Industrial Age

The Industrial Age is the fourth Age encountered in the game. Multiple ores are revealed in this Age; Redstone and Platinum to name a couple. In this age you can go to the Nether, and electricity generation begins. A large portion of this age is spent on obtaining nether bricks (which requires a Kiln and Hibachi), steel, power, and then oil drilling before refining it down into plastic. As part of this process, you will need to make the following multi blocks: Coke Oven, Blast Furnace, Pumpjack, Distillation Tower, Boiler/Solar Tower, Chemical Mixer, Liquid Processor, and lastly a Plastic Molder.

In order to progress to the next age, you need to craft a single piece of plastic. The previous Age is the Medieval Age and the next Age is the Modern Age.

Materials
The industrial age revolves around your ability to build large immersive engineering machinery, and eventually produce plastic.

Aluminium, cobalt, lead, nickel, platinum, and silver ore begin to appear in the world.

Aluminium brass, constantan, electrum, enhanced galgadorian, galgadorian, invar, modularium, pigiron, redstone alloy, reinforced metal, and steel become craftable in this age.

It is recommended that you produce steel whenever you are able as you are simply going to need so much of it. An Arc Furnace can aid in this, but is likely too expensive to be worth it at this point.

The Uncrafting Table
At this point in the game, you will be able to craft blast bricks. It is highly recommended you use your first 6 bricks to create an Uncrafting Table as they will be easily recoverable as explained below.

This wonderful device will allow you to reverse almost all recipes to their original form for the cost of some XP. After having created it, you can then take nether brick blocks from the Fortress and uncraft them down into bricks, thus saving you from needing the entire hibachi process in the future. Pretty nifty, huh. This can come in handy for many many other things, so it's quite recommended to have one.

The only downside to obtaining this is it requires an extra maze map focus, so whether you want to get this is up to you.

Mobs
There are no new mobs that start to appear in the overworld in this age. However, Fat Cats will start to appear in the Hunting Dimension, and all the Nether mobs will be accessible in the Nether now. Non-Vanilla Nether mobs include Lava Golems, Heatscar Spiders, and Spinouts. At this point in progression, 3 or more of these mobs will likely be enough to kill you, so tread carefully. Mobs have the same armour and items as the previous age: 50% odds of an iron sword or iron armour, and 25% odds of a gold sword or gold armour.

Main Advancements
Engineer Manual - Craft an Engineer Manual

Engineer's Workbench - Craft an Engineer's Workbench

Vacuum Tube - Craft a Vacuum Tube

I'm Board - Craft a Circuit Board

A Small Sample - Craft a Core Sample Drill

Drilling for Oil - Setup an Immersive Engineering Petroleum Pump jack and obtain a bucket of oil

Distillation - Build an Immersive Engineering Distillation Tower to process oil into Naptha and Diesel and grab a bucket of each

Hot and Steamy - Using the Immersive Tech Boiler or Solar Tower, produce and grab a bucket of Steam to complete the advancement

Propene and Propene Accessories - Make a Chemical Mixer multiblock structure, produce and grab a bucket of propene to complete the advancement

The Invention of Plastic - Use a Liquid Processor to turn propene into liquid plastic, and grab a bucket to complete the advancement

Plasticity - Use a Plastic Molder to craft a single piece of plastic out of liquid plastic. Collect it to trigger the next Age!

Misc. Advancements

 * Enter The Nether - 'Nuff said
 * Blaze Rod - Kill a Blaze and compress the powder into a rod
 * Extended Crafting: Gold - make the next tier of extended crafting table
 * Flight! - Make a Viescraft Airship
 * The Nether Has Frozen Over - Visit the Arctic Abyss biome
 * Nether Wart - Find some
 * Nether Tools - Make a Bone Hoe
 * Filtered Hopper - Collect hellfire dust and fill urns with souls
 * Hibachi - Make a Hibachi!
 * Bellows - Craft some bellows
 * Potash - Make potash from sawdust/wood
 * Nether Brick - Make some nether bricks in a BWM Kiln
 * Nether Amethyst Ore - Locate some
 * Ore Prospector - Craft the next tier of ore locator
 * Ore Excavation - Make an Excavation modifier and apply it to a tool
 * Cinnabar Ore - Find and mine some redstone!
 * Sound Muffler - Craft a Super Sound Muffler
 * Limonite Ore - Find and mine some nickel ore
 * Platinum Ore - Find and mine some platinum ore
 * Galena Ore - Find and mine some silver and lead ore (it comes from the same source)
 * Bauxite Ore - Find and mine some aluminium ore
 * Railways - Craft some rails
 * Steve's Carts - Build a Cart Assembler
 * Steve's Carts Wooden Hull - Make a wooden hull
 * Steve's Carts Standard Hull - Make a standard hull
 * Galgadorian Metal - Craft some Enhanced Galgadorian Metal
 * Engineer's Hammer - Craft an engineer's hammer
 * Creosote - Make a coke oven
 * Water Wheel - Attach an IE Water Wheel to a Kinetic Dynamo
 * Steel Ingot - Make a steel ingot in a blast furnace
 * Windmill! - Attach an IE Wind Mill to a Kinetic Dynamo
 * DireWires - Make some Immersive Engineering wires
 * A Dire Situation - Craft some insulated wires
 * Overhead Projector - Craft a projector to view schematics in the world
 * Storage Drawer Controller - Craft a storage drawers controller (note: a much simpler recipe is unlocked in age 4)
 * Conveyor Belt - Make some conveyor belts (this requires either plastic from age 4 or sinuous resin from the nether)
 * Modularity - Craft a Modular Machinery Controller
 * Upgrade Your Line - Craft a Redstone Engine to be able to use Buildcraft Pipes
 * Give It Some Gas - Obtain a bucket of each of Kerosene, Gasoline, and Lubricant via the Distillation Tower