Immersive Engineering in FTB StoneBlock 4

Immersive Engineering is a tech mod built around realism-inspired, retro-futuristic machines. Instead of glowing tubes, power travels through hanging cables spanned between connectors. Instead of single magic blocks, many machines are big multiblocks. The crusher is a 5x3x3 structure and the excavator is a 3x7x8 structure. The pack includes version 12.4.2-194.^[1][2]

It uses the Forge Energy API, but it can be played fully standalone. Power generation comes from waterwheels, windmills, biodiesel and more. If you get lost, the in-game Engineer's Manual is crafted with a book and a lever.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack's progression

The quest book sends you into this mod early, in the technology chapter. It starts with the Engineer's Hammer in quest "Immersive Engineering" quest. Two quests branch off it: one for the Coke Brick and one for the Kiln Brick.^[3]

• The Kiln Brick branch leads to a quest for the Light Engineering Block, the Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Scaffolding, Steel Fence and a hopper ("Crusher" quest).^[3]
• The Coke Brick branch leads to a quest for the Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks ("Treated Wood Planks" quest). After that comes the Engineer's Workbench ("Engineer's Workbench" quest).^[3]
• The next step after the Light and Redstone Engineering quest brings in the Heavy Engineering Block, steel sheetmetal and the Reinforced Blast Brick ("Arc Furnace" quest).^[3]
• The power chapter asks for the Thermoelectric Generator, a Kinetic Dynamo with a Water Wheel, and a setup with the Generator Block, Radiator Block and Fluid Pipe.^[4]
• The gearing-up chapter has a quest for the Revolver, one of its upgrades, a cartridge type and the Engineer's Blueprint ("I.E Revolver" quest).^[5]
• Later chapters reuse the mod's items, including the Garden Cloche and the Resonanz Engineering Block for resource generation. Steel components also appear in the World Engine tier 1 chapter.^[6][7]

In this pack, the quest book puts the first Immersive Engineering steps in the technology chapter. This section follows that order.^[3]

Step 1: the Engineer's Hammer

The first quest in the chain, "Immersive Engineering" quest, asks for the Engineer's Hammer. The other quests in the chain come after it, so make it first. The mod also has a "Craft an Engineer's Hammer" advancement.^[3][8]

Engineer's HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/hammer

Step 2: Coke Brick and Kiln Brick

The hammer quest leads into two branches. "Coke Oven" quest wants Coke Brick, and "Alloy Kiln" quest wants Kiln Brick.^[3]

3× Coke BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any clay	any brick	any clay
any brick	any block sandstone	any brick
any clay	any brick	any clay

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/cokebrick

2× Kiln BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any block sandstone	any brick
any brick	any block sandstone

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/alloybrick

The pack also adds a Create item-application recipe for Kiln Brick, and the recipe data marks it as changed by the pack.^[9]

Kiln BrickChanged by the pack

Item Application (create)

• Brick
• any block sandstone

Recipe id: createaddition:compat/immersiveengineering/item_application/kiln_brick

Step 3: Creosote and Treated Wood

The Coke Brick quest is followed by "Treated Wood Planks" quest, which asks for a Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks. The mod has advancements for collecting Creosote Oil and for crafting Treated Wood. The pack also has a Create spout recipe for Treated Wood Planks, marked as changed by the pack.^[3][8][9]

Treated Wood PlanksChanged by the pack

Filling (create)

• 125× any creosote
• any plank

Recipe id: create:filling/compat/immersiveengineering/treated_wood_in_spout

Step 4: the Engineer's Workbench

"Engineer's Workbench" quest comes after the creosote quest and asks for the Engineer's Workbench. The mod describes the workbench as the thing you use to modify your tools.^[3][8]

Step 5: engineering blocks and steel structures

The Kiln Brick branch continues with "Crusher" quest. It asks for Light Engineering Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Scaffolding, Steel Fence and a hopper.^[3]

