Upgrade Modules & Frame Casing

The crafting parts and tuning cards for the Quarry Controller. The modules are a cross-machine system — designed so other machines can use the same cards in the future.

Frame Casing

The structural material the quarry spends to build its frame ring — one casing per open-air perimeter cell (cells already backed by terrain are free). Casings are also placeable as frame blocks, so you can outline a mining area by hand instead of using landmarks; a frame block broken by a player drops its casing, and a finished dig returns its standing casings to the controller's frame slots.

Craft (shaped, makes 4):

I I I
I   I
I I I

I = Nerosteel Ingot

Upgrade Modules

Slot module cards into a machine's module slots to change how it works. A machine counts the modules across its slots and sums their effects (you can stack several). The Quarry Controller has 1 module slot at Tier 1 (more at higher tiers).

ModuleEffectNotes
Speed Module+50% to the work-cap per moduleLets the machine do more when fed more power; capped at ×8.
Efficiency Module−15% energy cost per moduleFloors at 25% of the base cost.
Fortune ModuleApplies Fortune to mined blocksStacks up to Fortune III.
Silk Touch ModuleMines blocks with Silk TouchOverrides Fortune when present.
Evaporator ModuleDestroys liquids instead of buffering themKeeps the quarry's fluid buffer empty — nothing to pipe away. Texture is placeholder art for now.

Craft — every module shares one frame with a signature centre item:

 N
R S R
 N

N = Nerosteel Ingot · R = Redstone · S = signature:

ModuleSignature S
SpeedSugar
EfficiencyLapis Lazuli
FortuneDiamond
Silk TouchAmethyst Shard
EvaporatorBlaze Powder

Details

  • IDs: nerospace:frame_casing, nerospace:speed_module, nerospace:efficiency_module,

    nerospace:fortune_module, nerospace:silk_touch_module, nerospace:evaporator_module

  • Used by: Quarry Controller (more machines planned)

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