Automati

Automati 1.9.0 — The Erg Jar Update

Energy storage arrives — and every machine GUI got a facelift.

Added

• Erg Jar — Automati's battery. Stores 320,000 E (exactly five lumps of coal through a generator), charging and discharging at 80 E/t. Ergs flow in through the iron electrode and out through the copper terminal on the opposite face — click any face with the Engineer's Wrench to move the terminal there. Charge pips on the sides glow brighter as it fills, so a wall of jars reads like a dashboard.

• Ash Block — press 9 ash into a block (and break it back apart). Finally, a use for your generator's waste: ash is the old-world source of potash lye, so it serves as the alkaline electrolyte between the Erg Jar's iron and copper electrodes — a genuine galvanic pair. Recipe: 6 Factory Casings around a copper ingot, ash block, and iron ingot — the jar's own cross-section.

Changed

• GUI overhaul: vanilla-style rounded borders on all five machines, with a pair of small embossed gears in the title bar for that workshop feel. Load Bank and Erg Jar readouts now glow goggles-green on dark instrument plaques. Machine names are centered, like vanilla's furnace.

• The Engineer's Wrench now has a tooltip explaining both of its jobs.

Notes

• The Erg Jar is a buffer, not a generator — it stores surplus and covers outages; it doesn't create Ergs.

• Wiring a jar's output back into its own electrode is a short circuit. It hurts nothing, but your goggles will judge you.