PneumaticCraft

PneumaticCraft (PNCR) is all about putting Pressure to good use! To get started in the mod, we'll need to apply a small amount of pressure to some Iron Ingots in the world. And by "small amount", it means you need to blow them up with TNT

Asks for: Compressed Iron Ingot

The Crop Support will work to increase the growth speed of any trees or crops that are planted on it. These are pretty cheap and require no upkeep to use, making them really useful for farming!

Asks for: Crop Support

With our newly created Compressed Iron, we can get started crafting the basic items in PNCR! To start, we'll need to make some Pressure Tubes, which are used to carry Compressed Air. These are similar to "cables" from other mods! Fun Fact: Pressure beyond 5 BAR is the danger zone. If the pressure inside of the tubes reaches 7.0 BAR, it will explode! Air Pressure also takes time to build up! It relies on a completely closed system, meaning it will try to escape if there is a hole somewhere in the pipe network. You'll know when there is a hole somewhere, as you'll hear the air rushing out. Right-clicking with a Pneumatic Wrench will close the open section!

Asks for: Pressure Tube

Reinforced Stone is the basis for most PNCR machinery. Its hardened and thermally resistant nature makes it a perfect material to contain the high pressure of pneumatic devices. You'll need a good bit of these to craft a lot of the machines in the mod!

Asks for: Reinforced Stone

Air pressure, measured in Bar, is what powers most PCNR machines. The higher the Bar, the higher the pressure. It moves from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas and will try to equalize throughout the system. If air pressure in a machine or tube is higher than it can support, the machine will explode! PNCR machines and tools all have a specific volume, measured in ml that represents how much air they hold at 0 Bar. This can be increased with volume upgrades. Machines use compressed air to operate, which constantly lowers the pressure in the system as they consume it.

The basic Air Compressor is one of the first and easiest methods of generating Pressure. This device will consume burnable materials like coal or charcoal to generate Air Pressure for the network. Be careful not to over-pressurize your systems or they will blow up! We've gifted you a Safety Tube Module to help with your first Pressure system. These modules will help vent excess Pressure when connected to your system, but aren't a great solution for the long term!

Asks for: Air Compressor

The Charging Station allows you to fill items up with Compressed Air. It will only fill items to have equal Pressure that the Charging Station itself has. If the item has higher pressure than the Charging Station, it will empty itself back into the network.

Asks for: Charging Station

The Camouflage Applicator can make camouflageable blocks such as tubes and heat pipes look like other blocks! Sneak + Right-Click the applicator on a block (like grass or diamond) then click on any camouflageable block to set its appearance.

Asks for: Camouflage Applicator

The Pressure Chamber is one of the main crafting machines for PNCR. This multiblock machine can be built in multiple sizes: 3x3x3, 4x4x4, or 5x5x5. Bigger chambers will allow for more bulk crafting of recipes with less downtime for repressurizing. To build the Pressure Chamber, start by building the frame using Pressure Chamber Walls. The faces of the walls can be built out of Pressure Chamber Glass instead of walls if you'd like! To interact with the Pressure Chamber, we'll need to use at least 2 Pressure Chamber Interfaces. How you place them will determine whether they can pull or push items. The square is the input side, and the circle is the output! For the Chamber to compress items, we'll need to pump in compressed air into a Pressure Chamber Valve.

Asks for: Pressure Chamber Wall

Before we can start crafting advanced technology, we'll need to find some Crude Oil first. Note: plastic generation methods from other mods may trivialize this part of the progression. In a normal world, using a Seismic Sensor can help you locate these Oil Deposits underground. In this void...not so useful. Check the following page for tips. There are several methods to obtain oil: You can make Raw Synthetic Oil which Oily Bees (fished up in an ocean biome) will pollinate to produce special combs with. Other mods can help you obtain the Amadron Tablet early, letting you purchase oil to be delivered to a tank. The Pumpjack and the Oil Drilling Rig are multiblock setups that will steadily generate oil using energy.

Asks for: Crude Oil Bucket, Seismic Sensor

Crude Oil is extremely valuable because it can be refined into some very useful liquids, most importantly Gasoline and eventually Plastic! To do this, you'll need to set up a Refinery. This is a small multiblock structure made up of the Refinery Controller and multiple Refinery Outputs. The Refinery Controller will need to be heated up, and the outputs determine how many different byproducts you can create when refining. This can easily be done by placing the Refinery Controller directly over a lava source block, and then stacking the 4 outputs on top of it. You'll need to prevent Heat from dissipating, which can be done by covering each face with Thermal Lagging.

