Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We’re back in Atomcraft, and I’m now thinking about chemical reactions and factory designs even when I’m not playing.
In Episode 5, I experiment with match filters, conveyors and increasingly complicated machinery while trying to process vanadinite into vanadium. After recycling carbon monoxide back into usable carbon, I finally gather the materials needed to unlock a much faster jetpack.
Unfortunately, making vanadium carbide steel becomes another matter entirely. Despite having molten steel, vanadium carbide and more than enough heat, the reaction refuses to work and it takes discovering an underground laboratory for me to finally understand what I was doing wrong.
Along the way, I accidentally fly into space, discover oxygen, mine an absurd amount of gold, meet another stranded character and finish by refining pentlandite into molten nickel.
Atomcraft continues to look simple while secretly demanding an engineering and chemistry degree.
Let me know which moment made you laugh the most and whether you spotted the problem with my vanadium carbide steel setup before I did!
Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more Atomcraft, factory building, chemistry and questionable engineering.
We’re back in Atomcraft, and I’m now thinking about chemical reactions and factory designs even when I’m not playing.
In Episode 5, I experiment with match filters, conveyors and increasingly complicated machinery while trying to process vanadinite into vanadium. After recycling carbon monoxide back into usable carbon, I finally gather the materials needed to unlock a much faster jetpack.
Unfortunately, making vanadium carbide steel becomes another matter entirely. Despite having molten steel, vanadium carbide and more than enough heat, the reaction refuses to work and it takes discovering an underground laboratory for me to finally understand what I was doing wrong.
Along the way, I accidentally fly into space, discover oxygen, mine an absurd amount of gold, meet another stranded character and finish by refining pentlandite into molten nickel.
Atomcraft continues to look simple while secretly demanding an engineering and chemistry degree.
Let me know which moment made you laugh the most and whether you spotted the problem with my vanadium carbide steel setup before I did!
Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more Atomcraft, factory building, chemistry and questionable engineering.
