Fulgorite Harvesting

Farm the lightning glass Fulgora is littered with, and recycle it for the holmium inside.

• Bury a fulgorite nodule, ground lightning into it until it has grown, harvest it and recycle the fulgorite into holmium ore and stone.
• The Fulgural Tower plants, tends and harvests a whole field by itself — and outranks every lightning attractor within twenty tiles.
• Sixty grounded bolts bring a harvest in: fifteen to twenty minutes on Fulgora's night storm, about one minute with an ionizer next to the tower.
• One bolt advances every crystal in the field, so a full field is always worth more than a sparse one.
• Three nodule tiers — 6 / 12 / 20 fulgorite per plot. The upper two want imports from up to four planets.
• Quality carries through the whole chain: quality nodule → quality fulgorite → quality holmium ore.
• The price that never shows up in a recipe: every bolt a tower grounds is a bolt your power network does not get.
• Fulgora only. Requires Space Age and the Recycler. Modifies no vanilla recipe, entity or technology. Beta.

The three Fulgorite mods

Fulgorite Harvesting — this mod. A Fulgural Tower plants fulgorite nodules across a field, grows them on grounded lightning and harvests them. Quality carries from the planted nodule onwards.

Fulgorite Mining — a Fulgural Lodemast grounds lightning into the soil around it and fuses fulgorite ore into the ground, which a Big Mining Drill hauls out. Hands-off and high volume, and fully independent of this mod.

Fulgorite Enriching — refines raw fulgorite into an enriched crystal that gives up all of its holmium instead of half, for three times the ore out of the same fulgorite. Takes this mod or Mining as its source.

Recommended alongside

Agricultural Tower with Modules — Module slots and beacon support for the Fulgural Tower.

Storm Ionizer — a lightning collector that fires charges into the cloud deck and calls lightning down on demand, day or night. One parked next to a tower cuts a harvest from fifteen minutes to about one, with nothing to configure.

EM Holmium Charging — a solid-state holmium chain that never puts the metal into a fluid: ore is crushed, ion-loaded onto iron plates in an Electromagnetic plant and thermally stripped in a Foundry. It is what carries this mod's quality through to the plate, since fluids cannot hold quality.

Mod concept & design by Morlot.
Implementation developed with the help of Claude (AI assistant by Anthropic).