Modern Industrialization

Now that you can make iron ingots, you can craft a Forge Hammer! This will allow you to smash all varieties of ore and even process the ingots into plates, rings, rods, and other materials. While it is easier to do, this method of making materials is considered very inefficient, due to the cost of remaking the hammers. You should progress onto machine processing with a Steam Macerator as soon as you're able. Note: You can also pulverize logs into sawdust for early cardboard boxes. These can be handy for lots of things!

Asks for: Forge Hammer

After you've crafted a Forge Hammer, you'll want to make some Iron Plates as well as some Copper Components which will be used in a multitude of crafting recipes. You can also use these to make one of the best mining tools in the early game!

Asks for: Copper Plate, Copper Rod, Iron Plate, Copper Bolt, Copper Curved Plate

There are many ways to power Modern Industrialization machines (MI for short)! It's important to know that in FTB Skies 2, the power systems are unified to allow you to use and produce FE or MI energy. For example, you can power MI machines with Mekanism generators and vice versa. This gives you the freedom to progress however you'd, like while still enjoying the best parts of MI!

Silk Touch is important for maximizing your ore outputs. By processing them in block form, you will receive more products and byproducts than via standard mining. Luckily, MI provides a solution to this! The miraculous Steam Mining Drill can mine a 3x3 area AND has a Silk Touch mode. For the recipe, try mixing together some invar in a jar... To use it, you'll need to provide it Water by just having a bucket in your inventory or by right-clicking a water source block. To power the drill, open your inventory and drag a fuel source like coal over top of the Steam Mining Drill and then Right-click it to deposit the fuel. You can change the Drill mode by Shift + Right-clicking it. Yes, it does work with Ultimine!

Asks for: Steam Mining Drill

Your first alloy you'll want to make is Bronze. There are several ways to do this, including just mixing dusts in a Tempered Jar. It's a very important alloy for progression, and will open your path to MI's Bronze Age!

Asks for: Bronze Ingot

Before we can use machines that need power, we'll need to power them using Steam. Steam produced via Mekanism should work as well, but you will need to make sure that it is LIQUID steam. If you plan on generating Steam using MI, the Bronze Boiler will be the first method of producing enough Steam to power your bronze age tech. For it to work, you'll need to first provide it Water, either manually via buckets, or via a Water Pump. It also needs burnable Fuel like coal, which can be hoppered or piped in. Once you have both Water and Fuel pumping into the Bronze Boiler, you can pump out Steam from the output face with the square on it (which can also be changed with a Wrench).

Asks for: Bronze Boiler

MI's Steam Coke Oven is much faster than the Immersive Engineering variant, however, it needs to be powered with Steam to operate. This is another multiblock, just like the regular Coke Oven, except this one needs Item Hatches and Fluid Hatches to function properly. The Coke Oven is a 3x3x3 multiblock made mostly out of Bricks. While it may seem like a hassle, these are definitely worth making! The Coke Oven will need one input for Steam and one for coal. This will produce Creosote Oil and Coal Coke.

Asks for: Bricks, Bronze Item Input Hatch, Bronze Item Output Hatch, Coke Oven

Now that you have bronze, you'll be able to make MI Pipes. These are highly versatile and absolutely worth using. You can stack up to three Pipes in the same block space. They can also be died so they won't connect to each other, and their connection states can be configured with the MI Wrench You can go even further by creating a Facade out of any block to blend pipes seamlessly into your builds. To do this, Sneak + Right-click on the block you want the Pipes to display as, then right-click any Pipe in the world to apply the Facade. While this does consume blocks from your inventory, it can easily be popped back off by Sneak + Right-clicking with the Facade with the MI Wrench. To make copying settings of pipes easier, you have been given a Pipe Config Card. With this tool, you can copy settings of a Pipe onto the card, then place it in your offhand. Any Pipe you place like this will automatically copy the settings on the card.

Mixers are used to combine multiple components and sometimes liquids into new ingredients. Make sure to pay attention to the tier of mixer required for recipes! 2 eu/t is a Steam Mixer. 4 eu/t is a Steel Mixer. Any higher than that will require an Electric Mixer or better.

Asks for: Bronze Mixer

The Cutting Machine can make some items more efficiently or automatically. It will also give you 6 planks per log when cutting wood. It's important to note that all operations with the cutting saw take a small amount of Lubricant, so automating it is advised.

Asks for: Bronze Cutting Machine

The first few basic machines you'll want to make are the Bronze Furnace and the Macerator. The Bronze Furnace is powered by Steam to smelt items faster than a regular vanilla furnace. The Macerator is crucial to providing ore multiplication, as well as getting different byproducts from several items.

Asks for: Bronze Furnace, Bronze Macerator

The Compressor is great for pressing materials down into plates and other useful items for progression. Using the Forge Hammer can only carry you so far!

Asks for: Bronze Compressor

The Wrench is probably one of the most useful tools you'll be using during your playthrough. This tool helps configure pipes, rotate blocks, and can even help you build multiblocks! By holding the Wrench and looking at the base machine of a multiblock, it will create holograms of blocks to show you how to build it! Tip: Place it in your off-hand when building multiblocks!