4× Light Engineering BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron sheetmetal	Iron Mechanical Component	any iron sheetmetal
Iron Mechanical Component	any copper ingot	Iron Mechanical Component
any iron sheetmetal	Iron Mechanical Component	any iron sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/light_engineering

4× Redstone Engineering BlockMod recipe

Turn And Copy (immersiveengineering)

Turn And Copy (immersiveengineering)

any iron sheetmetal	any redstone dust	any iron sheetmetal
any redstone dust	any copper ingot	any redstone dust
any iron sheetmetal	any redstone dust	any iron sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/rs_engineering

6× Steel ScaffoldingMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel ingot	any steel ingot	any steel ingot
Empty slot	any steel rod	Empty slot
any steel rod	Empty slot	any steel rod

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/steel_scaffolding_standard

3× Steel FenceMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel ingot	any steel rod	any steel ingot
any steel ingot	any steel rod	any steel ingot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/steel_fence

Next is "Arc Furnace" quest. Its tasks include Heavy Engineering Block, Steel Sheetmetal and Reinforced Blast Brick, plus a cauldron and a steel block.^[3]

4× Heavy Engineering BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel sheetmetal	Steel Mechanical Component	any steel sheetmetal
Steel Mechanical Component	any electrum ingot	Steel Mechanical Component
any steel sheetmetal	Steel Mechanical Component	any steel sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/heavy_engineering

4× Steel SheetmetalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any steel plate

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/sheetmetal_steel

Reinforced Blast BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blast Brick
• any steel plate

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/blastbrick_reinforced

Reinforced Blast BrickChanged by the pack

Item Application (create)

• Blast Brick
• any steel plate

Recipe id: createaddition:compat/immersiveengineering/item_application/reinforced_blast_brick

The pack also has this Create item-application version of the Reinforced Blast Brick recipe, marked as changed by the pack.

Immersive Engineering is built around realism-inspired tech. Instead of one block that magically spits out dust, you get big multiblock machines with moving parts. The Crusher is a 5x3x3 multiblock, and the Excavator is a 3x7x8 monster with a rotating bucketwheel. Here is how the main systems fit together in this pack.^[1]

Power: Flux and cables

IE uses the Forge Energy API, so everything is measured in Flux. It can also be played fully standalone. Power does not travel through lanes of adjacent blocks. You span actual cables between connectors, and the wires hang in the world as visible powerlines.^[1][8]

If you want to see how a network is doing, the mod's in-game messages report the Flux stored in a block, the average energy transferred over a number of ticks in Flux per tick, and the average loss between points on a wire.^[8]

For generation, the mod offers waterwheels, windmills and biodiesel, among others. A Kinetic Dynamo turns the rotation of an attached water- or windmill into energy. Its output is scaled by machines.dynamo_output, which is 3 here (the mod default), and then by the rotation modifier of the wheel.^[1][10]

Storing and moving energy

The three capacitor tiers all use the mod's default values in this pack. Input and output are limited per tick, and the tiers differ in how much they hold:^[10]

• LV capacitor: 256 Flux/tick in, 256 Flux/tick out, 100,000 Flux stored.^[10]
• MV capacitor: 1,024 Flux/tick in, 1,024 Flux/tick out, 1,000,000 Flux stored.^[10]
• HV capacitor: 4,096 Flux/tick in, 4,096 Flux/tick out, 4,000,000 Flux stored.^[10]

The Charging Station can insert up to 256 Flux per tick into an item, set by machines.charger_consumption.^[10]

Machine speed and cost

Most machines have an energy modifier and a time modifier that scale every recipe for that machine. In this pack the Arc Furnace, Auto Workbench, Bottling Machine, Crusher and Fermenter all keep both at 1, so recipes cost what the mod says. For example, see machines.crusher.energyModifier and machines.crusher.timeModifier.^[10]

The Assembler uses 80 Flux to craft an item from a recipe, set by machines.assembler_consumption. That is the mod default.^[10]

