Power of Compression

⚡What is Power of Compression ?

Many mods add the ability to compress blocks, but the common issue is that these compressed blocks often serve no purpose beyond decoration. Power of Compression is a mod that takes the concept of block compression further by allowing each compressed block to be smelted in a generator to produce energy (RF). There are different levels of compression, ranging from T1 → T7.

📘 WIKI – Explanations

🔩 List of Compressible Blocks :

• Cobblestone : T1 → T7 ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎  ‎ ‎ • Netherrack   : T1 → T7
• Dirt        : T1 → T7 ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎   ‎ ‎ • Coal Block   : T1 → T4
• Gravel      : T1 → T7 ‎ ‎  ‎ ‎ ‎    ‎ • Iron Block   : T1 → T4
• Sand        : T1 → T7 ‎ ‎ ‎  ‎ ‎   ‎‎ ‎ • Copper Block : T1 → T4

More blocks may be added in the future…

🛠️ TECH Machines

The mod adds two main machines, each with multiple tiers :

1. Compressors‎    

Takes the required number of base blocks as input to perform a compression. There are 4 types of compressors, each handling different tiers of blocks:

1. Compressor T1: Generates T1 blocks
2. Compressor T2: Generates T2-T3 blocks
3. Compressor T3: Generates T4-T5 blocks
4. Compressor T4: Generates T6-T7 blocks

All compressors consume the same base amount of RF: 5 RF/Tick. Compressors can accept 3 types of upgrades, each one increasing the compression speed while proportionally increasing the RF/Tick cost:

- No Upgrade   : 4s              | 5 RF/Tick
- Upgrade Lvl 1: 2.5s  (-37.5%)  | 8 RF/Tick
- Upgrade Lvl 2: 1.25s (-68.75%) | 16 RF/Tick
- Upgrade Lvl 3: 0.25s (-93.75%) | 80 RF/Tick

⚠️ Note: The total RF cost per operation is always 400 RF, regardless of the upgrade used.

2. Generators

Consumes a compressed block and generates RF depending on both the Tier and material of the block. Naturally, a cobblestone block will generate less RF than a gold block.

There are 3 types of generators, each handling different tiers:

1. Generator T1: Handles T1 blocks
2. Generator T2: Handles T2-T3 blocks
3. Generator T3: Handles T4-T5 blocks
4. Generator T4: Handles T6-T7 blocks

The higher the tier of the block, the more RF it generates — though it also takes more resources to create due to compression.

🔴 IMPORTANT : Each tier (and each block type) has a multiplication coefficient that increases the RF generation progressively. This means that a single T2 compressed block (crafted from 9 T1 blocks) will generate more RF than 9 individual T1 compressed blocks.

The RF generation of each compressed block is calculated using the following formula:

Production cost × Multiplier coefficient

📊 Example :

We will use the cobblestone block for this example.

Compressed cobblestone multiplier coefficient :

• Cobblestone T1 : × 2,5 ‎ |‎ ‎ ‎• Cobblestone T2 : × 2,583 ‎ |‎ ‎ •‎ Cobblestone T3 : × 2,69

• Cobblestone T4 : × 3 ‎ |‎ ‎‎ • Cobblestone T5 : × 4 ‎ |‎ ‎ •‎ Cobblestone T6 : × 7

• Cobblestone T7 : × 10

If we calculate it :

• 1 Generator with 9 T1 blocks → 9 × 400 × 2.5 = 9000 RF

• 1 Generator with 1 T2 block → 3600 × 2.583 = 9300 RF

📦 Block Quantity per Tier :

• T1 : 9 blocks
• T2 : 81 blocks (9×T1)
• T3 : 729 blocks (9×T2)
• T4 : 6,561 blocks (9×T3)
• T5 : 59,049 blocks (9×T4)
• T6 : 34,012,224 blocks (9×64×T5)
• T7 : 19,591,041,024 blocks (9×64×T6)

💡 For resource blocks like iron, copper, etc., you must consider the ingot-to-block ratio.

For example, to make 1 iron block, you need 9 iron ingots, so :

• A T1 Iron Block = 9 iron blocks = 81 iron ingots
• A T4 Iron Block = 6,561 iron blocks = 59,049 iron ingots, which is equivalent to a T5 in ingot terms.

❌ Tiers 6–7 for ores: These high tiers are not available for resource blocks (like coal, iron, copper, etc.) due to their extreme size and because it would introduce an unnecessary number of new blocks to the mod.