Power

You can convert your Iron Furnace into a generator using the Augment: Generator! By itself, this allows you to burn items like coal or wood to generate power depending on the tier of furnace you have. You can couple this generator with a Blasting Augment to allow you to burn metals like Iron or Diamond for even more power.

Asks for: Augment: Generator

Generates power by consuming Ender Pearls or Eyes of Ender.

Asks for: Ender Mycelial Generator

If you think the Simple Coal Generator is good, you should try out the Simple Fuel Generator. Instead of burning coal, this burns the special Fuels from Just Dire Things, with the highest tier producing 4k RF/t.

Asks for: Simple Fuel Generator

The Magmator burns Lava and other hot fluids to generate power over time. This is a great early generator if you have a good way of generating lava, but gets even better once you can automate more advanced fuels!

Asks for: Magmator (Basic), Magmator (Blazing), Magmator (Hardened), Magmator (Niotic), Magmator (Nitro), Magmator (Spirited)

Generates power by consuming Pink Items.

Asks for: Pink Mycelial Generator

Capacitor Banks from EnderIO are used to store energy! These are easily configurable within the interface. You can also stack these together to make multiblock power banks.

Asks for: Advanced Capacitor Bank, Basic Capacitor Bank, Vibrant Capacitor Bank

Generates power by consuming some Mob Drops.

Asks for: Death Mycelial Generator

Bio Fuel can be used as a great power source in the early game when pumped into a Bio-Generator. Note: You can only extract power from it on the front face with the big square on it.

Asks for: Bio Fuel, Bio-Generator

Generates power by consuming Milk and Slimy Items.

Asks for: Slimey Mycelial Generator

Generates power by consuming Dragon's Breath.

Asks for: Halitosis Mycelial Generator

The Basic Generator from Oritech is a starter generator that burns any type of furnace fuel to generate a small amount of power. You can transfer the power out using Energy Pipes from the mod, or any other type of energy cable works as well.

Asks for: Basic Generator

The Lava Generator from Oritech generates RF by consuming lava. RF generation can be increased with Addons.

Asks for: Lava Generator

The Endergenic generator setup is one of the most complicated energy generators that doesn't require a degree in nuclear physics. These generators extract power from ender pearls by 'throwing' the pearls between each other (targeted via Smart Wrench) and canceling their teleportation effect, absorbing the stifled energy. Continuing to hold onto a stifled pearl uses energy however and Endergenics enter a cool-down state after throwing a pearl, so proper timing using redstone is crucial to efficiency. The process isn't perfect, so sometimes pearls will shatter in the machines after being thrown.

Asks for: Ender Monitor, Endergenic, Pearl Injector, Sequencer

If you want to tap into your power storage wirelessly, you should pump your power into an Ender Cell. These are used to store a massive amount of power into a frequency, which can be accessed from any dimension using another Ender Cell or Ender Gate.

Asks for: Ender Cell (Basic), Ender Cell (Blazing), Ender Cell (Hardened), Ender Cell (Niotic), Ender Cell (Nitro), Ender Cell (Spirited)

Batteries are a good way to store energy to move around. They can be charged with any wired or wireless charging method. When holding them in hand, they can be sneak-right-clicked to put them into discharge mode, charging other items in your inventory.

Asks for: Double Battery, Quadruple Battery, Quintuple Battery, Single Battery, Triple Battery

Mekanism offers simple energy storage using Energy Cubes and Energy Tablets. The Tablets are batteries for your inventory! Energy Cubes can also charge items by placing them in the right slot of the interface.

Asks for: Advanced Energy Cube, Basic Energy Cube, Elite Energy Cube, Energy Tablet, Ultimate Energy Cube

The rest of the generators in this chapter are considered End Game Generators. These generators are customizable, and can generate some of the highest amounts of power in the pack. Note: Reactors from Oritech have been massively buffed.