The Steam Blast Furnace is your first major MI multiblock. You'll need to give it Steam and uncooked steel dust for it to make Steel Ingots. In addition to the controller block, you'll need a fluid and item Input hatch as well as an item Output hatch as shown in the quest. The remaining blocks should be fire clay bricks. You can configure the inputs and outputs in many different ways. Holding the wrench or an input/output hatch should show you where their valid placements are.

Asks for: Bronze Fluid Input Hatch, Bronze Item Input Hatch, Bronze Item Output Hatch, Fire Clay Bricks, Steam Blast Furnace

Typically, you would progress into the Bronze Age first, making Coal Coke and Steam for early power. While this is still a perfectly valid path that is still outlined in the MI guidebook, you can also just jump directly to Steel by using any of the steel production methods available in the pack. This could mean using Mekanism's Metallurgic Infuser, Immersive Engineering's Blast Furnace, or just sticking with MI to craft it as well. For those without much experience in MI, you can never have enough steel. Start cooking. :)

Asks for: Steel Ingot, Steel Machine Casing

The Steel Quarry is a multiblock machine that infinitely harvests materials over time, as long as it is provided with Drills. In this pack, Drills are not consumed. Note: Different Drills and tiers will yield different ores, so check the uses to best target the ores you want the most. Make sure your output is large enough to accommodate all the ore types or use multiple output hatches so you don't miss any ores!

Asks for: Bronze Drill, Steam Quarry, Steel Pipe Machine Casing

Since it is much easier to access Steel in this pack, you can immediately upgrade your bronze machines using Steel Upgrades. This can be done by crafting the machine together with the upgrade in a crafting table, or by simply using the upgrade on them in the world.

Asks for: Steel Upgrade

For us to make Rubber, we'll need to get our hands on some form of Oil first. This will require either Carbon Dust or Coke Dust to be mixed with water to create Raw Synthetic Oil. To make Coal Coke, you'll need to use MI's Coke Oven or Immersive Engineering's Coke Oven.

Asks for: Coal Coke Dust, Coal Coke Gem

With Raw Synthetic Oil or Crude Oil, you can now blast them into Synthetic Oil. This is how we'll make Rubber! While Crude Oil seems like an easier route in the beginning, finding oil in the void might prove a difficult task. Note: All fluid quests can be completed by either having a bucket of fluid, or pumping one bucket's worth of fluid into a Task Screen.

Asks for: Synthetic Oil Bucket

For the next step, we'll turn our Synthetic Oil into Rubber Sheets in a Mixer.

Asks for: Rubber Sheet

Analog Circuits are the basis for all LV Technology. You can craft them with Rubber Sheets and a few components, or you can bypass this process by converting Mekanism's Elite Circuits into Analog Circuits instead. You will need a lot of these!

Asks for: Elite Control Circuit, Analog Circuit

The Wiremill is needed to make most forms of wire and fine wire. You'll be using this machine often to make circuits and more intricate machinery, items, and gear. It's generally worth upgrading to the highest tier that your current technological progression will allow for.

Asks for: Steel Wiremill

MI has several different cables for each tier. For LV, for example, there are Copper, Silver, and Tin Cables, which can transfer the same amount of power with no power loss. The reason for different types is that they don't connect to each other, allowing you to place multiple in the same blockspace (up to 3).

Asks for: Tin Cable

With MI, you'll find that a lot of the technology requires these specific parts. In addition to being crafting ingredients, they act as functional upgrades as well. For example, you can insert a motor into your pipes to speed them up! For more info, you can always check out the MI Manual for a full list.

Asks for: Conveyor, Motor, Piston, Robot Arm

We're now ready to make the journey into a new technological age, the LV Age. Each machine in this age will require these Basic Machine Hulls. You'll use A LOT of them.

Asks for: Basic Machine Hull

The Heatproof Machine Casing will be used in a variety of multiblock structures from MI, so make sure to make a lot!

Asks for: Heatproof Machine Casing

The Large Steam Boiler is a multiblock which performs the same task as many small Boilers. You can run one with just one Bronze Water Pump feeding it water, but you will eventually need up to 2 Steel Water Pumps to fully provide enough water. You can convert the logs into charcoal in a Coke Oven and burn both the charcoal and the creosote in the Boiler. You may need several coke ovens to keep up with demand. One Large Bronze Boiler can support 8 LV Steam Turbines constantly.

Asks for: Bronze Fluid Input Hatch, Bronze Fluid Output Hatch, Bronze Item Input Hatch, Bronze Pipe Machine Casing, Bronze Plated Bricks, Heatproof Machine Casing

Our first goal is to convert our Steam into power for our machines! We can do this by making the LV Steam Turbine, which produces 32 EU/t. To transfer the power out of the Turbine, you'll need to use the right cables for LV power, which can extract up to 256 EU/t. If you need more, you should use different cables to make separate energy networks. Using each of the different cables, you could transfer up to 768 EU/t worth of LV power.

