Resonance Calibrator

The Resonance Calibrator turns ordinary plates, gears, coils, casings, and circuits into calibrated components. Stage 3 and higher RNGTech machines need calibrated components in their crafting recipes, so the Calibrator is the gate between early and mid-game progression. Any machine, including ones from other mods, can make the raw parts, but only the Calibrator can calibrate them.

Each calibrated component records a family, a stage, a stability score from 0 to 100, and sometimes Refinement Potential. Recipes that use it can demand a minimum of each. Like every RNGTech machine, each Calibrator rolls its own rarity and affixes and levels up through Machine Mastery.

You can read a Calibrator from the outside. The installed Resonance Coil is the wound ring at the front, in the coil's metal; with no coil you see only the empty saddle. The input waits on the pin in the middle of the ring. While the Calibrator works, the input turns, the ring glows teal, and the lens behind it shines a beam onto the input. The ring flashes when a calibration finishes, and the component drops into the tray at the front. A multi-lane chassis has one smaller ring per lane, and each pin holds an input when the cycle has enough to fill that lane. The monitor on top shows the selected pattern behind glass on the left. The scope on the right draws a waveform that sweeps across as the cycle runs, steadier the higher the stability range. The bar beside it shows the range, and a white mark shows the last roll. With the Harmonist's Resonant Streak, gold pips under the scope fill as your streak builds. The Control Board stands in a bay on the right side of the cabinet as you face it, with LEDs that blink while it works. The Stabilizer Matrix floats between two prongs on the right of the front, and the Battery Cell stands on the left with its charge meter. The cable port is on the back. The Nullite chassis adds a fine vernier ring with alignment ticks around its coil.

Obtaining

Crafting

Each chassis has its own recipe, and none of them use up an older Calibrator, so a well-rolled early chassis stays useful. Steel and higher chassis need calibrated components of a given family, stage, and stability, shown in the Notes column.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Iron Resonance Calibrator Chassis Iron Ingot + Energy Coil + Basic Electric Circuit + Furnace Machine Chassis + Redstone Dust
Copper Resonance Calibrator Chassis Copper Ingot + Copper Resonance Coil + Basic Electric Circuit + Machine Frame
Steel Resonance Calibrator Chassis Steel Ingot + Calibrated Structural Component + Steel Control Board + Reinforced Machine Frame + Steel Resonance Coil + Calibrated Logic Component		Calibrated Structural Component must be a Structural calibration, Stage 1+, stability 55+. Calibrated Logic Component must be a Logic calibration, Stage 2+, stability 55+. Requires the Steel material to be enabled.
Titanium Resonance Calibrator Chassis Titanium Ingot + Calibrated Structural Component + Titanium Control Board + Advanced Machine Frame + Titanium Resonance Coil + Calibrated Conductive Component		Calibrated Structural Component must be a Structural calibration, Stage 2+, stability 70+. Calibrated Conductive Component must be a Conductive calibration, Stage 2+, stability 70+. Requires the Titanium material to be enabled.
Lead Resonance Calibrator Chassis Lead Ingot + Calibrated Structural Component + Calibrated Storage Component + Iron Stabilizer Matrix + Reinforced Machine Frame		Calibrated Structural Component must be a Structural calibration, Stage 1+, stability 45+. Calibrated Storage Component must be a Storage calibration, Stage 2+, stability 45+. Requires the Lead material to be enabled.
Tungstensteel Resonance Calibrator Chassis Tungstensteel Ingot + Calibrated Structural Component + Tungstensteel Stabilizer Matrix + Exotic Machine Frame + Tungstensteel Resonance Coil + Calibrated Diamond Crystal		Calibrated Structural Component must be a Structural calibration, Stage 3+, stability 85+. Calibrated Diamond Crystal must be a Logic calibration, Stage 6+, stability 85+. Requires the Tungstensteel material to be enabled.
Nullite Resonance Calibrator Chassis Nullite Ingot + Calibrated Conductive Component + Nullite Control Board + Exotic Machine Frame + Nullite Resonance Coil + Calibrated Diamond Crystal		Calibrated Conductive Component must be a Conductive calibration, Stage 2+, stability 85+. Calibrated Diamond Crystal must be a Logic calibration, Stage 6+, stability 85+. Requires the Nullite material to be enabled.

Breaking

Mine a placed Resonance Calibrator with a pickaxe. It drops itself and keeps its rolled traits, Mastery progress, and ascendancy.

Usage

Calibrating

1. Install a Resonance Coil and a Control Board on the Gear tab.
2. Put the reusable Calibration Patterns in the Gear tab's pattern slots and select the one for the family you want.
3. On the Process tab, put in the raw input, its catalyst, and the recipe stabilizer if the recipe uses one.
4. Supply FE.

