Industrial Foregoing

Industrial Foregoing (IF for short) is a tech mod that adds many machines with various different uses. To get started, craft a Pity Machine Frame.

Asks for: Pity Machine Frame

Extracts Latex from logs, runs faster when given power. Check JEI for acceptable logs and Latex amounts. The best log to use is Acacia or Mangrove.

Asks for: Fluid Extractor

In Industrial Foregoing, one of the main resources is Latex. Its used to craft Machine Frames, needed to make machines and upgrades. Making Latex is pretty simple, Fluid Extractor extracts Latex from Logs (Acacia and Mangrove give the most). ------------------------ Now about making Plastic: Plastic results from smelting Dry Rubber - which is made in the Latex Processing Unit, that transforms Latex into Dry Rubber. So basically Latex -> Dry Rubber -> Plastic.

I found myself annoyed at being unable to rotate Industrial Foregoing Machines with most Wrenches. To help with this, I have compiled a list of all the wrenches that I can find that are capable of rotating IF machines. These were tested primarily on the Laser Drill, so the results will focus primarily on that. Some wrenches might not work with other machines. Click the task in this quest to view all valid Wrenches for this quest.

Asks for: Yeta Wrench, Engineer's Hammer, Ferricore Wrench, Pneumatic Wrench, Wrench

Latex is a fluid used to make Dry Rubber, but it can also be used for some things in the Dissolution Chamber.

Asks for: Latex Bucket

The Pitiful Generator generates a small amount of FE using burnable fuels like Coal.

Asks for: Pitiful Generator

Transporters can be used to transport Items and/or Fluids between inventories that are 1 block away. You need a Transporter in the extraction side and another in the insertion side. To change these modes, right click the middle area. You can have multiple transporter types in the same block. You can upgrade these with Addons. Speed to increase transfer speed, Efficiency to increase transfer amount.

Asks for: Fluid Transporter, Item Transporter

Turns Latex into Dry Rubber. Uses 750 mB of Latex and 500 mB of Water to produce 1 Dry Rubber.

Asks for: Latex Processing Unit

When Rubber is smelted it turns into Plastic, which is the main resource in Industrial Foregoing.

Asks for: Dry Rubber

Plastic is the main resource of Industrial Foregoing, you now have access to some very useful machines!

Asks for: Plastic

The Mob Slaughter Factory deletes mobs in its working area, and converts that mob into Pink Slime and Liquid Meat. Passive Mobs -> More Pink Slime Hostile Mobs -> More Meat This machine supports Range Addons.

Asks for: Mob Slaughter Factory

Passive Mobs -> More Pink Slime Hostile Mobs -> More Meat

Asks for: Liquid Meat Bucket, Pink Slime Bucket

These machines are used to automate block placing/breaking. This is especially useful when automating Latex.

Asks for: Block Breaker, Block Placer

The Sewer makes Sewage from animals in its working area, as well as absorb Experience from players to convert into Essence. The Sewage Composter can turn Sewage into Fertilizer. The Sewer supports Range Addons.

Asks for: Sewage Bucket, Sewage Composter, Sewer

Only used for one thing.

Asks for: Pink Slime Ingot

It's at least more versatile than the ingot.

Asks for: Pink Slime

The Animal Rancher shears Sheep and milks Cows. The Animal Feeder feeds animals so they can breed. The Animal Baby Separator teleports babies behind it. All of these machines support Range Addons.

Asks for: Animal Baby Separator, Animal Feeder, Animal Rancher

Meat through a tube, yummy.

Asks for: Meat Feeder

The Bioreactor produces Biofuel with Water and a bunch of different materials (check JEI for all valid Bioreactor Inputs). The more types of materials you provide, the more efficient the Bioreactor is at producing Biofuel. The Biofuel Generator uses Biofuel made from the Bioreactor to generate FE.

Asks for: Biofuel Bucket, Biofuel Generator, Bioreactor

The Dissolution Chamber is used to craft more advanced machines. You will need to put a certain fluid in it along with the items needed for what you are crafting. Check JEI.

Asks for: Dissolution Chamber

Ever heard of a cobblestone generator? The Material StoneWork Factory works like one, but takes it to the next level. You can get it to crush stone into gravel, sand, silicon, you can get it to smelt it into stone, you can make Obsidian with it, and whatever else JEI shows for this machine.

Asks for: Material StoneWork Factory

Yes, Industrial Foregoing has ore processing too. This one uses Liquid Meat to convert an ore into Raw Ore Meat. I'm not an ore doctor, so I can't exactly do anything with this Raw Ore Meat. Maybe give it to the Fermentation Station?

Asks for: Washing Factory

The Mob Detector will detect entities in its working area, and output a redstone signal behind it with strength equal to the amount of entities in the working area. This machine supports Range Addons.

Asks for: Mob Detector

Basically the spawner of Industrial Foregoing. It uses Essence along with a mob in a Mob Imprisonment Tool to spawn a copy of that mob. Bosses and other mobs that cannot be put into a spawner* are blacklisted from the Mob Duplicator as well. *With a few exceptions, hold SHIFT on a spawn egg while advanced tooltips (F3 + H) are enabled to see if you can find the Mob Duplicator Blacklist tag.

