Productive Metalworks guide for All the Mons 0.3.0-beta to 0.6.0-beta
Productive Metalworks guide for All the Mons
Last verified for All the Mons v0.6.0-beta on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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- Sections
- 6
- Recipes shown
- 30
- Items named
- 58
- Quests covered
- 9
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mons 0.6.0-beta's own files.
What is Productive Metalworks?
3 parts
Productive Metalworks is the pack's foundry-and-casting mod. This pack includes version 1.21.1-1.14.0 of it, and it has been in the pack since 0.3.0-beta or earlier.[1]
What it does here
In this pack, Productive Metalworks is paired with Silent Gear. The quest book describes it as taking the best of both worlds between Silent Gear and Tinker's Construct. It changes how you obtain Silent Gear items: instead of Blueprints, you use casts and a Foundry.[2]
The mod is for you if you want a smelt-and-cast workflow for your Silent Gear tools and parts. You start the chain with Fire Clay in the quest "Silent Gear and Productive Metalworks" quest.[2]
How the progression flows
- Build the Foundry. Besides the Controller, Drains and Tanks, you need Liquid Heating Coil for the floor and either Foundry Windows or Fire Bricks for the walls. It needs 4 walls and a floor, and the corners can stay empty. See "Building the Foundry" quest.[2]
- Check that it is complete. The Controller lights up like a Furnace and the Liquid Heating Coils turn orange. If a block is missing, the Controller tells you where.[2]
- Get the metal out. Put a Foundry Tap on a Foundry Drain and place a casting block beneath it. See "Casting Items" quest.[2]
- Cast it. A Casting Basin turns about 900mB of liquid metal into a full metal block. The Casting Table is the block you need for making casts.[2]
Casts in the quest book
The quest chapter has follow-up quests for these casts: Ingot Cast, Nugget Cast, Plate Cast, Rod Cast, Gear Cast and Gem Cast.[2]
Unverified The sources do not show Productive Metalworks on the ATM Star quest path, and no platform metadata is available for the mod.
How do you get started with Productive Metalworks?
4 parts
In this pack, Silent Gear items are not made from Blueprints. Productive Metalworks changes that: you need Casts and a Foundry instead. So your first goal is to build a Foundry, then use it to make Casts. Here is the order I'd go in.[2]
Start with Fire Clay
Everything starts with Fire Clay. It is the task of the first quest, "Silent Gear and Productive Metalworks" quest, and the quest tells you to begin the Foundry with it.[2]
Build the Foundry
The quest "Building the Foundry" quest says the Foundry needs a Controller, Drains and Tanks. It also needs Liquid Heating Coil blocks, which form the floor and heat the Foundry. For the rest of the structure you use either Foundry Windows or Fire Bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any empty bucket | any copper ingot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/liquid_heating_coil
- The Foundry needs 4 walls and a floor. The corners can stay empty.[2]
- The in-game Ponder scene gives the minimum size as 3x3x2, because at least one air block is needed inside the structure. The quest says the inside can be as small as 1x1, but a bigger Foundry has more space in it.[2][3]
- The bottom must be made of Heating Coils. You also need a Foundry Controller, a Foundry Tank and at least one Foundry Drain.[3]
- If a block is missing, the Controller tells you where. When the structure is complete, the Controller lights up like a Furnace and the Heating Coils turn orange.[2]
Get the metal out
You can drop items straight into the Foundry or add them through the Controller GUI, and after some time they turn into liquid. To get the liquid out, place a Foundry Tap on a Drain. Then right-click the tap to extract the liquid.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/foundry_tap
Put a Casting Basin under the tap to turn liquid metal into a full block. The quest says about 900mB of Liquid Metal makes one Metal Block. The basin cools the fluid slowly, and you right-click it to take the item out.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_basin
The Casting Table is what you use to make Casts. The quest "Casting Items" quest covers all three pieces: table, basin and tap.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_table
Make your Casts
Casts replace Blueprints for Silent Gear. The pack has quests for the Ingot Cast, Nugget Cast, Gem Cast, Rod Cast, Plate Cast and Gear Cast. On the Casting Table you add the item by right-clicking with it in hand, then pour liquid over it.[2][3]
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any ingot
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/ingot
This is the unchanged mod recipe.
