Hydration Module

The glacite intake of deeper terraforming: melts glacite into hydration units that fuel the Terraformer's Hydrated stage (water).

Overview#

Deeper terraforming advances in stages — Rooted → Hydrated → Living. The Hydrated stage fills basins below the Terraformer's water table with real water, and every water source placed costs 1 hydration unit. The Hydration Module is where those units come from: it melts glacite (crystallised water-ice mined on Glacira) into the Terraformer's hydration buffer.

Obtaining#

Craft (shaped):

G N G
N F N
G N G

G = Glacite · N = Nerosteel Ingot · F = Fluid Tank

How it works#

• Must touch the Terraformer: place it directly against any face of a Terraformer block.

  A module with even a one-block gap feeds nothing.

• Feed it glacite: drop glacite (16 units each) or Blocks of Glacite (144 units) into its input

  slot — by hand, hopper, or item pipe (the slot is exposed to automation).

• It melts one item per pulse into the linked Terraformer's hydration buffer (cap 1,024 units);

  it never melts an item the buffer can't fully hold, so no units are ever lost.

• No glacite = the water stage stalls. The Terraformer GUI (and a

  Terraform Monitor) shows "Needs glacite" while stage 2 waits.

Details#

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

• Input items are tag-driven (nerospace:hydration_input) — glacite-only by default; modpacks can

  widen it (vanilla ice is deliberately excluded so the Glacira trip stays meaningful).