Dimensional Cells are energy storage blocks that are capable of sharing their storage with each other wirelessly via Powercell Card channels. There is a small amount of loss in this process based on the distance, improved by infusing the cell that's drawing the energy. To insert or extract energy, configure a side of the cell using a Smart Wrench. Blue sides will allow energy into the cell, yellow will allow energy to be pushed out. To configure a Powercell Card and create a wireless energy channel, simply place an unlinked card in the leftmost slot of an unlinked Dimensional Cell. This will register a new channel on the card to transfer power over. To add cards to this channel, place an unlinked card in the slot to the right of it.

Asks for: Dimensional Cell, Dimensional Cell (Advanced), Dimensional Cell (Simple), Powercell Card

Most of Oritech's generators can accept the Steam Boiler Addon. This allows you to pump water into the addon, which will convert the power output of the generator into Steam. This can then be pumped into a Steam Engine to generate RF. The energy produced is added with the energy produced from the base generator that is using the Steam Boiler Addon. A Steam Engine's speed varies based on the stored steam. More steam results in more pressure, making it operate faster. The speed is scaled linearly based on the tank's fill percentage, with a maximum multiplier of 10 when the tank is full. However, the Steam Engine's efficiency varies based on the speed. Higher efficiency results in more RF per steam unit produced. The machine's efficiency is highest when operating at around 700% speed. Anything lower or higher than that will result in a less ideal yield. Energy can be extracted from the red machine slots, while Fluid ports are marked blue.

Asks for: Steam Boiler Addon, Steam Engine

The Basic Coal Generator from RFTools is a simple-to-use generator that burns furnace fuel items to generate power.

Asks for: Coal Generator

Generates power by consuming Lava (and optionally redstone).

Asks for: Magma Mycelial Generator

Generates power by consuming Fireworks.

Asks for: Rocket Mycelial Generator

The generators in this row are considered Early Game Generators! These generators are fairly easy to make and can scale well as you create your power network.

Reactors are where generating power starts to get serious! These will burn up Uraninite using Coal and Redstone to generate a ton of power. Reactors will not accept water in this pack! To build one, you'll need 36 Reactor Blocks in your inventory. Right clicking to place it down will automatically build out the 3x4x3 structure if it has room. Note: Uraninite is made in the Energizing Orb, which requires the Heat World Engine upgrade. Water is not a good enough coolant. You can see which coolants you can use by hitting U on a reactor block in JEI.

Asks for: Reactor (Basic), Reactor (Blazing), Reactor (Hardened), Reactor (Niotic), Reactor (Nitro), Reactor (Spirited)

Flux Networks is the ultimate wireless power solution! Flux Dust is the main crafting material for crafting all blocks within the mod. Note: Flux Dust requires the Machine Block and Ender Cell World Engine Upgrades to craft.

Asks for: Flux Configurator, Flux Dust

The Simple Coal Generator from Just Dire Things can burn regular burnable items like coal or wood, but it can also burn the different tiers of coal from the mod itself, like Primal Coal! Using these special coals will produce more power, with the higher tiers producing up to 960 RF/t. The Pocket Generator will do the same thing, but in your inventory to charge your items.

Asks for: Primal Coal, Blaze Ember, Voidflame Coal, Eclipse Ember, Simple Coal Generator, Pocket Generator

The Large Energy Storage holds a base value of 20M RF which can be upgraded with Addons. The Large Energy Storage accepts energy from all green ports but can only output through the single red port. A redstone signal will disable all energy output.

Asks for: Large Energy Storage

The Thermoelectric Generator uses the temperature differential between the blocks on either side of it to generate LV power. This means that you need to place one cold block/fluid and one hot block/fluid on opposite sides of the block to generate power. You can check the Engineer's Manual or JEI for a list of compatible blocks. Note: This is a store only item.

Asks for: Thermoelectric Generator

Oritech Reactors are a great way to generate large amounts of power! The Reactor is a large custom multiblock made up of many different parts, with the Nuclear Reactor Control Panel being the main interface block. This interface shows the current status of the reactor, along with the temperatures of the components and statistics. It also only shows the first layer of the interior. Reactors generate power by consuming Uranium or Plutonium Pellets, and the amount of power is based on the number of Reactor Rods and Neutron Reflectors next to the rods. It is important to keep Reactors sufficiently cooled! Reactors like to make big holes.