Multiblocks

The mod tracks forming several multiblocks as advancements: the Arc Furnace, the Crude Blast Furnace, the Improved Blast Furnace, the Diesel Generator and the Metal Press. Large machines like these are what the mod calls "large factories".^[8]

The Arc Furnace wears out its Graphite Electrodes while it works. They take 1 damage per tick, and with the default of 96,000 damage they last 8 consecutive in-game days. This pack keeps that default in machines.arc_furnace.electrodeDamage.^[10]

The External Heater adds heat to a furnace. It costs 8 Flux per tick per heat, makes up to 4 heat during startup, then 1 heat per tick to keep it running. Once the furnace is at maximum heat, it can spend another 24 Flux per tick to double the furnace's speed.^[10]

Finding and digging minerals

The Core Sample Drill draws 40 Flux per tick and needs 200 ticks to work out which mineral is in a chunk. It then reports either a vein with its integrity or no minerals found. These values are the mod defaults in this pack.^[8][10]

The Excavator is the big power hog. These are the settings that shape it in this pack, all at the mod defaults:^[10]

• machines.excavator.consumption is 4,096 Flux per tick while it digs.^[10]
• machines.excavator.yield is 38,400, the maximum yield you can get out of a chunk. A number smaller than zero would make it infinite.^[10]
• machines.excavator.initial_depletion is 0.2. When a vein generates, a random percentage up to that value is already depleted from it.^[10]
• machines.excavator.particles is true. Set it to false if the huge amount of particles bothers you.^[10]

Automation and control

The mod has several tools for moving items. These include the Conveyor Belt, the Dropping and Extracting Conveyor Belts, the Item Router, the Item Batcher and the Sheetmetal Chutes. An Extracting Conveyor shows how many items per second it will extract.^[8]

The Bottling Machine can be switched between holding containers until they are full and allowing partial filling. Several blocks also have redstone control that can be inverted, and some can output a strong redstone signal. Fluid pumps have a toggle for replacing fluid blocks with cobblestone, but the mod warns it can cause lag with large amounts of fluid.^[8]

The Floodlight is a small but handy power user. Its settings in this pack, all at the mod defaults:^[10]

• machines.floodlight.energyDraw is 5, the Flux the floodlight draws per tick.^[10]
• machines.floodlight.max_storage is 80, the Flux it can hold. It must be at least 10 times the power draw.^[10]
• machines.floodlight.spawnPrevent is true, so the Floodlight prevents mob spawning. Set it to false to turn that off.^[10]

Unverified The sources I have do not describe how individual multiblocks accept items, fluids and power, such as which ports to use for automation. Check the Engineer's Manual in-game, which you craft with a book and a lever.

Immersive Engineering in this pack is gated by a quest line in the technology chapter. It starts with one tool and branches into two paths: bricks and treated wood on one side, steel-age multiblock parts on the other. The quests have no titles, so this guide names them by the items they ask for.^[3]

Tier 1: Hammer and bricks

Everything starts at "Immersive Engineering" quest, which asks for the Engineer's Hammer. Two quests unlock after it. "Coke Oven" quest asks for the Coke Brick. "Alloy Kiln" quest asks for the Kiln Brick.^[3]

Engineer's HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/hammer

The pack has altered some routes to the Kiln Brick. The recipe dump marks two Create item-application recipes as changed by the pack: one for the Kiln Brick and one for the Reinforced Blast Brick. The normal crafting recipe for the Kiln Brick is still there too.^[9]

Tier 2: Treated wood and the Engineer's Workbench

The coke brick branch continues with "Treated Wood Planks" quest. It wants the Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks. After that, "Engineer's Workbench" quest asks for the Engineer's Workbench.^[3]

Treated Wood Planks have several routes in this pack. Besides the mod's own crafting recipe, the dump lists a Create spout-filling recipe and an Oritech centrifuge recipe, and it marks both of those as changed by the pack.^[9]

8× Treated Wood PlanksMod recipe

Shaped Fluid (immersiveengineering)

