Silicon

Silicon is a material added by Reb's Mod. It is extremely versatile, and can be used to make a line of 3 axes, pickaxes, hammers, and wings, as well as 5 weapons in each weapon class. As of 0.6.3, there is a set of furniture that can be crafted from silicon.

Obtaining Silicon
When you enter a world that hasn't had silicon generated yet, a prompt will appear in the chat logs telling you how to obtain the Silicon Generator, the item used to generate silicon. To obtain the Silicon Generator, you must craft it from 1 stone at an anvil. This will generate Silicon Ore throughout your world. You will also obtain the Silicon Failsafe, which can be used to force the game generate silicon in case something goes wrong and the flag used to tell if silicon has been generated was erroneously set to true.

Uses of Silicon
Silicon has many uses, most notably of which is crafting weapons.

Several weapons can be crafted from silicon, adding up to 25 total (30 if bullets are counted). There are 5 weapons for each weapon class, each one being progressively better than the previous one.

Here is a list of weapons for each class, in order of progression descending.

Melee: Ranged: Magic: Summon: Thrown:
 * Transistor
 * Microprocessor
 * Error 404
 * Floating Point Exception
 * Integer Overflow
 * Resistor
 * Heatsink
 * Oscillator
 * Raytracer
 * Superconductor
 * Capacitor
 * Fuseblower
 * Generator
 * Power Surge
 * Electromagnetic Pulse
 * Opcode
 * Motherboard
 * Decryptor
 * Breakpoint
 * Null Terminator
 * Diode
 * Relay
 * Transformer
 * Electric Current
 * Short Circuit

Trivia

 * Silicon is based of the real-world metal of the same name. This is also where it's technological theme comes from, as real silicon is used heavily in electronics.
 * A sword called the Supercomputer was originally the most powerful silicon item, but it was removed in 0.6.3 for several reasons.
 * Silicon is the largest group of items in Reb's Mod both in terms of item count and progression. There are a total of 76 silicon-related items, and silicon progression spans from pre-boss to post-Moon Lord.

History

 * 0.6.3 - All original silicon weapons resprited, Supercomputer no longer obtainable, silicon furniture added.
 * 0.6.1 - Silicon summon and thrown weapons added.
 * 0.5 - Silicon added. Melee, ranged, and magic weapons added. Supercomputer added.