Rubber

Rubber is a material that has multiple purposes in creating machinery, and also as a basic fuel. Rubber comes in three main forms, unprocessed, processed and liquid. For IndustrialCraft players, this is where GTCE rubber differs.

Unprocessed
Unprocessed rubber (just called rubber) is an item obtained from Rubber Trees. Unlike in IC, however, the only current method to extract rubber from rubber trees is to cut them down, where it is dropped alongside the tree's logs in quantities of 1-2, with an average of 1.625 per log (128 logs harvested, 208 rubber dropped during testing). Logs cannot be replaced to be cut down for more rubber, but the logs can be processed in several machines for additional rubber or resources.

Uses

 * Fuel (burns 1 item)
 * Torches (3 torches for 1 stick and 1 rubber)
 * Coated Circuit Boards

Liquid
Liquid rubber is produced by running rubber through a process that takes 2 steps, disregarding the process to obtain the needed sulfur.
 * 1) Use an Extractor or Centrifuge to produce 3 Raw Rubber Pulp from 1 Rubber (Centrifuge is faster, uses less energy and produces glue, with a chance for plant balls).
 * 2) Process 9 RWP and 1 Sulfur Dust in a Chemical Reactor.

Uses

 * Insulating Wires into Cables (see Wires & Cables)
 * Turned into Rubber Ingots or Plates in Fluid Solidifier

Processed
Processed Rubber functions like most materials, being able to be formed into several items, namely "ingots" (bars), and "plates" (sheets).

Uses

 * Rubber bars can be used to create a Rubber Soft Hammer
 * Rubber sheets can be used to create Conveyor Modules, crucial components in Assembling and Cutting Machines, (Un)Packagers, Chemical Baths and Electromagnetic Separators