Mekanism: Engineering 1.2 for Minecraft 1.20.1 -> The Big One

Ore goes in. Up to five ingots come out.

This is the same 1.2 as the Minecraft 1.21.1 release, built for Mekanism 10.4. The few differences are listed in "Differences from the 1.21.1 version" near the end.

Engineering's first multiblock has arrived. The Quantum Ore Refinery runs Mekanism's whole ore-processing chain, from smelting to dissolution and crystallization, inside one structure that you build, watch light up and tune from a single screen. Beside it, the Quantum Digital Miner gets quick filters and saved filter lists, so one click is enough to mine iron, gold, diamond and more. Around them, 1.2 brings a pocket Network Tablet, a Chargepad that draws from the quantum network, miner notifications you cannot miss, server commands, a reworked Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter, blue Quantum screens and new textures across the mod, and a long list of fixes.

The big one: Quantum Ore Refinery

A multiblock that turns ore into ingots, with a screen to run it and an optional Quantum/QIO module that sends what it makes straight to your network.

• Five levels, one machine. The level says how many items one ore makes, exactly as Mekanism's own chains do. x1 smelts it, x2 enriches it first, x3 adds purification with oxygen, x4 adds injection with hydrogen chloride, x5 dissolves, washes and crystallizes it with sulfuric acid and water. An iron ore gives 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ingots, and other ores follow their own Mekanism ratios.

• It uses Mekanism's recipes, not its own. Every step reads the recipe of the item in front of it, so what a modpack changes in Mekanism changes the refinery with it. Ores, raw ores and raw blocks go in (raw silver and raw naquadah blocks included), and so do the ores of other mods that Mekanism can process. The tag mekanismengineering:refinery_ores lists what goes in, and a data pack can change it.

• Whole stacks at a time. A job works a stack of up to 64 ores. The x1 refines a whole stack in a single tick. The higher levels take longer, because they give more.

• Eight accelerators. Each of the structure's eight accelerator places that holds an Ore Refinery Accelerator shortens the job. With all eight, the x2 takes 1 tick, the x3 2, the x4 3 and the x5 4:

  Accelerators	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
  x2 (ticks per job)	50	31	19	12	7	4	3	2	1
  x3	100	61	38	23	14	9	5	3	2
  x4	150	92	56	35	21	13	8	5	3
  x5	200	123	75	46	28	17	11	7	4

• Same energy at every level. An ore costs what it costs in an Enrichment Chamber, whatever the level and the speed. You pay for the ore, not for the speed.

• Four tanks that keep up with a Quantum Digital Miner. 3,000,000 mB of water, 600,000 mB of hydrogen chloride, 600,000 mB of oxygen and 120,000 mB of sulfuric acid. A job takes what its steps use in Mekanism (an iron ore at x5 takes 200 mB of sulfuric acid, 5,000 mB of water, 1,000 mB of hydrogen chloride and 1,000 mB of oxygen), all at once with the products, or nothing at all.

• You choose how far it goes. Click a level on the Home screen to set the highest level the refinery will use. With Always run off, it waits for that level. With it on, it works at the best level your tanks cover, and never below x2 unless you chose x1. When the tanks only cover part of a stack, a job takes as many ores as they cover and the rest of the stack waits for the next job, instead of stalling or dropping a level for the whole stack.

• A screen for every question. Home shows the status, the five levels (ready, waiting for a resource, working), the energy bar, the nine ore slots and the Always run buttons. Buffers shows four large gauges and the level each one unlocks. Stats shows the work in progress, level by level which resource is short, and a graph of the last five minutes. All of it in the same blue as the Quantum machines.

• Quantum / QIO module. An optional block in the structure. With it, the products go to a buffer of 64 stacks and are sent every half second to a Quantum frequency or to a QIO you choose on its screen (public or private frequencies). The Output module tab sits right under Home on the controller screen, and the frequency is picked there. A full or missing destination keeps the products in the buffer, so nothing is lost. Without the module, or without a frequency, the products leave by the output port. When the structure also has an output port, it is the spare buffer, and what the module's buffer cannot hold leaves by the port. With no output port, a full buffer makes the refinery wait, and nothing is lost. An Off / On switch on the module's screen turns the module off without breaking it. While it is off, the refinery works as if the module were not there (the products leave by the output port) and the module keeps its frequencies for when you turn it back on.

