Power vs Spark Question (for a Boundless Pro to answer)

Just like speeding up crafting time, the spark reduction depends on the power cost of recipes.

For recipes that require no power at all, you’ll get the best bang for your buck with up to 14 advanced coils (I often split the coils from a fully powered machine to a second machine, 12 12, when doing large batches of unpowered crafting), then you get into heavy diminishing returns (in some cases to the point of not even showing in the crafting menu). After 16 advanced coils you’ve hit the cap of reduction for recipes that don’t require power.

The reduction is not a flat rate, its non-linear, and has diminishing returns.
Thus the first coil will offer the greatest benefit.

Let’s say we’re using mass crafts of Refined Titanium Alloy with Advanced Refinery Power Coils as an example:

Adv. Coils Time Spark
0 50m 20000
1 38m18s 15323
2 34m50s 13938
3 32m1s 12809
4 29m45s 11902
5 27m58s 11187
6 26m35s 10633
7 25m32s 10216
8 24m46s 9909
9 24m13s 9693
10 23m51s 9546
11 23m37s 9452
12 23m29s 9397
13 23m25s 9368
14 23m23s 9355
15 23m22s 9351
16 23m22s 9350
17 23m22s 9350
18 23m22s 9350
24 23m22s 9350

Edit: And of course, you can only have a maximum of 24 coils hooked up to a single machine.

The first coil offers a reduction to both crafting time and spark of about 23.4%. Second one is a reduction of 9.05% and it goes down from there.

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