NeroTech: Ore Processing and Component Fabrication

NeroTech establishes an industrial manufacturing ladder that multiplies mineral yields and presses metallic dusts into standardized machinery components. Moving beyond basic furnaces into chemical and mechanical processing allows factories to drastically expand their raw metal output.

Ore Comminution and Chemical Purification

Maximizing subterranean yields requires routing rough mineral chunks through mechanical pulverizers and chemical wash lines:

• Running unrefined minerals through an Ore Processor yields double output, transforming chunks like Raw Copper, Raw Gold, and Raw Iron into two piles of Copper Dust, Gold Dust, or Iron Dust, unlocking the "Twice the Yield" milestone.
• Processing bulk blocks such as Block of Raw Copper, Block of Raw Gold, or Block of Raw Iron produces 18 units of mineral dust.
• Deploying an Advanced Ore Processor expands processing speed and efficiency, achieving the "Refined Beyond Earth" advancement.
• Submitting raw ores to chemical purification inside a chemical bath increases yield further, yielding three units of dust per raw chunk.
• Recycling a fouled Dirty Filter through processing equipment reclaims a unit of Iron Dust.

Smelting refined powders inside a Furnace or blast furnace produces standard Copper Ingot, Gold Ingot, and Iron Ingot bars for assembly lines.

Component Pressing and Structural Chassis

Assembling high-tech machinery relies on standardized microelectronics and structural chassis produced in dedicated presses:

• Operating a Fabricator presses structural Iron Ingot bars into a rigid Machine Frame, completing the foundational "NeroTech" advancement.
• Cold-pressing Gold Dust fabricates two sheets of Circuit Board for machine logic circuits.
• Compacting Copper Dust winds two units of Nero Coil for magnetic actuation and inductive transfer, advancing the "Component Line" milestone.

These fabricated frames and electronic circuits serve as the modular building blocks for all subsequent generation, refining, and automation hardware.