Mekanism

Mekanism is the ultimate technology mod! From generating basic power with Wind Turbines, to creating Anti-matter, this mod does it all! To get started, you'll need to get your hands on some Osmium.

Asks for: Osmium Ingot

The Metallurgic Infuser is the core machine used in Mekanism. With this machine, you'll infuse metals with specific materials to create Alloys and Circuits used for more advanced machinery. For a complete description of the interface, check the next page! Inside of the Infuser's interface, we have multiple slots that we can interact with to create new items. The slot on the far left is the Extra Slot, which is where you place infusion items like Redstone or Coal. The middle-left slot is for the item you wish to infuse, like Iron or Osmium! On the right, we have the output slot as well as an energy slot. This slot can use items that store energy like batteries. If you see an energy slot in a Mekanism machine, chances are you can put these items in it!

Asks for: Metallurgic Infuser

Industrial Turbines are vertical multiblock structures that turn Steam into energy, and optionally back into Water using Saturating Condensers. Be careful if a turbine is full of energy, as it will stop or dump steam. The minimum size for this multiblock is a 5x5x5 structure, but adding just one layer to the height (5x6x5) quadruples its power production capacity. This quest will treat these dimensions (5x6x5) as the minimum. The largest size of turbine is 17x18x17, as turbine widths need to be odd for the spinning blades. The multiblock needs a frame of Turbine Casings, with the bottom face filled with Structural Glass or more Casings. Turbine Rotors are stacked on the center block at the bottom, with two Turbine Blades applied to each. Only Structural Glass, Turbine Valves, and Casings can fill in the faces up to the top of the rotors. {image\:ftb\:textures/quests/mekanism/turbine1transp.png width:100 height:100 align:center} The Rotational Complex goes above the rotors, and is surrounded by Pressure Dispersers to close off the multiblock's bottom section. Electromagnetic Coils go above the complex, at least one must touch it, and all must be connected if using more than one. Saturating Condensers can then fill in the remaining space depending on how much water needs to be recycled. {image\:ftb\:textures/quests/mekanism/turbine2transp.png width:100 height:100 align:center} The remaining empty spaces can now be filled with Glass, Casings, or Turbine Vents. The multiblock only needs 1 Vent to form, but they help with Steam flow so the more the better. Once formed, the multiblock can be interacted with to check its current rates and status. The Stats Menu can list what parts of the build are limiting the Steam flow and production rates. {image\:ftb\:textures/quests/mekanism/turbine3transp.png width:100 height:100 align:center}

Asks for: Pressure Disperser, Structural Glass, Electromagnetic Coil, Rotational Complex, Turbine Casing, Turbine Rotor

With the Infuser and some Redstone, we can start by making the basic Alloys and Circuits! You can even combine them together to make Advanced Control Circuits for more advanced machines. These will be used to create most of the items in Mekanism.

Asks for: Advanced Control Circuit, Infused Alloy, Basic Control Circuit

The Infuser can also be used to convert iron into Steel using Carbon for the infusion! You can place Coal or Charcoal in the infusion slot to convert it into Carbon, with Charcoal giving double the amount. Once you have some in the machine, you can run Iron through once to get Enriched Iron. Infusing this again with carbon will give you Steel Dust which you can smelt into Steel Ingots! Steel is a great material to make tools out of due to its high durability, and is also needed to make the basic pipes from the mod.

Asks for: Steel Ingot, Enriched Iron

To make most machines in the mod, we'll need Steel Casings! Note: Most machines have an internal push/pull limit, which can be bypassed by pipes. If you wish to speed up your production make sure to utilize pipes.

Asks for: Steel Casing

The Purification Chamber is mostly used to increase the yield from raw ores. This machine is the start of the Tier 2 Ore Processing Chain, and requires Oxygen to break down raw ores into Ore Chunks.

Asks for: Purification Chamber

A simple furnace-like machine that smelts items using energy instead of burneable fuels.

Asks for: Energized Smelter

The Rotary Condensentrator (say that 10 times fast) turns gases into liquids, or vice versa. You'll use this machine in several parts of your factories, but for now, we're going to use it to make Water Vapor from Water. Pump in some water and change the operation mode with the button in the top right to switch between the modes to turn the liquid into gas. That should give you Water Vapor!

