Industrial Foregoing

Overview

Industrial Foregoing adds over 40 machines that automate farming, animal husbandry, mob interaction, ore processing, enchanting, resource generation, and storage. Every machine runs on RF/FE power and uses a unique material called Plastic as the primary crafting ingredient. The mod introduces 11 custom fluids, a tiered Laser Drill for infinite ore generation, massive Black Hole storage, and the legendary Infinity Drill that can mine entire chunks at once.

You can browse every item and recipe this mod adds using the Items and Recipes tabs above. This guide walks you through the full progression from your very first Tree Fluid Extractor to endgame systems like the Laser Drill and Infinity Drill.

Machines do not auto-eject outputs and do not auto-pull inputs. You will need Conveyors, hoppers, pipes from other mods, or the mod's own Transfer Addons to move items and fluids between machines. All machines accept RF, FE, Tesla, and Mekanism power formats.

Power Generation

Industrial Foregoing includes four generators that scale with your progression. The Pitiful Fuel Generator is your entry point, accepting only wood-type fuels. The Petrified Fuel Generator is a direct upgrade that accepts any solid fuel, with RF output proportional to the fuel's burn time. However, all fuels burn for the same duration regardless of their vanilla burn time, so higher-tier fuels simply produce more RF per tick.

Biofuel Generator

The real workhorse is the Biofuel Generator, producing 160 RF/t from Biofuel. One bucket of Biofuel yields a total of 640,000 RF. A single Bioreactor at maximum efficiency can sustain about 28 Biofuel Generators. This is the power backbone of most Industrial Foregoing setups.

Protein Generator

The Protein Generator is the most powerful option at 320 RF/t. One bucket of Protein produces 1,280,000 RF total. It requires Protein fluid from the Protein Reactor, which works identically to the Bioreactor but accepts animal drops instead of plant materials.

Agriculture Machines

Industrial Foregoing's agriculture system automates every step of farming. The Crop Sower plants seeds and saplings from its inventory. You can lock individual slots to filter which seeds go where, and the colored backgrounds on the block's top face correspond to each slot's planting zone.

The Crop Recolector (Plant Gatherer) harvests fully grown crops, chops down trees, and handles Pumpkins, Melons, and Nether Wart. Each harvest produces a small amount of Sludge as a byproduct, which can be processed in the Sludge Refiner. Having a full Sludge tank will not slow the machine down. The Plant Interactor provides an alternative harvest method by right-clicking crops and fruits, making it compatible with Pam's HarvestCraft plants by default.

The Crop Enrich Material Injector (Plant Fertilizer) applies Bonemeal, Industrial Foregoing Fertilizer, or Forestry Fertilizer to crops and saplings in its working area. The Hydrator increases crop growth speed passively with just power. The Spores Recreator grows Mushrooms from a single input Mushroom using power and Water.

Sludge and Fertilizer Loop

The Sludge Refiner converts 1 bucket of Sludge into earth-like materials such as Clay, Soul Sand, Dirt, Gravel, Mycelium, Sand, and Red Sand with weighted probabilities. Meanwhile, the Sewage Composter Solidifier converts 2 buckets of Sewage into Fertilizer, creating a satisfying loop: farm animals produce Sewage, which becomes Fertilizer, which speeds up your crops, which feed your Bioreactor.

Animal Husbandry

Five dedicated machines handle every aspect of automated animal farming. The Animal Stock Increaser (Animal Feeder) breeds animals by feeding them their breeding item. It caps at 35 animals in the working area to prevent lag. The Animal Resource Harvester (Animal Rancher) uses Buckets to milk Cows, Shears to shear Sheep, and automatically collects Ink Sacs from Squids.

The Animal Growth Increaser (Animal Grower) speeds up baby animal maturation using breeding food and power. The Animal Independence Selector (Baby Separator) moves baby animals from the back of the machine to the front, keeping your breeding area clear. Installing an Adult Filter addon reverses this behavior, moving adults instead.

The Animal Byproduct Recolector (Animal Sewer) passively collects Sewage from animals above it. This is a key fluid for the Fertilizer loop described earlier.

Mob Interaction

Mob Imprisonment Tool

The Mob Imprisonment Tool is a reusable item that captures any non-player, non-boss entity when right-clicked. Right-click a surface to release the captured mob. It displays the entity type and remaining health in its tooltip. This tool is essential for the Mob Duplicator and Villager Trade Exchanger.

Mob Slaughter Factory and Mob Relocator

The Mob Slaughter Factory grinds entities in front of it into Liquid Meat and Pink Slime fluid. It does not drop items or experience. Use the Mob Relocator (Mob Crusher) instead if you want item drops and XP, as it kills entities as if a player dealt the blow, converts experience orbs into Essence, and collects dropped items. Adding an Adult Filter addon makes it kill only adult mobs.