The pack changed the recipes for the gear, plate and rod Casts, so don't rely on the mod's defaults for those. These are the in-pack versions.[4]
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any gear
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/gear
Changed by the pack.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 360× any molten steel
- any plate
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/plates
Changed by the pack.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 360× any molten steel
- any rod
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/rod
Changed by the pack.
How does Productive Metalworks work?
5 parts
Productive Metalworks is a foundry mod: you melt things into molten metal, mix those fluids into alloys, and cast them back into items and blocks. The recipe types in this pack show the three steps: item melting, fluid alloying, and casting (item casting for things made with a cast, block casting for blocks).[4]
One honest note first: the in-game guide pages for this mod (Obtaining, Building, Structure, Casting and a separate gear chapter) are only available to me as page titles, not as text. So this section sticks to what the block names and the pack's recipes actually show.[5][6]
The foundry blocks
The foundry is built from named parts. The language file lists these block types:[3]
- Foundry Controller, Foundry Tank, Foundry Window, Foundry Drain and Foundry Capacitor, each made in many dye colors (Black, Blue, Brown, Cyan and so on).[3]
- Fire Bricks in the same range of colors.[3]
- Foundry Tap, Casting Table and Casting Basin.[3]
- Heating coils: Powered Heating Coil, High Powered Heating Coil and Liquid Heating Coil.[3]
The recipes show that the colored parts belong together: crafting recipes use tags for fire bricks, foundry capacitors, controllers, drains, tanks and windows.[4]
Fire bricks and the controller
Everything starts with Fire Clay, which turns into Fire Brick in a smelting or a blasting recipe.[4]
Fire bricks can be recolored with dye. For black, one recipe turns a single fire brick into 4 Black Fire Bricks, and the dye recipes accept any fire brick from the mod's tag.[4]
Crafting Shaped
4 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_fire_bricks
Crafting Shaped
| any fire brick | any fire brick | any fire brick |
| any fire brick | any black dye | any fire brick |
| any fire brick | any fire brick | any fire brick |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_fire_bricks_from_dye
Crafting Shapeless
- any fire brick
- any black dye
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_fire_bricks_from_dye_single
The brain of a foundry is the controller. Here is the black one, Black Foundry Controller.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_foundry_controller
The heating coil with a recipe in the sources is the Powered Heating Coil.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/powered_heating_coil
Melting
Melting is the biggest part of the mod's recipes. The dump counts 248 item-melting recipes that take items from common tags and make this mod's fluids, covering 39 different results. A further 34 take vanilla Minecraft items and cover 16 results.[4]
A few examples of how much fluid you get: ancient debris melts into 200 Molten Ancient Debris, and a honeycomb gives 100 honey plus 50 Molten Wax.[4]
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:melting/ancient_debris
The pack changed several melting recipes, so do not assume the mod's defaults. Crushed raw aluminum, the honeycomb recipe, the Oritech copper gem and any nickel clump are all marked as changed by the pack. The recipes below show the exact in-pack amounts of Molten Aluminum, Molten Copper and Molten Nickel.[4]
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:melting/create/crushed_raw_aluminum
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: oritech:compat/productivemetalworks/melting/gem/copper
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
- any nickel clump
Recipe id: oritech:compat/productivemetalworks/melting/clump/nickel
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:melting/honeycomb
Alloying
Alloying mixes fluids directly. The pack's version of the Molten Brass recipe is marked as changed by the pack. It takes 3 parts of a copper fluid and 1 part of a zinc fluid and makes 4 parts of brass. It uses fluid tags rather than fixed fluids, so any copper or zinc fluid that carries the right tag will work.[4]
Fluid Alloying (productivemetalworks)
- 3× any molten copper
- any molten zinc
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:alloying/molten_brass
Casting
Casting turns fluid back into solid things. Block casting makes blocks: the Black Foundry Capacitor is cast from black fire bricks and 1,000 Molten Redstone.[4]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/black_foundry_capacitor
Item casting uses a cast, and the pack changed the recipe for the Gear Cast. The Meat Ingot can be cast with an Ingot Cast or crafted from a Meat Block. Both recipes are shown below.[4]
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any gear
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/gear
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
Ingot Cast
- 90× any meat
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/misc/meat_ingot
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/meat_ingot_from_block
Unverified The sources do not explain the foundry's required shape or size, what each heating coil does or how it is powered, how the Foundry Tap, Drain and Casting Table/Basin move fluid and items, or how to automate it. Check the in-game guide pages on building, structure and casting for those.