Asks for: Rotary Condensentrator

The Chemical Oxidizer breaks down items into gases. If you plan on upgrading your Ore Processing, you'll need to make this to break down Sulfur Dust into a gas we can use, Sulfur Dioxide. If we combine this with Oxygen in a Chemical Infuser, it will give us Sulfur Trioxide.

Asks for: Sulfur Dust, Chemical Oxidizer

Combining Sulfuric Trioxide with Water Vapor in a Chemical Infuser will give you Sulfuric Acid. This is a strong acid used to break down certain items in a Chemical Dissolution Chamber. It is needed for the progression! You'll need to put the chemical through a Rotary Condensentrator in order to bucket or pump a bucket's worth (1000mB) into an assigned Task Screen.

Asks for: Sulfuric Acid Bucket

This machine is used to break down specific liquids, like Water, into 2 separate gases. The first use you'll have is separating Water into Oxygen and Hydrogen. Oxygen is needed for several machines, including the Purification Chamber.

Asks for: Electrolytic Separator

The Crusher has 3 main uses in Mekanism. 1. It is used to break down ingots directly into Dusts, which can be useful for creating dusts needed for certain machines or upgrades. 2. In the Tier 2 Ore Processing Chain, the Crusher takes ore clumps made from the Purification Chamber and breaks them down into Dirty Dusts. 3. It can create Biofuel from organic materials, which is used to create new machines and byproducts that we'll need later down the road!

Asks for: Crusher

Once you have a Purification Chamber, a Crusher, and an Enrichment Chamber, you can create the Tier 2 Ore Processing chain. This will net us 3 Ingots from 1 Raw Ore. 1. Raw Ore is sent into a Purification Chamber, which is being supplied Oxygen from an Electrolytic Separator. This breaks down the raw ore into Ore Clumps. 2. The Ore Clumps are then sent into a Crusher, where it's then crushed down into Dirty Ore Dusts. 3. The Dirty Ore Dusts are sent into the Enrichment Chamber to be cleaned back into Ore Dust, which can then be smelted down into ingots.

The Thermal Evaporation Tower is a multiblock that heats up the liquid inside of it to create a new liquid. For this, we'll be making Brine from Water. To make this, you'll need a minimum of 53 Thermal Evaporation Blocks, 3 Valves, and 1 Controller. Once you have those, let's learn how to build it! The Thermal Evaporation Tower multiblock is built 4 blocks wide and 4 blocks long, with a minimum height of 3 blocks and a maximum height of 18 blocks. Aside from the first layer, the center is hollow, no matter the height. Think of it like a giant bucket! The frame must also be Thermal Evaporation Blocks, with the Controller and Valves placed on the faces. Here is an example of how it might look: To interact with the block, you'll need to place the Controller on one of the faces. Each Valve is used to pump liquids in and out of the Tower. To make Brine, you'll need to give it water which can easily be done by using a Sink and some mechanical pipes pumping out of it. You'll need another Valve to output the Brine you create, and the 3rd Valve is used to heat up the multiblock. You can make either a Fuelwood Heater or a Resistive Heater to achieve this. Fuelwood burns items like coal, while Resistive Heaters use power instead. 2k is the perfect number for a max size Tower! Once built, you'll see red sparkles indicating that it formed! Pro Tip: You can place the Heater directly on the Valve, so no pipes needed!

Asks for: Fuelwood Heater, Resistive Heater, Thermal Evaporation Block, Thermal Evaporation Controller, Thermal Evaporation Valve, Advanced Solar Generator

If you run Brine through another Thermal Evap. Tower, it'll convert it into Liquid Lithium. We can't do much with Liquid Lithium, so we'll need to convert it into a gas using a Rotary Condensentrator. With Lithium Gas, we can do so much more!

Asks for: Liquid Lithium Bucket

The Chemical Infuser combines two gases into a new gas. It has several important uses, but, for now, we can use one to make Hydrogen Chloride for a better Ore Processing Chain. To make Hydrogen Chloride, we'll first need to take the liquid Brine our Tower is making and separate it out using an Electrolytic Separator. This will break it into Sodium and Chlorine. You can then combine the Chlorine with Hydrogen in a Chemical Infuser to get Hydrogen Chloride.

Asks for: Chemical Infuser

Once you have some Osmium, we can start generating some basic power using the Heat Generator. This generator can be fed any burnable item like coal or wood to generate power, but can also harness heat from Lava around it to generate power passively. To extract the power from the generator, you must connect a pipe or machine to the front face that has a square on it!