Asks for: LV Steam Turbine

The Polarizer gives a magnetic charge to various items. This is primarily useful for making Magnetic Steel Rods.

Asks for: Polarizer

The Electric Packer is a machine used for several important recipes, including making printed circuits for Applied Energistics 2!

Asks for: Electric Packer

Storage Units allow for saving EU for a later time. Just like the generators, they handle the same EU rate as their tier.

Asks for: LV Storage Unit

The Electric Blast Furnace is a multiblock designed for smelting using LV Energy. This multiblock is a 3x4x3, with the two hollow layers of Cupronickel Coils in the center. The top and bottom layers are made up of Heat Proof Machine Casings, and of course the hatches to provide power and bring items in and out. The next page shows an example of a completed build.

Asks for: Cupronickel Coil, Electric Blast Furnace, Heatproof Machine Casing, LV Energy Input Hatch, Steel Item Input Hatch, Steel Item Output Hatch

Now that you have an Electric Blast Furnace, you'll be able to make Industrial Aluminum. If you're sticking with M.I, you'll have to acquire Industrial Aluminum Nuggets first, but there are more efficient methods through other mods.

Asks for: Industrial Aluminum Ingot

Before we make our first Electronic Circuit, we'll need to make an Electronic Circuit Board to hold all of the components.

Asks for: Electronic Circuit Board

A Mixer is also a very essential machine to have from MI, as you'll be using it to mix a variety of dusts and/or materials/components! For example, you can mix Gunpowder and Charcoal Dust to get your first Sulfur Dust.

Asks for: Electric Mixer

The Assembler is used to construct many advanced machines, components, and frames for technological progression. It will require power, items, and sometimes fluid as inputs to create the final product. When crafting an item, make sure to check the EU/t required for the craft in JEI! Note: You can lock input and output slots to prevent certain recipes from crafting. This is important to know for automation. Also you're going to want MANY of these eventually.

Asks for: Assembler

The Assembler now lets us craft upgrades for all of our machines! These upgrades will allow machines to overclock and perform their functions faster at the cost of greater energy consumption.

Asks for: Basic Upgrade

Opening up the next tier of technology will rely on the Electronic Circuit. You can convert a Mekanism Ultimate Control Circuit for these recipes as well but beyond this tier you'll need to automate the remaining processors with MI.

Asks for: Ultimate Control Circuit, Electronic Circuit

The Advanced Machine Hull starts your journey into Medium Voltage technology, and is used to build all of your MV machinery. You can also upgrade your existing LV processing machines by inserting one into its upgrade slot. This will allow the machine to accept and process MV tier energy and recipes. You didn't think you'd have to build all new machines every tier, did you?

Asks for: Advanced Machine Hull

These larger pumps provide more power for us to create faster and more pressurized machines. You'll use many of these, so it's worth having an automation chain in place for them.

Asks for: Large Pump

The Centrifuge spins materials at very high RPMs to separate key components into layers for further extraction. Your most important use of this right away will be processing raw iron to obtain Manganese byproducts.

Asks for: Centrifuge

A Distillery will be essential until you're able to make a Distillation Tower later in progression. With some Oil and the Distillery, you can now begin refining Petrochemical Byproducts. There are a lot of these and almost all of them will be useful. However, Distilleries can only refine 1 byproduct at a time so you'll need several of these to get everything set up.

Asks for: Distillery

By Centrifuging raw iron, you can extract some Manganese as well. You'll need this to form more advanced alloys in the future, like Stainless Steel.

Asks for: Manganese Crushed Dust

The Vacuum Freezer is a multiblock machine that uses extreme temperatures to cool down items or liquids placed inside. The structure is a hollow 3x4x3 made up of Frostproof Machine Casings, and hatches to input items, liquids, and power. Here is an example of a completed multiblock Vacuum Freezer!

Asks for: Frostproof Machine Casing, Vacuum Freezer

The Chemical Reactor is an essential machine to have from MI! It is used to fuse certain chemicals or items together using chemical reactions, and will be useful for creating many new items and chemicals.

Asks for: Chemical Reactor

By using Doped Silicon Plates over their regular counterparts, you can greatly increase the yield from their various recipes.

Asks for: N-Doped Silicon Plate, P-Doped Silicon Plate

Large motors are both a crafting ingredient and a way to speed your item pipes up. As with most subcomponents in MI you'll want a production chain setup to ensure you have these available.

Asks for: Large Motor

The MV Steam Turbine consumes up to 128mb/t of Steam to produce 128 EU/t of power. If you haven't already upgraded your Large Bronze Boilers to the advanced versions, now might be the time!

Asks for: MV Steam Turbine

There are two ways to get Diesel: You can use Distilleries to get Light and Heavy Fuels, and then use the Mixer to combine them into Diesel. You can also refine Crude Oil using a Refinery Controller from PNCR, which will require heat and pressure.

