Commonly used acronyms and nicknames

Being an exceptionally technology and magic-heavy modpack, GTNH comes with a large variety of items and materials with long names that earn themselves various acronyms and nicknames, especially on the Discord server.

This is intended to be a non-comprehensive list of known acronyms and nicknames for various things in the modpack.

Please help to add new acronyms as they come into common use.

A


 * ABS: Alloy Blast Smelter, a GT++ multiblock that can smelt materials directly into liquids.
 * AE / AE2: Applied Energistics, a logistics mod capable of executing on-demand autocrafting. Available from EV onwards. Also known as ME.
 * A2: GT++ - a multiblock mod scheduled to be updated
 * ARR: All rights reserved. A mod license that prevents others from changing or fixing it.
 * Assline: Assembly Line, the multiblock machine that gates progress from IV into LuV.



B


 * BBF: Bricked Blast Furnace, the starter-tier multiblock needed to smelt your first steel.
 * BC: Buildcraft (e.g. bc tank = buildcraft tank)
 * BLS: Better Loading Screen, a mod to make your loading screen real pretty. Disabling may speed up load times.
 * BM: Blood Magic, a magic mod involving sacrifice gated behind Thaumcraft
 * BQ: Better Questing, the mod that gives the questbook system.
 * BW: Bartworks, a mod.



C


 * CA: Circuit Assembler. An assembler dedicated to making circuits, needed for higher tier circuits.
 * CAL: Circuit Assembly Line. LuV-tier multiblock machine needed to craft very high-tier circuits efficiently.
 * CBD: Cetane-Boosted Diesel. 2nd highest energy density of the combustion engine fuels and a T1-T2 rocket fuel.
 * CBT: Crop and Bee Torture. How it’ll feel when you’re twenty five hours into breeding and realize you missed a step.
 * CP: ExxonMobil Chemical Plant, a GT++ multiblock used to make some interesting recipes.



D


 * DT: Distillation Tower. HV multiblock for processing oil and other fluids



E


 * EHE: Extreme Heat Exchanger, a multiblock machine capable of making steam or SH steam
 * EBF: Electric Blast Furnace. Essential multiblock machine needed for smelting of materials
 * EU/T: Energy Units per Tick
 * EV: Extreme Voltage. T4 in the quest book, and associated with Mars
 * EIO: EnderIO, a mod with numerous utility functions.



F


 * FE: Fluid Extractor. Converts materials into their liquid forms. Hot liquid may be produced, handle with care!
 * Fluid nuke: Fluid Reactors, IC2 Nuclear Reactor multiblocks that generate hot coolant instead of EU directly. Requires significant infrastructure to fully extract their power, but offers decent sub-LuV power generation.
 * FS: Fluid Solidifier. Converts liquids into their solid forms, usually requires a suitable mold or programmed circuit.



G


 * GC: Galacticraft. The mod that provides planets and such.
 * GT: Gregtech. The mod that has all the machines.
 * GT++: Gregtech Plus Plus: A mod that adds multi blocks. Scheduled to be updated.
 * GTNH: Gregtech New Horizons. Really, you should already know this one.
 * GS: GalaxySpace



H


 * HBM: Horrible Bad Mod. Won’t be added (actually Hbm's Nuclear Tech Mod)
 * HOG: high-octane gasoline, the most energy dense combustion engine fuel.
 * HP: high pressure, usually used in the context of a large HP steam turbine or HP steam machines.
 * HV: High Voltage. T3 in the quest book, and associated with cleanrooms and the Moon



I


 * IC / IC2: Industrial Craft 2
 * ICO: Industrial Coke Oven. GT++ multi that is (mostly) an upgrade for the Pyrolyse Oven.
 * IV: Insane Voltage. T5 in the quest book



J


 * JEI: Just Enough Items



K



L


 * LCE: Large Combustion Engine. EV-tier multiblock generator running off combustible fuels.
 * LCR: Large Chemical Reactor. Multiblock machine capable of running chemical reactor recipes without fluid cells.
 * LESU: Lapotronic Energy Storage Unit. Some say don’t build it.
 * LEG: Large Essentia Generator, a multiblock power generator that converts your essentia to EU.
 * LGT: Large Gas Turbine. HV-tier multiblock generator running off gas-turbine fuels
 * LHE: Large Heat Exchanger. EV-tier multiblock machine capable of making steam or SH steam in ludicrous amounts when adequately supplied with either lava or hot coolant. Commonly coupled to either Everburn urns or fluid nukes.
 * LP: Logistics Pipes
 * LSC: Lapotronic Super Capacitor. The alternative to the PSS for very large centralized power storage.
 * LuV: ludicrous voltage, T6 in the questbook
 * LV: low voltage, T1 in the questbook
 * LDP: Long Distance Pipeline, can come in two variations listed below. Either subtype requires chunkloading of the start and end, and only accomodates 1 input and 1 output.
 * LDFP: Long Distance Fluid Pipeline for fluid transfer.
 * LDIP: Long distance item pipeline for item transfer.