• Nothing is refused. Anything the refinery cannot process passes through to the output untouched, so a mixed belt can feed it without a filter (a structure with no output port refuses it).

• It builds like a Mekanism multiblock. The structure (10 × 4 × 3) has a controller, casings, pillars, girders, conveyors, glass, ports, accelerators, four tanks and seven processing modules (dissolution, washing, crystallization, injection, purification, enrichment, smelting). The structure has 18 places where a port can go, eight on each of the two lower floors of the back wall, between the two pillars, and one at the foot of each end. The drawing shows seven ports (five input, one output, one energy), but the structure needs only at least five input ports and at least one energy port, and the output port is optional (none or one). The energy port goes on the back wall, and the two ends of the structure take only item input or the output, and the Quantum/QIO module sits at the output end. The free cells on the outside of the structure take any block, so you can wall or roof it with whatever you like. The free cells inside stay for air, glass or casing, and the module's cell keeps its own rule. It forms by itself within a second of the last block being placed, tells you which block is wrong when it does not, and never loads a chunk to look. Like Mekanism's multiblocks, red dust runs along its edges when you complete it.

• Ports. The input port takes ore as items, water as fluid and the three gases. Sneak and click it with a Configurator to turn it between items, fluids and gases, a plain click shows its mode. The output port gives the products to a pipe, a hopper or a chest. The energy port takes Joules and FE. A port serves only one refinery. With no output port and no Quantum/QIO module linked, the refinery still forms but does not process any ore and shows "No output". It takes and loses nothing, and carries on as soon as you add an output port or link the module.

• Take it apart with a Wrench, like Mekanism's own blocks. Breaking the controller keeps what it holds in its item.

• Conveyors that carry real ore. Ore chunks of lapis, diamond, redstone, coal, glowstone and emerald ride the belts, instead of one plain sand colour.

• JEI page. A page for the structure with a clear 3D view you can turn, the four layers and a grid of its 22 parts. Click a part to light it in the view, with X-ray and "Alone" modes. Every block of the structure also has its own help sheet that leads to the page.

• Jade and WTHIT. Any block of the structure shows the refinery's state and level, the four stocks as gauges (drawn with the real fluid and chemical textures) and, for a port, its mode and what it serves. In Jade, the Quantum/QIO module has its own card with its buffer and a warning when the destination is full.

• Recipes. This is an end-game build. The structure blocks are made from Steel Casing, atomic alloys and ultimate circuits, the controller needs a Teleportation Core, an Ultimate Energy Cube and an Enrichment Chamber, each processing module is built around its Mekanism machine, and the tanks use Ultimate Fluid and Chemical Tanks with structural glass. They are shown in JEI.

Also big: Quick filters for the Quantum Digital Miner

Set up a miner in one click. The "New filter" window now starts with ready-made ore filters, so you no longer type a tag name to mine iron.

• Twelve ore filters. Iron, gold, coal and redstone ores are always listed. Copper, lapis, diamond, emerald, tin, lead, osmium and uranium ores are listed whenever their ore tag exists in your game.
• Replace or Add. Replace makes the miner's list that one filter. Add adds it only if the same tag filter is not already there.
• Other mods' ores included. Each quick filter is an ordinary Mekanism tag filter on the common ore tag, so the ores that other mods put in that tag are mined too. Nothing is scanned and no chunk is loaded to build it.
• Saved configurations. Save the miner's filter list under a name, then load it on any miner with Replace or Add. Each player has their own library in the world or on the server, up to 32 lists of 128 filters, with names up to 24 characters.
• Only the filters change. Radius, height, Silk Touch and every other setting stay as they are.

Also new

Quantum Network Tablet

The Quantum Network Controller now fits in your hand. The tablet opens the same screen, with the same rights, wherever you are, and it loads no chunk to do so.