Asks for: Refinery Controller, Refinery Output

Heat disperses to adjacent blocks, including air. If certain Heat sources disperse entirely, they can convert to a different block. An example of this would be using lava to heat a machine and it eventually cooling to obsidian. You can prevent Heat from dissipating in the air by making sure each side of the block is covered. Thermal Lagging works well for this! Some operations are Endothermic (uses Heat) while others might be Exothermic (produces Heat). This will depend on the machine and recipe, so be sure to check JEI and plan accordingly! Certain machines can also share Heat, meaning it is often useful to put machines that require similar temperatures next to each other. You can install Dispenser Upgrades to pipe between them as well!

Asks for: Thermal Lagging

Heat Sinks can be placed on a block or machine to help dissipate Heat faster! Their effectiveness can be greatly increased by using an Air Grate to vent air over the fins. Combining that with the use of Vortex Tubes can effectively handle all of your temperature problems! Note: Once a Heat Sink reaches over 60C or under -60C, it will deal damage when touched.

Asks for: Heat Sink

The Vortex Tube uses compressed air to make one side Cold and the other side Hot. The higher the airflow, the more extreme the temperature difference will be.

Asks for: Vortex Tube

The Thermopneumatic Processing Plant is your next step for processing the liquids you've gathered from the Refinery. Heavy Fuels can be cracked into lighter ones, which means Diesel can be turned into Kerosene, which can then turn into Gasoline, and then further into LPG. This machine can also be used to produce Lubricant! Running either LPG or Biodiesel through one of these machines can make you Molten Plastic.

Asks for: Thermopneumatic Processing Plant

Using the Pressure Chamber, we can craft some more advanced components like the Fluid Mixer. The Fluid Mixer mixes two fluids into either an item or another fluid. One significant use for this is producing Biodiesel. Since Crude Oil isn't a renewable resource, making Biodiesel from plant or vegetable oil is a better way of automating plastic!

Asks for: Fluid Mixer

By applying a Polyethylene layer to your Basic Pressure Tubes, you're able to upgrade them to Reinforced Pressure Tubes, allowing them to handle up to 10 BAR of pressure! Make sure to balance your pressure system accordingly!

Asks for: Reinforced Pressure Tube

Speed Upgrades can be used in most PNCR machines to make them work faster at the cost of using more pressure.

Asks for: Speed Upgrade

The Minigun will shoot Minigun Ammo using compressed air by holding right-click. Sneak click the Minigun to insert up to 4 Minigun Ammo boxes, which can be combined with a potion to apply its effects on hit. You can install several useful upgrades to the Minigun in the charging station to improve its functionality!

Asks for: Minigun

Once you have some Molten Plastic, you can cool it off by pouring it somewhere into the world and waiting. This will cool into Plastic Sheets! You can also automate this process using Heat Frame Cooling. Using the rewards from the previous quest, you should be able to make yourself an Amadron Tablet. This will allow you to trade on the Amadron network for all sorts of custom and vanilla villager trades! Make sure you link it to an inventory by sneak+right-clicking it and enjoy all of the new trades! You'll also want to make sure to keep it charged.

Asks for: Amadron Tablet, Molten Plastic

By having access to the Amadron Tablet, you can buy a PCB Blueprint and make yourself your first UV Light Box! This is needed to expose Empty PCBs to UV Light, which is an important process for assembling PCBs. You can make Empty PCBs in the Pressure Chamber.

Asks for: Empty PCB, PCB Blueprint, UV Light Box

After we've exposed Empty PCBs to UV Light, we can take the next step in the process by making an Etching Tank. Once the machine has some Etching Acid inside, insert an Empty PCB that has been exposed in a UV Light Box. This process has a chance to fail if not fully exposed inside the UV Light Box. This failed PCB can be recycled in a blast furnace. If you want the tank to work faster, you can heat it above 50°C, but the Etching Acid will slowly be used up due to the Heat. If the etching was successful, you will get an Unassembled PCB as a result. If the process fails, you'll get a Failed PCB instead. If you want to automate this, you can extract Unassembled PCBs from the sides, and Failed PCBs from the top or bottom.

Asks for: Etching Acid Bucket, Etching Tank

Amadron trades can be automated by your ME system, but they use their own kind of pattern. Encode one in the Amadron Wireless Terminal: drop a Blank Pattern into its pattern slot, find the offer in the list, then press the save button next to it. You get an Amadron Processing Pattern. The Pattern Encoding Terminal cannot make these, and the + button in JEI only gives you an ordinary processing pattern, which the station will refuse. Drop the finished pattern into an Amadron Processing Station and the trade becomes craftable like any other recipe.

