Industrial Foregoing

Industrial Foregoing (I.F) is all about using machines to do your work for you. To get started, you'll need to make a Pity Machine Frame. This machine frame is used for all early game machines, and some cheaper machines like the Block Breaker and Block Placer. Let's use the Pity Machine Frame to get into creating Plastic next!

Asks for: Pity Machine Frame

The Fluid Extractor is the first machine you'll want to make in the mod. These machines will pull Latex from any Wood Log placed in front of it. You'll need a lot of Latex, so it's good to make a few of these! These machines don't require power, but work 3x faster when powered. Most logs will give an average amount, but Acacia logs and Mangrove logs will give the most!

Asks for: Fluid Extractor

Now that we have Latex, we can make the Latex Processing Unit. When powered, this machine takes in fluid latex and converts it into dry rubber, which can be smelted to get Plastic. You can use generators from other mods for this.

Asks for: Latex Processing Unit

Once you have some Dry Rubber, smelt it down into Plastic. Plastic is used in almost every I.F recipe, so you'll want a steady supply of it if you want to make most of the machines. Don't throw it in the ocean!

Conveyor Belts are the primary method of moving items between machines using just I.F. You can craft extraction and insertion upgrades to connect to machines and storage, and create automated assembly lines. While other mods offer better pipes, they are still useful for moving mobs that walk on top of them.

Asks for: Conveyor Belt

The Plant Sower automatically plants seeds placed inside its inventory. Seeds harvested by the Plant Harvester can also be pumped in to create an automatic farm! The inventory is divided into 9 color-coded sections, which represent the area that the Sower will plant the seeds in.

Asks for: Plant Sower

Collects Sewage when placed under your farm animals, which can be turned into fertilizer for crop farms with a Sewage Composter.

Asks for: Sewage Composter, Sewer

Not stronger than bone meal, but easy to automate.

Asks for: Fertilizer

The Animal Feeder will consume food and breed passive mobs in a radius in front of it, as if the player was holding food themselves. With a steady supply of food, and an Animal Baby Separator, you can easily create a passive mob farm.

Asks for: Animal Feeder

The Animal Rancher will extract secondary products from passive mobs in front of it. This includes wool from Sheep as well as milk from Cows.

Asks for: Animal Rancher

The Animal Baby Separator can be used to keep adult breeding passive mobs in a separate pen so that you can automate a meat farm using only freshly spawned animals.

Asks for: Animal Baby Separator

Places blocks. Can be oriented in any direction. Useful for automating Latex production by placing logs!

Asks for: Block Placer

Automatically grows plants in a radius in front of it when supplied with proper fertilizer.

Asks for: Plant Fertilizer

The Dissolution Chamber is the main crafting machine in the mod. This machine combines fluids like Latex with items to create new items. While you'll be getting into some more advanced liquids later on, Latex will be used for most recipes for now!

Asks for: Dissolution Chamber

With the Dissolution Chamber, we can upgrade our machine frames to the next tier! The Simple Machine Frame is mostly used as a stepping stone for creating the next tier of machine frame. It can also be used to make the Plant Fertilizer.

Asks for: Simple Machine Frame

Most Industrial Foregoing machines have a wide range, which you can visualize in-game by clicking "Show Working Area" in a machine's GUI. If you want a specific size, you will have to craft that specific upgrade. Luckily, most of the upgrades are cheap and don't require previous tiers to craft them.

Asks for: Range Addon Tier 0, Range Addon Tier 1, Range Addon Tier 10, Range Addon Tier 11, Range Addon Tier 2, Range Addon Tier 3

Decreases the amount of ticks needed to complete an operation.

Asks for: Efficiency Addon Tier 1, Efficiency Addon Tier 2

Increases how much the progress bar advances every tick.

Asks for: Speed Addon Tier 1, Speed Addon Tier 2

The Plant Gatherer harvests plants in front of it, not leaving behind a seed. You will need to pipe the seeds back into another machine like the Plant Sower to re-plant them!

Asks for: Plant Gatherer

The Mob Pokeball Imprisonment Tool is a useful device for dealing with annoying mob AI when building your farms. Simply right-click with it on any mob, and it will store it inside. Works on hostile mobs as well!

Asks for: Mob Imprisonment Tool

Increases the amount of operations done when the machine finishes an operation.

Asks for: Processing Addon Tier 1, Processing Addon Tier 2

Breaks blocks. Does not use silk touch or fortune.

Asks for: Block Breaker

The Mob Slaughter Factory does more than just kill passive mobs for meat—it reduces them to Pink Slime, a liquid that is crucial for progression in I.F.

Asks for: Mob Slaughter Factory

Pink Slime allows you to create Advanced Machine Frames which are a key part of Industrial Foregoing's progression.

Asks for: Pink Slime Bucket

The Advanced Machine Frame is the next tier upgrade for our machine frames. This machine frame is used to make some of the most important machines, like the Stasis Chamber and Ore Laser Base.