Asks for: Diesel Bucket

Diesel Generators can provide on-demand power by burning different fuels, most notably Diesel. Unlike Boilers, they will only consume fuel when producing energy, making them an attractive option when you don't fully consume your maximum output regularly. Remember, Diesel can also fuel your Boilers should you wish to use it for that!

Asks for: MV Diesel Generator

By distilling Sugar Solution, you can get Ethanol, which will be needed for making Ethylene.

Asks for: Ethanol Bucket

Using the Chemical Reactor, we can combine Ethanol and Sulfur Dust to create Ethylene.

Asks for: Ethylene Bucket

Combining Ethylene with Lead Tiny Dust, we can get Polyethylene.

Asks for: Polyethylene Bucket

While you have Ethanol from your Distilleries and Sugar Solution, perhaps you could also make more using your excess Sulfuric Acid and Ethylene.

Asks for: Ethanol Bucket

With Polyethylene available, we can craft Advanced Upgrades that are 8x more effective than the Basic Upgrade.

Asks for: Advanced Upgrade

The Electrolyzer can split materials into their different parts using strong electric currents. You can electrolyze Bauxite Dust to get Aluminum Dust, which you can then directly smelt into ingots in the Electric Blast Furnace.

Asks for: Electrolyzer

Your Steam Quarry can be upgraded directly into the Electric Quarry using the same multiblock! This new and improved quarry will allow you to use better Drills like Gold, Steel, or Stainless Steel. If you wish to get into Petrochemicals and/or sustainable Diesel Fuels, it may be worth building an Oil Drilling Rig soon with aluminum drills for virulent mixture. Remember that drills aren't consumed in this pack.

Asks for: Electric Quarry

Our next step involves some chemistry! By electrolyzing salt, you can extract Chlorine, which is useful for the fundamental chemistry needed for progression.

Asks for: Chlorine Bucket

For the next step, you'll need to combine Hydrogen and Chlorine in equal parts in the Chemical Reactor to make Hydrochloric Acid.

Asks for: Hydrochloric Acid Bucket

The oil Drilling Rig uses drills to dig up liquids. You can drill either crude oil or shale oil and each follow slightly different processing paths so make sure to check JEI to see how to plan your processing. A fully-built Drilling Rig:

Asks for: Chain, Oil Drilling Rig, Steel Pipe Machine Casing

It's worth upgrading your Large Bronze Boilers into the advanced versions now that you can make the circuitry. They quadruple your Steam production.

Asks for: Advanced Large Steam Boiler

Similar to the process of extracting Chromium, crushed Manganese must be combined in a Chemical Reactor with a strong acid such as Sulfuric Acid. This will provide you with a Manganese Sulfuric Solution, which can then be Electrolyzed for Tiny Manganese Dust. This process will yield a return of some Sulfuric Acid

Asks for: Manganese Dust

Centrifuging redstone will give you Ruby Dust, along with several other useful byproducts, including Neodymium, which you'll use for advanced magnetic applications and, eventually, superconducting cabling.

Asks for: Ruby Dust

Centrifuging Ruby Dust will yield Crushed Chromium, which needs to be further processed. As a nice byproduct, you'll also get pure Aluminum Dust Piles to smelt for Aluminum Ingots.

Asks for: Chromium Crushed Dust

You can combine Crushed Chromium and Hydrochloric Acid in a Chemical Reactor to make a Chromium Hydrochloric Solution. This is then Electrolyzed to obtain Tiny Piles of Chromium, as well as reclaiming some of the Hydrogen and Chlorine from the acid mix.

Asks for: Chromium Dust

Now that we have Manganese and Chromium Dust, we can combine those two with some iron and nickel dust in a mixer to create Stainless Steel Dust. This is needed to make more advanced circuitry, as well as for creating stronger metals to upgrade our Blast Furnace.

Asks for: Stainless Steel Dust

Once you have your hands on some Stainless Steel Dust, you can run it through an Electric Blast Furnace to create a Stainless Steel Hot Ingot!

Asks for: Stainless Steel Ingot

Combining Aluminum Dust, Chromium Dust, and Stainless Steel Dust in a Mixer will yield Kanthal Dust. These need to be smelted into Kanthal Hot Ingots in an Electric Blast Furnace before being cooled down in a Vacuum Freezer. After some more processing, you'll be able to upgrade your Electric Blast Furnace with Kanthal Coils, allowing you to forge better quality metals that require much higher temperatures.

Asks for: Kanthal Coil, Kanthal Ingot

The Air Intake can go into the Vacuum Freezer to make Liquid Air. This Liquid Air can be broken down into atmospheric gases and utilized in metallurgical processes.

Asks for: Air Intake

You should have plenty of extra Oxygen from Electrolyzing water for Hydrogen. Alternatively, you can Centrifuge Liquid Air, which you will need to do for Nitrogen and Argon anyway.

Asks for: Oxygen Bucket

Now that we have access to Stainless Steel and Polyethylene, our circuits can become even more advanced by making Digital Circuit Boards!

