The later stages of Satisfactory are simultaneously the most organized stages, and the most chaotic. There is so much going on at the same time, and you’ve likely set up so many different systems that are all working in tandem with one another, that you can be forgiven for not immediately understanding how each new item is made.
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One of the items you’ll be making a bit of in the final stage of Satisfactory are Time Crystals. These are used in a few different endgame recipes that you’ll have to make, but the process of actually making Time Crystals has a few different steps involved, along with certain prerequisites.
How To Make Coal Into Diamonds
Once you’ve set up some Coal production, the next step in making Time Crystals is going to be making that Coal into Diamonds. These Diamonds are going to be what’s made into Time Crystals, so you’ll need them on hand to begin.
You will be unable to make Diamonds in the Particle Accelerator until you unlock the Matter Conversion Milestone in Tier 8 of the HUB.
How To Make Diamonds In A Particle Accelerator
Making Diamonds is not a terribly complicated process, but it does require getting to Tier 9 in the HUB. But to start, once in Tier 8, you’ll need to unlock the Particle Accelerator, which is part of unlocking the Particle Enrichment Milestone.
The Particle Accelerator uses quite a bit of energy, and the energy that it uses is variable, depending on the recipe it’s working on, and how far along it is in the process. You’ll need a substantial power grid in order to make this work, but the Nuclear Power Milestone, also in Tier 8, should be helpful with that.
In the Particle Accelerator, it is going to take 20 Coal in order to make one Diamond, at a rate of 30 Diamonds per minute, or one Diamond every two seconds. This is going to use a range of 250MW up to 750MW.
Alternate Diamond Recipes
There are alternative recipes for making Diamonds in a Particle Accelerator, too.
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Recipe |
Result |
|---|---|
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12 Coal + 24 Limestone |
Cloudy Diamond |
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10 Crude Oil |
Oil-Based Diamond |
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24 Petroleum Coke |
Petroleum Diamond |
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30 Coal + 2 Packaged Turbofuel |
Turbo Diamonds |
How To Make Diamonds Into Time Crystals
Once you’ve got the Diamonds you’re looking to make into Time Crystals, you’ll need to create your Converter, found in the Matter Conversion Milestone of Tier 9 in the HUB, alongside Diamonds and Time Crystals.
If you’re looking to upgrade your Coal production, this Milestone can help in that regard, too. The SAM scannable resource and the crafted Reanimated SAM are found in this Milestone, and they are both ingredients for creating Coal in a Converter, too. This can help increase your Coal production tremendously, and is particularly helpful if you’re looking to make large quantities of Diamonds/Time Crystals.
How To Use Your Converter To Make Time Crystals
At the Converter, Diamonds can be made into Time Crystals at a ratio of 2:1 for Diamonds:Time Crystals. Each process will take ten seconds. There are no alternative recipes for making Time Crystals, though two Diamonds of any kind will work.
What Are Time Crystals Used For?
Time Crystals are used in three different recipes.
All of these are crafted in a Particle Accelerator.
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Recipe |
Result |
|---|---|
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2 Time Crystals + 2 Dark Matter Crystals + 12 Quartz Crystals + 12 Excited Photonic Matter |
1 Power Shard + 12 Dark Matter Residue |
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5 Time Crystals + 1 Supercomputer + 15 Ficsite Trigon + 25 Excited Photonic Matter |
1 Neural-Quantum Processor + 25 Dark Matter Residue |
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1 Time Crystal + 5 Dark Matter Residue |
2 Dark Matter Crystals |