Shaped Fluid (immersiveengineering)

any plank	any plank	any plank
any plank	1000× any creosote	any plank
any plank	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/treated_wood_horizontal

Engineer's WorkbenchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any treated wood slab	any treated wood slab
Engineer's Crafting Table	Empty slot	Treated Wood Fence

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/workbench

Tier 3: Light engineering and scaffolding

The kiln brick branch leads to "Crusher" quest. It asks for the Light Engineering Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Scaffolding, Steel Fence and a vanilla hopper.^[3]

4× Light Engineering BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron sheetmetal	Iron Mechanical Component	any iron sheetmetal
Iron Mechanical Component	any copper ingot	Iron Mechanical Component
any iron sheetmetal	Iron Mechanical Component	any iron sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/light_engineering

Tier 4: Steel and heavy engineering

"Arc Furnace" quest is the steel checkpoint. It asks for the Heavy Engineering Block along with light and redstone engineering, Steel Sheetmetal, Steel Sheetmetal Slab, Reinforced Blast Brick, steel scaffolding, an FTB Materials steel block and a vanilla cauldron.^[3]

The Heavy Engineering Block needs a Steel Mechanical Component. That component can be made with a normal crafting recipe or with a blueprint recipe.^[9]

Steel Mechanical ComponentMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel plate	Empty slot	any steel plate
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot
any steel plate	Empty slot	any steel plate

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/component_steel

4× Heavy Engineering BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel sheetmetal	Steel Mechanical Component	any steel sheetmetal
Steel Mechanical Component	any electrum ingot	Steel Mechanical Component
any steel sheetmetal	Steel Mechanical Component	any steel sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/heavy_engineering

Reinforced Blast BrickMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blast Brick
• any steel plate

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/blastbrick_reinforced

Power

The power chapter has three Immersive Engineering quests. They ask for the Thermoelectric Generator, for the Kinetic Dynamo together with the Water Wheel, and for a set of Generator Block, Radiator Block, Fluid Pipe, heavy engineering, redstone engineering and steel scaffolding.^[4]

4× Generator BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any steel sheetmetal	Electrum Coil Block	any steel sheetmetal
Electrum Coil Block	Iron Mechanical Component	Electrum Coil Block
any steel sheetmetal	Electrum Coil Block	any steel sheetmetal

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/generator

Beyond the main line

• Gearing up: "I.E Revolver" quest asks for the Revolver, one revolver or railgun upgrade, one cartridge type and an Engineer's Blueprint. Any one choice from each list counts.^[5]
• Resource generation: you need the Garden Cloche in "Garden Cloches" quest. "Dimensionalist" quest asks for the Resonanz Engineering Block plus netherrack, end stone or otherrock.^[6]
• Storage logistics: "Processors O' Plenty" quest includes Blue Sheetmetal among its tasks.^[11]
• Late game: the Steel Mechanical Component shows up again in a world engine tier 1 quest and in a creative chapter quest. That creative quest line also asks for the Insulated MV Wire Coil.^[7][12]

RevolverMod recipe

Revolver Assembly (immersiveengineering)

Revolver Assembly (immersiveengineering)

Empty slot	Revolver Hammer	Wooden Grip
Empty slot	Revolver Drum	Steel Mechanical Component
Revolver Barrel	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:crafting/revolver

The pack changed one gun recipe: the Amplifier Electron Tubes is marked as changed by the pack in the recipe dump. The other upgrades and the cartridge recipes are marked as mod recipes.^[9]

Unverified The technology and power quests contain observation tasks. The sources do not say what they check, so what you need to do for them is unverified.