• A Controller alone in the crafting grid becomes a tablet, and a tablet becomes a Controller again. Its owner, security mode and name are kept both ways.

Quantum Network Controller: a clearer picture of each frequency

The screen now shows each frequency as what goes in, what it holds and what goes out.

• Devices are grouped by family (Entangloporters, Quantum Energy Receivers, Quantum Digital Miners, Quantum Chargepads), each with its rate and its share of the whole side.
• A figure that could only be deduced is marked "≈", one that cannot be known is marked "?", and a total is marked "≥" when a device could not be read (its chunk is not loaded, or you may not access it).
• Mekanism's own Quantum Entangloporters are always shown as an estimate on this version: the Controller sees what they add or remove from the frequency in the end, and shows it as input or as output, marked "≈".
• A trend line tells whether the frequency's stock is filling or emptying. Radioactive chemicals have their own "Radiation" tab.
• Figures sooner. One device still being measured no longer blanks the whole frequency. Only its own family waits, the others keep their figures. The screen shows the last figures it has for the same frequency and resource while the new ones are measured (30 seconds by default, a server setting, and 0 turns it off).
• A long frequency name shows in full when you hover it.

Quantum Chargepad: local and quantum modes

The Quantum Chargepad now has a screen and two modes.

• Local (the default) is what the pad has always done, with energy coming in by cable. Existing pads load as local and lose nothing.
• Quantum takes the energy from a quantum frequency you choose on the pad's screen (public frequencies and your own private ones). In this mode the pad takes no energy from cables.
• Charging is unchanged. It covers every item of the players standing on it, armour first. Changing the mode never converts or loses energy.
• A pad in quantum mode appears in the Quantum Network Controller as its own family.
• The pad now has Mekanism's security tab. Its owner, security and mode are kept when you pick it up. Its frequency is not, so a pad always starts unlinked when placed.

Quantum Digital Miner: notifications

Your Quantum Digital Miner now tells you, with a notification and Minecraft's notification sound, when:

• mining is complete (or complete in the loaded chunks only), with the number of blocks mined in the cycle;
• mining is paused, with the reason: not enough energy, storage full, overflow items to clear, replacement block missing, placement refused, or area not loaded;
• a relocation is complete.

The notification shows the machine's icon, a title, a detail line and the place (dimension and X, Y, Z). When only the loaded chunks of the zone were mined, a half-filled bar says so. Only the owner is notified, and only while connected. A miner with no owner notifies nobody. Beyond eight at once, the rest are counted in a single "+N more" notification. A client setting turns them off.

Quantum Digital Miner: it keeps what you set

• Broken by its owner, a miner keeps all its settings and its frequencies (energy, QIO, import and export links) in its item. Placed again, it is as it was.
• Placed by another player, a miner whose item carries the owner's private frequencies loses those frequencies and links as it is placed, and keeps everything else, such as region, modes, filters, redstone mode, sources and zones. A miner with no owner keeps everything.
• The Configuration Card copies the settings and the frequencies and links its user may carry, never the identity, the energy, the contents or the zone history, and it never recreates a frequency that no longer exists.

Quantum Portable Teleporter: your last jump, and server controls

• Pick a dimension from a list. In the coordinates tab, the dimension button opens a drop-down list (five rows, with a scroll bar for long lists) instead of cycling through dimensions one click at a time. A click outside or Escape closes it without changing anything.
• It remembers what you chose last, either the Teleporter frequency you jumped to, or the coordinates you typed, never both. A random jump remembers neither. Use again puts your last choice back and never teleports by itself, so press Teleport when you are ready.
• For server owners: forbid the precise-coordinates tab (allowCoordinates) or the random tab (allowRandom), and list dimensions where those two tabs are blocked while the player stands in them (coordinateAndRandomBlockedDimensions). Teleporting by frequency is not affected. By default nothing changes. Both tabs are allowed and the list is empty.