M


 * MAX: Maximum voltage, T15, highest voltage tier
 * MBM: multiblock miner. Can either refer to the ODPs or to the Void Miners, but more commonly the latter.
 * MBF: Mega Blast Furnace. Proper name for the MEBF.
 * MDT: Mega Distillation Tower, a massively upsized version of the Distillation Tower.
 * ME: matter-energy, usually used in the context of a ME network, made using AE2 parts.
 * MEBF: Mega Electric Blast Furnace, a massively upsized version of the Electric Blast Furnace that can run up to 256 recipes in parallel.
 * MF: Multifarm, the forestry multiblock used for farming trees, crops, etc.
 * MF: multifarm, commonly referring to the Forestry Farm multiblock structure.
 * MT: Molecular Transformer, a machine that turns energy into things that will get nerfed eventually.
 * MVF: Mega Vacuum Freezer, a massively upsized version of the Vacuum Freezer.
 * MV: medium voltage, T2 in the questbook



N


 * Naq: Naquadah, mid-late game material. Also, a stargate shoutout.
 * NEI: Not Enough Items



O


 * OC: Overclocking or OpenComputers, depending on the context. For overclock x/y would be ratio of speed to power, 2/4 double speed, quad power, 4/4 quad both = perfect
 * ODP: Ore Drilling Plant. Comes in 4 tiers and available from EV onwards. Automatically crushes mined ores and gives a (tier-dependent) bonus to small ores.
 * OpV: Overpowered voltage, T14, second highest voltage tier
 * Ori: Oriharukon, an IV-tier material found on Phobos used mainly for tools and turbines.



P


 * PA: Processing Array. Multiblock machine capable of running up to 64 identical single-block machines as if placed in the world
 * PBI: polybenzimidazole. High-tier plastic.
 * PBF: Primitive Blast Furnace, aka the BBF.
 * PE: polyethylene. Low-tier plastic. Also known as poly
 * Platline: Platinum processing line, a long series of processing steps (and therefore, machines) needed to extract all the platinum-group metals from PMPD.
 * PLE: Precision Laser Engraver. Essential machine for circuit crafting
 * PMPD: platinum metallic powder dust, the starting material for the platinum processing line
 * PPS: polyphenylene sulfide. Mid-tier plastic needed to cheaply coat high-tier cables.
 * PR: ProjectRed
 * PSS: Power Sub-station, a GT++ multiblock providing very large centralized power storage.
 * PTFE, teflon: polytetrafluoroethylene. Mid-tier plastic.
 * PVC: polyvinylchloride. Mid-tier plastic.



Q



R


 * RC: RailCraft, a mod that adds rail-related stuff. The most important part from this mod is the iron/steel multiblock tanks.



S


 * SBDR, SB rubber: styrene-butadiene rubber. Plastic needed to coat cables at higher tiers. Not the best choice but relatively cheap.
 * SFM: Steve’s factory manager
 * SH steam: Superheated steam. Created with a LHE and converted into regular steam and power using a large HP steam turbine multiblock and an appropriate turbine item.
 * SR: silicone rubber. Plastic needed to coat cables at higher tiers. A better choice for cable coating.



T


 * T: Tier. Often used in power equations.
 * TC: Thaumcraft (magic mod) or Tinker’s Construct - usually the first unless directly referring to tools or the smeltry.
 * TE: Tile Entity. See WA.
 * TF: twilight forest, an alternate dimension and one of the first dimensions players can access
 * TH: Thaumic Horizons, a magic mod expanding Thaumcraft.
 * THTR: Thorium High Temperature Reactor
 * TGS: Tree Growth Simulator, grows wood and saplings from EU and an input tool
 * TiC / TiCon: Tinker's Construct, mainly used for the tools and various materials.
 * TT: Tool Tip, TecTech, or Thaumic Tinkerer depending on context. Nobody says Tool Tip that way other than Prometheus though.



U


 * UCFE: Universal Chemical Fuel Engine, a multiblock power generator that accepts gases like diesel, benzene and rocket fuel.
 * UV: ultimate voltage. T8 in the questbook. Not actually the highest voltage tier, however.
 * UEV: Extremely Ultimate voltage, T10
 * UHV: Highly Ultimate voltage, T9 in the questbook.
 * UIV: Insanely Ultimate voltage, T11. From this point onwards, more and more items don't have recipes.
 * ULV: Ultra Low voltage, lowest voltage tier. Not a proper voltage tier (does not overclock to LV).
 * UMV: Mega Ultimate voltage, T12
 * UXV: Extended Mega Ultimate voltage, T13



V


 * VF: Vacuum Freezer. Multiblock machine needed to cool hot things (mostly hot ingots, occasionally plasma cells) and chill cool things (compressed air -> liquid air)



W


 * WA: World Accelerator (TE mode - tile entity mode for the WA)
 * WCT: Wireless Crafting Terminal
 * WG: Witching Gadgets, a mod.



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Y



Z


 * ZPM: Zero-point Module voltage, T7 in the questbook