How do you progress through Productive Metalworks?
4 parts
The sources show a step-by-step path through the pack's quests rather than numbered tiers. Productive Metalworks changes how you get your Silent Gear items: instead of Blueprints, you need Casts and a Foundry. Here's the order the quests walk you through.[2]
Step 1: Fire Clay
The chapter starts with the quest "Silent Gear and Productive Metalworks" quest, and its task is to get Fire Clay. Everything else in the Foundry builds from there.[2]
Step 2: Build the Foundry
"Building the Foundry" quest comes after the quests for Foundry Drains, the Foundry Controller and Foundry Tanks. It asks for Liquid Heating Coil. The coils make up the floor of the Foundry and heat it up. For the rest of the structure you use either Foundry Windows or Fire Bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any empty bucket | any copper ingot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/liquid_heating_coil
The controller recipe in the pack's recipe list is the black variant, shown below. Other colors are made from dye recipes.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_foundry_controller
The Foundry is more forgiving than it looks. The frame doesn't need to be built out, so every corner can stay empty. It does need 4 walls and a floor, and the Controller tells you where a block is missing. The inside can be as small as 1x1, but a bigger Foundry has more space in it. You'll know it's done when the Controller lights up like a Furnace and the Liquid Heating Coils turn orange.[2]
Step 3: Get the liquid metal out
"Casting Items" quest covers this step and asks for three items: Casting Table, Casting Basin and Foundry Tap. You place the Tap on a Foundry Drain, then put a casting block beneath it to receive the liquid metal.[2]
The Casting Basin turns about 900mB of liquid metal into a full metal block. The quest text points you to the Casting Table for the next step, which is making casts.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/foundry_tap
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_table
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_basin
Step 4: Casts
The last quests in the chapter each ask for one cast. They are the Ingot Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear"), Nugget Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear"), Gem Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear"), Rod Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear"), Plate Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear") and Gear Cast (a quest in "Silent Gear"). All of them follow a quest called "Casts".[2]
In the pack's recipe list, every cast is an item casting recipe that uses molten steel together with the matching item type. Here are the in-pack versions.[4]
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any ingot
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/ingot
Ingot Cast, a mod recipe that uses molten steel.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 360× any molten steel
- any nugget
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/nugget
Nugget Cast, a mod recipe that uses molten steel.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any gem
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/gem
Gem Cast, a mod recipe that uses molten steel.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 360× any molten steel
- any rod
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/rod
Rod Cast, a recipe the pack changed.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 360× any molten steel
- any plate
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/plates
Plate Cast, a recipe the pack changed.
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
- any gear
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/gear
Gear Cast, a recipe the pack changed.
There is also a second Ingot Cast recipe that starts from a Minecraft brick. It is a mod recipe, not a pack change.[4]
Item Casting (productivemetalworks)
Brick
- 360× any molten steel
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/cast/ingot_brick
Ingot Cast made from a Minecraft brick and molten steel.
How does Productive Metalworks work with other mods?
5 parts
Productive Metalworks is wired into several other mods in this pack. The pack adds or changes casting, melting and alloying recipes so that Oritech materials, Allthemodium metals, AllTheOres metals, brass and some Create items all pass through the Foundry. The Silent Gear quest chapter also leans on it. Here is what that looks like in practice.[2][4]
Oritech
The pack adds a set of Oritech compat recipes that feed Oritech materials into the Foundry. You can melt Oritech gems, small clumps and small dusts of copper, gold, iron, nickel and platinum into the matching Productive Metalworks molten metal. For example, Nickel Gem, Small Nickel Clump and Small Nickel Dust all melt into Molten Nickel.[4]
The Foundry can also alloy Oritech's special metals. The pack changed these alloying recipes:[4]
- Molten Diamond plus Molten Nickel gives Molten Adamant.[4]
- Biofuel plus Molten Iron gives Molten Biosteel.[4]
- Molten Netherite plus Molten Platinum gives Molten Duratium.[4]
- Molten Fluxite plus Molten Nickel gives Molten Energite.[4]
Fluid Alloying (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: oritech:compat/productivemetalworks/alloying/adamant
The adamant alloy, as the pack sets it up.
