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
• A2: GT++ - a multiblock mod scheduled to be replaced
• 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.
• BM: Blood Magic, a mod
• BQ: Better Questing, the mod that gives the questbook system.
• BW: Bartworks, a mod.

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.
• 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

• EBF: electric blast furnace. Essential multiblock machine needed for smelting of materials
• EU/T: energy units per tick
• EV: extreme voltage, T4 in the questbook
• 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!
• FS: fluid solidifier. Converts liquids into their solid forms, usually requires a suitable mold or programmed circuit.

G

• GTNH: Gregtech New Horizons. Really, you should already know this one.
• GS: GalaxySpace

H

• HBM: horrible bad mod. Won’t be added.
• 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 questbook

I

• IC / IC2: Industrial Craft 2
• IV: insane voltage, T5 in the questbook

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• LDFP: Long distance fluid pipeline, fluid transfer option that allows for long distance fluid transfer while only requiring chunkloading of the start and end. Only one input and one output.
• LDIP: Long distance item pipeline, item transfer option that allows for long distance item transfer while only requiring chunkloading of the start and end. Only one input and one output.

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.
• 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.
• MVF: mega vacuum freezer, a massively upsized version of the Vacuum Freezer.
• MDT: mega distillation tower, a massively upsized version of the Distillation Tower.
• 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
• ODP: ore drilling plant. Comes in 4 tiers and available from EV onwards. Automatically crushes the mined 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.
• PSS: power sub-station, a GT++ multiblock providing very large centralized power storage.
• PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene, aka: teflon. 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: 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

• TC: Thaumcraft (magic mod) or Tinker’s Construct - usually the first unless directly referring to tools or the smeltry.
• TF: twilight forest, an alternate dimension and one of the first dimensions players can access
• TH: Thaumic Horizons, a mod.
• TiC / TiCon: Tinker's Construct, mainly used for the tools and various materials.
• TT: TecTech or Thaumic Tinkerer depending on context.

U

• 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 (hot ingots, plasma cells) and chill cool things (compressed air -> liquid air)

W

• WA: world accelerator.
• WG: Witching Gadgets, a mod.

X

Y

Z

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