IndustrialCraft (energy and machines, 2011–2012)

In IndustrialCraft 1 energy is counted in EU, energy units. The IC wiki's EU page of May 2011 says the rate written EU/s is not EU per second: Alblaka defined it as EU per frame. industrialcraft/ic1-eu

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IndustrialCraft 1's cables carry the current a generator emits to the machines on them, and the power grows weaker the farther it travels. Where a cable forks in two, the energy splits in half; the April 2011 cable page warns that splitting one cable three ways at once melts it. industrialcraft/ic1-cables

The revision names no cable tiers or packet sizes. The cable list under it in the capture is the wiki's current template, not part of the 2011 revision.

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IndustrialCraft 1 already had the Generator, which burns fuel to make energy and can recharge the RE battery. industrialcraft/ic1-generator

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IndustrialCraft 1 already had the Macerator, which grinds ore into dust that smelts into ingots, so the same ore gives twice the metal: the March 2011 page, written as a sales pitch, says it doubles your ore production. industrialcraft/ic1-macerator

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IndustrialCraft 1 already had the electric furnace, then called the Electro Furnace. Its March 2011 page, a mock advertisement, says it cuts the Iron Furnace's smelting time by a further 12.5%, runs on the RE battery, and wastes no energy while it has nothing to smelt. industrialcraft/ic1-electro-furnace

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In IndustrialCraft² energy moves as EU packets. Each tick, every machine sends or receives its energy as a packet of 1 to 2048 EU; the rate is counted in EU per tick (EU/t), and at Minecraft's usual 20 ticks a second, EU per second is 20 times EU/t. industrialcraft/ic2-eu-packets

{
 "maxPacket": 2048,
 "ticksPerSecond": 20
}

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IndustrialCraft² sorts packet sizes into voltages: micro up to 5 EU (solar panels, water and wind mills), low 32 EU (the Generator, the BatBox), medium 128 EU, high 512 EU and extreme 2048 EU. Storage blocks emit packets of their output size, and a transformer turns four packets into one of the next tier up, or one into four of the tier below. industrialcraft/ic2-voltage-tiers

{
 "micro": 5,
 "low": 32,
 "medium": 128,
 "high": 512,
 "extreme": 2048
}

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Each IndustrialCraft² cable takes packets up to one size: tin 5 EU, copper 32 EU, gold 128 EU, glass fibre 512 EU, and the HV (iron) cable 2048 EU. A packet larger than the cable's limit melts it at once, but the number of packets is not limited, so a copper cable carries any number of 32 EU packets a tick and not one of 128 EU. industrialcraft/ic2-cable-tiers

{
 "tin": 5,
 "copper": 32,
 "gold": 128,
 "glassFibre": 512,
 "hv": 2048
}

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Every IndustrialCraft² cable loses energy over distance, counted per packet per block and rounded down, so a short run loses nothing: copper loses 1 EU every 5 blocks. Rubber insulation cuts the loss and the shocks a bare cable gives, and since the loss is taken from each packet, sending energy in fewer, larger packets loses less. Energy flows to a machine only if some of it would arrive after the loss. industrialcraft/ic2-cable-loss

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IndustrialCraft²'s basic machines take low voltage: the IC wiki gives the Macerator and the Electric Furnace a maximum input of 32 EU per packet before they explode. industrialcraft/ic2-machine-overvoltage

{
 "macerator": 32,
 "electricFurnace": 32
}

The furnace's box writes EU/t where the macerator's writes EUP; by the EU page, the limit is on a packet.

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IndustrialCraft²'s basic Generator burns ordinary fuel (wood, charcoal, coal, some plants, scrap) and puts out energy at 10 EU per tick. It stores up to 4500 EU, and a piece of coal is worth 4000 EU in it. industrialcraft/ic2-generator

{
 "output": "10 EU/t",
 "storage": "4500 EU",
 "coal": "4000 EU"
}

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IndustrialCraft²'s Macerator grinds one ore block into two dusts, each of which smelts into an ingot, and coal into one coal dust. Its energy box gives an input of 800 EU at 2 EU/t. industrialcraft/ic2-macerator

{
 "dustsPerOre": 2,
 "euInput": 800,
 "euPerTick": 2
}

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IndustrialCraft²'s Electric Furnace smelts 12.5% faster than the Iron Furnace and uses about 390 EU per item at 3 EU/t; because it runs on electricity it stops drawing power the moment it has nothing to smelt, where the Iron Furnace burns on. industrialcraft/ic2-electric-furnace

{
 "euPerOperation": 390,
 "euPerTick": 3,
 "speedup": 0.125
}

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IndustrialCraft² kept IC1's energy units, cables, Generator, Macerator and electric furnace, all on the IC wiki by spring 2011 and all on its 2012 IC2 pages, and rebuilt how energy moves. Announcing IC², Alblaka wrote that a fellow modder was reworking the energy code; in 2018 the IC2 developer Chocohead described IC1's cables as whole blocks that ticked once a second, replaced in IC2 by smaller tiered cables. Tiered cables, packet sizes and transformers appear on the IC wiki's 2012 pages and in none of its 2011 revisions read here. industrialcraft/ic2-energy-rework

The 2011 revisions read are those of the EU, cable, generator, macerator and electro furnace pages (ic1-eu, ic1-cables, ic1-generator, ic1-macerator, ic1-electro-furnace). Which build first had each feature isn't read here.

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IndustrialCraft²'s cables are rated: each tier takes packets up to one size, melts under a larger one, and loses energy with distance, though the number of packets is unlimited. For Factorio's four poles, the Factorio wiki names two properties, the area a pole powers and how far its wires reach, and when a Factorio network has too little power, every machine on it slows by the same proportion. industrialcraft/power-network-vs-factorio

Nothing read here says what an IC2 machine does on too little power, so the comparison stops at the wiring. That Factorio's poles carry unlimited power and lose none with distance is the wiki's silence plus the pole prototypes' fields, not a sentence read here.

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IndustrialCraft²'s Generator turns burned fuel straight into energy, at 10 EU/t. Factorio splits the same job between two machines: a boiler burns fuel to make steam, and two steam engines turn one boiler's steam into electricity. industrialcraft/generator-vs-factorio

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