Fuel Tank

Stores rocket fuel and auto-fuels a rocket sitting on an adjacent launch pad.

Overview#

The Fuel Tank is the first piece of launch-pad automation: it holds a large buffer of Rocket Fuel and, each tick, pumps it into a rocket standing on a connected Rocket Launch Pad — so you don't have to hand-fill rockets with canisters.

Obtaining#

Craft (shaped):

N G N
G C G
N G N

N = Nerosteel Ingot · G = Glass · C = Rocket Fuel Canister

How it works#

• Capacity: 32,000 mB of rocket fuel.

• Filling: right-click with a Rocket Fuel Bucket or Canister to add fuel (empty bucket is

  returned); a fluid pipe can fill it via the fluid capability. Empty-hand right-click prints the current fuel level.

• Canister auto-feed: hoppers and Universal Pipes can insert **Rocket Fuel

  Canisters** through the tank's item capability — each is converted to 1,000 mB of fuel on tick. Pair it with a Fuel Refinery (or a canister line) for fully automated fuelling.

• Auto-fuelling: when a rocket is on an adjacent launch pad, the tank pumps fuel into it. A

  complete 3×3 launch pad pumps 4× faster (160 vs 40 mB/tick) — and since the multiblock gating pass a rocket can only deploy on a full 3×3 anyway. On a Heavy Launch Complex (5×5 + gantry) the rate rises to 480 mB/t (12×), filling a Tier 4's 24,000 mB tank in under a minute.

• Full automation: the pad itself also proxies the rocket's fuel-intake slot as an item

  capability, so hoppers/Universal Pipes can deliver Rocket Fuel Buckets and Canisters straight into the rocket — a Fuel Tank + an item line makes launch prep hands-free.

• Comparator: emits a redstone signal scaled to its fill level.

Details#

• ID: nerospace:fuel_tank · Tool: pickaxe, iron tier · Drops: itself