Asks for: Nuclear Reactor Controller

Reactor Heat Vents remove heat from the hottest neighboring component (Fuel Rods or Heat Pipes) and vent it out of the Reactor. The amount of heat removed is based on the temperature of the neighboring component. Hotter components will result in more heat removed. Reactor Heat Pipes take heat from Fuel Rods and spread it among neighboring Heat Vents. The maximum transferred heat amount from a neighboring component is based on the temperature difference between them.

Asks for: Reactor Heat Pipe, Reactor Heat Vent

Reactor Fuel Rods are interior components that need to be supplied with Uranium or Plutonium Pellets from Reactor Fuel Ports to generate heat. The Fuel Port will be placed on the ceiling of the Reactor. This Port will need Fuel Rods connecting it all the way to the bottom of the Reactor. To create Uranium Pellets, you'll need access to the Atomic Forge to create Uranium Gems. When burning fuel, Fuel Rods will generate neutron pulses that create a specific amount of energy, the more pulses a rod receives, the more energy it also creates. However, if a neighboring component is also a Fuel Rod, it will also hit the neighboring component with a pulse. The amount of heat generated is based on the total pulses of a rod (internal + external pulses). A Single Rod will generate 1 internal pulse, a Double Rod 4, and a Quad Rod 12. Neutron Reflectors can be used to send a pulse back to its origin, acting as a similar rod type to its neighbor, increasing its efficiency. Each Fuel Rod will consume a fixed amount of fuel from the Reactor Fuel Ports above the stack. Each fuel pellet has a capacity, and each rod will use 1 capacity unit, a double rod uses 2, and a quad rod uses 4.

Asks for: Plutonium Pellet, Reactor Double Rod, Reactor Fuel Port, Reactor Quad Rod, Reactor Neutron Reflector, Single Reactor Rod

This Portable Energy Storage can hold up to 1M RF and will retain energy when broken. The Portable Energy Storage accepts energy from all sides through a green port and can only output through the single red port. A redstone signal will disable all energy output.

Asks for: Portable Energy Storage

Reactor Heat Absorbers remove a fixed amount of heat from all neighboring components making it more efficient when surrounded by components that need to be cooled. It requires a constant supply of coolant in the form of ice (or blue/packed ice), which can be inserted via the Coolant Port above the Absorber stack. The amount of coolant used is fixed, and does not increase with more sides being cooled. Each tick, 16 units of heat are removed from each neighbor. A Reactor Coolant Port must be placed on the outer ceiling of the Reactor, with Heat Absorbers beneath it.

Asks for: Reactor Coolant Absorber Port, Reactor Heat Absorber

The Reactor needs to be made of rectangular walls, where the frame is made of Reactor Wall blocks. The max size of a Reactor is 64 blocks per direction. Its interior needs to be identical in the vertical (y) axis. Somewhere on the walls, you'll need the Nuclear Reactor Control Panel, as well as any Energy Ports that you wish to use. While it's possible to make a small 3x3x3 Reactor, it's best to start with a 5x5x5 to properly cool it down. Even though the Reactor allows for some heat build-up, a properly cooled design should not produce any leaking heat. You can design your Reactors as you wish. In general, Dual/Quad Rods use fuel more efficiently, generating more total RF per pellet, but are also much harder to cool. You can use active cooling with the Heat Absorbers, or passive cooling with just Heat Vents. If a Fuel Rod contains a temperature of over 2000°C for a long period of time, it will overheat and trigger a NUCLEAR MELTDOWN! Warning sirens will engage before it reaches those temperatures. Depending on the size of the Reactor and the number of Fuel Rods, the meltdown will result in a bigger or smaller explosion.

Asks for: Reactor Wall

The Diesel Generator generates HV power by consuming fuels like Diesel. Depending on the fuel used, certain fuels will burn for longer inside the generator, creating more power. For a full list of fuels check the Engineer's Manual or JEI. To learn more about building and using them, refer to the Electrical Grids section of the Engineer's Manual.

