Machines

The chassis

Every chassis has three item stores, three tanks, an RF buffer and eight signal channels, and all six modules on it share them. That's how a Crusher gets the ore an Item Port pulled in, or a Fuel Engine charges the buffer a Power Terminal pays out from.

Three machines from the manual:

Machine	Modules
Ore line	Heater, Crusher and Item Port
Generator	Solar Collector, Fuel Engine and Power Terminal
Steam loop	Boiler, Condenser and Steam Turbine

Faceplates light up while a module is working, and each machine sounds like what it's doing.

Tiers and upgrades

Chassis come in tiers: Basic, Hardened, Reinforced, Signalum and Resonant. An Upgrade Kit raises a chassis one tier in place, and each tier is faster and holds more. Upgrades add storage, bigger tanks, more power and faster throughput.

Overclocking speeds a machine up but heats it, so you keep it cool with ice.

Bigger machines

Bolted Chassis join two to eight chassis into one machine. Blueprints (Blueprint Sheets) save a machine you built, and you can build it again from your inventory or copy one straight out of the manual.

For frames bigger than that, see Fieldframe Frameworks.

The Controller Plate

The Controller Plate is a module that runs a small program with states, so a machine can do one thing until something changes and then do another. It reads and writes the chassis' eight signal channels.

A Program Card copies a program: sneak-use it on a Controller Plate to copy, use it on another to paste, sneak-use it in the air to wipe it.

Gear

Picture	Name	What it does
	Fluid Armor	in copper, iron, gold and Ender Alloy. Fill it with a fluid and the fluid gives you an effect.
	Arc Whip	a copper lash fed from a cell in the grip. Charged tip cracks shock and stagger. Each swing costs RF; charge it in an Item Charger.
	Tesla Whip	a reinforced Arc Whip. Charged cracks arc on to up to four more hostiles and stun the first.
	Graviton Hook	three hooks. While one holds and it has charge, gravity lets go of you: fly where you look, sneak to sink. Wear it in the hook slot.

Works with

JEI shows the recipes. Jade shows what a machine is doing when you look at it. Both are optional.