Asks for: Digital Circuit Board

We have everything we need to upgrade to Digital Circuits. This dawns in a new age, the High Voltage Age.

Asks for: Digital Circuit

The Turbo Machine Hull is used as the base building block for High Voltage machines. As with Advanced Machine Frames, your existing processing machines can all be upgraded to this new voltage should you wish by either using the Turbo Machine Hull directly on the machine, or by placing it in the upgraded slot of the machine.

Asks for: Turbo Machine Hull

Annealed Copper is heat-treated to make it easier to work with. This is a necessary component for crafting all of the advanced tier components. It's made by cooking copper with Oxygen in the Electric Blast Furnace, and then cooling the hot ingot in a Vacuum Freezer

Asks for: Annealed Copper Ingot

Now that we have Annealed Copper, we can craft the Advanced Components needed to upgrade our tech. First, you'll need to make some Advanced Motors, which you can then use to make Advanced Pumps!

Asks for: Advanced Motor, Advanced Pump

The Distillation Tower is a much better way of breaking down Petrochemicals into byproducts. It can stack, meaning one multiblock can have multiple outputs. You can have as few as one output or as many as nine to break down all possible byproducts! Note: Make sure you set the height of the structure in the controller so that it will properly form! You should aim to make a tower with at least 3 outputs like this one for the next quest.

Asks for: Advanced Fluid Input Hatch, Advanced Fluid Output Hatch, Clean Stainless Steel Machine Casing, Distillation Tower, HV Energy Input Hatch, Stainless Steel Pipe Machine Casing

The Stainless Steel Drill will allow you access to new and important materials! By using these drills in your Electric Quarry, you can obtain new ores like Titanium, Platinum, and Tungsten. By using these drills in the Oil Drilling Rig, you can get your hands on Shale Oil, which can be further Distilled into most of your Petrochemical needs.

Asks for: Stainless Steel Drill

You'll now be able to use the Quarry to get Tungsten Ore! This can be macerated into dust, then unpacked into tiny dust, then compressed into nuggets, then combined together to finally make Tungsten Ingots!

Asks for: Tungsten Ingot

Once your Quarry digs up some Platinum Ore, we can macerate it down into Raw Platinum Ore.

Asks for: Raw Platinum

By combining Raw Platinum Ore with Sulfuric Acid in a Chemical Reactor, we can make Platinum Sulfuric Solution.

Asks for: Platinum Sulfuric Solution Bucket

By Centrifuging our new Platinum Sulfuric Solution, we can extract Purified Platinum Sulfuric Solution, with a small chance to get Iridium Tiny Dust as a byproduct.

Asks for: Tiny Iridium Dust

For the next step, we need to combine Argon with some Silicon Dust to make Monocrystalline Silicon. These can be cut into Silicon Wafers that you can use for advanced processor recipes and RAM.

Asks for: Silicon Wafer

Now we can Electrolyze the purified solution to create Platinum Tiny Dust! With 9 of these, you can create Platinum Dust. You then run this through an Electric Blast Furnace to create Platinum Hot Ingot, then through either a Vacuum Freezer or Heat Exchanger to cool it down!

Asks for: Platinum Ingot

With access to Stainless Steel Drills, we can harvest Shale Oil from our Oil Drilling Rig. Once you have a Distillation Tower, we can run this through to get Helium, Sulfuric Naphtha, and Sulfuric Crude Oil.

Asks for: Shale Oil Bucket

Once you've obtained Sulfuric Crude Oil, you can process it with Hydrogen in a Chemical Reactor to get Sulfuric Acid and Crude Oil. You can also run it through a Thermopneumatic Processing Plant from PNCR to get Sulfur Dust and Crude Oil. The processing route you chose is up to you!

Asks for: Sulfuric Crude Oil Bucket

Diesel can be used as a fuel, or enriched into Boosted Diesel with the help of some Diethyl Ether.

Asks for: Diesel Bucket

By combining our Sulfuric Naphtha with Hydrogen in a Chemical Reactor, we can separate the liquid into Naphtha and Sulfuric Acid.

Asks for: Sulfuric Naphtha Bucket

With pure Naphtha, you can combine it with Steam in another Chemical Reactor to make Steam-Cracked Naphtha. You'll want to process this in a new Distillation Tower with 8 outputs. I guess you can say it isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Asks for: Steam-Cracked Naphtha Bucket

While you get Ethylbenzene from Distilling Steam-Cracked Naphtha, you can also combine extra Ethylene and Benzene you get to make more Ethylbenzene.

Asks for: Ethylbenzene Bucket

Butadiene is used to make Styrene-Butadiene.

Asks for: Butadiene Bucket

Propene is used to make Acrylic Acid by combining it with Oxygen in a Chemical Reactor.

Asks for: Propene Bucket

Acrylic Acid is used to make Diethyl Ether. It can also be used to make Acrylic Glue, in case you want to duplicate Slimeballs, for some reason.

