Circuits

Focusing on the tech-area of the mod, circuits are perhaps one of the most important items. They are used in a multitude of stuff, ranging from useful items, tools, and machines, to weapons of mass destruction.

Almost all machines or items that requires calculations or other computer "thinking" will probably use at least one circuit or circuit board. This can range from basic electronic components and transformers in the first tier, to advanced calculation and supercomputer-like processing power for endgame machines.

Production
All circuit types are made using a lower tier circuit. A Basic Circuit is made by pressing a Basic Circuit Assembly using a Press and any of the Circuit Stamps. Alternatively once you have an Assembly Machine (which requires a Basic Circuit to craft), you can use it to assemble the Basic Circuit Assembly. Once the basic circuit is made, it can be upgraded into a higher tier circuit, and so on. This makes late-tier circuits even more expensive as they require all of the previous tier circuits. It is worth noting that you can downgrade a circuit to the next lower tier by smelting it, however this wastes all of the components used for upgrading to that tier.

Alternatively, if you feel like there's too much effort in making circuits, lots of different circuits or circuit boards can be found in structures, though they are usually low to mid-tier and are only there for early game progression assistance.

Military Grade Circuit Boards can be turned back into the 2 respective circuits required to craft it using any crafting grid. However, you lose the powder required to craft the military grade circuit board.

All circuits except the basic one follow the template of 4 items:


 * 1 previous tiered circuit


 * 1 base plate


 * 4 wires

Keep this in mind when reading ahead about the circuits.
 * 1 powder

Uses
Circuits are used in almost all machines and generators considered complex and require computer processing of varying degrees. They are used in various tools like Terra Drills, Electric Tools, Geiger Counters, Survey Scanners, designators, and much more. They are used in weapons and even very high-tech bombs.

Circuits can be made into (military grade) circuit boards by putting two horizontally surrounding a powder (the type needed to craft it, eg Tier 1 is redstone and Tier 4 is lapis lazuli).

Circuit Assembly
Can be made with 1x Aluminium Wire, 1x Redstone, and a Steel Plate in a crafting table, very cheap. Not technically a circuit in itself.

Basic Circuit
The most basic circuit. Required to make the Assembly Machine for further progression. Can be made by pressing a circuit assembly or in an assembly machine. Only useful for the simplest machines and items.

Enhanced Circuit
Used in many basic machines like the Electric Press, the Nuclear Reactor, Siren, etc. Required to make the Chemical Plant for further progression. Can be made by upgrading a basic circuit with Copper wiring, Quartz Powder (presumably for silicon), and a Copper Plate. Most mid-tier items and devices will use these.

Advanced Circuit
Used a lot in machine components, weapons, and tools. Is also rather expensive due to the amount of gold it requires. Required to make the Chemical Plant and Oil Refinery. Can be made by upgrading an enhanced circuit with Red Copper wiring, Gold Powder, and an Insulator. Very frequently used circuit in devices in both mid and late-tier. It is probably the most commonly used circuit in recipes.

Overclocked Circuit
Used in a lot of mid to late-game machines like the Radar, the Schrabidium Transmutation Device, the large nuclear reactor's control core, the Ore Acidizer, as well as some high-tier nukes. Can be made by upgrading and advanced circuit with 400mb of Hydrogen Peroxide, 200mb of Petroleum Gas, Gold wiring, Lapis Lazuli powder, and a Polymer Bar. Devices that use this typically lean on the high-tech side.

Note that this and the next recipe is made using the Chemical Plant and not the Assembly Machine.

High-Performance Circuit
The most expensive circuit requiring Schrabidium to make. Only used in a lot of endgame machines and components. Can be made by upgrading an overclocked circuit in the Chemical Plant with 800mb of Hydrogen Peroxide, 200mb of Mercury, Schrabidium wiring, Diamond powder, and a Desh Ingot. Used in only the most advanced and high-tech machines and devices.

Tier 6 Circuit Board
An upgrade on the High-Performance Circuit board (Tier 5), it takes 1 Spark blend and a PotatOS. It has only a few uses: the Xenium Resonator satellite, B92 Energy Pistol, Schrabidic Terra Miner, and the DNT 1 & 20Hz transformers. This may be prone to change in future versions of the mod.

Versatile and Adaptable Chipset
(Not related to the main line)

Made from the rare element Bismuth and Arsenic respectfully, they are used for a few highly specialized purposes, namely the control cores for the Fusion Reactor, Fusionary Watz Plant, and even Dark Fusion Core. Once the assembly is crafted, it must be stamped in the same way as basic circuit assemblies.

Crafting:

Trivia

 * Circuits are known internally by their wiring (eg the basic circuit is circuit_aluminium and the overclocked circuit is circuit_gold). The assembly circuit is referred to as circuit_raw.
 * Circuit boards are known internally as tiered targeting circuits (eg circuit_targeting_tier2).
 * All circuit boards follow the same color scheme as their normal circuit form (eg enhanced circuit is green with dark red wiring and the tier 2 circuit is the same) except the High-Performance circuit. The High-Performance circuit is black with cyan blue wiring whereas the tier 5 circuit board is yellow with black/dark grey wiring.
 * Curiously, there is a tier 6 circuit board only used in the most endgame components, but no regular tier 6 circuit.
 * In some versions, the Advanced circuit has a spelling error and becomes "Advanved Circuit"
 * Interestingly, in terms of raw materials (excluding the previous circuit tier), the overclocked circuit is (almost) less expensive than the advanced ones.
 * The unused textures are mentioned in the Scrapped Features page.