Immersive Engineering

Getting Started: Ores & Early Tools

Ores You’ll Find:

In Immersive Engineering you’ll come across several new raw materials:

• Lead
• Bauxite
• Nickel
• Silver
• Uranium

These generate at similar heights to vanilla ores—generally above diamond level.

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The First Item: Engineer’s Manual

Crafted with a book + a lever, this manual explains every aspect of the mod. You won’t need it, but it’s there.

Core Tools

You’ll immediately craft two essentials:

• Engineer’s Hammer – forms multiblocks, rotates machines, and turns ingots into plates.
• Wire Cutters – cuts plates into wire for crafting and power systems.

Alloys & Pulverizing

Immersive Engineering includes its own alloying system. For example:

• Gold + Silver grit = Electrum grit → Electrum ingots

Using the hammer, you can smash ores into grit early on, doubling outputs manually.

Treated Wood, Storage & Industrial Hemp

Treated Wood

A core crafting component across the mod.

You’ll need:

1. A Coke Oven (crafted from Coke Bricks)
2. Insert coal or coal blocks
3. Wait for:
• Coke Coke (fuel)
• Creosote Oil (fluid byproduct)

Right-click the oven with a bucket to extract creosote, then combine:

Creosote Bucket + Wooden Planks → Treated Wood Planks

Coke Oven Multiblock

• 3×3×3 of Coke Bricks
• Right-click the center with the engineer's hammer

Wooden Storage Crates

These act as portable chests—their contents stay inside when broken.

Industrial Hemp

Grow these for:

• Hemp fiber → String
• Tough Fabric → Wire insulation
• Windmill sails

Alloy Kiln: Basic Alloy Automation

If hammer-smashing ores feels slow, step up to the Alloy Kiln.

Alloy Kiln Multiblock

• 1×2×1 of Alloy Bricks (place in a 2×2 pattern)
• Right-click with hammer

Used for making:

• Constantan (Nickel + Copper)
• Electrum (Silver + Gold)
• Insulating Glass

Steel Production: Blast Furnaces

Steel is central to mid- and late-game IE.

Crude Blast Furnace

• Made using Blast Bricks
• Simple 3×3×3 multiblock
• Hammer the center

Put Iron Ingots in top, Coke Coke in bottom → Steel

Improved Blast Furnace

Faster, automatable version.

To upgrade:

1. Make your first 27 steel in the crude furnace
2. Turn steel into steel plates
3. Combine plates with blast bricks → Reinforced Blast Bricks
4. Rebuild the multiblock

Preheaters

Improve speed. Requires:

• LV Wire Coils
• Iron Sheetmetal
• External Heater

Power them using LV connectors & wires.

The below example shows a blast furnace with pre-heaters placed with the power blocks on top. You attach your LV connectors & wires on top of these power blocks.

Conveyors, Routers & Storage Silos

Conveyors

Immersive Engineering’s conveyors are powerful:

• Basic conveyors
• Vertical conveyors
• Sloped conveyors
• Dropping conveyors
• Extracting conveyors
• Redstone-controlled conveyors
• Dye-colored conveyors
• Covered conveyors (mob-safe)

Use the hammer to rotate direction or create slopes.

Item Routers

A simple directional filtering system.

• Insert into west side
• Output on colored sides (north = red, east = yellow, etc.)
• Filter by:
• Item
• NBT
• Damage
• Tags (e.g., all ores)

Item Silos & Fluid Tanks

Huge storage multiblocks:

• Tanks: crafted from treated wood fences and sheetmetal
• Silos: tall 6-block multiblock, hollow interior

Blueprints & Engineer's Workbench

The Engineer’s Workbench (with blueprint slot) handles complex crafting:

Blueprints include:

• Components (plates, tubes, PCB backplanes, etc.)
• Common Projectiles
• Molds (for the Metal Press)
• Arc Furnace Electrodes (found via loot/trading)

Place the blueprint on the left, insert ingredients, and craft via left-click.