Asks for: Fluid Pipe, Generator Block, Heavy Engineering Block, Radiator Block, Redstone Engineering Block, Steel Scaffolding

The Fuel Generator is a 3x3x2 multiblock generator that consumes oil-like fluids to generate power. Higher tier fuels provide the same RF/t, but lasts a lot longer! Note: Hitting U on the Fuel Generator will show a full list of fuels that can be used.

Asks for: Fuel Generator

The Reactor Energy Port is used to output the energy generated by the Reactor, and it needs to be placed on one of its outer walls. Each port may output up to 25,000 RF/t. The Reactor Redstone Port can disable the intake of new fuels, but will finish burning any pellet that has already started burning before the reactor is fully shut off. It can also be used with a comparator to output data. It has 3 modes which can be cycled by right-clicking the port: Energy, Active Rod Count, and Temperature.

Asks for: Reactor Energy Port, Reactor Redstone Port

Generates power by consuming Potions.

Asks for: Potion Mycelial Generator

This section refers to the different ways to transmit power Wirelessly.

Ender Gates can be placed down on any machine to transfer power wirelessly. These will only work if you have enough power in your Ender Cell network.

Asks for: Ender Gate (Basic), Ender Gate (Blazing), Ender Gate (Hardened), Ender Gate (Niotic), Ender Gate (Nitro), Ender Gate (Spirited)

Generates power by consuming TNT. When working, this block generates explosions that deal significant player damage, but has no effect on terrain.

Asks for: Explosive Mycelial Generator

The Gas-Burning Generator can burn Ethene to produce power at a very high rate! You can expect each full generator to produce ~8k RF/t.

Asks for: Gas-Burning Generator

The generators in this row are considered Mid Game Generators! These generators start to become available once you have some progress and unlock several of the World Engine Upgrades. Some of them can also be upgraded or scaled up well into the late game, like the Powah Reactors.

Generates power by consuming Nether Fauna.

Asks for: Crimed Mycelial Generator

The Energized Induction Matrix from Mekanism 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. It only requires 1 Induction Cell, 1 Induction Provider, and Induction Ports to pull and push power out. 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. Inside of the structure, you'll place down your Induction Cells and Providers. 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

You can access the Network UI from any block within the mod, like a Flux Plug or Point. From there, you can create your first network! On the far-right tab of the UI, you can click the + to create a new network. On this screen, you can change the network's name and switch configuration options to public, private, or encrypted, making it a great power transfer mod for server use. When you're finished configuring the options, you can hit Create at the bottom! This will bring you to the Network List. In this list, you can see all networks that are available to you, including the one you just created! For every device that needs to connect to the network, this is the first thing you'll do whenever you place it down. Once you've selected a network, you can head over to the Home page to configure the settings of the device. The Home page allows you to configure several parts of the device, including the Name, Priority, and Transfer Limit. The higher the Priority number, the more priority it gets for the power in your network. The Transfer Limit allows you to control how much the device can pull from the network. You also have toggles on the bottom to override these settings if you wish! Power Surge will ignore all priority settings and force the device to be the highest priority in the network. Bypass Limit just ignores the device's Transfer Limit settings and sets it to max.

Thermo Generators generate power using heat from the block placed underneath it, and a coolant being pumped in from any side. You can use JEI to see all valid heat sources and coolants. Note: Water is not a good enough coolant. You can see which coolants and heat blocks you can use by hitting U on the Thermo Generator in JEI.

Asks for: Thermo Generator (Basic), Thermo Generator (Blazing), Thermo Generator (Hardened), Thermo Generator (Niotic), Thermo Generator (Nitro), Thermo Generator (Spirited)

The Flux Plug is the device you place on your generators or power storage. It acts as a Power Tap and tells your network where to get the power from. The Flux Point is the device you place on the blocks or pipes you need powered. You'll want a lot of these! You can craft any of the Flux Storage blocks to create a buffer of power for your network as well.

