Quantum Crafter

Type	Instant crafting machine
Tier	Mid (the Basic Quantum Crafter is Low)
Energy buffer	100,000,000 FE
Max input	10,000,000 FE/t
Slots	9 input, 54 output, 1 catalyst
Automation	Items, all six faces
Emits	1 flux per 1,000 FE spent

The Quantum Crafter does what another machine does, instantly, and bills you for skipping the wait. Put a machine in the catalyst slot (a furnace, a crafting table, a Modern Industrialization macerator) and ingredients in the grid. Every craft that machine could make from them appears in the output grid as a faint preview. Taking one makes it real.

It never runs on its own schedule. Nothing is crafted until something takes an output: you, a hopper, a pipe, or its own auto-output.

Badges

Badges like tested show whether an in-game test backs the rule next to them. See Mechanics coverage.

At a glance

	Basic Quantum Crafter	Quantum Crafter
Energy buffer	1,000,000 FE	100,000,000 FE
Max input	1,000,000 FE/t	10,000,000 FE/t
Catalysts	Vanilla workstations only	Anything on the whitelist
Runs	32 at a time, then it recovers	Unlimited
Automation	Every face, no configuration	Per-face side configuration, auto input and output
Tesseracts in the grid	Yes	Yes

A Basic crafter's buffer takes about 8 minutes to fill from a 100 FE/t generator.

The catalyst

tested The catalyst slot decides which recipes the crafter can make. It takes one machine and never uses it up.

Catalyst	Recipes
Crafting Table	Crafting (shaped and shapeless)
Furnace	Smelting
Blast Furnace	Blasting
Smoker	Smoking
Stonecutter	Stonecutting
Campfire, Soul Campfire	Campfire cooking
Modern Industrialization machines	That machine's recipe type (an electric macerator makes macerator recipes; MI furnaces also do vanilla smelting)
Mekanism machines and factories	Enriching, crushing, combining, smelting
Applied Energistics 2 Charger, Inscriber	Charger and inscriber recipes

Machines outside that list are matched by name: a catalyst whose id contains a recipe type's name drives that type, with prefixes like electric_, steel_ or lv_ ignored.

tested A catalyst must be on the #quantimium:quantum_crafter_whitelist tag and not on #quantimium:quantum_crafter_blacklist; the blacklist always wins. Anything else shows Not allowed and the preview stays empty. Modpacks add machines by tagging them. The whitelist is built from four tier tags:

BasicAdvancedIndustrialSingularityBlacklist

quantum_crafter_catalysts/basic: Crafting Table, Furnace, Blast Furnace, Smoker, Stonecutter, Campfire, Soul Campfire. These are also the only catalysts the Basic Quantum Crafter takes.

quantum_crafter_catalysts/advanced:

• Applied Energistics 2: Charger, Inscriber
• Hostile Neural Networks: Loot Fabricator (see Partner mods)
• Modern Industrialization: bronze, steel and electric compressors, cutting machines, furnaces, macerators and mixers; steel and electric packers, unpackers and wiremills; Assembler, Centrifuge, Chemical Reactor, Distillery, Electrolyzer, Polarizer
• Mekanism: Enrichment Chamber, Crusher, Energized Smelter, Combiner, and the enriching, crushing, smelting and combining factories of every tier

quantum_crafter_catalysts/industrial: Modern Industrialization's bronze and steel boilers, Coke Oven, Steam and Electric Blast Furnaces, Implosion Compressor, Vacuum Freezer, Distillation Tower, Heat Exchanger, Oil Drilling Rig and Nuclear Reactor.

quantum_crafter_catalysts/singularity: Modern Industrialization's Fusion Reactor.

quantum_crafter_blacklist: Modern Industrialization's Forge Hammer.

tested Each tier needs a flux band where the crafter stands: the basic catalysts work anywhere, advanced ones need Medium, industrial ones High, a multiblock's controller without its structure Critical (until folding comes), and the Fusion Reactor Singularity (config crafter.catalystBands). Below it the preview stays empty and the status says Needs flux, with the band needed and where the field is heading.

The preview

tested Every craft the catalyst can make from the grid's contents is shown in the output grid as a faint ghost stack, sized to the largest batch it could make right now. The panel reads "Wavefunction preview — take to collapse".