Server commands

A new /mekeng command, for operators, with nothing destructive without confirm and no chunk ever loaded:

• /mekeng build quantum_ore_refinery builds a whole refinery where you aim (choose its level, accelerators and module, or build it empty), and /mekeng remove quantum_ore_refinery takes one down. It only takes the refinery's own blocks, so a block of another mod placed on one of its free cells stays where it is. /mek build quantum_ore_refinery works too, through Mekanism's own build command.
• /mekeng refinery check | info | fill | clear | level | alwaysrun | accelerators inspects and drives a refinery: which cell is wrong, what it holds, fill its tanks and energy for a test, empty a group of slots.
• /mekeng miner info | find | list reads the Quantum Digital Miners of your server.
• /mekeng about prints the versions and the settings that matter.

Reworked

Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter

The block now carries radioactive gases only (Spent Nuclear Waste and any other gas Mekanism marks as radioactive), over radioactive frequencies of its own. Everything else (items, fluids, other chemicals, energy and heat) is the job of Mekanism's own Quantum Entangloporter.

• Radioactive frequencies are separate from Inventory frequencies, and no other Entangloporter, Receiver or Controller sees them. They work like Mekanism's frequencies (Public and Private) and are chosen, created and deleted in a window copied from Mekanism's own.
• A local buffer of 64,000 mB in each block, and slow reception, 10 mB per tick for each receiver. What a block does with its gas follows its chemical side configuration, as on a Quantum Entangloporter. An input face fills the buffer, an output face empties it, and a face set to both does both.
• Its own energy reserve of 1,000,000 J pays the transfers, 100 J per mB at each end. The reserve never comes out through a face. Without energy the block stops and keeps what it holds.
• Energy Upgrades. The block takes Mekanism's standard Energy Upgrade, in the usual upgrade tab. Each upgrade raises the reserve (up to 10 MJ with 8 upgrades) and lowers the price of a transfer (down to 10 J per mB).
• A new screen, a dark security console with a dial that fills with the buffer, the chemical it holds and its energy.
• Dismantling is refused while the buffer holds anything, with a message that says why.
• New recipe, with a Quantum Entangloporter in the middle, 4 plutonium pellets, 2 polonium pellets and 2 HDPE sheets.
• The radioactive stock that earlier versions kept on an Inventory frequency stays where it is and can only be emptied through this block, never filled.

One look, one set of controls

• Every Quantum screen is the same blue, including the Chargepad, the four Quantum Energy Receivers, the Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter, the Network Controller and Tablet, the Digital Miner's configuration and the refinery. The Industrial Fluid Pump keeps its grey, since it is not a Quantum machine.
• Tabs where Mekanism puts them. The Quantum Energy Receivers, the Chargepad and the Precision Logistical Distributor use Mekanism's own side-configuration tab and remember the windows you opened.
• The same frequency window everywhere. The Quantum Energy Receivers and the Chargepad open Mekanism's own frequency selector, the same window as the Quantum Digital Miner. A frequency whose radioactive stock still holds something cannot be deleted from any Engineering block.
• New textures for the Precision Logistical Distributor and the Precision Upgrade Controller. The Distributor's routing window is now Mekanism's grey, with an eye to hide the neighbouring blocks, and its mode buttons look like Mekanism's.
• Cleaner ports, new belts. The refinery's ports have a thin frame, and its conveyors carry ore.
• Clearer words. A Receiver without a frequency tells you where to set it. The refinery says "Waiting for the chosen level" instead of "Idle". The Configurator is named on the input port's description. The Upgrade Controller explains its "excluded" and "Transfers" labels. "Silk touch" is written one way everywhere. The French translation uses the infinitive for instructions and no longer mixes English words in (proper names are kept).
• Bigger text on the Quantum Portable Teleporter and the Digital Miner Companion.
• Machines held in hand. The Quantum Energy Receivers sit in the middle of the hand, the Petrogenic Synthesis Plant shows correctly in first person, and the Quantum Digital Miner, the Industrial Fluid Pump and the Plant are carried with both hands.
• Quantum Fluid Pump is now called Industrial Fluid Pump. Only the name changes. Existing pumps, recipes and saves are untouched.

