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.

Coal Coke[]

The first priority in the Industrial Age is the Immersive Engineering Coke Oven, made from Coke Bricks totalling 36 clay, 36 bricks, and 9 sandstone. The Coke Oven will slowly convert Coal into Coal Coke and Creosote Oil, without any need for fuel or power. 24 Coal can be processed before the creosote tank fills, and will produce 24 coke and 12 buckets of creosote.

The primary use of Coke is in the creation of Steel using the IE Blast Furnace, but it can also be used as a more efficient fuel generally, or crafted with Hemp Rope and a Stick for a more coal-efficient Torch recipe. Creosote Oil is used to make Treated Wood for various IE machines, with one bucket treating eight planks.

The Nether, Hibachi, and Stoked Fire[]

Access to the Nether can be gained by using lava buckets to cast the shape of a portal, which is generally faster than upgrading tools to mine obsidian. The major resources from the Nether are Netherrack, Blaze Powder, Nether Quartz, and Glowstone, though you will also want at least one block of Soul Sand. Processing nether materials allows access to advanced Better With Mods crafting, which is the key to the early Industrial Age.

There are several varieties of Netherrack, all of which can be processed into dust by a Millstone. Set up and power a Filtered Hopper, using a Soul Sand filter, to convert this into Hellfire Dust. A BWM Cauldron can convert eight Hellfire Dust to one bar of Concentrated Hellfire, as well as make a Heating Element from string, blaze powder, and redstone. These allow the creation of the Hibachi, an upgrade to Low Grade Charcoal which allows for redstone automation of fire and the use of Better With Mods' Bellows.

Upon receiving mechanical power, the Bellows will convert any Hibachi flame in a 3x3 area in front of it to a blue "stoked" fire, which changes the crafting recipes available to a Cauldron and is necessary for both the Kiln and Crucible. The Bellows must be removed from power in order to reset itself regularly, or else the flame will return to its default state - a Redstone Clock from Cyclic next to a Gearbox can automate this easily. Use your first Hibachi and Bellows to heat a Cauldron - while it will be unable to be used for any basic Cauldron recipes, the Stoked Cauldron has several recipes of its own, most importantly the conversion of wood products to Potash.

Potash and Concentrated Hellfire can then be combined in a non-Stoked cauldron (it may be desirable to have Redstone automation to enable and disable the Bellows, avoiding the need for multiple Cauldron steps) to produce Nether Sludge. Simply crafting it alone will produce Unfired Nether Brick, which must then be fired in a BWM Kiln multiblock.

The Kiln is built simply out of four blocks of vanilla bricks. One must have a Stoked Fire below and an empty air block above, while the other three can border the empty air block on any side. For easy automation, place the other brick blocks on the sides and an Item Upper on top. Now simply place an unfired brick in the empty space, wait a moment, and it will produce a Nether Brick.

Both the Kiln and the Cauldron can be upgraded by the use of additional Hibachi blocks placed beside their primary fire source, with the maximum speed reached at a 3x3 square. This also applies to the BWM Crucible, which is unnecessary for Age progression but can be used to access more advanced BWM machines and Soulforged Steel, as well as rapidly smelting various common materials.

Steel Yourself[]

Access to Nether Brick and Blaze Powder allows the creation of Blast Brick blocks. 27 are needed for the IE Blast Furnace, which provides the first method of producing Steel; they can also be used for the Twilight Forest's Uncrafting Table (see below).

The Blast Furnace can only take four fuels: Charcoal, Coal Coke, Blocks of Charcoal, and Blocks of Coal Coke. Using block versions of fuel is more efficient: a block burns for 10 times as long but only needs 9 times the item to craft. The Block of Coal Coke in particular can be crafted at any Crafting Table, while charcoal blocks still require a press.

The Blast Furnace can take either Iron Ingots or Iron Blocks as inputs, and will produce Steel Ingots or Steel Blocks respectively. Converting Blocks takes nine times longer (and thus nine times as much fuel), so from an efficiency standpoint there is no benefit to using blocks or ingots over the other. That said, it is easier to align ingots with fuels than blocks, especially when coke is in short supply - one block of coke can refine 10 ingots, while the first even ratio for iron blocks is 9 coke blocks to 10 iron blocks.

Steel is the most fundamental resource of the Industrial Age. Simply progressing through the age requires large amounts of steel products to set up oil processing, while most forms of RF generation also require at least some steel in their construction. It is highly recommended that the first few batches of steel be used to improve resource yields and production speed, with IE's Metal Press being a strong candidate for the first few ingots.

Useful Optional Machines[]

Metal Press[]

The Immersive Engineering Metal Press requires a moderate steel investment (15 ingots for the structural blocks and blueprint, plus 5 plates per mold), but doubles the productivity of rods and wires compared to earlier crafting methods. It is highly recommended that a Metal Press be the first IE machine built, as it dramatically reduces the cost of many other multiblocks by doubling steel rod production.

For comparison, other major IE machines are the Core Sample Drill, Crusher, Pumpjack, and Distillation Tower, and require a total of 66.5 scaffolding and 11 steel fences.

With a Metal Press, the initial press construction has 4 scaffolding left over, so only 11 sets need to be crafted, costing 33 steel rods. The fences need another 8 rods, for a final total of 41. The Metal Press takes 21 steel ingots and makes 42 rods, leaving one left over.
Without a Metal Press, 12 sets of scaffolding must be crafted, costing 36 steel rods, for a total of 44 rods. Crafting Steel Rods on a Stone Anvil is 1:1, so it needs 44 steel plates to make 44 rods.

This means that building the other four IE machines with a Metal Press and rod mold saves 23 steel ingots in rod costs - more than enough to pay back the initial 20 steel needed for the machine and mold. The press also reduces the cost in iron Likewise, a wire mold will double the efficiency of steel wire, and will pay for itself after crafting 20 HV Wire Coils. Other molds offer the same efficiency as prior crafting methods, but are faster or more convenient.

Crusher[]

The Crusher is the first ore processing machine available. It grinds ore into grit, doubling the resulting metal immediately, and setting the foundation for further processing in later ages. Like the Metal Press, it quickly pays for itself in raw resources, and its ability to double most ores stretches rarer resources much further. It's important to note that the metal grits the Crusher output cannot be used without an Arc Furnace, as they cannot be smelted by any other means in this age or the next.

Uncrafting Table[]

While it requires a Maze Map Focus, this table is otherwise inexpensive once Blast Brick is available.

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, bypassing the multi-step BWM method as long as XP is available. Pretty nifty, huh. This can come in handy for many many other things, so it's quite recommended to have one.

Thermoelectric Generator[]

The Immersive Engineering Thermoelectric Generator produces a constant supply of power in a small footprint. A single generator with four fluid blocks can supply 32 RF/tick in a five-block footprint (six including the top connector), and alternating them in a diagonal pattern can increase the power density further. This is the most space-efficient form of IE power, and 32 RF/tick is enough to run one Metal Press, one Preheater for either a Coke Oven Improved or Advanced Blast Furnace, or four Garden Cloches.

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[]

The Industrial Age advancement tree appears much more involved than some of the previous ages

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