Erchius Converter

"Converts erchius energy into a more potent fuel"

The Erchius Converter can be found in Precursor Dungeon. Used to turn most ship fuels into superior Precursor Quantum Fluid and the latter into Ancient Essence. Be aware that there is also a Faulty version that produces Bags of Farts instead of Quantum Fluid.

Tips
Poison, as found on Toxic Ocean planets, can be a viable way to obtain limitless amounts of Precursor Quantum Fluid. If you place Poison in a centrifuge, one of the resulting ingredients is Toxic Waste, which in turn can be placed in a centrifuge to extract Uranium Ore from. Forge the resulting Ore into Rods and you'll have fuel to convert. Given that poison is an easily obtained resource, this means you have easy access to Uranium for this device.

On the Other side you could make a factory that produce endless essentia obscura (even in a simple ocean planet you can make a factory with pumps to turn water into poison, poison into organic soup and organic soup into essentia obscura) Centrifuging the essentia obscura will give great amount of plutonium to convert into ancient essence. The rest of the fluid can be used to power reactors and the organic soup made before can be used to water crops AND act as fertilizer.

Other Info
ItemID: precursorconverter

This item is tagged under "precursor" for colony building.