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Dimensional Matter Assembler

The Dimensional Matter Assembler (DMA) is the first advanced machine in UFO Future. It is still the entry point for high-end crafting, but it now sits at the start of a larger multiblock progression instead of trying to carry every extreme-scale recipe by itself.

Core Behavior

  • Shapeless 9-slot item crafting
  • Optional recipe fluid input
  • Dedicated coolant tank for heat management
  • Catalyst upgrades for speed, efficiency, stability and advanced output behavior
  • AE2-powered operation

The DMA is best seen as the flexible single-block machine for early and mid progression, recipe prototyping and lower-scale automation.

Tank Separation

The DMA has two distinct fluid responsibilities:

  • Base fluid tank: consumed only when the recipe explicitly asks for a fluid input
  • Coolant tank: used only to remove heat from the machine

Coolants are not supposed to appear in the normal recipe fluid input for DMA processing. They belong in the coolant system.

Coolant Progression

The intended coolant ladder is:

  1. Gelid Cryotheum for early setups
  2. Stable Coolant for sustained mid-to-late automation
  3. Temporal Fluid for extreme endgame workloads

This progression matters now because the higher-performance setups are balanced around moving past Gelid Cryotheum instead of treating it as a forever solution.

Heat and Failure

The DMA generates heat while active and cools down only slowly when idle. The machine moves through three thermal states:

  • Safe zone below 50%
  • Hazard zone above 50%, with warning effects and nearby damage
  • Meltdown at 100%, followed by a countdown and destructive failure if cooling does not recover

If you stack aggressive catalyst combinations without upgrading coolant quality, the DMA will eventually punish that decision.

Where DMA Ends and Multiblocks Begin

Very large endgame jobs are no longer meant to be solved by inflating the DMA into a million-stack singleblock. That role is now covered by the universal multiblock line:

This keeps the DMA useful without forcing it to become the answer to every industrial-scale problem.

Recipe JSON Format

DMA recipes still use the ufo:dimensional_assembly type.

The exact recipe schema and scripting examples are documented on the KubeJS Recipes page. This guide focuses on machine behavior and progression, while the KubeJS page remains the reference for the raw JSON fields.