How to Make Hex Heat Storage in Minecraft

Hex Heat Storage is the largest of the three Coolant Cell sizes in Industrial Craft 2: the reactor component stores up to 60000 heat, six times the 10000 heat of the basic Heat Storage and double the 30000 of Tri Heat Storage. The recipe arranges two Tri Heat Storage in the top and bottom center of a crafting grid, one Iron in the middle cell, and Tin in the remaining six cells. Tri Heat Storage itself comes from three Heat Storage packed between two full rows of Tin, so every size crafts into the next larger one. Inside the Nuclear Reactor, Hex Heat Storage works purely as a heat buffer: the component collects heat from neighboring Uranium, never dissipates heat on its own, and releases stored heat only through an adjacent Heat Exchanger. A fully heated Hex Heat Storage is destroyed, like most other reactor components.

Outside the reactor, Hex Heat Storage is the top-tier ingredient for Overclockers: three Hex Heat Storage in the top row plus Copper Cable, a Circuit and another Copper Cable across the middle row yield 12 Overclockers in a single crafting operation, against 6 from Tri Heat Storage and 2 from Heat Storage. Overclockers shorten the operating time of machines at the price of higher power demand. The official IC2 wiki lists the three sizes as the 10k, 30k and 60k Coolant Cells, and the 60k entries match the Hex Heat Storage recipes exactly. Players who run hot reactor designs or mass-produce Overclockers get the most out of Hex Heat Storage.