Fulgorite Mining

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

• Ground lightning into the soil around a mast, and fulgorite ore fuses into the ground tile by tile. A Big Mining Drill digs it up; a recycler cracks it into holmium ore and stone.
• The Fulgural Lodemast is its own lightning attractor and outranks every collector, so it takes the strike and grounds it.
• One grounded bolt lays one tile of ore and spends one fulgorite nodule. The patch fills in tile by tile into a blob several drills wide, and a saturated field never runs the drill dry.
• Only a Big Mining Drill can work the ore, and only with a lubricant feed.
• Three nodule tiers — 1 / 2 / 4 ore laid per bolt. The upper two want imports from up to four planets.
• The quality chain starts at the drill: an ore patch carries no quality, but quality modules make quality fulgorite, which recycles into quality holmium ore.
• The price that never shows up in a recipe: every bolt a mast 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 Mining — this mod. A Fulgural Lodemast grounds lightning into the soil around it and fuses fulgorite ore into the ground, which a Big Mining Drill hauls out.

Fulgorite Harvesting — a Fulgural Tower plants fulgorite nodules across a field, grows them on grounded lightning and harvests them. Carries quality from the planted nodule onwards, and is 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 Harvesting as its source.

Recommended alongside

Storm Ionizer — a lightning collector that fires charges into the cloud deck and calls lightning down on demand, day or night. A mast lays ore exactly as fast as bolts come down, so one ionizer nearby fills a field in a fraction of the time.

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 the quality off your drills 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).