Desh

Desh is an alloy made up of 9 Rare Earth Metals to make its blend form, which is solidified and refined using ~~Hydrogen Peroxide~~ Mercury and Light Oil in the Chemical Plant. It’s a fictional material that is almost unbreakable, one of the reasons why it’s used in the Arc Furnace as electrodes. Desh has very high blast-resistance, heat-resistance, and corrosion-resistance, overall excellent material. It has a deep red color and it is very stable. It emits no radiation or particles whatsoever.

Its unrefined blend form can be acquired from Asteroid Mining Ships.

## Production

Desh blend must be refined and processed in a Chemical Plant with Mercury and Light Oil.

Desh blend itself is acquired from Rare Earth Ore, which must either be Centrifuged or Crystallized and then Centrifuged to get the best results. If you don't have the Silk Touch enchantment, then the fragments dropped must be shredded and then crafted into the blend. Since Desh blend is just a collection of Rare Earth Metals, it can be artificially made using a Cyclotron.

### Composition Breakdown

* 2 parts Boron
* 2 parts Lanthanum
* Lithium
* Cobalt
* Neodymium
* Cerium
* Niobium
* Some Mercury

*For more information on the components themselves, see Rare Earth Elements.*

## Uses

Its ingot and compound plate forms are what are primarily used, but its powder and unrefined blend form can also be used.

It is used to make tools. While the tools don't have a harvest level any higher than iron, they have the advantage of being completely unbreakable. These tools can then be upgraded into Schrabidium tools which gives them numerous abilities, at the cost of them being no longer indestructible.

It is used in various mid-late game machines to make them much tougher. One missile fuselage can even be plated in Desh to increase its HP.

Unrefined Desh blend has 2 uses: the Desh Dynosphere and a Radiation Absorber upgrade.

Compound plates with Schrabidium nuggets can be used to upgrade a CMB Steel shredder blade into an indestructible Desh one.

It is used for High-Performance Circuit production.

It is used to make unbreakable desh stamps for use in Presses.

It is used to make unbreakable shredder blades for use in the Shredder.

### Compound Plate Recipe

Desh cannot be stamped, so it has to be made into a compound plate instead in one of the Anvils:

* 2 Desh Ingots
* 2 Polymer Powder
* 1 High-Speed Steel Ingot

(Produces 4)

## Trivia

* It has a small indentation in the middle of its ingot texture.
* It's made of real materials, but it itself is not real.
	+ There are some rare earth metal alloys that have various uses, but they do not share many of the same properties.
* Its block form sort of looks like a barrier block.
* Its block form's name is "Reinforced Block of Desh", which is odd, as there is no non-reinforced Desh block.
* There is a Desh nugget in the mod, but it is not fully implemented yet as it has no crafting recipe or any uses.
* It is not radioactive whatsoever, which is interesting considering one of its primary component elements is Actinium, which is highly radioactive.
* Desh is possibly a reference to the *Star Wars* material. That type of Desh is also added by *GalactiCraft*. It can also be a reference to the Le Verrier space station in *Doctor Who* which is made of a *red material (Aka Desh)*.
	+ Since Desh in GalactiCraft is fairly easy to obtain, it used to be possible to "cheese" past NTM Desh processing thanks to OreDictionary, but NTM Desh's OreDict registry was changed to maintain its place in progression.
* Desh is incredibly hard and overall durable, which is interesting because several of its components are actually rather soft.
* ~~It was implied by Bob (mod creator) that the major Actinium component is actually a type of catalyst and is somehow removed (and presumably destroyed) in the refinement process.~~
	+ ~~This may account for why Desh is not radioactive.~~
	+ ~~This leads to questions as to what happens to the Actinium.~~
	+ Actinium is no longer a component of Desh.