• The grid holds up to 54 stacks of ghosts. A craft with several outputs is shown whole or not at all.
• Block and nugget results come first, then the crafts that use up the most.
• Ingredients are pooled. Nine iron ingots in one slot fill all nine positions of an iron block recipe; positions in the grid don't matter.
• A craft is shown only if everything it needs is there, energy included. When energy is what limits a batch, the tooltip says "Batch limited by stored energy, not ingredients".
• If any grid slot holds a blacklisted item, the whole preview stays empty.

Taking an output: collapse

tested Taking a ghost commits that craft. The ingredients and energy are taken, the ghost becomes the real items, and the preview is worked out again from what is left.

• Taking it by hand commits the batch shown.
• A hopper or pipe pulling from the output grid commits only as many runs as it takes. A hopper pulling one item at a time crafts one item at a time.
• Anything made beyond what was taken is kept as real items in the output grid: the second product of a two-output craft, or the rest of a run when a hopper takes less than one run makes. If the grid has no room for it, the take is refused.

tested The last recipe you took becomes the preferred recipe and is listed first. The recipe lock shows only that recipe whenever it can be made, which stops a shared grid, or auto output, from making something else. When it can't be made, the full preview comes back.

Batch size

tested One take makes as many runs as the smallest of three limits allows:

Limit	Runs allowed
Ingredients	As many full sets as the grid (and any linked inventories) holds
Energy	Stored FE ÷ FE per run
One stack of output	Output's max stack size ÷ output per run

Example. A furnace catalyst, 64 raw iron in the grid, 100,000 FE stored. Ingredients allow 64 runs and a stack of ingots allows 64, but at 4,000 FE a smelt the energy allows only 25. The ghost shows 25 iron ingots.

Unrealised Matter goes through a catalyst unobserved: it comes out as Matter that remembers the step (see Unrealised Matter).

Energy cost

tested Every craft is billed at what the real process would have cost, times the instant-craft multiplier (config crafter.instantCraftMultiplier, default 2, range 1–100). The multiplier is the price of skipping the wait.

A hotter field pays less of it. The Quantum Crafter charges the full multiplier at Low and Medium, 80% of it at High, 65% at Critical and 55% at Singularity: at the default, 2.0×, 2.0×, 1.6×, 1.3× and 1.1× (config crafter.taxPercentByBand).

Recipe	Base cost	At the default ×2
Crafting table	100 FE	200 FE
Stonecutting	100 FE	200 FE
Smelting (200-tick cook)	10 FE per tick of cook time: 2,000 FE	4,000 FE
Blasting, smoking (100 ticks)	1,000 FE	2,000 FE
Campfire (600 ticks)	6,000 FE	12,000 FE
Modern Industrialization	Total EU × MI's forgeEnergyPerEu (default 10)	EU × 20
MI recipe with no EU draw	10 FE per tick of its duration	20 FE per tick
AE2 Charger, Inscriber	1,600 FE	3,200 FE
Mekanism enriching, crushing, smelting	2,000 FE	4,000 FE
Mekanism combining	2,500 FE	5,000 FE
Anything else	200 FE	400 FE

• No craft is free. Every run costs at least 100 FE.
• Modern Industrialization costs are converted with MI's own config, read live, so the two energy economies agree. A recipe drawing 8 EU/t for 200 ticks is 1,600 EU, or 16,000 FE before the multiplier and 32,000 FE after it.
• Anomaly surcharge. tested Above Low anomaly, every craft costs more: +10% at Medium, +25% at High, +50% at Critical, +100% at Singularity. A 4,000 FE smelt costs 5,000 FE at High. The GUI's energy bar shows the surcharge in force.
• Passive drain. Above Low anomaly the buffer also leaks a flat 16–160 FE/t. See Flux and anomaly.

The costs of the AE2 and Mekanism recipes come from data files in data/quantimium/recipe_adapters, which packs can add to (see Recipe adapters below).

Flux

tested Each committed craft emits 3 flux per 1,000 FE it cost, into the 3×3 of chunks round the crafter: a fifth to its own, a tenth to each of the others. It adds no anomaly of its own; flux drives that. A craft that cost nothing still emits a flat 1 flux (times the same 3).

Example. A stack of 64 raw iron smelted at Low anomaly costs 256,000 FE and emits 768 flux, about 154 in the crafter's chunk and 77 in each of the eight round it. Do that every few minutes in one place and the chunk climbs towards Medium.

Automation

tested Items only; the crafter has no fluid ports.

