Modern Industrialization

If you've chosen to go down the Mekanism route to make Steel, you can click this quest's checkmark to allow you to proceed with the MI questline from here on out.

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: Aero, 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 foundry... 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 Sneak + 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 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, 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. 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.

Asks for: Coal Coke Dust, Coal Coke Gem

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. {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/modern_industrialization/electricblastfurnace.png width:200 height:210 align:center}

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.

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

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

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 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

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! {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/modern_industrialization/vacuumfreezer.png width:150 height:200 align:center}

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

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: Liquid Ethene Bucket

Combining Ethene with Tiny Chromium Dust, we can get Polyethylene.

Asks for: Polyethylene 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.

Asks for: Electric Quarry

The oil Drilling Rig uses drills to dig up liquids. You drill Crude Oil and run it through the Distillation Tower, so make sure to check JEI to see how to plan your processing. A fully-built Drilling Rig: {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/modern_industrialization/oildrilling.png width:150 height:200 align:center}

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

With Helium, from our Crude 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

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 Tiny Chromium Dust, which needs to be further combined into large dusts. As a nice byproduct, you'll also get pure Aluminum Dust Piles to smelt for Aluminum Ingots.

Asks for: Tiny 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! This can be further processed into a Stainless Steel Ingot in a Vacuum Freezer.

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 Dust, 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

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