Asks for: Mob Duplicator

Remember that Not-An-Ore-Doctor fella? The Washing Factory fills in for him, to handle the Raw Ore Meat from the Washing Factory, turning it into Fermented Ore Meat. This machine has 4 modes. 1. 2x ore processing rate, 5 seconds to process. 2. 3x ore processing rate, 45 seconds to process. 3. 4x ore processing rate, 120 seconds to process. Uses Pink Slime as a catalyst. 4. 5x ore processing rate, 300 seconds to process. Uses Ether Gas as a catalyst.

Asks for: Fermentation Station

Applies Bone Meal or Fertilizer to plants in its working area. This will continue applying Fertilizer to the same crop until that crop can no longer accept Bone Meal before moving on to the next plant. This means that the machine can get stuck on plants that always accept Bone Meal, such as Sunflowers, or plants that never reach their final growth state. This machine supports Range Addons.

Asks for: Plant Fertilizer

The Hydroponic Bed uses Energy and Water to grow crops and saplings planted on it. It supports pretty much any crop you can imagine. You can also provide Ether Gas so the machine automatically harvests the crop and puts the crop's results into its internal buffer. This can also gather crop data for a Hydroponic Simulation Processor, to use in a Simulated Hydroponic Bed. Saplings will require space to grow.

Asks for: Hydroponic Bed

Ever feel like the standard Hydroponic Bed is too laggy? Can't fit enough Soul Surges? Oh right we don't have Soul Surges in this pack. Allow me to introduce the Simulated Hydroponic Bed. This will use a Hydroponic Simulation Processor and a seed/sapling to grow any crop of your choice...virtually. You don't even need Water and Ether Gas for this one. On top of this, Hydroponic Simulation Processors get better over time as they grow more crops, though the rate at which it scales is slower in a Simulated Hydroponic Bed. Don't even bother trying to maximize the Processor. It will take an unfathomably long time. Much longer than what it would take for me to make the quests for Ender IO, for sure.

Asks for: Hydroponic Simulation Processor, Simulated Hydroponic Bed

The Mob Crusher deletes mobs in its working area, collecting that mob's loot, as well as converting the Experience that mob would get into Essence. You can also optionally use the would be Experience to apply Looting to the Mob Crusher instead. Bosses and other mobs that cannot go into spawners are "blacklisted" from the Mob Crusher. Instead of being deleted, they take 75 damage per operation. This machine supports Range Addons.

Asks for: Mob Crusher

The Enchantment Factory is basically an automated Enchanting Table. When provided with Gear/Books and Essence, it will enchant that item with something random. This machine can use fluids from tanks directly above it, to allow for an increased potential for enchanting gear and books.

Asks for: Enchantment Factory

The Enchantment Extractor can automatically remove enchantments from gear. You can have it either go onto a Book, or have the enchantment be converted into Essence.

Asks for: Enchantment Extractor

Laser Lens can make Ore Lasers focus more on a certain color of ore. Check in JEI to see what lens work best for a certain type of ore. It also determines what fluid type can be produced by Fluid Lasers.

Asks for: Purple Laser Lens

The final step of the ore processing lineup of Industrial Foregoing, the Fluid Sieving Machine. This will use sand to filter out the useful part of Fermented Ore Meat, giving us some dust. Do whatever you want with that dust. Smelt it, mix it into an alloy.

Asks for: Fluid Sieving Machine

The Enchantment Applicator is an automated Anvil. It can apply Enchanted Books to gear automatically. Uses Essence in place of Experience. This machine can use fluids from tanks directly above it, to allow for an increased potential for enchanting gear.

Asks for: Enchantment Applicator

The Ore Laser Base is Industrial Foregoing's Void Miner, being able to conjure ores out of thin air. Lens allow you to favor a specific color of ore, such as Blue for Lapis. The Fluid Laser Base produces Fluids out of either thin air or from specific mobs. These require you to use specific Lens. Mobs that are used to produce Fluids will take damage, so using a Stasis Chamber for it is recommended. Laser Drills provide progress to the Laser Base in its working area.

Asks for: Fluid Laser Base, Laser Drill, Ore Laser Base

This machine can sort enchanted items and unenchanted items. The enchanted items end up in the top inventory, while the unenchanted items end up in the bottom inventory.

Asks for: Enchantment Sorter

Used to make machines better. There's 8 tiers of addons, and 4 more specifically for Range.

Asks for: Efficiency Addon Tier 1, Efficiency Addon Tier 2, Processing Addon Tier 1, Processing Addon Tier 2, Range Addon Tier 0, Range Addon Tier 1

The Stasis Chamber can hold mobs in place in its working area. The mobs held under stasis are also healed by the Chamber. Need more healing? Get some addons!