Power in Immersive Engineering

Batteries: LV/MV/HV Accumulators

Right-click sides to toggle:

• Blue = input
• Orange = output

Transferring Power

Use:

• Connectors (LV/MV/HV)
• Wire Coils
• Relays (allow multi-wire connections)

Touching HV wires will electrocute and kill you.

Use insulated wire for LV/MV (no HV insulation exists).

Generators

1. Water Wheel

• Place water to spin wheel
• Attach a Kinetic Dynamo (shown below).
• Output LV power. (Attach a LV connector to the hole shown on the dynamo.

2. Windmill

• Height-dependent power
• Add Windmill Sails (made from Industrial Hemp → Tough Fabric)
• Add a dynamo on the back, as shown here. Then attach connectors & wires to transmit power.

3. Thermoelectric Generator

Place hot block on one side, cold block on the opposite.

Best setup:

• Blue Ice (cold)
• Uranium Block (hot)

Useful Machines You Might Miss

External Heater

Powers furnaces without fuel. (Place next to a furnace as shown).

Garden Cloche

^^ Shows the UI for growing Wheat. With the output on the right.

One of the best farming machines in modded Minecraft.

• Input water in back (Circled blue in the example).
• Seed + Soil in bottom (In the UI)
• Grows crops extremely fast
• Outputs items automatically (You can use output pipes where I’ve circled red.
• Powered through the top of the cloche.

Charging Station

Charges tools and IE items.

Core Multiblock Machines

Metal Press

Used with molds to make:

Molds are placed where you can see the chimney looking bit is.

• Plates
• Rods
• Wire
• Packing/unpacking (3×3 blocks)

Redstone togglable with the lever as shown.

Crusher

• One of the fastest ore doubling machines in modded Minecraft
• Crushes ores → 2× dust + chance secondary (e.g., Nickel from Iron Ore)

Sawmill

• Strip logs
• Cut planks
• Produces sawdust
• Requires a Sawblade installed

Assembler

3-recipe crafting machine that supports fluids.

Great for:

• Auto-plank → door chains
• Multi-step crafting lines
• Refilling bucket recipes (water input)

Fuel Processing: Squeezer, Fermenter & Refinery

Goal: Produce Biodiesel, the fuel for the powerful Diesel Generator.

Squeezer

Turns seeds (best: Industrial Hemp) → Plant Oil

Fermenter

Turns potatoes (or other foods) → Ethanol

Refinery

Combines:

• Plant Oil
• Ethanol
• A single Nitrate Dust catalyst

→ Biodiesel

Massive Power Generation: Diesel Generator

Extremely powerful end-game IE generator.

• Accepts Biodiesel
• Outputs High Voltage
• Loud, fast, and beastly

Build it from:

• Radiators
• Generator Blocks
• Steel Scaffolding
• Fluid Pipes

Connect HV wires on the top 3 front orange dots to accumulators for storage.

The black hole on the left / right is where you input the Ethanol & Oil.

Automating Biodiesel

A fully automated setup uses:

• Garden Cloche (Hemp → Squeezer)
• Garden Cloche (Potatoes → Fermenter)
• Pipes and conveyors for item/fluid movement
• Relays and connectors for power distribution

Refinery outputs biodiesel to the generator → HV power.

Optional Generator: Lightning Rod

Looks cool, rare to be hit by lightning, not practical—mostly decorative.

Arc Furnace: The Ultimate Smelter

Immersive Engineering’s largest multiblock.

Capabilities:

• Smelts large batches of ore extremely fast
• Alloying: Copper + Tin → Bronze, etc.
• Outputs slag as waste
• Requires Graphite Electrodes (consumed over time)

Electrodes are crafted from:

• Coke Dust (Crusher)
• → HOP Graphite Dust (Squeezer)
• → HOP Graphite Ingots (Smelting)
• → Electrodes (Blueprint)

Ore Excavator: Automated Ore Mining

Massive late-game multiblock that:

• Mines full veins automatically
• Requires huge power input
• Uses a bucket wheel mechanism
• Works with mineral deposits scanned around the chunk

This pairs perfectly with the Arc Furnace for true industrial automation.