Immersive Engineering plugs into a lot of the pack's other mods, mostly through recipes the pack adds or rewrites. Here's where you'll bump into it outside its own machines.^[9]

Plates need the Engineer's Hammer

The pack adds shapeless crafting recipes that turn ingots into plates with the Engineer's Hammer. The plates themselves are items from the pack's materials set, not from Immersive Engineering. Aluminum, brass, bronze, constantan, copper, electrum, gold, invar, iron, lead, nickel, silver, steel and zinc all get one. The hammer is also the very first task in the technology quest chain, "Immersive Engineering" quest.^[3][9]

Steel PlateAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any steel ingot
• any steel ingot
• any steel ingot
• Engineer's Hammer

Recipe id: ftb:crafting/plates/steel

The steel plate is one of the items the first World Engine tier quest asks for.

Hemp, soils and the Garden Cloche

The pack adds cloche recipes for Industrial Hemp Fiber that run on Rich Soil from Farmer's Delight. There are also versions for each of the four Just Dire Things goo soils, from Primogel Soil to Shadowpulse Soil. The cloche itself has a quest in the resource generation chapter, "Garden Cloches" quest.^[6][9]

Industrial Hemp FiberAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Rich Soil
• Industrial Hemp Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/hemp_fiber_from_rich_soil

Industrial Hemp Seeds also shows up in the Unearthed archaeologist dirt recipes, next to pebbles, grass seed and several vanilla crops. Farmer's Delight's cabbage and tomato seed squeezer recipes, which involve Plant Oil, are marked as changed by the pack too.^[9]

Fuels and the refinery

The pack adds two refinery recipes. One turns Molten Carbon from Productive Metalworks into Biodiesel. The other turns Oritech's Heavy Oil into High-Cetane Biodiesel.^[9]

2000× BiodieselAdded by the pack

Refinery (immersiveengineering)

• 250× Molten Carbon
• any slime ball

Recipe id: ftb:immersive_engineering/refinery/molten_carbon_to_biodiesel

Coke, storage blocks and steel recycling

• The pack changed the slab recipes so the Aluminium, Lead and Silver slabs convert into the pack's own storage blocks, Block of Aluminum, Block of Lead and Block of Silver.^[9]
• The same goes for coke. Coal Coke Slab converts to and from Block of Coal Coke.^[9]
• The pack also adds Advanced Coke Oven machine recipes that use Creosote Oil together with the pack's coal coke items.^[9]
• Steel tools and armor, such as the Steel Pickaxe and Steel Helmet, can be smelted or blasted into Steel Nugget to recycle them.^[9]

Machine parts in other mods' recipes

Immersive Engineering's mechanical components are used as parts well outside the mod. The Steel Mechanical Component is needed for Oritech's Reactor Fuel Port and for the World Engine machine frame. The Iron Mechanical Component is used in the SlowMelter 9000 and "Super" Cooler World Engine recipes.^[9]

Reactor Fuel PortAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Transparent Item Pipe	Empty slot
any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot
Steel Mechanical Component	Reactor Wall	Steel Mechanical Component

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/crafting/reactor_fuel_port

The Resonanz Engineering Block block appears in the World Engine's Resonant Void recipe, and it has its own quest in the resource generation chapter, "Dimensionalist" quest. The Electrum Coil Block is one of the parts in ProjectE's Swiftwolf's Rending Gale, and Oritech's centrifuge has a pack-changed recipe that turns HOP Graphite Dust into Carbon Fibre Strands.^[6][9]

Swiftwolf's Rending GaleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Electrum Coil Block	Lightning Rod	Bottle o' Lightning
Dark Matter	Iron Band	Dark Matter
Bottle o' Lightning	Lightning Rod	Bottle o' Lightning

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/projecte/swiftwolf_rending_gale

Quests that mix Immersive Engineering with other mods

• The first World Engine tier quest, "Reinforcing Machine Frames" quest, asks for Steel Mechanical Component alongside the pack's steel plate and electrum wire and a Mekanism control circuit.^[7]
• "Infinity Power Card" quest in the creative chapter asks for Insulated MV Wire Coil together with MFFS, Avaritia and Mekanism items.^[12]
• "Creative Toggleable Laser" quest in the same chapter also asks for Steel Mechanical Component, alongside Mekanism, Cataclysm and pack-material items.^[12]
• "Processors O' Plenty" quest in the logistics and storage chapter asks for Blue Sheetmetal alongside a Custom Machinery item and two AE2 items.^[11]

