Immersive Engineering guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.5.2

Immersive Engineering is a tech mod built around realism-inspired, retro-futuristic technology. Instead of glowing tubes, you get actual hanging power lines. Instead of one block that magically spits out dust, you build big multiblocks. The Crusher is 5x3x3, and the Excavator, which digs ores out of the ground with a bucketwheel, is 3x7x8.^[1]

Power moves through cables spanned between connectors, not through lanes of blocks. The mod uses the Forge Energy API but can be played fully standalone. Generation comes from waterwheels, windmills, biodiesel and more. If you ever get stuck, the in-game Engineer's Manual is crafted with a book and a lever.^[1]

This pack includes Immersive Engineering 12.4.2-194, and it has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier.^[2]

Where it fits in this pack

The mod has its own quest chapter, and it starts with the Engineer's Hammer in a quest in "?". Four quests unlock right after it. They cover Coke Brick in a quest in "?", Kiln Brick in a quest in "?", the Engineer's Wire Cutters in a quest in "?", and the Conveyor Belt with the Fluid Pipe in a quest in "?".^[3]

The wire quests lead into power. LV connectors come first in a quest in "?". After that you get the Thermoelectric Generator, the Kinetic Dynamo with the Windmill and Water Wheel, and then MV and HV wiring with the Transformer and HV Transformer.^[3]

Further along the chapter you reach the Engineer's Workbench and Engineer's Blueprint quests, the Garden Cloche, the Revolver and finally the Railgun. There is also an early link in the pack's opening chapter, where a quest in "?" asks for Industrial Hemp Fiber.^[3][4]

Unverified These sources don't show whether the pack changes any Immersive Engineering recipes or configs, so check the recipe pages in this guide before relying on mod defaults.

Immersive Engineering moves power along hanging wires between connectors instead of through lanes of blocks, and a lot of its machines are multiblocks. In this pack the quest chapter for the mod gives you a clear order to work in, and this section follows it. For anything the quests don't cover, the mod's own in-game documentation is the Engineer's Manual, crafted with a book and a lever.^[1][3]

Step one: the Engineer's Hammer

The first quest in the chapter, a quest in "?", asks for the Engineer's Hammer. The brick, wire, conveyor and fluid pipe quests all come after it, so make it first.^[3]

Engineer's HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/hammer

Step two: bricks for the early multiblocks

Right after the hammer, a quest in "?" wants 27 Coke Brick, and a quest in "?" wants 8 Kiln Brick. The creosote quest and the Blast Brick quest both come after the Coke Brick quest.^[3]

3× Coke BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any clay	any brick	any clay
any brick	any block sandstone	any brick
any clay	any brick	any clay

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/cokebrick

2× Kiln BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any block sandstone	any brick
any brick	any block sandstone

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/alloybrick

a quest in "?" also unlocks after the hammer and asks for a Conveyor Belt and a Fluid Pipe.^[3]

8× Conveyor BeltMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any leather	any leather	any leather
any iron ingot	any redstone dust	any iron ingot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/conveyor_basic

8× Fluid PipeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × any iron plate

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/fluid_pipe

Step three: creosote, Treated Wood and the Workbench

With Coke Bricks done, a quest in "?" asks for a Bucket of Creosote Oil and some Treated Wood Planks. There is a Create spout filling recipe that turns any planks into Treated Wood Planks, so you can make it that way.^[3][5]

Treated Wood PlanksMod recipe

Filling (create)

• any plank

Recipe id: create:filling/compat/immersiveengineering/treated_wood_in_spout

After that comes a quest in "?", the Engineer's Workbench. The blueprint quests come after it, and the mod describes the Workbench as the place where you modify your tools.^[3][6]

Step four: blueprints

Three quests follow the Workbench and ask for an Engineer's Blueprint: a quest in "?", a quest in "?" (two blueprints) and a quest in "?". There are separate blueprint crafting recipes for components, molds, bullets, banner patterns and warning signs. Here is the components one.^[3][5]

Engineer's BlueprintMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper ingot	any lead ingot	any iron ingot
any blue dye	any blue dye	any blue dye
any paper	any paper	any paper