Mob Duplicator

The Mob Duplicator spawns copies of entities stored in a Mob Imprisonment Tool. It requires power and Essence to operate, and it counts nearby entities of the same type to prevent overpopulation. Combined with a Mob Slaughter Factory or Mob Relocator, you can create a self-sustaining mob farm for any entity in the game.

Bioreactor and Protein Reactor

Both reactors work identically but accept different input categories. The Bioreactor accepts plant-based materials: Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Melon Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Nether Wart, Sugar Cane, Cactus, Red Mushroom, Brown Mushroom, Kelp, and all Dyes and Saplings. The Protein Reactor accepts animal drops: Raw Porkchop, Raw Beef, Raw Chicken, Raw Rabbit, Raw Mutton, Raw Cod, Rotten Flesh, Spider Eye, Bone, and all raw fish variants.

Each unique item in a reactor adds 10 mb to the output of every item slot. With 1 item type you get 10 mb per item. With 9 different item types, each item produces 90 mb, for a maximum output of 1,440 mb per cycle consuming 9 items. Always aim for 9 unique items for peak efficiency.

Enchanting System

Four machines handle enchantment automation. The Enchantment Invoker (Enchantment Factory) works like an Enchanting Table, using 3 buckets of Essence to perform a level 30 enchantment on any enchantable item. The Enchantment Applicator works like an Anvil, combining items and Enchanted Books using Essence instead of player XP levels.

The Enchantment Extractor removes one enchantment from an item and applies it to a Book, without damaging the original item. The Enchantment Refiner (Sorter) sorts enchanted items to the top row and unenchanted items to the bottom row, useful for separating loot from mob farms.

The Resourceful Furnace is the primary Essence source outside of mob farms. It smelts 3 items simultaneously like a normal Furnace but produces a small amount of Essence with each smelting operation.

Conveyor Belt System

Conveyors are the mod's native item and entity transport system. Craft them with Plastic, Iron Ingots, and Redstone (yields 4 per craft). They can be dyed 16 different colors, made faster by applying a Glowstone Dust, or made sticky by applying Plastic (sticky conveyors grab items that touch them from the side).

Conveyors automatically go up or down when placed adjacent to higher or lower conveyor lines. Seven upgrade types snap onto conveyor sides to add functionality. The Extraction Upgrade pulls items from adjacent inventories onto the belt. The Insertion Upgrade pushes items off the belt into adjacent inventories. Both support whitelist/blacklist filtering.

The Detection Upgrade emits a Redstone signal when an entity passes over it. The Bouncing Upgrade launches entities into the air with configurable horizontal and vertical velocity. The Dropping Upgrade sends entities straight down or inserts items into inventories below. The Blinking Upgrade teleports entities forward 1 to 8 blocks. The Splitting Upgrade distributes entities across sides with configurable ratios.

Ore Processing Chain

Industrial Foregoing offers a unique ore multiplication system using biological processing. This chain effectively triples your ores through three specialized machines, but it requires infrastructure from several other parts of the mod.

Step 1: Ore Washer

Feed Silk Touched ores and Liquid Meat into the Ore Washer. It combines them into Raw Ore Meat. You'll need a steady supply of Liquid Meat from Mob Slaughter Factories.

Step 2: Ore Fermenter

The Ore Fermenter converts Raw Ore Meat into Fermented Ore Meat. It requires specific environmental conditions: a hot source on the bottom (Magma Blocks, Fire, Lava) and cold fluid on any other side (Ice, cold fluids from other mods). The fermented ore meat grows in size during processing.

Step 3: Ore Sieve

Finally, the Ore Sieve takes Fermented Ore Meat and Sand, filtering out the ore into dust form. This dust can then be smelted into ingots.

Laser Drill System

The Laser Drill is Industrial Foregoing's infinite ore generation system. It consists of two blocks: the Laser Base and one or more Laser Drills placed exactly 1 block away from the Base. Laser Drills feed power into the Laser Base, and when fully charged it produces ores based on depth (Y-level) and biome.

You can influence which ores the Laser Base produces by inserting colored Laser Lenses. Each ore type in the configuration is associated with a specific lens color, and adding a matching lens increases the probability of that ore appearing. Inverted Laser Lenses (crafted with Iron instead of Pink Slime) decrease the chance of a specific ore, which indirectly boosts the odds of everything else. Check JEI for the complete ore table with probabilities, depth requirements, and lens colors.

The system supports vanilla ores (Coal, Iron, Redstone, Gold, Lapis Lazuli, Emerald, Diamond, Quartz, Glowstone) and dozens of modded ores including Copper, Tin, Lead, Silver, Nickel, Uranium, Cobalt, Ardite, Draconium, Yellorium, and many more. Ore availability is determined by JSON configuration files, so modpack makers can customize what the Laser Drill produces.