Quantum Crafter. The side configuration (the Sides tab) sets each face to Off, In, Out or Both, and which grid slots and output slots it reaches. Every face starts as Both. With auto input, a face pulls from the block beside it once a second; with auto output, it commits and pushes a craft into it, sized to the room the neighbour has. Auto output uses the preferred recipe when it is available, otherwise the first one in the preview.

Basic Quantum Crafter. Every face is both an input and an output, with no configuration and no auto push or pull. Hoppers and pipes do the moving.

Automation reaches the grid and the output slots only; the catalyst goes in by hand.

Tesseracts in the grid

tested A bound Tesseract in a grid slot adds the linked inventory's contents to the ingredient pool, wherever it is. A Semi-Stable Tesseract does the same for inventories within 16 blocks. Taking a craft pulls the ingredients straight out of the linked chest.

Links are polled every half second, and the crafter looks for newly reachable inventories once a second, so a chest filled from elsewhere updates the preview within a moment.

A Tesseract can be bound to another crafter. Its output ghosts then count as ingredients, so one crafter can plan its craft from another's preview: plank → stick → torch in one take.

tested Crafters linked in a ring (A reads B, B reads A, or a longer chain back to itself, up to 16 links deep) would try to craft from themselves. Every crafter in the loop stops with Link loop until a link is taken out.

The Basic Quantum Crafter

The low-tier crafter. Same preview and costs, with three limits:

• tested Vanilla workstations only: the quantum_crafter_catalysts/basic tag. Anything else shows Not allowed.
• A small buffer: 1,000,000 FE, enough for 250 smelts.
• tested Coherence. It holds a reserve of 32 runs (config basicCrafter.coherenceCapacity). Each run it commits uses one, and a batch is never larger than the reserve left. The reserve refills steadily, a full reserve every 5 seconds (config basicCrafter.coherenceRefillTicks, 100 ticks). While it is empty the crafter shows Recovering.

In practice a Basic crafter makes about 6 runs a second, sustained, in bursts of up to 32.

Status

Status	Meaning
Idle	No catalyst or no ingredients
Ready	A preview is up; take an output to craft
No power	A craft matches but the buffer can't pay for one run
No recipe	The catalyst makes nothing from these ingredients
Not allowed	Not on the whitelist, or on the blacklist
Output blocked	The output side has nowhere to put the craft
Link loop	Crafters linked in a ring; see above
Recovering	Basic only: coherence is used up
Needs flux	The catalyst's tier needs a hotter field here

See Partner mods for what is tested with Modern Industrialization and AE2.

Recipe adapters

Mods whose recipes aren't furnace-like or Modern Industrialization recipes can be supported with a JSON adapter in data/<namespace>/recipe_adapters/. The built-in ones cover the AE2 Charger and Inscriber, Mekanism's item machines, and the machines listed on Partner mods. The EnderIO Alloy Smelter's:

{
  "recipe_types": ["enderio:alloy_smelting"],
  "catalysts": ["enderio:alloy_smelter"],
  "catalyst_also": ["minecraft:smelting"],
  "input_mode": "field",
  "input_fields": ["inputs"],
  "output_mode": "field",
  "output_fields": ["output"],
  "energy": { "flat": 2000, "field": "energy" }
}

• input_fields and output_fields name the recipe's own fields. Inputs can be ingredients, sized ingredients, or a mod's own wrapper with a count; outputs can be stacks, stack templates, or a mod's own wrapper. Only what a recipe always gives is counted: an output with a chance below one, or with percentages that can miss, is left out, and a recipe that only might give anything isn't offered. A field a recipe doesn't have gives nothing, so one adapter can serve several recipe types.
• catalysts are the machines that run these recipe types, for machines whose names don't say so. catalyst_also adds other types they run too. Machines still have to be on a catalyst tag.
• energy.flat is the base FE before the instant-craft multiplier. energy.field reads the recipe's own energy instead, times energy.scale (1 if left out), with the flat fee if it can't be read.
• non_consumed_tags and non_consumed_items list ingredients that stay in the grid, like the Inscriber's presses.

Tips

• Keep the ingredients linked, not loaded. A Tesseract to your storage chest turns the crafter into a crafting terminal for the whole chest.
• Lock the recipe before turning on auto output, or it will make whatever the preview lists first.
• Mind the flux. Crafting in bulk is the fastest way to raise a chunk's flux, and anomaly follows.