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/blueprint_components

Step five: wires and your first power

Also right after the hammer, a quest in "?" asks for the Engineer's Wire Cutters along with an iron plate and copper wire. It leads to a quest in "?", which wants the LV Wire Connector, the LV Wire Coil and the LV Wire Relay.^[3]

4× LV Wire ConnectorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot
any connector insulator	any copper ingot	any connector insulator
any connector insulator	any copper ingot	any connector insulator

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/connector_lv

Once the LV wiring quest is done, two power quests open. a quest in "?" wants a Thermoelectric Generator. a quest in "?" wants a Kinetic Dynamo, a Windmill and a Water Wheel.^[3]

Kinetic DynamoMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any redstone dust	Iron Mechanical Component	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	Copper Coil Block	any iron ingot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/dynamo

Where to go next

• a quest in "?" asks for 27 Blast Brick and comes after the Coke Brick quest.^[3]
• a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" step up to MV and HV wiring, each with its own transformer.^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for the Garden Cloche and comes after the first blueprint quest.^[3]

The Garden Cloche matters for hemp. The pack adds Cloche recipes that turn Industrial Hemp Seeds and dirt into Industrial Hemp Fiber, and the starting chapter has a quest, a quest in "?", that asks for hemp fiber alongside string.^[4][5]

Industrial Hemp FiberAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Industrial Hemp Seeds
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/hemp_fiber_from_dirt

Garden ClocheMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any glass blocks	Incandescent Light Bulb	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	Iron Mechanical Component	any glass blocks
Empty slot	Basic Engineering Block	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/cloche

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Immersive Engineering runs on the Forge Energy API, so it plays nicely with other tech mods. The big difference is that power doesn't travel through lanes of blocks. You span actual cables between connectors. Generation comes from waterwheels, windmills, biodiesel and more, and many of the machines are multiblocks.^[1]

Your in-game documentation is the Engineer's Manual, which the mod's project page says you craft with a book and a lever. Check it whenever you need the exact build layout for a multiblock.^[1]

Multiblocks

The Crusher is a 5x3x3 multiblock with rotating wheels. The Excavator is a much bigger and more resource-hungry 3x7x8 multiblock with a bucketwheel that digs ore out of the ground.^[1]

The mod also tracks several multiblocks with advancements: the Crude Blast Furnace, the Improved Blast Furnace, the Arc Furnace, the Metal Press and the Diesel Generator. Forming each one earns its own advancement, which makes a handy checklist as you expand.^[6]

Power and storage

The pack leaves the capacitor limits at the mod defaults. Each tier has its own input, output and storage cap, all in Flux.^[7]

• LV capacitor: 256 Flux/tick in and out, 100,000 Flux stored (machines.capacitors.lv.input, machines.capacitors.lv.output, machines.capacitors.lv.storage).^[7]
• MV capacitor: 1,024 Flux/tick in and out, 1,000,000 Flux stored (machines.capacitors.mv.input, machines.capacitors.mv.output, machines.capacitors.mv.storage).^[7]
• HV capacitor: 4,096 Flux/tick in and out, 4,000,000 Flux stored (machines.capacitors.hv.input, machines.capacitors.hv.output, machines.capacitors.hv.storage).^[7]

On the generation side, the Diesel Generator outputs 4,096 Flux per tick, and the burn time of the fuel decides the total energy you get (machines.dieselGen_output). The Kinetic Dynamo has an output modifier of 3, which is then scaled by the rotation modifier of the attached water- or windmill (machines.dynamo_output).^[7]

The Charging Station can push up to 256 Flux per tick into an item (machines.charger_consumption). The Assembler spends 80 Flux each time it crafts an item from a recipe (machines.assembler_consumption).^[7]

Machine speed and upkeep

The time and energy modifiers for the Arc Furnace, Crusher, Bottling Machine and Auto Workbench are all at 1 in this pack, which is the mod default. Recipes therefore run at their normal speed and cost (machines.arc_furnace.timeModifier, machines.arc_furnace.energyModifier, machines.crusher.timeModifier, machines.crusher.energyModifier, machines.bottling_machine.timeModifier, machines.bottling_machine.energyModifier, machines.auto_workbench.timeModifier, machines.auto_workbench.energyModifier).^[7]