Asks for: Acrylic Acid Bucket

Acetylene is used to make Vinyl Chloride by combining it with Hydrochloric Acid in a Chemical Reactor. You can turn all of your Methane into Acetylene as well using an Electric Blast Furnace.

Asks for: Acetylene Bucket

You can combine Ethylbenzene with Steam and Iron Dust in a Chemical Reactor to create Styrene.

Asks for: Styrene Bucket

By combining Styrene and Butadiene in another Chemical Reactor, we can create Styrene-Butadiene.

Asks for: Styrene-Butadiene Bucket

Combining Styrene-Butadiene with either Lead Tiny Dust or Chromium Tiny Dust in another Chemical Reactor, we can make Styrene-Butadiene Rubber. This is a super insulator, and you can make tons of rubber at a time. It can also replace some of the Synthetic Rubber used in certain recipes, like making cables!

Asks for: Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Bucket

For us to make more advanced circuitry, we'll need to make a very important module for the boards: Random Access Memory (RAM) Think about it. You're using RAM in real life to make RAM in a game.

Asks for: Random Access Memory

By combining Raw Titanium Ore with Manganese Sulfuric Solution in an Electric Blast Furnace, you can make Titanium Hot Ingots. Cool these down in a Vacuum Freezer to get Titanium Ingots!

Asks for: Titanium Ingot

By packing 3 incredibly strong ingots, you can make Mixed Blastproof Ingots! These are needed to make the Implosion Compressor, which can then make resources more efficiently.

Asks for: Mixed Blastproof Ingot

The Implosion Compressor is used to place items under much more intense pressure than a normal compressor. This allows you to transform dusts and ingots into highly blast resistant materials. Most of the materials will be required for nuclear technologies.

Asks for: Blastproof Casing, Implosion Compressor, Solid Titanium Machine Casing

The Pressurizer is a special multiblock machine that can convert water or steam into the High Pressure (HP) versions of either that can be used in the HP Large Steam Boiler. The Pressurizer can also generate Liquid Air by placing an Air Intake inside one of the multiblock hatches. Unlike most other multiblocks, this machine is built in a cross shape, as seen below.

Asks for: Pressurizer, Titanium Pipe Machine Casing

The HP Large Steam Boiler can produce up to 2048 mb/t of Steam. HP Steam is worth 8 times more than regular steam, so each mb will produce 8 EU/t instead of 1 EU/t! As with all boilers, it needs to run continuously to reach maximum efficiency. It only accepts HP Water or HP Heavy Water.

Asks for: Clean Stainless Steel Machine Casing, Heatproof Machine Casing, High Pressure Large Steam Boiler, Stainless Steel Pipe Machine Casing

The Large Steam Turbine converts either Regular Steam or HP Steam into energy. It generates up to 16,384 EU/t. However, it won't return regular or HP water. To recycle HP water, you'll need to use a Heat Exchanger

Asks for: Clean Stainless Steel Machine Casing, Large Steam Turbine, Stainless Steel Pipe Machine Casing

To be able to recycle our HP water, we'll need to make the Heat Exchanger. The Heat Exchanger is a multiblock machine that cools items or liquids down to produce other items or liquids. We'll be using this to recycle our HP water, but this can also be used as a more efficient way to cool Hot Ingots! Pressurizing water into HP water consumes a lot of energy, and the Large Steam Turbine will not return it. You can use the Heat Exchanger to recover the HP water for another cycle. If you use the recipe that takes Steam and HP water as inputs, it will output regular water and HP Steam that we can use for power. Note: Be cautious of the recipe amounts, as you might need higher tiers of hatches to meet the recipe requirements. You'll know your hatches are too small if the recipes fail to start processing. This machine is 3x3x5 multiblock, with the middle section built out of specific casings. One wall is made up of Heatproof Machine Casings and the other of Frostproof Machine Casings. The item and fluid hatches can only go in certain spots, so make sure to use the Wrench to help place them.

Asks for: Frostproof Machine Casing, Heat Exchanger, Heatproof Machine Casing, Stainless Steel Pipe Machine Casing

Until now, Monazite hasn't been very useful except for the Neodymium. Now you'll want to start fully extracting it for Yttrium and Cadmium which are required for the most advanced super conducting alloys.

Asks for: Cadmium Dust, Neodymium Dust, Yttrium Dust

Vinyl Chloride is used to make Polyvinyl Chloride by combining it with lead or Chromium Tiny Dust in a Chemical Reactor.

Asks for: Vinyl Chloride Bucket

Polyvinyl Chloride is used for advanced electronic components, upgrades, and superconductors.

Asks for: Polyvinyl Chloride Bucket

With our new technology and chemicals, we can now create a new type of board for our electronics, the Processing Unit Board.

Asks for: Processing Unit Board

With our new boards and RAM, we can combine our current technology together to create the highly advanced Processing Unit.

Asks for: Processing Unit

Welcome to the Nuclear Age! It's time to start having fun with Extreme Voltage. The Highly Advanced Machine Hull is used for nearly all your EV Tier technologies, and just like before, you can use them to upgrade your processing machines!