Asks for: Heat Generator

Bio Fuel is created by crushing down organic materials in a Crusher. This is used to craft and power a Bio-Generator, which can be a useful power upgrade in the early game! It's also used to create Ethene, which is an energy-dense gas used for both power and crafting HDPE Pellets.

Asks for: Bio Fuel

Bio Fuel can also be used as a great power source in the early game! To burn the fuel into power, you'll need to make a Bio-Generator. Give it some Bio Fuel and that's it! Note: You can only extract power from it on the front face with the big square on it.

Asks for: Bio-Generator

The Enrichment Chamber has several important uses! This machine can break down 3 raw ores into 4 Dusts, essentially multiplying your ingot returns. It's also used to create Enriched versions of items, like Enriched Redstone, Enriched Carbon, and more! These enriched items can be used in the Metallurgic Infuser for 8x the original value.

Asks for: Enrichment Chamber

With the Enrichment Chamber, we can give it diamonds to make Enriched Diamonds. This is an important material that we'll use to create stronger alloys for better circuits and gear!

Asks for: Enriched Diamond

The Pressurized Reaction Chamber is an advanced machine that combines 1 liquid, 1 gas, and 1 item to produce a new item, and sometimes a gas byproduct. This is used to make Ethene, HDPE Pellets, and more!

Asks for: Pressurized Reaction Chamber

Using a Pressurized Reaction Chamber, we can combine Water, Hydrogen, and Bio Fuel to make Substrates. This also creates a byproduct of Ethene. Pro Tip: In Mekanism, if you can't tell if something is a gas or a liquid from the mod, there is an easy trick. If it doesn't say "Liquid", it's a gas.

Asks for: Substrate

To make the strongest alloys and circuits, we'll need to create Refined Obsidian Dust. To do this, we can crush down some obsidian into Obsidian Dust, then infuse that dust with Enriched Diamonds in a Metallurgic Infuser. While this can go directly into the infusion slot in an Infuser, you might as well enrich it first to get the best bang for your buck!

Asks for: Obsidian Dust, Refined Obsidian Dust, Enriched Obsidian

Refined Obsidian Dust is used for more than just turning into Enriched Obsidian! To create Refined Ingots, we'll need to make an Osmium Compressor first. This machine needs Osmium placed into the bottom slot to function. With the Osmium Compressor, you can create Refined Obsidian Ingots and Refined Glowstone Ingots. Both of these are used in high-end crafts, as well as being great materials for making tools with!

Asks for: Refined Glowstone Ingot, Refined Obsidian Ingot, Osmium Compressor

With Enriched Diamonds, we can now use them to reinforce our alloys by infusing Infused Alloys with them in our Metallurgic Infuser. This is the next tier of alloys, allowing us to make Elite Control Circuits.

Asks for: Reinforced Alloy

By combining our new Reinforced Alloys with Advanced Control Circuits, we can create Elite Control Circuits. These are needed to upgrade machines to the Elite tier of factories, as well as being used in higher tier crafts.

Asks for: Elite Control Circuit

The Chemical Injection Chamber is used to combine a gas with a block to create a new item. While this machine can be used to oxidize copper or bring dead coral back to life, it's mostly used as the starting chain for the Tier 3 Ore Processing Chain. If you want to upgrade your ore processing chain, just slap this machine down at the front of your current Tier 2 chain, and send the raw ores you have into it! To break down ores, it will need the Hydrogen Chloride from the previous quest to operate. You can also use Salt, but you'll burn through it all pretty fast. Once you've got it up and running, this machine breaks down 1 raw ore into 4 Ore Shards, which can then be sent into the Purification Chamber to be further processed.

Asks for: Chemical Injection Chamber

Just as a recap so we don't get lost, a Tier 3 chain looks like this! 1. 1 Raw Ore goes into a Chemical Injection Chamber to be broken down into 4 Ore Shards. This machine is being fed either Hydrogen Chloride or Salt. 2. The 4 Ore Shards go into a Purification Chamber, which turns into 4 Ore Clumps. The Chamber needs Oxygen to do this! 3. The 4 Ore Clumps are then sent into a Crusher, where they are crushed into 4 Dirty Dusts. 4. The 4 Dirty Dusts are sent to an Enrichment Chamber, which is then purified into 4 Ore Dusts. 5. The 4 Ore Dusts are then smelted into 4 Ingots. This means for every 1 raw ore you send into the chain, you'll get a return of 4 ingots.

