Productive Metalworks guide for All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta to 0.10.0-beta
Productive Metalworks guide for All the Mods 11
Last verified for All the Mods 11 v0.8.0-beta on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta's own files.
What is Productive Metalworks?
Productive Metalworks is included in this pack at version 26.1.2-1.17.1. It comes with its own in-game guide book, and that book is the best place to learn how the mod works here.[1][2]
The guide opens with an introduction category and then splits into categories for casting, fluids and the foundry. There is also a separate category for Silent Gear metalworking.[3][4][5][6][7]
Inside those categories you will find individual pages on melting, alloying, heat, casting, casts, upgrades, size limits and hazards, plus a Silent Gear page. The guide lists these topics in the order you would meet them, so reading it top to bottom is a good way to get started.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Unverified The sources here show no quests in this pack that involve the mod, and they do not place it on the ATM Star path, so there is no quest chapter or group to point you to. No platform description of the mod was available either, so the in-game guide is the place to check how each system works.
How do you get started with Productive Metalworks?
2 parts
Productive Metalworks is about melting metal and casting it into shapes. The sources I have for this pack don't include the text of the mod's guide pages, only their titles. So I can't give you a confirmed step-by-step order or explain why each step comes first. What I can confirm is which core items you can craft, and I've put their in-pack recipes below.[17]
The first items to look at
Fire Clay has its own crafting recipe in the pack, so it's a good first thing to make and check out.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Clay Ball | any sand | Clay Ball |
| any sand | Clay Ball | any sand |
| Clay Ball | any sand | Clay Ball |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/fire_clay
Next up are the Casting Table, the Casting Basin and the Foundry Tap. Their in-pack recipes are shown below, and the in-game guide has a casting section to read up on.[4][17]
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_table
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_basin
Crafting Shaped
| Fire Brick | Empty slot | Fire Brick |
| Empty slot | Fire Brick | Empty slot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/foundry_tap
The Foundry parts
The mod also has Foundry parts: a controller, tank, window, drain and capacitor, plus fire bricks. Each comes in many colors, and the colored versions have dye-based crafting recipes in the pack. The black controller also has a direct crafting recipe, shown below.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Blast Furnace | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_foundry_controller
The Foundry Controller accepts upgrades. One upgrade speeds up melting and alloying, and you can install several. A second, stronger version of it is described as twice as good as the other one. A third upgrade disables fluid alloying in the Foundry.[18]
Unverified The exact build order, the Foundry's structure and size limits, the heat and fuel requirements, and how to get the guide book are not confirmed by the sources available for this section. No quests in this pack involve the mod.
How does Productive Metalworks work?
2 parts
The sources I have for Productive Metalworks in this pack are thin, so this section is short. I can confirm how the Foundry Controller upgrades behave and which Foundry and casting blocks exist. I'm leaving out sizes, rates and automation details because the sources here don't state them.[17][18]
Foundry Controller upgrades
The Foundry Controller accepts upgrades, and the mod's own tooltips describe a few. A time upgrade speeds up melting and alloying, and multiple upgrades can be installed. A second time upgrade is described as twice as good as the other one.[18]
There is also a stability upgrade, which disables fluid alloying in the Foundry.[18]
Foundry blocks and casting blocks
The Foundry is built from colour-variant parts. The black, blue and brown variants each have their own controller, tank, window, drain and capacitor, plus matching fire bricks. For example, there is the Black Foundry Controller, the Black Foundry Tank, the Black Foundry Window, the Black Foundry Drain and the Black Foundry Capacitor.[17]
The pack also has dye-based crafting recipes for the coloured fire bricks, controllers, tanks, windows, drains and capacitors. The black controller, for instance, has both a base recipe and a dye recipe.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Blast Furnace | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_foundry_controller
This is the shaped base recipe for the black controller.
For casting, the mod adds the Casting Table and the Casting Basin. Both have shaped crafting recipes in the pack.[17]
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_table
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_basin
How do you progress through Productive Metalworks?
3 parts
The sources I have for this pack are thin, so I can't give you a confirmed tier-by-tier path for Productive Metalworks. I'd rather say that than invent tier names or numbers. What I can show you is the set of core crafting recipes the pack confirms.[17]
Core building pieces
The pack has crafting recipes for Fire Clay, Casting Table, Casting Basin, Foundry Tap and Liquid Heating Coil. Here are the exact in-pack recipes.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Clay Ball | any sand | Clay Ball |
| any sand | Clay Ball | any sand |
| Clay Ball | any sand | Clay Ball |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/fire_clay
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_table
Crafting Shaped
7 × Fire Brick
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/casting_basin
Crafting Shaped
| Fire Brick | Empty slot | Fire Brick |
| Empty slot | Fire Brick | Empty slot |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/foundry_tap
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot | any copper ingot | any copper ingot |
| any copper ingot | any empty bucket | any copper ingot |
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/liquid_heating_coil
Colour variants of the foundry parts
Foundry parts come in colour variants, such as Black, Blue and Brown versions of the fire bricks, controller, tank, drain, window and capacitor. The coloured versions I can see have dye-based recipes. The Black pieces also have direct crafting recipes in several cases, for example the Black Foundry Controller.[17]
Crafting Shaped
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Blast Furnace | Fire Brick |
| Fire Brick | Fire Brick | Fire Brick |
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:crafting/black_foundry_controller
This is the direct recipe for the black controller, which also has a dye-based recipe.
Where to read more in game
The mod's in-game guide has pages titled for heat, foundry size, melting, casting, casts, alloying, upgrades and hazards. The text of those pages is not in the sources here, so I can't tell you what each page says about unlock order or what changes as you upgrade. Open the guide in game for those details.[8][9][10][11][12][13][15][16]
How does Productive Metalworks work with other mods?
1 part
The one confirmed link to another mod in this pack is small but handy. Melting honeycomb in the Productive Metalworks setup gives you Honey alongside this mod's own wax fluid.[17]
Honeycomb melting
There is a melting recipe for honeycomb and another for the honeycomb block. Each one produces Honey and Molten Wax together, so a single melt gets you both outputs.[17]
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:melting/honeycomb
Item Melting (productivemetalworks)
Recipe id: productivemetalworks:melting/honeycomb_block
Both use the mod's own item melting recipe type, and both are listed as Productive Metalworks recipes rather than ones added by another mod.[17]
Sources
- All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta mod list · pack file
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.name (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.intro_category.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.casting_category.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.fluids_category.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.foundry_category.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.sgearmetalworks.category.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.alloying_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.casting_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.casts_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.hazards_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.heat_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.melting_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.sgearmetalworks.page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.size_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- In-game guide: book.productivemetalworks.upgrades_page.title (productivemetalworks) · official docs
- All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta recipe dump: recipes making Productive Metalworks items · pack recipe dump
- productivemetalworks tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 11 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.
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