Black Hole Storage

Industrial Foregoing's storage solutions are among the most capacious in modded Minecraft. The Black Hole Unit stores up to 2,147,483,647 of a single item type, which is the maximum 32-bit integer value. The Black Hole Tank holds the same amount in millibuckets of a single fluid type. Both are effectively infinite storage for practical purposes.

The Black Hole Controller holds up to 9 Black Hole Units, giving you access to 9 different item types from a single block with a combined theoretical maximum of over 19 billion items. Black Hole Labels let you name and organize your storage. Both Black Hole Units and Black Hole Tanks preserve their contents when broken, so you can safely relocate them.

The Infinity Drill

The Infinity Drill is Industrial Foregoing's ultimate mining tool. It functions as both a Pickaxe and Shovel at harvest level 3, and its mining area expands as you charge it with more RF. The drill has 7 tiers, each unlocking at specific power thresholds. It can also use Biofuel (stored in its internal 1,000,000 mb tank) at a rate of 3 mb per block, which is more efficient than the 10,000 RF per block it otherwise consumes.

Shift-right-clicking the drill cycles through available area sizes up to your current tier's maximum. The Artifact tier is special: it mines a full 13x13x13 cube instead of a flat plane, making it capable of clearing enormous areas in seconds. All mined items and XP orbs are teleported directly to the player.

Utility Machines and Items

Straw

The Straw lets you drink fluids directly from the world or tanks. Different fluids give different potion effects. Biofuel grants Speed and Strength for 40 seconds. Liquid Meat gives Strength II and Resistance II briefly. Protein provides Strength III and Resistance III. Be careful with Sewage (Weakness and Poison), Sludge (Saturation, Nausea, and Poison II), and Latex (Speed II but also Poison II).

Meat Feeder

The Meat Feeder holds 128,000 mb of Liquid Meat and automatically feeds you when kept in your inventory. It acts as a standard fluid container that can be filled from any fluid handler. Once filled, you never need to worry about food again.

Material Stonework Factory

This versatile machine generates Cobblestone internally and processes it through 4 configurable operations: smelt, 2x2 craft, grind, and 3x3 craft. By chaining operations you can automate production of Stone, Stone Bricks, Smooth Stone, and many other stone variants from nothing but power.

Other Utility Machines

The Fluid Pump drains all fluids of a matching type in its working area, replacing them with Cobblestone. The Lava Fabricator produces Lava from large amounts of power. The Water Condensator produces Water when 2 or more adjacent sides have Water source blocks. The Block Destroyer breaks any block in front of it, and the Block Placer does the opposite. The Fluid Crafter handles recipes that normally require fluid Buckets, using fluid from its internal tank instead.

Transfer Addons and Energy Field

Since machines don't auto-eject or auto-pull, Transfer Addons are your built-in solution for moving items and fluids without external pipes. They come in Push and Pull variants for both items (Itemstack Transfer Addon) and fluids (Fluid Transfer Addon). Right-click to cycle the transfer direction, or shift-right-click a block face to target a specific side. Enchanting them with Efficiency increases the transfer rate.

The Energy Field Provider and Energy Field Addon create a wireless power network. Place an Energy Field Addon in any machine's addon slot, then link it to an Energy Field Provider. The Provider charges the internal buffer of all linked addons within its range, eliminating the need for power cables to individual machines.

Pink Slime

Pink Slime is both a fluid and a crafting material with a unique acquisition method. Pink Slime fluid is produced as a byproduct of the Mob Slaughter Factory. When placed in the world as a fluid source block, Pink Slime entities spawn from it. These small slimes drop Pink Slime items when killed at size 1. Pink Slime is used to craft Laser Lenses and several advanced machines.

Pink Slime Ingots are crafted from Pink Slime and are required for endgame items like the Infinity Drill, Black Hole Controller, Ore Washer, and the Energy Field Addon. They represent a mid-to-late-game crafting bottleneck, so set up Pink Slime production early.

Machine Upgrades

Industrial Foregoing machines don't have native speed upgrades. Instead, they use Energy Upgrades and Speed Upgrades from the Tesla Core Lib dependency. Speed upgrades are tiered, and you must install the previous tier before adding the next one. Range Addons come in 12 tiers (Cobblestone through Platinum/Diamond) and expand the working area of compatible machines.

The Fortune Addon adds Fortune or Looting effects to compatible machines like the Block Destroyer and Mob Relocator. It must be enchanted with Fortune, and the enchantment level determines the bonus. The Adult Filter restricts certain animal and mob machines to only interact with adult entities. The Leaf Shearing Addon lets the Crop Recolector harvest leaves from trees.