Fixed

Quantum Digital Miner

• A block that became unbreakable or turned into a liquid after the search is now left in place.
• The front screen no longer shows an energy warning while the miner is mining normally. The warning now appears only when the miner really ran short.
• Relocation is safer. A move whose new platform cannot be fully placed fails and is undone, leaving the world as it was. An undo that cannot put a block back keeps its record and asks for recovery instead of silently losing it.

Other machines

• Precision Upgrade Controller. Upgrade types it does not know (for example from an addon you removed) are kept in its vault instead of being deleted, and come back if the addon returns.
• Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter. A stored chemical whose mod was removed is kept instead of being lost, and is usable again once the mod returns.
• Quantum Energy Receivers. They can only select an existing frequency or unlink themselves: a modified client can no longer create or remove a frequency through them.
• Precision Logistical Distributor. Two different items whose data happened to look the same no longer share their place in the fair rotation.

Quantum Portable Teleporter

• A jump refused by another mod costs no energy, and the reason is shown.
• Forbidden dimensions are checked again just before the jump.
• Arriving next to a chunk that is not loaded is refused instead of skipping the safety checks. A loaded neighbouring chunk is checked as usual (lava at the edge, for example).
• With Surface on, its label no longer overlaps the Y number. The Y field is hidden while Surface is on, and comes back with Here.

Servers

• Engineering screens ignore repeated or invented tracking data sent by a modified client.

Good to know

• Quantum Digital Miner relocation: a deliberate server stop. A relocation that fails is undone and the world is left as it was. In the rare case where the undo itself cannot be completed or saved (a block that cannot be put back, a world write that fails), the server stops with an error instead of carrying on, because continuing could overwrite the only record of what was moved. The undo record is kept and replayed at the next start, before the world loads. If you see this, restart the server and report it. On a single-player world, the game closes the world.
• Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter. An ordinary gas no longer passes through this block. Mekanism's own Quantum Entangloporter carries it.
• Placed by someone else. A Quantum Digital Miner placed by a player who is not its owner does not keep the owner's private frequencies (see above).
• Back up your worlds before updating mods, as always.

Differences from the 1.21.1 version

Everything above is the same as in the Minecraft 1.21.1 release, except:

• Ore tags have the 1.20.1 names. The quick filters and the refinery use forge:ores/iron, forge:ores/gold and so on, and the refinery's ore tag lists forge:ores, forge:raw_materials and the forge:storage_blocks/raw_... tags. In a data pack, the folders have the 1.20.1 names too (tags/items, recipes).
• Frequencies are Public or Private. Mekanism 10.4 has no Trusted mode for frequencies. The frequency lists of the Network Controller and Tablet, the Chargepad, the refinery's module and the Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter show public frequencies and your own private ones.
• Mekanism's Quantum Entangloporters are estimated in the Network Controller. On 1.21.1 the Controller counts what goes into them. Here it does not, so it works out their net flow from the stock and shows it as input or output, marked "≈". Every other device is counted as before.
• Radioactive chemicals are gases. Mekanism 10.4 keeps gases, infusion types, pigments and slurries apart, so the Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter carries radioactive gases.
• A miner placed by another player drops the owner's private frequencies when it is placed, not when it is broken. The item still carries them until then, and only its owner's placement keeps them.
• Energy is Joules and FE. The refinery's energy port takes Joules and FE.
• No Mekanism Overclocked line. The 1.21.1 notes mention the unofficial Mekanism Overclocked edition, and this version accepts Mekanism 10.4 only.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.20.1, Java 17 and NeoForge 1.20.1 only (47.1.106, up to but not including 47.2). Install the addon and Mekanism on both the client and the server.
• Mekanism 10.4.13 up to, but not including, 10.4.17.
• Optional: JEI 15.56.0.205 or later, Jade 11.12.3 or later, WTHIT 8.19.3 or later. Without them nothing changes.
• Not supported: NeoForge 47.2 and later, and Evolved Mekanism. The official More Machine 1.1.2 file does not load on NeoForge 47.1.106.
• English and French translations are included.

What comes next

The refinery is the first of a family. More soon…

Mekanism: Engineering is an unofficial addon, independent of the Mekanism team. Please report issues to this project (https://gitlab.com/enzodr/mekanism-engineering/-/issues), not to Mekanism.