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

• AE: Applied Energistics, a logistics mod capable of executing on-demand autocrafting. Available from EV onwards
• Assline: Ass(embly) 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)

C

• 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.

D

• DT: distillation tower. HV multiblock for processing oil and other fluids

E

• EBF: electric blast furnace. Essential multiblock machine needed for smelting of materials
• EV: extreme voltage, T4 in the questbook

F

G

H

• HOG: high-octane gasoline, the most energy dense combustion engine fuel.
• HV: high voltage, T3 in the questbook

I

• IV: insane voltage, T5 in the questbook

J

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.
• LGT: large gas turbine. HV-tier multiblock generator running off gas-turbine fuels
• LuV: ludicrous voltage, T6 in the questbook
• LV: low voltage, T1 in the questbook

M

• MV: medium voltage, T2 in the questbook

N

• NEI: Not Enough Items

O

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.
• PE: polyethylene. Low-tier plastic.
• Platline: Platinum processing line, a long series of processing steps (and therefore, machines) needed to extract all the platinum-group metals from PMPD.
• PMPD: platinum metallic powder dust, the starting material for the platinum processing line
• PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene, aka: teflon. Mid-tier plastic.
• PVC: polyvinylchloride. Mid-tier plastic.

Q

R

S

• SBDR: styrene-butadiene rubber. Plastic needed to coat cables at higher tiers. Not the best choice but relatively cheap.
• SR: silicone rubber. Plastic needed to coat cables at higher tiers. A better choice for cable coating.

T

• TC: Thaumcraft (magic mod) or Tinker’s Construct - usually the first unless directly referring to tools or the smeltry.

U

• UV: ultimate voltage, T8 in the questbook. Not actually the highest voltage tier, however.

V

W

X

Y

Z

• ZPM: zero-point module voltage, T7 in the questbook