Asks for: Highly Advanced Machine Hull

We'll need stronger motors to make better machines. These can also provide a faster item transfer rate in pipes!

Asks for: Large Advanced Motor

Of course there is a Large Advanced Pump

Asks for: Large Advanced Pump

Titanium Drills are essential for producing mass quantities of Uranium, Iridium, and Fluorite. You're going to need a fair amount of Uranium for Nuclear Power, as well as Iridium for highly advanced components.

Asks for: Titanium Drill

If we use our Titanium Drills in our Quarry, we can harvest Iridium Ore. You'll probably also have some Iridium Tiny Dust from your Platinum processing chain!

Asks for: Raw Iridium

Superconductor Ingots are used to make the highest tier of energy transfer cables available. These cables can transfer an astounding 1.024G EU/t. This metal is also used for many of the late game technology recipes. To make these, you'll need to start by Mixing the dusts of Iridium, Annealed Copper, Yttrium, and Neodymium together in a mixer. This will give us Superconductor Dust, which we can smelt in an Electric Blast Furnace into a Superconductor Hot Ingots. Cool that down in a Vacuum Freezer or Heat Exchanger and you'll get a Superconductor Ingot!

Asks for: Superconductor Ingot

To make a Nuclear Reactor, you'll need Nuclear Alloy Plates. These are crafted using Blastproof Ingots, Beryllium Ingots, and Cadmium Ingots. To get Beryllium, you'll need to centrifuge Emeralds. You should already have some Cadmium ready to go from processing Monazite. Once you have Nuclear Mixed Plates, blow them up in an Implosion Compressor to create Nuclear Alloy Plates. You'll need plenty of these for your reactors so it's worth setting up a good automation line for them.

Asks for: Nuclear Alloy Plate

A lot goes into making a Nuclear Reactor, and there are many types. To explain the process, check out the Reactor Components and Reactor Mechanics quests linked to this one! Nuclear Reactors produce a lot of energy primarily as Steam. Unlike most other Nuclear Reactors, this one does not explode or emit radiation.

Asks for: Nuclear Alloy Pipe Machine Casing, Nuclear Alloy Casing, Nuclear Fluid Hatch, Nuclear Item Hatch, Nuclear Reactor

There are a lot of Reactor Components to keep track of, so here is a list of each of them and their function(s)! Fuel Rods: These come in many varieties, and are your main nuclear force. They are responsible for providing the reactor with energy. Quad Rods last much longer than Single Rods or Dual Rods. Their emissivity decreases with temperature. Plates: A general-use conductive and reflective surface. has a high change of converting incoming Fast Neutrons into Thermal Neutrons. Heat Exchanger: A component designed for managing internal reactor temperature. Has a high thermal conductivity, meaning it can take heat from adjacent sources and send it to adjacent destinations. Water: Comes in several varieties. Pressurized versions are more energy-dense, and Heavy Water produces Tritium instead of Deuterium. Produces Deuterium when absorbing a Fast Neutron and increases in temperature (turning to Steam) when absorbing a Thermal Neutron. Cadmium Control Rod: A special component that has a high chance of absorbing incoming Thermal Neutrons.

Asks for: Small Heat Exchanger

The most basic available reactor fuel is a regular Uranium Fuel Rod. It requires no fancy processing, but also outputs the least amount of energy. However, its simplicity makes it appealing to start with.

Asks for: Uranium Fuel Rod

Plutonium is a manufactured material from Depleted Fuel Rods. To get a lot of it, you might want to invest in a Breeder Reactor. A Breeder Reactor is generally one which seeks to process fuel rods as quickly as possible with little regard for efficiency. Of course, you'll need to be generating Uranium at a quick enough rate to supply it. Plutonium rates (per rod) are as follows (Tiny Dust in -> Tiny Dust out): Uranium: 0 -> 27 LE Uranium: 0 -> 24 HE Uranium: 0 -> 18 LE MOX: 9 -> 30 (+21) HE MOX: 27 -> 36 (+9)

Asks for: Plutonium Dust

MOX Fuel is generally superior to regular Uranium Fuel, with an added benefit that it produces more Plutonium than it takes to make it. A 1.33x surplus, to be precise. This does NOT make it suitable for dedicated Plutonium production, but it does mean that you don't lose much by using it. Its high neutron output might be appealing.

Asks for: HE Mox Fuel Rod

You're playing with Nuclear Reactors, so the most obvious next step would be to make a Nuke. Only for testing purposes, of course... (: These don't actually explode when placed so don't go getting any ideas.

Asks for: Nuke

Uranium 235 is a rare isotope of Uranium, as opposed to Uranium 238, its more common sibling. When processing Uranium Fuel Rods that used 235 in their recipe, you will get back 2/3 of the 235 used to create it, meaning that you will need to constantly be centrifuging Uranium to get more 235. These produce more energy than regular Uranium Fuel Rods, but less than Plutonium-based ones.

