Quartz is the mid-game ore behind silica, circuit boards, and glass. Automating it unlocks the electronics tier.
Why this matters
Once you need circuit boards, hand-mined quartz runs dry fast. A quartz line keeps electronics supplied.
Step-by-step
- Find a quartz node and check its purity.
- Place a miner and belt the raw quartz out.
- Set up constructors to refine quartz into silica.
- Feed silica into your electronics lines.
- Belt a share of raw quartz to storage.
- Scale the line as circuit board demand grows.
- Overclock the miner if quartz runs short.
Tips
- Pure quartz nodes feed far more constructors
- Store raw quartz for glass needs
- Overclock miners before constructors
- Feed silica into circuit boards next
Practical notes
Quartz demand jumps the moment circuit boards come online, so build the quartz line before the electronics line that eats it. Pure nodes feed several constructors from one miner, which makes node purity the first thing to check.
Keep raw quartz flowing to storage as well, because glass and silica recipes draw from the same node. Overclock the miner rather than the constructors when output runs short, since the miner is the slower link.
One quartz node can feed the whole electronics tier when the constructors are balanced.
Store raw quartz for glass, because the electronics line will want every bit of silica.
Common mistakes
- Under-feeding the constructors
- Mining a depleted node
- No storage buffer for raw quartz
- Forgetting glass also needs quartz