Graphite Electrodes in the Arc Furnace take 1 damage per tick while the furnace works. With the default of 96,000 damage, that is 8 consecutive in-game days of runtime (machines.arc_furnace.electrodeDamage).^[7]

The External Heater uses 8 Flux per tick to add one heat to a furnace. It creates up to 4 heat during startup and then 1 heat per tick to keep the furnace running (machines.external_heater.consumption).^[7]

Finding and mining minerals

The Core Sample Drill uses 40 Flux per tick and needs 200 ticks to work out which mineral is under a chunk (machines.coredrill.consumption, machines.coredrill.time). Its result tells you whether a mineral vein was found or not, and how intact the vein is.^[6][7]

The Excavator draws 4,096 Flux per tick while it digs (machines.excavator.consumption). One chunk can give at most 38,400 yield (machines.excavator.yield). When a vein generates, a random share of it up to 0.2 (as a decimal value) is already depleted (machines.excavator.initial_depletion). These values are all the mod defaults in this pack. You can also turn off the Excavator's heavy particle effects with machines.excavator.particles.^[7]

Item and fluid handling

• The Bottling Machine can be switched between holding containers until they are full and allowing partial filling.^[6]
• Extracting Conveyor Belts report how many items per second they pull out.^[6]
• Machines can use redstone control, which can be inverted, and a strong redstone signal can be enabled or disabled.^[6]
• Pumps can be toggled to replace fluid blocks with cobblestone. The mod warns that this can cause lag with large amounts of fluid.^[6]
• Some containers refuse to store gases, and you'll get a chat message if you try.^[6]

The advancement list also points to Dropping Conveyor Belts, Item Routers, Item Batchers and Sheetmetal Chutes as part of the mod's item-moving toolkit.^[6]

The Immersive Engineering questline in this pack is a single chapter that starts with one simple task and branches into power tiers, machines, plastics and weapons. The quest names are blank in this version, so I refer to each quest by its ID.^[3]

Step 1: The Hammer and the brick tier

Everything hangs off a quest in "?", which asks you to make the Engineer's Hammer. Right after it you get the Coke Brick quest, the Kiln Brick quest, the wire cutters quest and the conveyor and pipe quest.^[3]

Engineer's HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/hammer

• a quest in "?" wants 27 Coke Brick.^[3]
• a quest in "?" wants 8 Kiln Brick.^[3]
• a quest in "?" follows the Coke Brick quest and wants 27 Blast Brick.^[3]
• a quest in "?" wants a Conveyor Belt and a Fluid Pipe.^[3]

The Coke Brick quest also unlocks a quest in "?", which asks for a Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks. Create can make treated wood for you, because there is a spout filling recipe that turns any planks into it.^[3][5]

Treated Wood PlanksMod recipe

Filling (create)

• any plank

Recipe id: create:filling/compat/immersiveengineering/treated_wood_in_spout

Step 2: Workbench, blueprints and the Cloche

Treated wood leads to a quest in "?", the Engineer's Workbench. That opens three blueprint quests: a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?". Each asks for an Engineer's Blueprint, and the second asks for two.^[3]

The first blueprint quest unlocks a quest in "?", the Garden Cloche. Hemp fiber matters early too: the chapter called the_beginning has a quest in "?", which asks for string and Industrial Hemp Fiber. This pack adds its own cloche recipes for hemp fiber, so plain dirt works, and so do richer soils such as Rich Soil, Mystical Agriculture farmland and Just Dire Things soils.^[3][4][5]

Industrial Hemp FiberAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Industrial Hemp Seeds
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/hemp_fiber_from_dirt

Added by the pack: Industrial Hemp Seeds and plain dirt in the cloche give hemp fiber.