Asks for: Uranium 235 Dust

By mixing Uranium 235 and 238 together, we can get HE Uranium Dust. These can be processed into HE Uranium Fuel Rod for more efficiency!

Asks for: HE Uranium Fuel Rod

Deuterium is a byproduct of Water in a Nuclear Reactor when it is hit with a Fast Neutron. It can be used to make Heavy Water.

Asks for: Deuterium Bucket

Tritium is a byproduct of Heavy Water getting hit by a Fast Neutron in a Nuclear Reactor.

Asks for: Tritium Bucket

Here's a simplistic overview of the many reactor mechanics. Neutron Emission: Fuel Rods emit Neutrons, which start reactions. These can be Fast or Thermal, with a percent change of being either. Fuel Rods can emit the maximum number of Neutrons, as seen in JEI, or less depending on the temperature it is at. Fuel Rods will also emit Neutrons when they absorb incoming Neutrons. Neutron Absorption: Fuel Rods and reactor components have a chance to absorb an incoming Fast Neutron. If this occurs, the Fuel Rod will emit more Neutrons, while other components will take a tick of durability. Neutron Scattering: Incoming Neutrons have a chance to be deflected into other spaces. The direction it travels is random. The Neutron type has a chance to become either Fast or Thermal, depending on the chance listed on the component's EMI page. Neutron Travel: If a traveling Neutron is not absorbed and does NOT scatter, it passes through the component, maintaining its direction of travel. If a Neutron travels into an unoccupied space (any non-hatch), it disappears. Temperature: When a Thermal Neutron is absorbed, it raises the temperature of the component in question. Thermal Conductivity: The ability for the component to transmit heat. Sends heat from hot things to less hot things.

Asks for: Nuclear Alloy Casing

With Helium, from our Shale Oil, we can combine this with Argon in a Vacuum Freezer to make Cryofluid! This can be used in a Heat Exchanger to create a faster processing line for cooling Hot Ingots. You'll also need this later on to make Cooling Cells!

Asks for: Cryofluid Bucket

With Polyvinyl Chloride, you can now make Turbo Upgrade for your machines, which work 8x faster than Advanced Upgrades.

Asks for: Turbo Upgrade

Diethyl Ether is used to turn Diesel and Biodiesel into Boosted Diesel.

Asks for: Diethyl Ether Bucket

Boosted Diesel is the best liquid fuel. Note that you will need Diethyl Ether to make it (found in the petrochem distillation tree directly below).

Asks for: Boosted Diesel Bucket

It's going to take everything you've learned so far to make the ultimate circuit: the Quantum Circuit. As long as you are observing the circuit, it will stay as one whole circuit. :)

Asks for: Quantum Circuit

Our first step into Quantum Realms Machines! Just like all other hulls, the Quantum Machine Hull can be used to upgrade your processing machines to the hull's tier!

Asks for: Quantum Machine Hull

Using an Implosion Compressor, we can compress an Ultradense Metal Ball with 64 Nukes to create a Singularity. That's right. We're compressing Nukes. Surely nothing bad will happen... right?

Asks for: Singularity

Once you get your first Singularity, you can electrolyze it for UU Matter. It produces 1 mb of UU Matter per operation, but also lasts forever.

Asks for: UU Matter Bucket

If we want our machines to handle these levels of power, we'll need to make Quantum Upgrades. The first one you make should be used on your Electric Packer to unlock new recipes. Quantum Upgrades cap out machine speeds.

Asks for: Quantum Upgrade

The Fusion Reactor is a massive multiblock machine that combines two input fluids to produce Plasma that is usable for power. We'll need this to make Helium Plasma.

Asks for: Fusion Reactor

Using the Fusion Reactor, we can combine several liquids together to create Helium Plasma. There are several recipes for this Plasma! Helium 3 will be the easiest to use, but the others can offer better byproducts as well.

Asks for: Helium Plasma Bucket

The Plasma Turbine is the ultimate MI energy producer. It uses Helium Plasma to produce over 1 Million EU/t.

Asks for: Plasma Turbine

Quantum Gear is the best there is. You can fly freely for no power cost, never take damage from external sources, and kill any mob in one hit with the Quantum Sword. It better one-shot everything, since it's technically made out of 64 Nukes.

Asks for: Quantum Boots, Quantum Chestplate, Quantum Helmet, Quantum Leggings, Quantum Sword

While these upgrades can be made to upgrade our machines, we can also make it for some better armor. Highly Advanced Upgrades work 8x faster than Turbo Upgrades.

Asks for: Highly Advanced Upgrade

Durability is a thing of the past! The Gravichestplate uses energy to enable Creative Flight!

Asks for: Gravichestplate

Toluene can be used to make Industrial TNT, which is important for use in the Implosion Compressor! You'll probably want to set up a small automation chain for this.

Asks for: Toluene Bucket

Industrial TNT is used for the Implosion Compressor. Don't worry, these don't actually explode... or maybe that's what you wanted all along...

Asks for: Industrial TNT