Immersive Engineering shows up in several quest chapters in the pack. The main path is the technology chapter, and the other chapters have single quests that ask for one of its items. The quest data has no titles for these quests, so I describe each one by what it asks for.^{[3][4][5][6][7][11][12]}

Technology chapter

This chapter starts with the Engineer's Hammer. After that first quest it splits into two branches.^[3]

1. Quest "Immersive Engineering" quest is the starting point. It asks for the Engineer's Hammer.^[3]
2. Coke oven branch: quest "Coke Oven" quest comes after the hammer quest. It has an observation task and asks for the Coke Brick. Quest "Treated Wood Planks" quest follows and asks for the Bucket of Creosote Oil and Treated Wood Planks. Quest "Engineer's Workbench" quest finishes the branch with the Engineer's Workbench.^[3]
3. Alloy kiln and steel branch: quest "Alloy Kiln" quest also comes after the hammer quest. It asks for the Kiln Brick and has an observation task. Quest "Crusher" quest follows. It has an observation task and asks for the Light Engineering Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Scaffolding, Steel Fence and a hopper.^[3]
4. Quest "Arc Furnace" quest is the last one in that branch. It has an observation task and asks for the Heavy Engineering Block, Light Engineering Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Sheetmetal, a steel block, the Reinforced Blast Brick, the Steel Sheetmetal Slab, Steel Scaffolding and a cauldron.^[3]

Power chapter

The power chapter has Immersive Engineering quests too. The quest data shows no prerequisite for any of them.^[4]

• Quest a quest in "Power" asks for the Thermoelectric Generator.^[4]
• Quest "Diesel Generator" quest has an observation task and asks for the Heavy Engineering Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Radiator Block, Generator Block, Steel Scaffolding and Fluid Pipe.^[4]
• Quest "Kinetic Generation" quest asks for the Kinetic Dynamo and the Water Wheel.^[4]

Other chapters

In these chapters Immersive Engineering items appear as one requirement among several.^{[5][6][7][11][12]}

• Gearing up chapter: quest "I.E Revolver" quest asks for the Revolver, the Engineer's Blueprint, one revolver or railgun upgrade, and one cartridge. The upgrades listed are Precision Scope, Bayonet, Extended Magazine and Amplifier Electron Tubes. Any one of the listed cartridge types counts, for example Casull Cartridge or Silver Cartridge.^[5]
• Resource generation chapter: quest "Garden Cloches" quest asks for the Garden Cloche. Quest "Dimensionalist" quest asks for the Resonanz Engineering Block plus one of netherrack, end stone or otherrock, and it comes after another quest in that chapter.^[6]
• Logistics and storage chapter: quest "Processors O' Plenty" quest asks for a custom machine item, Blue Sheetmetal, vibrant quartz glass and a mysterious cube. It comes after another quest in that chapter.^[11]
• World engine tier 1 chapter: quest "Reinforcing Machine Frames" quest asks for a steel plate, an electrum wire, the Steel Mechanical Component and a basic control circuit. It comes after two earlier quests.^[7]
• Creative chapter: quest "Infinity Power Card" quest includes the Insulated MV Wire Coil among its tasks, and quest "Creative Toggleable Laser" quest includes the Steel Mechanical Component. Both come after the same earlier quest in that chapter.^[12]

Good news: Immersive Engineering is almost entirely at its mod defaults in this pack. In the server config, only one value is marked as changed from the mod default, so what you learn from the Engineer's Manual mostly applies as written.^[10]

The one change: Diesel Generator output

machines.dieselGen_output is set to 8,192 Flux per tick in this pack. The mod default is 4,096, so the pack doubles it. The config notes that the burn time of the fuel determines the total output.^[10]

Wires and capacitors (all mod defaults)