Step 3: Wire tiers (LV, MV, HV)

Power progression runs through three wire tiers, and each has its own quest. a quest in "?" (the Engineer's Wire Cutters) leads into LV in a quest in "?". That quest wants an LV Wire Connector, an LV Wire Coil and an LV Wire Relay.^[3]

• LV unlocks three quests: a quest in "?" for the Thermoelectric Generator, a quest in "?" for the Kinetic Dynamo, Windmill and Water Wheel, and a quest in "?" for MV.^[3]
• The MV quest asks for an MV Wire Connector, an MV Wire Coil, an MV Wire Relay and a Transformer.^[3]
• a quest in "?" is the HV step and comes after MV. It asks for an HV Wire Connector, an HV Wire Coil, an HV Wire Relay and an HV Transformer.^[3]

TransformerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

LV Wire Connector	MV Wire Connector
Electronic Component	Electrum Coil Block
any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/transformer

Step 4: Engineering blocks and the blast furnace

Two quests in this chapter follow a quest that the sources here do not show, so I can't say what unlocks them. a quest in "?" asks for the Heavy Engineering Block, Light Engineering Block and Redstone Engineering Block blocks. a quest in "?" asks for 27 Reinforced Blast Brick, a hopper and 2 Blast Furnace Preheater.^[3]

Step 5: Redstone acid, accumulators and plastics

a quest in "?" asks for a Bucket of Redstone Acid. It comes after the Hammer quest and one more quest that the sources here do not show. a quest in "?" then accepts any one of the LV Accumulator, MV Accumulator or HV Accumulator.^[3]

The plastics line runs through a quest in "?" (Bucket of Acetaldehyde), then a quest in "?" (Bucket of Phenolic Resin). a quest in "?" asks for a Duroplast Sheet. Separately, a quest in "?" asks for HOP Graphite Dust, and a quest in "?" asks for a Graphite Electrode. Both the duroplast sheet and the electrode come from the bottling machine.^[3][5]

Duroplast Sheet, Metal Press Mold: PlateMod recipe

Bottling Machine (immersiveengineering)

• Metal Press Mold: Plate
• 250× any phenolic resin

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:bottling/duroplast_plate

Graphite Electrode, Metal Press Mold: RodMod recipe

Bottling Machine (immersiveengineering)

• Metal Press Mold: Rod
• 1000× any creosote
• any hop graphite dust

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:bottling/graphite_electrode

Step 6: Advanced electronics and weapons

a quest in "?" asks for the Advanced Electronic Component and needs both the duroplast quest and the first blueprint quest. The pack changed this blueprint recipe, so don't rely on what you remember from the base mod.^[3][5]

Advanced Electronic ComponentChanged by the pack

Blueprint (immersiveengineering)

• Vacuum Tube
• any duroplast plate
• any aluminum wire

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:blueprint/component_electronic_adv

Changed by the pack, so this is the recipe to follow here.

The advanced component unlocks a quest in "?", the Resonanz Engineering Block block. It's also required for the Railgun in a quest in "?", which additionally needs the second blueprint quest and the accumulator quest.^[3]

The Revolver has its own quest, a quest in "?", which comes after the second blueprint quest. a quest in "?" is the last stop: it asks for the railgun's Precision Scope and Advanced Heatsinks, plus the revolver's Bayonet, Extended Magazine and Amplifier Electron Tubes. It needs both the revolver and railgun quests done first.^[3]

Amplifier Electron TubesChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Vacuum Tube	Vacuum Tube	Vacuum Tube
any steel rod	any copper wire	any steel rod

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/toolupgrade_revolver_electro

Changed by the pack, so this is the recipe to follow here.

Immersive Engineering doesn't live on its own in this pack. A lot of its items show up in recipes from other mods, and the pack has rewired several of its default recipes. Here are the connections that the in-pack recipes and quests confirm.^[3][5]

Coal coke and creosote

Coal coke is the biggest crossover. The pack changed the crushing recipes so that Coal Coke and the Block of Coal Coke block both crush into Coal Coke Dust. It also changed the coal coke slab recipes: Coal Coke Slab now converts to and from Block of Coal Coke instead of the Immersive Engineering block.^[5]

Modern Industrialization's coke oven turns coal into Coal Coke Gem and Creosote Oil, and the pack changed that recipe. The pack also added the Advanced Coke Oven, which has its own coke recipes for coal, coal dust, coal blocks and coal geore shards. Creosote from Immersive Engineering also feeds the pack-changed Modern Industrialization mixer recipe for Lubricant.^[5]

Coal Coke Gem, Creosote OilChanged by the pack

Coke Oven (modern_industrialization)

• Coal

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:materials/coke_oven/coke

The coke oven recipe the pack changed.