You then cast the results with an Ingot Cast to get Adamant Ingot, Biosteel Ingot, Duratium Ingot and Energite Ingot. A Gem Cast turns molten fluxite into Fluxite and biofuel into Biomass. The same compat set also casts AllTheOres metals: ingots of electrum, nickel, platinum and steel, nuggets of nickel and platinum, and blocks of electrum, nickel and steel.[4]
Allthemodium
Molten Allthemodium, Vibranium and Unobtainium can be cast into a full set of parts, and the pack changed these recipes. Use an Ingot Cast, Nugget Cast, Plate Cast, Rod Cast or Gear Cast to get the ingot, nugget, plate, rod or gear. For example, Molten Vibranium with a Gear Cast makes Vibranium Gear.[4]
Allthemodium also feeds the Foundry itself. Casting Soul Lava onto a Powered Heating Coil gives you a High Powered Heating Coil.[4]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/atm/high_powered_heating_coil
The pack changed this recipe so the upgrade needs Soul Lava.
Create items, brass and copper
The pack's create group of casting recipes covers a few handy casts. A Nugget Cast with any molten copper makes an Copper Nugget. Any molten brass works with an Ingot Cast, Nugget Cast or Plate Cast to give Brass Ingot, Brass Nugget or Brass Plate. And Chocolate cast with an Ingot Cast makes a Bar of Chocolate.[4]
Dyed Fire Bricks
The pack adds a colourful set of block casting recipes. Each coloured Fire Bricks block is cast with Molten Redstone to make the matching Foundry Capacitor. For example, Amber Fire Bricks becomes Amber Foundry Capacitor. There is one capacitor recipe for every colour of fire bricks.[4]
Silent Gear
The Silent Gear chapter of the quest book pairs that mod with Productive Metalworks. It says you now get Silent Items using Casts and a Foundry instead of Blueprints. Start with "Silent Gear and Productive Metalworks" quest, which asks for Fire Clay, then follow "Building the Foundry" quest to build the Foundry. "Casting Items" quest comes next and covers getting liquid metal out with the Foundry Tap into a Casting Basin or a Casting Table.[2]
Which All the Mons quests use Productive Metalworks?
4 parts
Productive Metalworks has its quests in the Silent Gear chapter. The pack uses the mod to change how you get Silent Gear items: instead of Blueprints, you need Casts and a Foundry. The quests walk you through building that Foundry and then making the Casts.[2]
Step 1: Start with Fire Clay
The chapter opens with "Silent Gear and Productive Metalworks" quest. Its task is to obtain Fire Clay, which is where you begin on the Foundry.[2]
Step 2: Build the Foundry
"Building the Foundry" quest comes after the opening quest. It also comes after quests for the Foundry Drains, Controller and Tanks. Its first task is the Liquid Heating Coil, which forms the floor of the Foundry and heats it up. The rest of the structure uses either Foundry Windows or Fire Bricks.[2]
The quest text gives some handy building rules. You only need 4 walls and a floor, and the corners can stay empty. The Controller tells you where a block is missing. The inside can be as small as 1x1, but the quest recommends going bigger, since a bigger Foundry has more space in it. You know it's finished when the Controller lights up like a Furnace and the Liquid Heating Coils turn orange.[2]
Unverified The source only shows part of this quest's task list: the Liquid Heating Coil, plus a second item task that isn't readable. Check the quest book in game for the exact second requirement.
Step 3: Get the metal out
"Casting Items" quest follows Building the Foundry. It asks you to have a Casting Table, a Casting Basin and a Foundry Tap. You place the Tap on the Foundry Drain and put a casting block beneath it to catch the liquid metal.[2]
The quest text says the basin, which it calls the Casting Bin, turns about 900mB of liquid metal into a full metal block. The Casting Table is what you need for making Casts.[2]
Step 4: Collect the Casts
The last group of quests all come after a quest called Casts, which the source doesn't describe. Each one has a single task: obtain one type of Cast. The quests have no titles in the source, so they show up by ID.[2]
Sources
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta mod list · pack file
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta quests: "Silent Gear" · pack file
- productivemetalworks tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta recipe dump: recipes making Productive Metalworks items · pack recipe dump
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.intro_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.sgear_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mons itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 0.7.0-beta to 1.3.0