Guide: Schrabidium Creation

Schrabidium can be created in several ways, listed below.

Radiation Bombardment of Uranium Ore
When uranium or nether uranium ore is exposed to the intense radiation and pressure of a nuclear blast, it is converted into Schrabidium at high efficiency (within ore). However, normal nukes are too expensive and destructive to be of use in this function, something smaller will be needed.

The cheapest way is to set off nuclear waste barrels (which can be crafted or found in the Desert Atom structure) with TNT. High-Yield Mini Nukes can also be used. The ore must be placed outside of the destruction zone but not too far that they are not affected by the fallout. You can block the destruction wave using a concrete "bowl" too if you wish, this will also prevent environmental damage.

There is a 1/100 chance the ore will transmutate, if it fails, it becomes "Scorched (Nether/Schist) Uranium ore", which cannot be reused in Schrabidium production, but fortunately the Uranium can be extracted just fine for other methods. If baby mode is enabled, scorched ore can be "washed" with water and reused.

Pros and Cons:
+ Fairly easy to achieve

+ Radioactive waste barrels easy to obtain

- Pointless after gaining your first Schrabidium ore

- Extremely low chance to trigger transmutation

- Ores cannot be reused

- Least efficient method by far

- Requires a lot of ore and only ore

Schrabidium Transmutation Device
A more compact and less destructive method is to simulate the environment of a nuclear explosion in a specialized machine. It takes 5 MHE to transmutate one unenriched uranium ingot into "Schraranium" (read about it on its own page). Downside is that it requires some Schrabidium to begin with, as it uses 1 Magnetized Tungsten ingot in its recipe. For more information, read about it on its own page.

Pros and Cons:
+ Non-destructive.

+ Mostly only takes power.

+ Takes regular natural Uranium as input.

+ Somewhat easy to automate.

- Requires some Schrabidium to begin.

- Slow

- Lengthy time to enrich Schraranium.

Schrabidium Dynosynthesis
Similar to the Transmutator, chemical production of Schrabidium is less destructive. It takes 3 charged Desh dynospheres, 8 clay catalysts, and 1 uranium ingot to produce 1 Schrabidium ingot, 50mb of Poisonous Mud, and the material that made the Desh dynospheres.

Advantages are that it directly produces Schrabidium and small amounts of mud, downsides are that it requires a lot of time and it consumes a lot of catalyst materials in the form of clay, iron, copper, and redstone.



Pros and Cons:
+ Produces pure Schrabidium ingots.

+ Will consume less power overall compared to the Transmutator.

! Produces mud.

- Takes long time

- Requires a fair amount of Desh.

- Catalysts get consumed.

- Consumes a lot of Steel, Copper, and Redstone in the long run.

Particle Acceleration
The 4th way of producing Schrabidium is through a Cyclotron, no surprise. However, it can only produce Schrabidium nuggets by bombarding Ionized particles with Plutonium. This means that you'll have to run a Fusion Reactor for a while to just get small amounts of Schrabidium.

Pros and Cons:
+ Gives pure Schrabidium.

+ Gives a lot of Antimatter byproduct

! Requires a Fusion Reactor.

- Requires a lot of ionized particles to get any significant amount of Schrabidium.

- Requires a lot of fusion fuel to be consumed by extension.

- Little purpose for actual Schrabidium production.

- Likely to consume more power than the Schrabidium will give.

Higgs Boson from a Particle Accelerator
The final way to produce Schrabidium is to use a Higgs Boson particle produced from a Hadron-type Particle Accelerator. This method is extremely simple, however, it requires massive amounts of work prior.

Simply surround 8 natural unenriched Uranium ingots around a Higgs Boson capsule to produce 8 Schrabidium ingots.

Pros and Cons:
+ Extremely simple.

+ Makes a lot of Schrabidium from simple Uranium.

- Schrabidium will probably have to be either used in as DFC fuel or a non-power production method for it to be worth the effort.

- Requires a powerful Particle Accelerator.

- Requires gargantuan amounts of resources to construct the Hadron.

- Requires ludicrous amounts of power to run the Hadron even for 1 operation.