IsaMill Grinding Machine

The IsaMill Grinding Machine (IGM) is an LuV tier multiblock for grinding ores into fine powder through comminution. The ores may be in a block, raw, or crushed state to be turned into milled ore. Afterwards, they are passed to the Flotation Cell Regulator for further processing. The IGM requires at least one milling ball inside the ball housing to run. There are two types of milling balls and both slowly degrade with each use. Always enable batch mode to increase their longevity. The IGM scales better than other machines due to its perfect overclocks.

Construction

The IGM has no tiered components. Buses/hatches may replace any casing anywhere on the structure, except the 8 piping blocks surrounding the controller. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure.

Structure

Controller: Front center, 2nd layer
40-43 IsaMill Exterior Casing
8 IsaMill Piping
5 IsaMill Gearbox
1 Ball Housing: Any casing
1+ Energy Hatch: Any casing
1 Maintenance Hatch: Any casing
1 Muffler Hatch: Any casing
1+ Input Bus: Any casing
1+ Output Bus: Any casing

Wallsharing

IGMs may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings and buses/hatches. No recipe uses more than 1A of power so it is possible to share one energy hatch between two machines.

Usage

The IGM is exclusively used to produce milled ores, an intermediary product used by the Flotation Cell Regulator to create metal froths. The froths are then smelted in a vacuum furnace or Utupu-Tanuri to produce rare metal dusts. The following table lists the different types of milled ores and their final products. Milled sphalerite is highly valuable for indium dust, milled monazite is highly valuable for lanthanum/lutetium dust, and milled netherrack is mandatory in the Netherite Line.

Milled Ore	Final Products (Per 16 Stacks of Milled Ore)
Pyrope	110 Magnesium Dust, 70 Manganese Dust, 60 Borax Dust, 20 Rhenium Dust
Chalcopyrite	180 Copper Dust, 120 Iron Dust, 50 Cadmium Dust, 10 Indium Dust
Nickel	150 Nickel Dust, 120 Cobalt Dust, 32 Rhodium Dust, 16 Ruthenium Dust
Redstone	300 Redstone Dust, 60 Chrome Dust, 45 Firestone Dust, 16 Dysprosium Dust
Sphalerite	180 Zinc Dust, 120 Iron Dust, 64 Indium Dust, 15 Germanium Dust
Platinum	128 Platinum Metallic Powder, 60 Rhodium Dust, 40 Selenium Dust, 10 Tellurium Dust
Pentlandite	150 Iron Dust, 100 Nickel Dust, 20 Platinum Dust, 10 Hafnium Dust
Spessartine	150 Manganese Dust, 90 Aluminium Dust, 30 Osmium Dust, 20 Strontium Dust
Grossular	180 Calcium Dust,110 Aluminium Dust, 60 Tungsten Dust, 15 Thallium Dust
Almandine	150 Aluminium Dust, 75 Magnesium Dust, 25 Yttrium Dust, 15 Ytterbium Dust
Monazite	64 Erbium Dust, 32 Lanthanum Dust, 16 Lutetium Dust, 8 Europium Dust
Netherrack	256 Sulfur Dust, 55 Antimony Dust, 40 Certus Quartz Dust, 40 Nether Quartz Dust, 32 Ardite Dust, 32 Cobalt Dust

The IGM requires at least one milling ball inside the ball housing to process any ores. The only two types of milling balls are listed below. They both have a limited durability and stack up to 16 inside the ball housing. They are guaranteed to lose 1 durability with each iteration regardless of the number of ores processed. Therefore, it is highly recommended to enable batch mode and increase the tier of the energy hatch as much as possible to minimize damage.

Soapstone - 50 Durability
Alumina - 100 Durability

Trivia

Milled Netherrack is the only milled ore that does not require potassium ethyl xanthate dust in the Flotation Cell Regulator.
The IGM can alternatively be used as a mob farm since it damages all entities in front of it while running, including the player.