Advanced Coke OvenAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Coke Brick	Coke Brick	Coke Brick
Iron Large Plate	any powered furnace	Iron Large Plate
Coke Brick	Coke Brick	Coke Brick

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/modern_industrialization/advanced_coke_oven

Added by the pack, and built around the Coke Brick.

Metals and steel

The pack changed the Immersive Engineering aluminium, lead and silver slab recipes so they convert into the matching storage blocks from the pack's materials mod, for example Block of Aluminum, Block of Lead and Block of Silver. Steel tools and armor from Immersive Engineering can be smelted or blasted back into Steel Nugget, and the pack changed those recipes as well.^[5]

Steel PlateAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Steel Ingot
• Engineer's Hammer

Recipe id: ftb:steel_plate_hammer

Added by the pack: Steel Ingot becomes Steel Plate with the Engineer's Hammer.

The wiring quest asks for the Engineer's Wire Cutters together with an iron plate and copper wire from the pack's materials mod. It is a quest in "?".^[3]

Hemp, farming and the cloche

The pack added many cloche recipes that turn Industrial Hemp Seeds into Industrial Hemp Fiber on other mods' soils. These are Rich Soil, Just Dire Things soils such as Primogel Soil, and Mystical Agriculture farmlands such as Inferium Farmland. Insanium Farmland works too. The cloche itself has its own quest, a quest in "?".^[3][5]

If you don't have hemp seeds yet, the pack's sifting recipe for dirt with a Mechanical Cloth Mesh can drop them. It can also drop Farmer's Delight seeds. Hemp fiber is needed early too, because a quest in "?" asks for it.^[4][5]

Two more farming links: the Immersive Engineering squeezer has mod recipes using Cabbage Seeds and Tomato Seeds with Plant Oil. The pack's jar recipes use Industrial Fertilizer with sand or red sand to make Snad or Red Snad.^[5]

HOP graphite

HOP Graphite Ingot and HOP Graphite Dust connect Immersive Engineering to Mystical Agriculture, Productive Bees and Oritech, as the recipes below show. The dust also has its own quest, a quest in "?".^[3][5]

3× HOP Graphite IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × Hop Graphite Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/immersiveengineering/hop_graphite_ingot

Mystical Agriculture's Hop Graphite Essence is the route to the ingot.

HOP Graphite Dust, WaxMod recipe

Centrifuge (productivebees)

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/immersiveengineering/honeycomb_hop_graphite

This centrifuge recipe also gives Wax.

Carbon Fibre StrandsMod recipe

Centrifuge (oritech)

• HOP Graphite Dust
• Empty

Recipe id: oritech:centrifuge/compat/immersiveengineering/carbon_fibre_strands

The Oritech centrifuge makes Carbon Fibre Strands from the dust.

Late-game crossovers

The pack's sequenced assembly recipe for the Infinitely Compressed Circuit Board uses the Immersive Engineering Circuit Backplane alongside parts from Mekanism Weaponry, Oritech and PneumaticCraft.^[5]

High-Cetane Biodiesel is an ingredient in both pack-added recipes for Supercritical Mass. Both are shown below.^[5]

Supercritical MassAdded by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 10000× High-Cetane Biodiesel
• 5× Reprocessed Fissile Fragment
• HE Uranium Fuel Rod
• 4× Ender Gate (Nitro)

Recipe id: ftb:reaction/supercritical_mass

This version uses the HE Uranium Fuel Rod, with Reprocessed Fissile Fragment and Ender Gate (Nitro) alongside.

Supercritical MassAdded by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 16000× High-Cetane Biodiesel
• 5× Reprocessed Fissile Fragment
• 16× Low-Yield Nuclear Explosion Device
• 16× Niotic Crystal
• 4× Ender Gate (Nitro)

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/supercritical_mass_non_mi

The second version swaps in the Low-Yield Nuclear Explosion Device and the Niotic Crystal, and still uses the fragment and the ender gate.

