Carbon Ceramic
Carbon Ceramic is the dense storage block of the Ala Industrial coal chain: four Ceramic Plates packed into one cube that unpacks back into plates without loss.
Description
One Carbon Ceramic block costs a full stack of coal: 64 coal is milled in the Macerator (19,200 EU), pressed into four carbon rods in the Compressor (1,040 EU), forged into Double Carbon Rods with the Forge Hammer, fired with slag into a briquette in the Alloy Smelter (1,200 EU) and split into four plates in a quench press built from water and a piston — 21,440 EU in total, with milling paying about 90 percent. Before Carbon Ceramic, coal in Ala Industrial served only as generator fuel; after it, any coal stockpile can be poured into walls and compact storage. A 5×5×3 reactor-room wall takes about twenty Carbon Ceramic blocks — twenty stacks of coal.
Block properties
| Item ID |
alaindustrial:carbon_ceramic
|
|---|---|
| /give command |
/give @p alaindustrial:carbon_ceramic
|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Best tool | Pickaxe |
| Hardness | 4 |
| Blast resistance | 30 |
| Java Edition | 26.2 |
Java Edition Guide
How to use Carbon Ceramic in Ala Industrial
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1
Craft the block from plates
Place four Ceramic Plates in a 2×2 square on a crafting table to assemble one Carbon Ceramic block.
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2
Mine it with any pickaxe
Break Carbon Ceramic with any pickaxe: the block sets no tool-tier gate and always drops itself.
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3
Unpack the block back into plates
Craft one Carbon Ceramic block alone on the crafting table; the shapeless recipe returns four Ceramic Plates without loss.
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4
Build a blast-resistant wall
Place Carbon Ceramic as wall material: blast resistance 30 equals the Reactor Casing figure, and a 5×5×3 reactor room needs about twenty blocks.
Poor, common or rich slag only decides how much slag one briquette takes — 4, 2 or 1 pieces — while one Carbon Ceramic block always costs one stack of 64 coal. Sorting junk in the Recycler pays off here.
How to craft this block
Ceramic Plate
x4
Used in crafts
Frequently asked questions
How much coal does one Carbon Ceramic block cost?
One stack of 64 coal per block. The chain through the Macerator, the Compressor and the Alloy Smelter spends 21,440 EU in total, and milling alone pays about 90 percent of that.
Does Carbon Ceramic resist explosions?
Yes. Carbon Ceramic carries blast resistance 30 — the same value as the Reactor Casing of a reactor room — so the block works as a protective wall material.
Which pickaxe breaks Carbon Ceramic?
Any pickaxe works. Carbon Ceramic sets no tool-tier gate and always drops itself, like a plain material block.
Where do Ceramic Plates come from?
A quench press built from water and a piston splits one carbon briquette into four Ceramic Plates; the Alloy Smelter fires the briquette with slag from the Recycler. No crafting recipe for the plates exists — unpacking the block is the only other source.
Is Carbon Ceramic available on Bedrock?
No. Ala Industrial exists only for the Java Edition of Minecraft 26.2, so Bedrock Edition has no version of Carbon Ceramic.
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