Quantum Foundry¶

The Foundry is Quantimium's first multiblock: a timed crafter that spends FE and local flux, and grows things no table can make, the full Tesseract among them.

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Structure¶

A 7×7 cross, one layer high plus the tanks:

a Quantum Foundry in the middle of a 3×3 ring of Quantum Foundry Plinth;
one to four attunement arms out of the ring's sides, each a Foundry Flux Conduit, then a Attunement Pillar with a Attunement Tank on top.

Each arm is one recipe socket, so a recipe with more ingredients needs more arms. Power goes in through any plinth. The arms are shared with the Containment Hall.

The Quantum Foundry's screen

The field it draws on¶

Every Foundry recipe needs the field as well as its ingredients:

A flux band. Each recipe names the lowest band it works in, read where the Foundry stands. A field hovering at a band's edge doesn't switch it on and off: once working, it holds until the field has clearly dropped.
Flux to spend. When a recipe completes, the Foundry takes its flux cost straight out of its own chunk, and leaves some anomaly behind there. If the chunk doesn't hold enough flux, it waits.
Power, drawn every tick the recipe runs, through any block of the plinth. It stores 2,000,000 FE and takes up to 10,000 FE/t.
Enough arms. Each ingredient sits on its own pillar, and some recipes need a minimum number of arms: the full Tesseract needs all four.

Its screen shows the field where it stands, the band the recipe needs and the flux it will take, and says what it's waiting for:

Status	Meaning
Unformed	The plinth or every arm is incomplete.
Attuned	Formed, waiting for ingredients on the pillars.
No recipe	What's on the pillars isn't a Foundry recipe.
No power	It needs FE through the plinth.
Low flux	The field is below the recipe's band, or the chunk can't pay its flux cost.
Output full	Take out what it made.
Pinning	Working: the pillars are drawing the result out of the field.