Bedrock Breaker

The Bedrock Breaker is a machine from RotaryCraft. It is used to break Bedrock blocks into Bedrock Dust for use in Bedrock Alloy Ingots and components.

Usage
The Bedrock Breaker must be placed at the level of the Bedrock it is to mine. It will then consume a large amount of power to slowly break down Bedrock blocks into Bedrock dust. It will target one block at a time, out to a maximum range of 4 blocks, and will destroy any non-Bedrock blocks in its range. It cannot break Bedrock at Y=0 or Y=255, so it cannot break holes through to the Void below Bedrock or above the Nether. However, as it cannot break Bedrock at Y=0, mods that flatten Bedrock to only generate at Y=0 will render the Bedrock Breaker effectively nonfunctional (and significantly impact the RotaryCraft tech tree).

The Bedrock Breaker does not break Bedrock blocks all at once. Every time the Bedrock Breaker completes an operation, 1/16th of a Bedrock block will be broken away. Bedrock blocks partially mined like this will become Bedrock Slices, and when broken for the 16th time they will be removed from the world. Each time a Bedrock block or Bedrock Slice is broken, the Bedrock Breaker will place Bedrock Dust in its inventory. By default, 2 Bedrock Dust will be generated, however the configuration setting I:"Difficulty Control" can change this. If I:"Difficulty Control"=1, 3 Bedrock Dust is produced per operation. If I:"Difficulty Control"=3, 1 Bedrock Dust is produced per operation.

As with many RotaryCraft machines, the Bedrock Breaker operates more quickly when given higher speeds.

At absolute minimum speed (1 Rad/s), a Bedrock Breaker requires 28.5 seconds (570 ticks) to grind away a slice of Bedrock. At its minimum Torque and Power (8192 Nm, 2,097,152W, therefore 256 Rad/s), a Bedrock Breaker requires 17.95 seconds (359 ticks) to grind away a slice of Bedrock. In layman's terms, every time the input speed is doubled, the processing time decreases by 1.5 seconds. A speed of 1,030,562 (rounded up to 2^20, 1,048,576) Rad/s is required to operate a Bedrock breaker at maximum speed, 1 tick per operation. However, attaining this maximum speed requires 8,589,934,592W Power (8.59GW) and so therefore attempting to run a Bedrock Breaker at such a speed is not recommended as it is extremely difficult to do, and would require a mass amount of engines in a small area, which could cause lag to both server and client.