Immersive Engineering has its own quest chapter in this pack, called "immersive_engineering". All of its quests are untitled, so I'm pointing to them by quest reference. One more quest that asks for an Immersive Engineering item sits in the chapter "the_beginning".^[3][4]

Where it starts

The chapter opens with a quest in "?", which asks for the Engineer's Hammer. Almost everything else hangs off this quest, so grab the hammer first.^[3]

Bricks, creosote and the workbench

1. a quest in "?" comes after the hammer. It has an observation task and asks for 27 Coke Brick.^[3]
2. a quest in "?" follows it with another observation task and 27 Blast Brick.^[3]
3. a quest in "?" also follows the coke bricks. It wants a Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks.^[3]
4. a quest in "?" comes after that and asks for the Engineer's Workbench.^[3]
5. a quest in "?" is a separate branch off the hammer. It has an observation task and asks for 8 Kiln Brick.^[3]
6. a quest in "?" is another branch off the hammer. It asks for a Conveyor Belt and a Fluid Pipe.^[3]

Blueprints, the cloche and the revolver

After the workbench, three quests ask for an Engineer's Blueprint. a quest in "?" has one blueprint task, a quest in "?" has two, and a quest in "?" has one. The first unlocks a quest in "?" for the Garden Cloche. The second unlocks a quest in "?" for the Revolver.^[3]

Wiring and power

The wiring line also starts at the hammer. a quest in "?" asks for the Engineer's Wire Cutters, an iron plate and copper wire. a quest in "?" follows with the LV tier: LV Wire Connector, LV Wire Coil and LV Wire Relay.^[3]

• a quest in "?" asks for the Thermoelectric Generator.^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for the Kinetic Dynamo, the Windmill and the Water Wheel.^[3]
• a quest in "?" is the MV step. It wants MV Wire Connector, MV Wire Coil, MV Wire Relay and a Transformer.^[3]
• a quest in "?" is the HV step after that. It wants HV Wire Connector, HV Wire Coil, HV Wire Relay and an HV Transformer.^[3]

Fluids, electronics and the railgun

1. a quest in "?" asks for a Bucket of Redstone Acid. It needs the hammer quest plus one more prerequisite that isn't in the sources I have.^[3]
2. a quest in "?" follows it. It accepts any one of the LV Accumulator, MV Accumulator or HV Accumulator.^[3]
3. a quest in "?" asks for a Duroplast Sheet.^[3]
4. a quest in "?" asks for the Advanced Electronic Component. It needs the duroplast quest and the first blueprint quest.^[3]
5. a quest in "?" asks for the Railgun. It needs the advanced component quest, the two-blueprint quest and the capacitor quest.^[3]
6. a quest in "?" also follows the advanced component and asks for the Resonanz Engineering Block.^[3]
7. a quest in "?" needs both the revolver and the railgun quests. It has a checkmark task plus five upgrades: Precision Scope, Advanced Heatsinks, Bayonet, Extended Magazine and Amplifier Electron Tubes.^[3]

Plastics, graphite and the late game

a quest in "?" asks for a Bucket of Acetaldehyde, and a quest in "?" follows with a Bucket of Phenolic Resin. Separately, a quest in "?" asks for HOP Graphite Dust, which leads to a quest in "?" for the Graphite Electrode.^[3]

Two more quests sit behind a prerequisite whose details aren't in my sources. a quest in "?" has an observation task and asks for 27 Reinforced Blast Brick, a hopper and 2 Blast Furnace Preheater. a quest in "?" asks for the Heavy Engineering Block, Light Engineering Block and Redstone Engineering Block.^[3]

In the Beginning chapter

a quest in "?" in the chapter "the_beginning" asks for string and Industrial Hemp Fiber. It comes after two other quests in that chapter.^[4]

Unverified The quests are untitled in the pack files I have, and the rewards and descriptions weren't included. I can't say what any of these quests give you. Some prerequisite quests, such as 1F9E582F684EA247 and 0806978F98A7A3E8, aren't covered, so the exact order around them is unconfirmed.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Good news: in the server config, the only values this pack changed from the mod default are the ore vein sizes. Everything else with a listed mod default is left alone, so start with ore generation.^[7]

World generation: IE ores are switched off

The pack sets the vein size of every Immersive Engineering ore to 0. The option description says 0 disables generation, so these ores are not generated as normal world veins in this pack.^[7]