Asks for: Basic Flux Storage, Flux Plug, Flux Point, Gargantuan Flux Storage, Herculean Flux Storage

The Kinetic Dynamo uses forces generated by Waterwheels to generate power. Waterwheels provide constant power based on the amount of water flowing around the wheel. Up to three Waterwheels can be attached to the same shaft.

Asks for: Kinetic Dynamo, Water Wheel

If you're looking to store your power, Energy Cells from Powah will do the trick. You can also craft Batteries and charge them up using the Cells. The Batteries can then be used to charge items in your inventory in the early game!

Asks for: Battery (Basic), Battery (Blazing), Battery (Hardened), Battery (Niotic), Battery (Nitro), Battery (Spirited)

Generates power by consuming Nether Stars.

Asks for: Netherstar Mycelial Generator

Schrödinger's Safe is an energy storage multiblock that can store billions of RF when properly set up. This multiblock requires a Capacity Block which changes the base storage multiplier of Schrödinger's Safe. Low, Medium, and High Capacity Blocks multiply the base storage by 0.3x, 1x, and 5x respectively. Check the item tooltip for a full list of available capacity blocks. You can also exponentially increase the capacity of Schrödinger's Safe by powering its sides with Enderic Lasers, up to 5000x

Asks for: Schrödinger's Safe

Generates power by consuming Liquid Meat and any ingot.

Asks for: Meatallurgic Mycelial Generator

The Flux Controller enables wireless charging for items you have equipped or in your hotbar. Once placed down and connected to a network, you can open up the Wireless Charging tab to select which slots you want to be charged wirelessly. Make sure to toggle it on at the bottom and click apply!

Asks for: Flux Controller

Generates power by consuming Furnace Fuels.

Asks for: Furnace Mycelial Generator

Player Transmitters are used to power items in your inventory. To do this, you'll need to first make a Binding Card, then use it in your hand to claim it. Placing the card in the Transmitter will tell it to power your inventory. You can also use the Binding Card on an Enderman to convert it into a Dimensional Binding Card, which allows the Transmitter to work across dimensions.

Asks for: Binding Card, Player Transmitter (Basic), Player Transmitter (Blazing), Player Transmitter (Hardened), Player Transmitter (Niotic), Player Transmitter (Nitro)

This section refers to most of the ways to store power!

If you're looking for an early game option for transferring power wirelessly, Irregular Implements has a simple solution! The first step is to get your hands on Ectoplasm from killing a Vex. Once you have one, you can make a Spectre Sapling for a renewable resource of them. The next step will be making the Spectre Energy Injector and placing it down and pipe power into it. Anywhere you need to use that power, simply place down a Spectre Coil to transfer energy out! Note: Spectre Energy Injectors are considered power networks and work based on the player who placed it down.

Asks for: Ectoplasm, Spectre Coil, Ender Spectre Coil, Redstone Spectre Coil, Spectre Energy Injector

This chapter covers most of the different ways to generate power.

Generates power by consuming Food Items.

Asks for: Culinary Mycelial Generator

Generates power by consuming Enchanted Books.

Asks for: Disenchantment Mycelial Generator

The generators in this row are considered Starter Generators to help you create your first bit of power!

Generates power by consuming Frozen/Snow Items.

Asks for: Frosty Mycelial Generator

This block generates 25 Million RF/t when all other Mycelial Generators are active.

Asks for: Mycelial Reactor

The Energy Transmitter is a small machine that allows for wireless charging of blocks in a configurable radius. By default, this machine can transfer up to 1k RF/t. It also has a slight loss of transfer.

Asks for: Energy Transmitter

Once you have some Osmium, you can easily start generating some basic power using the Heat Generator from Mekanism. 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

Powercells are energy storage blocks that are capable of sharing their storage with each other adjacently as a single structure. To insert or extract energy, configure a side of the cell using a Smart Wrench. Blue sides will allow energy into the powercell, yellow will allow energy to be pushed out.

Asks for: Powercell (Low), Powercell (Medium), Powercell (High)

The Bio Generator consumes biomass to generate energy, which can be increased with Addons.

Asks for: Bio Generator