each running process. The Chemical Washer has no factory. It cleans 1 mB of slurry a tick, doubled by every speed upgrade, and pays power for each millibucket.