If you’re tired of the base game then try out this expansive industrial Minecraft mod to transport your world into the industrial revolution.
Immersive Engineering – A Minecraft Mod for the Inventor
Minecraft is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive sandbox games out there. Over its 15 years of existence, the game’s developers have added multiple features, blocks, and mechanics to make things more interesting and give players more things to do, build, and explore. However, often there comes a time when players can get bored or burnt out of what the base game has to offer. Fortunately, here’s where a Minecraft mod or two can make a big difference in the whole gameplay.
Minecraft is one of the most modded games in existence, which should not be surprising considering its popularity and sandbox nature. If you want to give a fresh breath of life to your building and crafting sessions, you may want to look at some mods, and Immersive Engineering is one of the best industrial-oriented ones out there.
Created by BluSunrize and Mr_Hazard, the Minecraft mod adds a slew of industrial machinery powered by Forge Energy (FE), its in-game form of electricity. These all allow you to automate various crafting processes, extract more resources from mined ores, create new metals and alloys, such as steel, and make better mechanical tools and weapons.
With almost 135 million downloads on its official page on CurseForge, the Minecraft mod is definitely one of the most popular ones out there. This reputation has also withstood the test of time, considering Immersive Engineering’s first version released for Minecraft 1.7.10, way back in late 2014. Since then, the mod quickly grew in popularity and was also voted as the best new mod of 2015 by /r/feedthebeast, the official subreddit of the famous Feed the Beast mudpack.
What Does the Immersive Engineering Minecraft Mod Offer?
As we already mentioned, the Minecraft mod introduces a lot of new mechanics and items to the game. Immersive Engineering’s gameplay revolves around the creation of various complex multiblock machines that can create various things, such as steel ingots with which you can make items that are between the iron and the diamond tier.
Of course, all of these machines need power, which can be created through various methods, ranging from water wheels and windmills to large biodiesel-powered generators. These energy sources and the machines needing them are connected using various types of wires, relays, and other electrical components, meaning copper will play a huge part in Immersive Engineering.
Overall, the Minecraft mod tries to recreate a more realistic style of industrial sandbox gameplay. “Instead of glowing red tubes, it offers actual, hanging powerlines. Instead of one block that magically spits out dusts when ore is put in, it offers a crusher, a big multiblock (5x3x3) that features rotating wheels and spits out particles as it breaks the ore,” the mod’s description says.
But big machines aren’t the only thing that Immersive Engineers has to offer players. It also adds a lot of various building and decorative blocks, such as treated wood, which is darker and made with normal planks and creosote oil (we’ll talk about that one later), and different steel scaffolding blocks, that can make for some interesting industrial-looking builds.
All of these machines need ways to be automated to create full assembly lines for various items. This is where the Minecraft mod’s many different conveyor belts come in handy. Item chutes from the base game might work well, but the Immersive Engineering options make for much better working and cooler-looking contraptions.
How to Get Started with Immersive Engineering?
While we do not have nearly enough time to go through the entire mod here, we can at least give you some basics to get you started. Immersive Engineering is quite an extensive mod that adds new ores and resources to the game, but fortunately, most of what you will need can be found in the Engineer’s Manual.
This is a special book that can be crafted using a normal book and lever. It contains detailed instructions on how to build the mod’s complicated machines and also information about many of the new resources. Of course, having the relevant wiki page open also helps with getting on with the mod. Various great tutorials also exist on YouTube, so feel free to look them up.
One thing that is quite important to note is how much iron, and subsequently steel, you will need for this Minecraft mod. Furthermore, steel can be made only when you get in the nether, as you will need nether bricks to create a blast furnace, which in turn is used to make iron into steel.
But fortunately, there are some other things you can do before going to the nether. In preparation for making steel, you will need coke, which is made when you cook coal in a coke oven. That one is made with just sand, clay, and bricks, so it’s relatively easy to start with the mod. You can even make a large tank structure to automate the output of creosote oil, which you will need for making treated wood. In addition to being a cool building block, it is also used in various important recipes.
These are simply the basics of the mod, so feel free to research things on your own.
Conclusion
If you’re tired of vanilla Minecraft and want some more industrialization and automation in your game, then Immersive Engineering is the thing for you. While it is one of the bigger and more difficult Minecraft mods out there, it adds a ton of new features to the base game. It will grant you dozens or even hundreds of courses of new and exciting playtime and it also works well with other more technical mods, making for a great way to create modern industry in Minecraft.
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