Asks for: Stasis Chamber

Getting your first Ether Gas might be a little bit scary. Ether Gas is made from drilling a Wither, using a Fluid Drill with a Purple Lens. But don't worry about the Wither, Industrial Foregoing has a machine just to help you with that task. The Stasis Chamber is a machine that freezes in place anything that is on top of it in a 3x3 area, including the Wither. Hope you don't run out of power, because if you do... I hope you're ready to fight the Wither. Because of this, I recommend using some kind of Wither-Proof Glass, such as Tinted Glass from Mob Grinding Utils, or Crystalix Glass with Reinforced Mode enabled.

Used to trap and transport mobs easily.

Asks for: Mob Imprisonment Tool

The Marine Fisher can fish automatically. Can catch fish, treasures, enchanted books, and some other stuff. Can't catch bees, though, you'll have to fish manually for that one. Must be placed above a 3x3 Water pool (or bigger).

Asks for: Marine Fisher

Conveyors are another way to transport stuff. They work with items, entities, and even fluids. They can interact with the world with Conveyor Upgrades. You can upgrade conveyors with Glowstone to make them faster, and with Plastic to stop them from picking up items.

Asks for: Conveyor Belt

The Infinity Charger is your best option for charging Infinity Tools. It holds a lot of FE, perfect for the Infinity Tools. It can charge other stuff, too.

Asks for: Infinity Charger

Infinity Tools, so called because of their ability to be charged near-infinitely. Increasing the tier of the tool can give said tool special perks. Having Biofuel in them will make them more efficient, by consuming the fuel instead of power when used. There are 7 tiers: Poor Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary Artifact To learn more about each Infinity Tool, check out Industrial Foregoing's Manual (so that I don't have to cover so many infinity tools in one quest)!

Asks for: Infinity Backpack, Infinity Drill, Infinity Hammer, Infinity Nuke, Infinity Saw, Infinity Trident

The Plant Gatherer harvests plants in its working area. Harvested plants can give Sludge, which can be used in a Sludge Refiner. When supplied with Ether Gas, the Plant Gatherer will automatically replant crops. The Plant Sower automatically plants crops and saplings. It has 9 color coded inventory slots, which correspond to the colored markings on top of the Plant Sower. The working area of the machine is divided into 9 segments, which correspond to the various inventory slots. Both of these machines support Range Addons.

Asks for: Plant Gatherer, Plant Sower

The Sludge Refiner can use Sludge to produce stuff like Dirt, Gravel, Soul Sand...whatever...check JEI for the rest.

Asks for: Sludge Bucket, Sludge Refiner

It brews potions. Much like a standard Brewing Stand, it requires Blaze Powder as fuel, and uses bottles. Unlike a Brewing Stand, though, it can autofill those bottles with water. Unlike with other quests where I give a brief overview of the machine, I will provide a setup in another quest to automate this machine, as it is fairly janky and unintuitive in some areas.

Asks for: Potion Brewer

In this quest, we will be focusing on using AE2 to automate the Potion Brewer. First, build a setup like so: (The Creative Energy Cell serves as a placeholder for your main network) We'll need either an Export Bus or an Interface to fill the Potion Brewer with Water and Blaze Powder. The Blaze Powder will be used as fuel. Do not provide bottles yet, as they will fill your network with Water Bottles. The next step will be to get an Advanced Pattern Provider. Check the Extended & Advanced AE chapter to learn more about how to use it. Next, we'll need to encode a pattern. An example will be to brew a Potion of Healing, focused on Royal Treats for Modular Bees. Encode the pattern like so: 3 Glass Bottles, 1 Nether Wart, 1 Glistering Melon Slice, to produce 3 Potions of Healing. We'll be using both of the Advanced Provider's special abilities here. First is its ability to send items to a specific side. We'll be using this to send Glass Bottles to the TOP side of the machine. Use the Advanced Pattern Encoder to encode the pattern, like so: Next, we need to enable Filtered Import on the Advanced Provider. This will make it so that the Advanced Provider only accepts items that match currently active crafting jobs. This means it won't accept potions prematurely. You can also add Processing Addons to aid with this, especially with large enough crafting jobs that may use that same provider. Lastly, you'll have to configure the sides of the Potion Brewer like so: If you're using the Interface method, configure the sides like so: Optionally, you can place a Transfer Label between the Advanced Provider and the Brewer. If you're still confused by this setup, or would rather watch a video, check out the video I have linked here, from ChosenArchitect: VIDEO LINK HERE

Asks for: Advanced Pattern Encoder, ME Export Bus

The Wither Builder, as its name implies, builds Withers. It's part of the Wither's Compass for the ATM Star. You may want to encase the Wither Builder in some witherproof glass, to prevent Withers from blowing it up.

Asks for: Wither Builder

The Mycelial Reactor consists of all the Mycelial Generators working at the same time, near the reactor block, and it produces a total of 25MFE/t. All sounds good, but you need to automate some stuff to get it working, see what each Mycelial Generator consumes to work, and automate it, most things are simple, but others, not that much... looking at Disenchanting Mycelial Generator. But after you get it all automated, you don't need to stop at one, you can make more reactors.