Seablock - Geodes and Crystal Dust

[Jan]

Hey,
there are two ways to use geodes, crush them to get stone and crystal dust or skip the crushing step and go directly to slurry with sulfuric acid. As far as I can tell skipping the crushing step gets you more slurry at the cost of more sulfuric acid ? What is better in the long run ?
And is it worth to keep the green crystal slurry for making catalysts and use them fore ore processing? Alternative would be to process every geode to bown slurry as well for normal ore sorting. I think at the end you get more ore via catalyst sorting AND you can better control the ratio of ores you obtain? What do you think ?

[pat]

Should we assume you're using a mod of some sort?

[Nickjet45]

He is using Angel’s mod located inside the Seablock mod pack

[Overeagerdragon]

OP your thought about this is just about right on the money imho.

The green slurry is mainly used for ore controll. If you're using Angel's Smelting you may have noticed you end up with tonnes and TONNES of copper ore and the green slurry allows you to bypass that in favour of getting the ore you want directly.
Brown slurry, on the other hand, is more of a generic catalyst to deal with the vast amounts of slag/rock dust.

This doesn't matter much in the early game but when building a megabase you discover you might only use 1 or 2 copper per 3 or 4 iron. The fact that you produce as much copper as you do iron without slurry processing will lead to vast overstocking of copper and though you could possibly find sinks for that it becomes a hassle to keep up with building those sinks to keep your ore production up uness you want to risk iron production coming to a halt because you can't find ways to dispose of all the copper you get.

P.s. also note that geode processing is the method to convert geodes into gemstones...said gemstones are used to build the higher tiers of modules and/or turrets

[Teh Freek]

Unless you need the stone, liquify the geodes directly; you need 20-60% more geodes to get the same amount of slurry from their dust. And if you have to crush them, avoid crushing blue, red, and purple geodes (yellow: 20%, cyan + lightgreen: 33%, blue + red + purple: 60%).

[blabla]

It all depends on your sulfur. If you have enough sulfur/waste water you can just use geodes directly. otherwise crush them. I crush them all because geodes are easy to get and sulfur is not

[Name Lips]

In Seablock there are no ore patches. You get all your ore from crystalizing sludge.

Geodes are actually a more efficient way of getting your ore than making slag at electrolyzers and then melting it into sludge. Electrolyzers are just so slow, so big, and so power-hungry that you should shift away from them if you can. Washing plants to make tons of geodes is the way to go.

And I belive crushing them to dust is the right way to go, efficiency-wise. I haven't done the math but that's what Redditers told me to do.

[sketchyd]

Holy moly be careful crushing them directly! I could absorb the sulfur production change no problem. What I wasn't ready for was that the slurry filtration depends on mineral water. Which is made from crushed rocks. Everything is backed up now.