Asks for: Amadron Wireless Terminal, Amadron Processing Station

Slapping some Transistors and Capacitors on the Unassembled PCB will make a Printed Circuit Board.

Asks for: Finished PCB

The Assembly Line is a multiblock machine that allows you to craft items with precision. All parts of the assembly line must touch and pressure needs to be provided to the Controller. A Program must be inserted into the Assembly Controller. Most recipes will use the Laser Program to start with. Assembly IO Units control the input and output of the recipes. They must be able to reach an inventory, such as a chest, and the assembly platform. They can reach anything with a 3x3 area.

Asks for: Assembly Controller, Assembly IO Unit (export), Assembly IO Unit (import), Assembly Laser, Assembly Platform, Assembly Program: Laser

Advanced Pressure Tubes can handle up to the danger zone of 20 Bar and 4 times the volume. At 25 Bar they will explode! Before you can connect these to your machines, make sure they can handle the increased volume and pressure, or you can use a Regulator instead!

Asks for: Advanced Pressure Tube

Although a bit expensive, this Solar Compressor may be an interesting Air Compressor to have attached to your system as it is a passive source of Air Pressure! At 350°C, you'll get the most efficiency out of this device. If it gets too hot, the machine will shut down!

Asks for: Solar Compressor

The Pneumatic Dynamo converts excess Air Pressure into FE.

Asks for: Pneumatic Dynamo

When pressurized, the Aerial Interface exposes your inventory as if it were in a chest. Any items inserted into the interface enter your inventory instead. Your main inventory is accessed from any horizontal side while your armor is the top face. This can be changed in the UI. Having this set up also provides water breathing, at an additional Air Pressure cost. If you provide it with FE, it will also wirelessly charge all your items! A dispenser upgrade will automatically eat for you, as well as allowing you to pipe experience in and out. This can be used to keep your chestplate charged, and your chestplate can be upgraded to charge all other PNC armors and items.

Asks for: Aerial Interface

Pneumatic Armor can be extensively upgraded at the cost of having a fairly low base defense. These upgrades can give it more Armor, Armor Toughness, Speed, Flight, Night vision, and more! The Chestplate can also be upgraded to charge all of your pneumatic devices. This armor does not have infinite durability like some other tech armors, but can be upgraded to automatically repair with pressure.

Asks for: Pneumatic Boots, Pneumatic Chestplate, Pneumatic Helmet, Pneumatic Leggings

The Flux Compressor converts FE into Air Pressure!

Asks for: Flux Compressor

By applying an Expansion Module to a Gauge Controller, you'll expand its functionalities, allowing you to precisely control its Redstone behavior.

Asks for: Module Expansion Card, Pressure Gauge Tube Module

If you want Drones to harvest your crops and do your work for you, you'll need a few things. First, make yourself a Programming Table. This is used to tell your Drone what you want it to do. Next, you'll want to get your hands on some Puzzle Pieces, with every step of this process requiring 1 piece each. It's also a good idea to have GPS Tools handy, as you'll use these to set coordinates for your Drone instructions.

Asks for: GPS Tool, Programmer, Programming Puzzle Piece

Although there's a pre-programmed Harvesting Drone, this questline is going to teach you how to make one yourself. This should give you a good head start on how programming works! To get started, open up your Programming Table and import the code: Look for the "Import Button" at the top left of the GUI, then click the "paste from clipboard" option in the bottom. Click Here For The Code With this you can notice that Drone Code is done via Code Blocks/Steps you can start by placing the "Start Block" and then add a block for each respective step of the process. {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/pneumaticcraft/quest_drone_1.png width:240 height:200 align:center} You might also notice that when you add commands to harvest and/or import something from a chest, an Area Block is needed. To easily add the correct coordinates, simply left-click with your GPS Tool to paste them in. You can also add Filter Blocks to certain commands, in this given code, you may want to set one for the Hoe you wish to use. {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/pneumaticcraft/quest_drone_1.png width:240 height:200 align:center} Bonus tip: It's good practice to add a Standby command at the end so your drone can shut itself off when no work is needed, saving some Pressure

Asks for: Drone

Although there is a pre-programmed Collector Drone, this quest will show you how to make one for yourself! First, make sure to open your Programming Table and import this basic code: Click Here For The Code As previously mentioned, with this code you should only need to tweak the values to your specific needs. {image\:\ftb:textures/quests/pneumaticcraft/quest_drone_2.png width:240 height:200 align:center} It's also good to note that some Code Blocks like the Export to Chest one may have some additional config options that can be accessed via Right-clicking. In this case, you can select from which side the Drone will access the Chest.

Asks for: Drone