Asks for: Advanced Machine Frame

This machine can automate crafting Potions! It can be a little confusing to use at first, but can be locked to make sure each Ingredient Slot is used to craft the final tier of potion you want to make. For more info, make sure to check out the Industrial Foregoing Manual.

Asks for: Potion Brewer

The Mob Crusher instantly kills mobs within its range. It is extremely useful for hostile mob farms, as it outputs Essence to be used by other I.F machines. It also automatically collects the mob drops.

Asks for: Mob Crusher

Using Essence, the Mob Duplicator can repeatedly copy mobs captured in a Mob Imprisonment Tool. When combined with an active hostile mob farm, a steady supply of Essence can provide resources from all the other mobs that won't spawn passively.

Asks for: Mob Duplicator

The Enchantment Sorter will filter enchanted items from non-enchanted items, placing anything that's enchanted in the top output. You can send these to different sides for extraction via pipes.

Asks for: Enchantment Sorter

The Material Stonework Factory is a very versatile all-in-one cobble generator, able to produce any combination of outputs that an in-world cobble gen would. Using its interface, you can set it to produce Cobblestone, and then process it by crushing it into Gravel, then Sand, then smelting it, and finally outputting a steady supply of Glass. When supplied with a steady stream of Lava, it can also produce Obsidian.

Asks for: Material StoneWork Factory

The Ore Laser Drill can mine resources straight from the void. With upgrades and a properly colored Laser Lens to filter unwanted materials, the Ore Laser can be tuned to provide a steady output of ores for your base. Just make sure you have enough power! To start using the Ore Laser, you'll need to also make Laser Drills to power it. The Laser Drills are the main "work" machines, which can be connected to either the Laser Base or another Laser Drill. The easiest way to place the drills is by looking directly at the side of the Laser Base, then sneak-right-click to place the Drill. The animated face should be pointing to you if placed properly. You can open up the interface of one of the Laser Drills to see if it is connected to the base!

Asks for: Laser Drill, Ore Laser Base

The Stasis Chamber is an advanced machine used to keep mobs above it incapacitated, but also tries to keep them healed and alive. This is mostly used to trap Withers to extract Ether Gas from them, or Wardens for their Souls.

Asks for: Stasis Chamber

Souls allow you to speed up almost any machine by accelerating its tickrate for 15 seconds per Soul. These Souls can be extracted from a Warden by setting up a Soul Laser Base above it, and powering it with Laser Drills. Then, place your Blue Laser Lens inside it to begin extraction. A Stasis Chamber underneath the Warden will not only freeze it in place, but will also heal it over time (improved with addons).

Asks for: Blue Laser Lens, Laser Drill, Soul Laser Base

To use your Souls, point the Soul Surge at the block you want to accelerate and connect it to the Soul Laser Base using Soul Pipes.

Asks for: Soul Pipe, Soul Surge

The Enchantment Factory will automatically enchant books with enchantment level of 30 using a good amount of Essence.

Asks for: Enchantment Factory

The Enchantment Applicator works like a mechanical anvil. Instead of using experience to enchant items, it will use Essence instead.

Asks for: Enchantment Applicator

To upgrade to the final tier of machine frames, we'll need to extract Ether Gas from the Wither. To do this, you'll need the Fluid Laser Base and some Laser Drills. You might also want to look into making the Stasis Chamber to keep it from exploding! The Laser Base is placed in the center above the Wither and needs the Laser Drills and Purple Laser Lens to work. The Laser Drills are the main "work" machines in this setup. The Drills are placed connecting to either the Laser Base or another Laser Drill. The easiest way to place this is by looking directly at the side of the Laser Base, then sneak-right-click to place the Drill. The animated face should be pointing toward you if placed properly. You can open up the interface of one of the Laser Drills to see if it is connected to the base! Inside of the Fluid Laser Base, make sure to place in the Purple Laser Lens to tell it what type of fluid to extract. You'll also need to adjust the Y Level to match up with the Wither. If done properly, you'll start extracting Ether Gas!

Asks for: Fluid Laser Base, Laser Drill, Purple Laser Lens

With the power of Ether Gas, you can craft the final tier of machine frames!

Asks for: Supreme Machine Frame

The Hydroponic Bed is a machine that allows you to plant crops directly on top of it. It works just like regular soil, but can be powered by Ether Gas to grow the crop planted on it very quickly.

Asks for: Hydroponic Bed

The Wither Builder will automatically build the Wither for you when provided the proper items and power. It doesn't stop it from blowing up, so make sure to use it in a Wither Proof area. Tinted Glass from Mob Grinding Utils makes for a great building block just for this.

Asks for: Wither Builder

The Enchantment Extractor will strip down enchanted books from enchanted items when provided with books, effectively harvesting enchants off unused gear.

Asks for: Enchantment Extractor