If we infuse our Reinforced Alloys with Enriched Obsidian, we can make Atomic Alloys.

Asks for: Atomic Alloy

The Gas-Burning Generator is one of the best ways to generate power in the early game that can last well into the mid game. This generator can burn Ethene to produce power at a very high rate! You can expect each full generator to produce ~5k RF/t. Alternatively, it will burn Gaseous Source, which you make by running Liquid Source through a Rotary Condensentrator. Gaseous Source is worth about two thirds of Ethene. Expect ~3.1k RF/t from a full generator, and around 300k RF out of every bucket of Liquid Source you feed it.

Asks for: Gas-Burning Generator

Combining Atomic Alloys with Elite Control Circuits can upgrade them to Ultimate Control Circuits. These are used to craft the highest tier pipes, factories, and the most advanced machinery.

Asks for: Ultimate Control Circuit

The Chemical Crystallizer converts a gas into a crystallized item. This has several uses, such as creating Lithium Dust or creating Antimatter Pellets. For the purpose of the ore processing chain, this will take 1 bucket of Clean Ore Slurry and turn it into 5 Ore Crystals. These can then be sent into your Chemical Injection Chamber to follow the rest of the processing chain.

Asks for: Chemical Crystallizer

To make the best power storage in Mekanism, we'll need to convert Lithium into Lithium Dust using a Chemical Crystallizer. The Crystallizer requires Ultimate Control Circuits to craft!

Asks for: Lithium Dust

The Energized Induction Matrix is the ultimate way to store tons of power! This is a custom multiblock structure that can be built up to 18x18x18 for all of your power storage needs. To build this, the smallest structure that can be made is a 3x4x3 multiblock. The frame must be made up of Induction Casings, and the faces can be Structural Glass or Induction Ports, with Induction Cells and Providers completely filling the inside. Providers determine how fast the Matrix can push or pull power, whereas the Cells determine the maximum amount of power that can be stored. You can mix and match however many you want of each, as long as it is placed inside of the structure. Induction Ports can be configured to input or output power by sneak-using a Configurator on them. I suggest using at least 2 for your first Matrix!

Asks for: Basic Induction Cell, Basic Induction Provider, Induction Casing, Induction Port

The Chemical Dissolution Chamber uses Sulfuric Acid to break down materials into a gas. Don't forget to use Chemical Upgrades! For us to use it in our ore processing line, we'll first need to combine the Sulfur Trioxide with Water Vapor in a Chemical Infuser. This will give us the Sulfuric Acid we need to break down the materials! Once you have a steady supply of Acid, the Chemical Dissolution Chamber will serve as the starting machine in the next tier of ore processing. It breaks down 1 raw ore into 1 bucket of Dirty Ore Slurry. Just as an FYI, this is a gas!

Asks for: Chemical Dissolution Chamber

With access to Atomic Alloys, we can create Teleportation Cores! This allows us to create items and machines that allow for wireless transmitting of pretty much everything, including creating portals!

Asks for: Teleportation Core

Have you ever wanted to transfer items without pipes? How about energy? Gases? Liquids? That's right, the Quantum Entangloporter can do it all. Once placed, you can right-click to open up the interface. Inside, you can set specific frequencies, allowing you to link up to your other Entangloporters for wireless transmission. The Entangloporters have a buffer, so it can store a small amount of power, gases, etc. You'll want to set the sides up properly to determine what goes in and out of the block, especially if you are using these to transfer gases!

Asks for: Quantum Entangloporter

Using the power of Teleportation Cores, we can create our own Portals to quickly travel around our bases, even across dimensions! To build one, you'll need 1 Teleporter block and 9 Teleporter Frame blocks. Once built, you'll want to give the Teleporter block power, and then you can open it up and set a name for the frequency. Make sure to click the checkmark button when you are done naming it! All other Teleporters will now be able to see that frequency, and you can build another Teleporter and select the frequency to link them up. {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/mekanism/portalframe.png width:100 height:100 align:center} The Portable Teleporter allows you to access all of your Teleporters, allowing for instant travel to any of them as long as it has power! By holding it in your hand and using it, you will see a list of your frequencies. You can then select one and click teleport!

Asks for: Portable Teleporter, Teleporter, Teleporter Frame

This machine can be placed down and configured to mine up specific blocks or ores within an area! It is very power hungry, so keep that in mind. It's a skyblock pack... So... There aren't many ores to mine, are there?