Each job uses the input and the catalyst. The stabilizer is used up when a recipe has one. Patterns are never used up. The output's stability is rolled within the recipe's range; your Control Board, Stabilizer Matrix, and the chassis improve the roll.

A recipe runs only if both the chassis stage and the installed Resonance Coil's stage reach the recipe's required stage. When a recipe lists no required stage, it needs the stage of its output.

If a component rolls too low for the recipe you need, put it in a Component Recycler to get its raw input back and try again. You lose the catalyst, the stabilizer, and the Refinement Potential. Calibrated Conductive Components always recycle into a Copper Coil, even ones made from a Sparksteel Coil.

Only the Sparksteel Coil and Calibrated Diamond Crystal recipes can give Super Output. Every other recipe makes exactly one component per job, so calibrating and recycling never gains you items.

Annealed circuits

An Annealed Basic Electric Circuit, pressed under Hydrogen in a Metal Press with Bright Anneal, calibrates with lucky stability. The Calibrator rolls stability twice within the recipe's range, after your Gear's adjustments, and keeps the higher roll. The Harmonist's Second Pass, if you have it, applies after that. On the plain Basic circuit recipe (35–75 stability), the chance of reaching 55 or more for an Advanced blank goes from about 51% to about 76%.

Annealed and plain circuits do not stack, so a multi-lane cycle is either all Annealed or all plain.

Calibration families

There are six patterns, one per family: Structural Calibration Pattern, Kinetic Calibration Pattern, Thermal Calibration Pattern, Conductive Calibration Pattern, Storage Calibration Pattern, and Logic Calibration Pattern. The Logic family also makes the Calibrated Diamond Crystal, a Stage 6 crystal needed for the Stage 7 chassis and late Stabilizer Matrices. The Kinetic family also makes the Cavitation Rotor Hub from a Steel Casing, a Stage 5 hub every Cavitation Rotor needs. Its stability, from 20% to 80%, decides which rotors it can build and pushes the rotor's resonance higher.

The Stage 5 Kinetic recipe from a Sparksteel Gear rolls a low, wide stability range on purpose. The Volatile Catalyst needs one between 20% and 35%, which a well-built Calibrator overshoots.

Several families have a "resonant" recipe that adds a Matrix and a Stabilization Catalyst. It needs Stage 4 reach and gives a higher and tighter stability range, for recipes that demand well-calibrated parts.

Stages

Stage	Chassis	Lanes	Notes
1	Iron Resonance Calibrator Chassis	1	First Calibrator. Reaches the Stage 2 parts needed for Steel.
2	Copper Resonance Calibrator Chassis	1	Optional faster sidegrade with weaker stability.
4	Steel Resonance Calibrator Chassis	1	Slower but more stable.
4	Lead Resonance Calibrator Chassis	2	Two-lane bulk sidegrade with lower precision.
6	Titanium Resonance Calibrator Chassis	1	Precision chassis with better speed, stability, and Refinement Potential.
7	Tungstensteel Resonance Calibrator Chassis	3	Three-lane late-game bulk branch.
7	Nullite Resonance Calibrator Chassis	1	Late-game precision branch with the best quality and Refinement Potential.

A multi-lane chassis calibrates that many copies of the input per cycle, each paying its own FE. A cycle runs only as many copies as the input, catalyst, and stabilizer stacks allow. All copies from one cycle share the same stability and Refinement Potential roll.

Gear

The Gear tab has:

• one Resonance Coil slot (required). The coil's stage sets which recipes you can reach and improves quality.
• one Control Board slot (required). Improves precision, stability, and Refinement Potential outcomes.
• one Stabilizer Matrix slot (optional). Raises the stability floor and can save catalysts.
• one Battery Cell slot (optional). Without a cell, the Calibrator keeps only a small internal buffer and runs slower with lower quality.
• six Calibration Pattern slots, one per family, with one selected as active.

Coils, Control Boards, and Stabilizer Matrices come in Iron, Copper, Steel, Titanium, Tungstensteel, and Nullite.

Automation

Side	Behavior
Top and sides	Insert into the input, catalyst, and stabilizer slots. Each slot accepts only items a calibration recipe uses there.
Bottom	Extracts finished components.
Any	Accepts FE, for example from a Universal Cable.

Gear and pattern slots are not reachable by automation.

With JEI installed, recipes are listed under Resonance Calibration. Recipe transfer puts the pattern into the selected pattern slot if it is empty or already holds that pattern, otherwise into a slot holding it or the first empty one.

Mastery and Ascendancies

Each completed calibration earns Mastery XP; higher-stage recipes earn more. Multi-lane chassis earn XP for every job in a cycle. Calibrators start from the Control start of the shared Machine Mastery tree, which they share with the Metal Press. They choose between the Harmonist, which rewards long runs of the same family with a rising stability floor, and the Mass Tuner, which makes multi-lane chassis cheaper to run. See Resonance Calibrator ascendancies.