Wire stats are unchanged from the mod. Copper wire has a transfer rate of 2,048 IF/t and a max length of 16, electrum wire has 8,192 IF/t and a max length of 16, and HV wire has 32,768 IF/t and a max length of 32. Their connector input rates are 256, 1,024 and 4,096 respectively.^[10]

• LV capacitor: 100,000 Flux storage, 256 Flux/tick in and out.^[10]
• MV capacitor: 1,000,000 Flux storage, 1,024 Flux/tick in and out.^[10]
• HV capacitor: 4,000,000 Flux storage, 4,096 Flux/tick in and out.^[10]
• wires.enableWireDamage and wires.blocksBreakWires are both true, so live wires hurt entities touching them, and placing a block in a wire breaks it and drops the wire coil.^[10]

Excavator and ore generation (all mod defaults)

The Excavator uses 4,096 Flux per tick to dig, set by machines.excavator.consumption. A chunk can give at most 38,400 yield through machines.excavator.yield. A new vein can start with a random amount depleted, up to 0.2 as a decimal value, set by machines.excavator.initial_depletion. The particle effect is left on, and you can switch it off with machines.excavator.particles if it hurts your frame rate.^[10]

• Lead: Y -32 to 80, 12 attempts per chunk, vein size 8.^[10]
• Silver: Y -48 to 32, 10 attempts per chunk, vein size 9, 0.25 air exposure.^[10]
• Nickel: Y -64 to 24, evenly distributed, 7 attempts per chunk, vein size 5.^[10]
• Deep nickel: Y -120 to -8, 11 attempts per chunk, vein size 6.^[10]
• Uranium: Y -64 to -16, 9 attempts per chunk, vein size 4, 0.5 air exposure.^[10]
• Bauxite: Y 32 to 112, 16 attempts per chunk, vein size 6.^[10]

Retro-generation is off for every ore, so ores won't appear in chunks that were already generated.^[10]

Machine speed and cost

The energy and time modifiers for the Arc Furnace, Crusher, Metal Press, Mixer, Squeezer, Sawmill and the other machines that have them are all 1, so there is no pack-wide multiplier on recipe cost or time. Graphite Electrodes also keep their default of 96,000 damage, which the config says is 8 consecutive in-game days of work.^[10]

Client options

The client file is for your own game and not for the pack's balance. enableVBO is on for faster rendering, and showTextOverlay is on so you can see capacitor and pump settings in the world. increasedTileRenderdistance is 1.5, which makes windmills visible from further away, and manualGuiScale is 4.^[13]

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 ships Immersive Engineering 12.4.2-194. The mod has been in the pack since 1.0.0 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the mod's own changelog for the version you're playing.^[2][14]

New features

• The item router can now filter by mod as well as by tags.^[14]
• There's a new item hatch, which lets you pull a single stack from an inventory.^[14]
• Cloche recipes can now specify a fluid. If a recipe doesn't specify one, it uses water. Crimson and warped fungi are now grown with lava.^[14]

Changed behavior

• Extracting conveyors now have a configurable stack size instead of a configurable tick rate.^[14]
• The storage shelf has new insertion logic. It tries to fill slots that already hold the same item, and otherwise places the item in the slots right after it. This keeps the individual crates on the shelf more organized, and it works for both shift-clicking and automatic insertion.^[14]
• Illager loot tables changed. Fusiliers and bulwarks now respect looting, and commandos no longer drop emeralds.^[14]

Fixes

• The mixer no longer accidentally crafts a lingering awkward potion.^[14]
• Catwalks now work properly when you use a hammer on them.^[14]
• Shift-click behavior in the Engineer's Crafting Table is fixed.^[14]
• Chutes now accept item input from the side.^[14]
• Engineer illagers now drop their raid banner.^[14]
• Shelves no longer crash the game when accessed from unexpected sides.^[14]
• Windows used in multiblocks are less directionally dependent.^[14]
• The backpack antenna now visually disconnects from wires.^[14]