Mega Oil Cracker

The Mega Oil Cracker (MOC) is an LuV tier multiblock for mass cracking hydrocarbons into lighter fractions. The MOC is a direct upgrade from the Oil Cracking Unit because it offers 256 parallels, supports multi-amp and laser energy hatches for serious overclocking, and provides a 10% energy discount (multiplicative) for every heating coil tier. The MOC also has unlimited tier skips which means the voltage tier of recipes is irrelevant as long as enough power is provided. Expect to have only a few of these in the late game because they scale so well. The MOC is primarily used for cracking naquadah, cracking radox, and producing nefarious oil for the Netherite Line.

The MOC is very particular about the location of its buses/hatches. The input hatch for the hydrocarbon replaces one of the 3x3 casings on one end of the structure, the input hatch for the cracking fluid (atomic separation catalyst or silver plasma) replaces one of the 3x3 casings on the top of the structure, and the output hatch replaces one of the 3x3 casings on the other end of the structure. The remaining buses/hatches may replace any reinforced distillation casing anywhere on the structure. The heating coils provide a 10% energy discount per tier (multiplicative) and the glass limits the tier of the energy hatch. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are supported for serious overclocking, but the latter requires at least UV tier glass. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure with subchannels "glass" and "coil" to specify the tier of those components.

Structure

• Controller: Front bottom center
• 162 Any Tiered Glass (Tiered)
• 145-151 Naquadah Reinforced Distillation Casing
• 84 Clean Stainless Steel Machine Casing
• 77 Heating Coil (Tiered)
• 14 Naquadah Sheetmetal
• 9 Steel Pipe Casing
• 1+ Energy Hatch: Any reinforced distillation casing
• 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any reinforced distillation casing
• 0+ Input Bus: Any reinforced distillation casing
• 2 Input Hatch: Any middle casing (cracking fluid), any side casing (hydrocarbon)
• 1 Output Hatch: Any side casing opposite the hydrocarbon

The MOC is a direct upgrade from the Oil Cracking Unit because it offers 256 parallels, supports multi-amp and laser energy hatches for serious overclocking, and provides a 10% energy discount (multiplicative) for every heating coil tier, as seen in the following table. The MOC also has unlimited tier skips which means the voltage tier of recipes is irrelevant as long as enough power is provided. For example, a 256A LuV laser target hatch can run UEV recipes.

The Mega Oil Cracker can crack fluids with either steam or hydrogen, but also at different levels depending on the programmed circuit in the controller or input bus (1=light, 2=moderate, 3=severe). The only difference is the fractions that are produced from distilling the cracked fluid in a Distillation Tower, Dangote Distillus, or Mega Distillation Tower; one cracking method might produce more of a particular compound than another cracking method. To help the player decide, the following tables list all the outputs for each hydrocarbon with the highest ones highlighted yellow.

The cracking method/level has NO effect on the power consumption of the hydrocarbons; all recipes are the same length and voltage tier. The only exceptions are the naquadah fuels which take longer for higher cracking levels.

The following list summarizes the top sources for the most important resources.

• Best Naphtha - Lightly hydro-cracked light fuel (800L) and moderately hydro-cracked heavy fuel (400L).
• Best Toluene - Severely steam-cracked heavy fuel (80L) and moderately steam-cracked light fuel (50L).
• Best Butadiene - Lightly steam-cracked naphtha (150L) and moderately steam-cracked light fuel (75L).
• Best Butene - Lightly hydro-cracked butadiene (667L) and moderately steam-cracked light fuel (90L).
• Best Propane - Moderately hydro-cracked naphtha (1,100L) and moderately hydro-cracked light fuel (1,100L).
• Best Propene - Lightly steam-cracked butene (750L), lightly steam-cracked butadiene (750L), and moderately steam-cracked naphtha (400L).
• Best Ethylene - Moderately steam-cracked butene (1,300L), moderately steam-cracked butadiene (1,125L), and severely steam-cracked naphtha (500L).
• Best Methane - Severely hydro-cracked propane (3,000L) and severely hydro-cracked propene (3,000L).