Extra components from Super Output earn no XP. Changing your Mastery allocation restarts the current calibration, but keeps your items and patterns.

Calibration recipes

The Resonance Calibrator uses the rngtech:calibration recipe type. Hover an output for its stage, stability range, and Refinement Potential range. A blank Min. stage means the recipe needs its output's stage.

Input		Output	Time	Energy	Min. stage	Mastery XP
	→		7.5 s	1,100 FE		3
	→		15 s	4,600 FE	4	5
	→		18 s	7,200 FE	4	6
	→		18 s	7,200 FE	5	6
	→		7 s	1,000 FE		2
	→		14 s	4,200 FE	4	5
	→		18 s	7,200 FE	4	6
	→		10 s	1,600 FE	1	2
	→		24 s	60,000 FE		8
	→		18 s	5,600 FE	4	5
	→		9.5 s	1,500 FE		3
	→		17 s	5,200 FE	4	5
	→		8 s	1,200 FE		2
	→		11 s	2,200 FE	2	3
	→		16 s	5,200 FE	4	5
	→		8.5 s	1,300 FE	1	2
	→		16 s	5,000 FE	4	5

Ascendancy trees

Every node in this machine's ascendancies. See Machine Mastery for how Seals and points work.

Harmonist

Node	Type	After	Effect
Resonant Streak	Root	—	+1 Streak Floor; +10 Streak Cap.
Held Note	Small	Resonant Streak	+2 Streak Cap.
Sustained Tone	Notable	Held Note	+8 Streak Cap.
Long Note	Small	Sustained Tone	+2 Streak Cap.
Master Harmonic	Deep notable	Long Note	30% less Processing Speed. At the full streak, every 8th calibration comes out at exactly 100 stability.
Quiet Coil	Small	Resonant Streak	5% reduced Energy Use.
Second Pass	Notable	Quiet Coil	A calibration under 40 stability is re-run once, paying FE and a catalyst again but not the input.
Soft Reset	Small	Second Pass	5% reduced Energy Use.
Pattern Memory	Deep notable	Soft Reset	The streak survives one pattern or family change, and breaking the machine.
Clean Line	Small	Resonant Streak	8% increased Stability.
Clear Signal	Notable	Clean Line	At the full streak, the stability ceiling rises by 5.
Quick Ear	Small	Resonant Streak	8% increased Processing Speed.
Perfect Pitch	Notable	Quick Ear	20% increased Calibration Precision.

Mass Tuner

Node	Type	After	Effect
Shared Field	Root	—	One catalyst per cycle however large the batch; the stability ceiling drops by 10.
Brisk Field	Small	Shared Field	8% increased Processing Speed.
Stabilizer Economy	Notable	Brisk Field	Recipe stabilizers are consumed every other cycle.
Tight Field	Small	Shared Field	8% increased Calibration Precision.
Lane Sync	Notable	Tight Field	15% more Processing Speed while a cycle calibrates more than one item.
Focused Array	Small	Lane Sync	8% increased Calibration Precision.
Resonance Array	Deep notable	Focused Array	100% increased Batch Size. The stability ceiling drops by another 15.
Lean Field	Small	Shared Field	5% reduced Energy Use.
Catalytic Surplus	Notable	Lean Field	25% increased Catalyst Efficiency.
Broad Field	Small	Shared Field	8% increased Stability.
Wide Tolerance	Notable	Broad Field	+5 stability floor on a chassis with a base Batch Size above 1.
Steady Reach	Small	Wide Tolerance	8% increased Stability.
Overreach	Deep notable	Steady Reach	+1 Coil Reach; 20% less Calibration Precision.

Screen

The Resonance Calibrator screen has five tabs:

• Process: input, catalyst, stabilizer, and output slots, progress, and energy. Hover the progress bar for time remaining and expected items per minute with your Gear and Mastery applied (chance bonuses such as Super Output are not counted). With the Harmonist's Resonant Streak, the progress tooltip shows your current stability-floor bonus.
• Gear: Resonance Coil, Control Board, Stabilizer Matrix, Battery Cell, and pattern slots.
• Stats: the machine's current stats, including traits, Gear, and Mastery.
• Refinement: refine the placed Calibrator's traits with a catalyst.
• Mastery: machine XP, level, and the passive tree.

Data values

Name	Resource location	Form	Translation key
Iron Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:iron_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.iron_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Copper Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:copper_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.copper_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Steel Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:steel_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.steel_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Titanium Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:titanium_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.titanium_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Lead Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:lead_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.lead_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Tungstensteel Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:tungstensteel_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.tungstensteel_resonance_calibrator_chassis
Nullite Resonance Calibrator Chassis	rngtech:nullite_resonance_calibrator_chassis	Block	block.rngtech.nullite_resonance_calibrator_chassis

See also

• Component Recycler
• Machine Stats

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