• ores.bauxite.vein_size is 0 (mod default 6).^[7]
• ores.deep_nickel.vein_size is 0 (mod default 6).^[7]
• ores.lead.vein_size is 0 (mod default 8).^[7]
• ores.nickel.vein_size is 0 (mod default 5).^[7]
• ores.silver.vein_size is 0 (mod default 9).^[7]
• ores.uranium.vein_size is 0 (mod default 4).^[7]

The other ore settings, such as attempts per chunk, height range and distribution, are still at the mod defaults, and retro-generation is off for every ore (for example ores.lead.retrogen_enable is false). Only the vein size was changed.^[7]

Machines and power: mod defaults

The machine, wire, capacitor and tool numbers in the server config all match the mod default, so you can plan your power setup with the values below.^[7]

• Copper wire: wires.copper.transferRate is 2,048 IF/t and wires.copper.maxLength is 16 blocks.^[7]
• Electrum wire: wires.electrum.transferRate is 8,192 IF/t and wires.electrum.maxLength is 16 blocks.^[7]
• HV wire: wires.hv.transferRate is 32,768 IF/t and wires.hv.maxLength is 32 blocks.^[7]
• LV capacitor: machines.capacitors.lv.storage is 100,000 Flux, and machines.capacitors.lv.input and machines.capacitors.lv.output are both 256 Flux/tick.^[7]
• MV capacitor: machines.capacitors.mv.storage is 1,000,000 Flux, and machines.capacitors.mv.input and machines.capacitors.mv.output are both 1,024 Flux/tick.^[7]
• HV capacitor: machines.capacitors.hv.storage is 4,000,000 Flux, and machines.capacitors.hv.input and machines.capacitors.hv.output are both 4,096 Flux/tick.^[7]
• Excavator: machines.excavator.consumption is 4,096 Flux/tick, and machines.excavator.yield caps the yield of a chunk at 38,400.^[7]
• Wire safety: wires.enableWireDamage and wires.blocksBreakWires are both true, so live wires hurt entities touching them, and placing a block in a wire breaks it.^[7]

The recipe speed and energy modifiers for the crusher, arc furnace, metal press, mixer, sawmill, squeezer and the other machines are all 1, so the pack does not tweak machine speed or energy costs.^[7]

Client options worth knowing

The client options shown for this pack are at their normal values. showTextOverlay is true, which shows the overlay text for things like capacitor and pump settings. enableVBO is true, and stencilBufferEnabled is true. increasedTileRenderdistance is 1.5 and manualGuiScale is 4, both the mod default.^[8]

FTB Skies 2 1.5.1 ships Immersive Engineering 12.4.2-194. The mod has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs for 12.4.2-194 and the release before it, 12.4.1-193.^[2][9]

12.4.2-194 (the version in this pack)

This is the bigger update, with new logistics options and some automation changes you will notice.^[10]

• New: the item router can now filter by mod as well as by tags.^[10]
• New: the item hatch, which lets you pull a single stack from an inventory.^[10]
• New: cloche recipes can now name a fluid, and if none is given the recipe uses water. Crimson and warped fungi are now grown with lava.^[10]
• Changed: extracting conveyors now have a configurable stack-size instead of a configurable tickrate. Existing conveyors need to be adjusted again.^[10]
• Changed: the storage shelf now tries to fill slots that already hold the same item, otherwise it places items in the slots right after it. This works for shift-clicking and automatic insertion, and keeps the crates on the shelf more organized.^[10]
• Changed: fusiliers and bulwarks now respect looting, and commandos no longer drop emeralds.^[10]

Fixes in 12.4.2-194

• The mixer no longer accidentally crafts a lingering awkward potion.^[10]
• Catwalks now work properly when used with a hammer.^[10]
• Shift-click behavior in the Engineer's Crafting Table is fixed.^[10]
• Chutes now accept item input from the side.^[10]
• Engineer illagers now drop their raid banner.^[10]
• Shelves no longer crash when accessed from unexpected sides.^[10]
• Windows used in multiblocks are less directionally dependent.^[10]
• The backpack antenna now visually disconnects from wires.^[10]

12.4.1-193

• New: lanterns and cage lamps have a variable light level, which you set with a screwdriver. Great for more mood lighting in your factory.^[9]
• Fixed: catwalk stairs no longer crash when rotated with a hammer.^[9]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Immersive Engineering were available, so it is unverified whether the pack itself changed anything for this mod between releases.