About Machines
BMCRM's whole loop runs through three machines, used in order:
- Crystal Former – forms a blank crystal from a base material + a catalyst.
- Crystal Infuser – infuses a resource material into that blank crystal.
- Resonator – places crystals to work, periodically rolling them for their resource.
Order of operations
A crystal has to be formed, then infused, before a Resonator can do anything useful with it — an un-infused blank crystal has no resource to roll for.
Fuel & power
The Crystal Former and Crystal Infuser both burn fuel like a furnace: fuel only ignites once
there's actual work queued, and burns down every tick regardless. Both also accept RF/FE as
"wireless fuel" — energy fills a small internal buffer (machineEnergyCapacity) at a rate capped
by machineEnergyMaxReceive, and once full is spent as a single lump of burn time
(machineEnergyBurnTicks), preferred over solid fuel. See Configuration
for these values.
Modulators
Modulators are separate blocks placed near a Resonator that change how it rolls or processes its crystals — see the Modulators section for each one.