Asks for: Digital Miner

The Quantum Item Orchestration (QIO) system is Mekanism's wireless, power-free, and expandable digital storage solution. The QIO operates on frequencies similar to teleporters and machine security, so items can be accessed from any QIO Dashboard that's connected to the frequency of a QIO Drive Array. Applied Mekanistics allows a ME System to access a QIO storage by placing a Dashboard onto an AE2 Storage Bus and setting the desired frequency.

Asks for: QIO Dashboard, QIO Drive Array

Drives are the storage medium for QIO systems, with up to ten fitting in each Drive Array. There is no limit on the number of drives or arrays per frequency. Each tier increases both the variety of items that can be stored and the total amount of items it can store.

Asks for: QIO Drive, Hyper-Dense QIO Drive, Supermassive QIO Drive, Time-Dilating QIO Drive

While simply placing a QIO Dashboard down whenever you need to access your storage is powerful, what if you didn't need to place it down at all?

Asks for: Portable QIO Dashboard

The Chemical Washer does exactly what it says it does. It's just a bath for Dirty Ore Slurry. This is the 2nd machine in the Tier 4 processing chain. Pump in a steady supply of water, and then send the Dirty Ore Slurry from your Dissolution Chamber to create 1 bucket of Clean Ore Slurry!

Asks for: Chemical Washer

At this point, you should have a fully functional Tier 4 Ore Processing Chain. As a recap, the system looks like this: 1. 1 Raw Ore goes into a Chemical Dissolution Chamber. This machine needs a steady supply of Sulfuric Acid, and breaks the ore into 1,000mb of Dirty Ore Slurry (a gas). 2. Dirty Ore Slurry is sent into a Chemical Washer. When the Washer is provided with water, it will turn the slurry into 1,000mb of Clean Ore Slurry (a gas). 3. Clean Ore Slurry is pumped into a Chemical Crystallizer, which converts the 1,000mb of Clean Ore Slurry into 5 Ore Crystals. 4. Ore Crystals are then pumped into a Chemical Injection Chamber that is being fed Salt or Hydrogen Chloride. This turns the crystals into Ore Shards. 5. Ore Shards are pumped into a Purification Chamber, which uses Oxygen to break the shards down into Ore Clumps. 6. Ore Clumps are sent into a Crusher which turns it into Dirty Dusts. 7. Dirty Dusts are sent into an Enrichment Chamber, which cleans it into Ore Dust. 8. Ore Dust can then be smelted down into Ingots. This process converts 1 Raw Ore into 5 Ingots.

Importers and Exporters are able to wirelessly insert into and pull from a QIO system set to their frequency. With the ability to make multiple frequencies, this can be used to create isolated item systems, or just be used as a main storage network. QIO Redstone Adapters can be configured to emit a redstone signal depending on the amount of items in a set frequency, useful for automating systems without flooding your storage system with items.

Asks for: QIO Exporter, QIO Importer, QIO Redstone Adapter

Using another Pressurized Reaction Chamber, we can use Substrates to make HDPE Pellets. These advanced pellets are used to create many high tier items and machines! To make these, you'll need to combine Liquid Ethene, Oxygen, and Substrates. From here, you can run them through an Enrichment Chamber to create HDPE Sheets! Note: It takes LIQUID Ethene, meaning you'll need to create a Rotary Condensentrator to convert it from a gas to a liquid first. Did you pump in the gas already? Use a Gauge Dropper to remove it!

Asks for: HDPE Pellet, HDPE Sheet

Both the Meka-Tool and the MekaSuit can be crafted with some polonium and other high-end materials. These powered pieces of gear are very strong on their own, but can be vastly augmented with various Modules from fortune to flight! Simply place the crafted Module of choice in the similarly designed slot of the Modification Station, and the piece of gear it applies to in the slot pointed to by the arrow.

Asks for: Meka-Tool, MekaSuit Bodyarmor, MekaSuit Boots, MekaSuit Helmet, MekaSuit Pants, Modification Station

You've probably heard about Mekanism's Ore Processing chains, and this is where it starts! If you want to start multiplying your return on ores, the first tier consists of these two machines: 1. 3 Raw Ores go into the Enrichment Chamber, which gets broken down into 4 Dusts. 2. Dusts go into the Energized Smelter to be smelted down into ingots.