Rock Crusher

Inefficiently produces refined materials from raw resources.
Duplicants will not fabricate items unless recipes are queued.

Research

Brute-Force Refinement

Dimensions

4×4 tiles

Mechanics

The Rock Crusher consumes 240 W of Power and requires Duplicant operation. It refines materials 100 kg at a time. 50 kg of material gets turned into Sand and 50 kg to the corresponding Refined Metal.

One operating cycle takes 40 seconds, reduced by the Duplicants Machinery attribute. If permanently fed with Raw Minerals and operated by an unskilled dupe, one Rock Crusher can feed 2.5 permanently operating Water Sieves with sand.

input		Result
Raw Metal		Metal		Sand		Rate
Mass	Name	Mass	Name	Mass	Name	Rate
100 kg	Wolframite	50 kg	Tungsten	50 kg	Sand	1.25 kg/s
	Aluminum Ore		Aluminum
	Copper Ore		Copper
	Iron Ore		Iron
	Pyrite		Iron
	Gold Amalgam		Gold
	Thermium		Niobium
	Cobalt Ore		Cobalt
	Cinnabar Ore		Mercury
	Fullerene	90 kg	Graphite	10 kg

Raw Minerals are completely converted into Sand, while Egg Shells are converted into Lime.

Input		Result
Mass	Name	Mass	Name	Rate
100 kg	Granite	100 kg	Sand	2.5 kg/s
	Igneous Rock
	Obsidian
	Sandstone
	Sedimentary Rock
	Ceramic
	Insulation
	Salt
	Salt	5 g	Table Salt	125 mg/s
	Fossil	95 kg	Sedimentary Rock	2.375 kg/s
	Fossil	5 kg	Lime	125 g/s
5 kg	Egg Shell	5 kg		125 g/s
1	Small Pokeshell Molt	5 kg		125 g/s
	Pokeshell Molt	10 kg		250 g/s
	Small Oakshell Molt	10 kg	Wood	250 g/s
	Oakshell Molt	100 kg	Wood	2.5 kg/s
120 kg	Bammoth Patty	32 kg	Phosphorite	0.8 kg/s
120 kg	Bammoth Patty	88 kg	Clay	2.2 kg/s
1	Power Bank Scrap	100 kg	Abyssalite	2.5 kg/s

Temperature

Rock crushers do not exchange heat with their contents, but the contents are not insulated from the environment, unlike the Metal Refinery. The output material is produced at the same temperature as the input.

All other products are dropped as solid debris by default, which can immediately melt if the input is too hot. For example, when crushing Aluminum Ore at above 663.3 °C / 1225.94 °F, instead of forming a bottle, the Aluminum output immediately turns into a puddle of Molten Aluminum, which can exchange heat directly with the Rock Crusher itself.

Note that when crushing Cinnabar Ore to produce Mercury, the output would be bottled by default. If the input is colder than -41.85 °C / -43.33 °F, the output forms a natural tile of Solid Mercury, entombing the Rock Crusher, and the tile can melt into a puddle of liquid Mercury if the Rock Crusher or the surroundings is warm enough.