bro you are a life saver, im very new to huge modpacks and more than half of these mods in VH don't have instruction manuals, Mekanism included, so your videos have truly saved me bacon
Quick note about hydrogen in a gas-burning generator: Mekanism is explicitly balanced so the energy production of 1 mB hydrogen is exactly the same as the energy cost to produce it. You cannot gain energy by producing hydrogen to directly burn, you can only use it to offset the energy cost of running an electrolytic separator purely for oxygen. The hydrogen can be stored for quick bursts of high energy output, a chemical battery of sorts, if you want. The only way to get net energy production from a gas-burning generator is by combining bio fuel, hydrogen, and water to produce ethylene. This stuff is crazy OP if modpacks don't nerf it. A gas-burning generator at maximum output is 72.19 kFE/t, at least last time I had one running at maximum capacity in 1.16.5, and that's just insanely high power output. Of course, you do need a LOT of bio fuel to keep up, so I suggest automating "silk touch" type melon block autofarming if your other mods make that possible.
Thank you for the very general overview that I was looking for without getting too sidetracked. This is exactly what I needed to get an idea if this is the right mod for me.
i was playing a pack with mekanism in it with my sibling, and i was already familiar with it but they were not, and i wanted to get them up to speed, and this guide is a great resource for that. mekanism is probably my favorite tech mod honestly. just the ability to have your machines running up to 9 processes in parallel at 10x speed is very nice for someone as impatient as me lol.
Thank you! Mekanism has always felt like a super daunting mod so I've never tried it myself but this makes it seem easy to understand, at least the basics :D
a okay guide. but missing a thing or two. of extra things some of what you showed can do. like the heat geny. you dont need to put stuff in it to make it produce energy, lava on 5 of its sides will make it produce some. then filling it up with fuel of some type will make it produce more. Eks. Modular router sending in Blaze cakes. .......
You can sneak with a bucket to place lava directly into the heat generator block space ("lavalogging") in addition to doing the same with universal cables. This lets you effectively have every heat generator heated by 7 lava blocks for max heat (and thus max power). :)
An in-depth guide for the Configurator, different configs for machines, and the Logistical Sorter would be nice. It always feels to be in these tutorials, nobody ever covers things important to creating your own factories, not copying designs. Everyone can understand simple transport, where this mod gets complex is when you are building multi-faceted setups. I feel there are no good tutorials about sorting and advanced transport.
Didnt realize there was an auto eject button! I was wondering why my smelted stuff wasnt moving at all (upgrading from hoppers and chests to advanced machines and tubes) Thank you!
You forget that the heat generator work whit laba to, puting lava on top of the sides of it or bottom it will generate powere to,thr best is all sied,easy way use one bucket whit lava place it on top and make 3 holes the the front and the sides(left,right) they have to be in the ground,and your done infinity power,not thr best but the cheapest way.
nice video, looking forward to the mekanism generators one :D. also you can combine the mekanism jetpack with elytra which makes it better/more fun(well you can combine them if you have a mod installed that lets you put elytra in the curios slot)
Really nice guide! Reminds me of when I first started VH and unlocked mekanism and was searching through guides, but none of them is as concise as yours. Mekanism is a pretty complex mod and you explained the basics really well. A part 2 would be great because there is simply too much stuff to cover such as multiblock machines (reactor, turbine, boiler, antimatter, induction matrix, etc) and ore pentupling. Also any plans for more episodes of Mastermined?
Yeah, I saw the length of the video and knew I couldn't add all the nuclear stuff in 😅 Mastermined is on hold until I can find the time to be able to edit the footage, things are just too busy right now
Ik just made a creative vh worl to test some things out 😂😂😂😂😂 after I made almost 20 words and all of them so yeah I thought I’m going do mechanism instead of running vaults
Great job hell. Love the guides and though I thought I knew the beginners stuff I still learnt some things. I would love to see a guide for the more complicated things in mek.
Pairing it with create for my first mod pack. Also found Irons spells and spell books. So I named my pack Creating Mekanized Mysticism. But once I get an actual not HP laptop then I can add bigger fun mods like Ars neuvou and it’s create add on.
Thanks for guide! Tbh, not a fan of upgrade cards and digital miner. I think if something run faster, it should just take much more energy, regardless of how can you upgrade it, and digital miner is just too easy for me, maybe something like quarry from BC, chugging trough energy.
For some reason I can't seem to use the energy cube to power any machines but I can still store energy in them. am I doing something wrong with the energy cubes?
If you are are placing the cube beside the machine then check the side config of both the cube and the machine. If you are putting the cube in the machine in the energy slot then I don't believe the side config should matter.
Playing on Vault Hunters 3, and I can't for the life of me get the pipes to connect to chests and factories. Works perfectly fine with tanks and lava, just refuses to connect to other things even if I change the pipe to push or pull and mess with the side config of the block.
I need cables to power the infuser so I can create some steel to make infusers. How do I create it if I can't link my generator with infuser? I got 0 steel when starting on this and infuser seems to be the only way to create it
So it's very modpack dependant, however, you should be able to configure the infuser to accept power by putting it right next to a power source without needing cables 😊 check the config side is set to "energy" and the power source has it outputting correctly. From memory, the back and the bottom of the infuser can accept energy by default
@@Hellfirem4ge thanks I’m new to creating things in Minecraft so all of this is really overwhelming. I tested with positioning under and behind, nothing worked until I found the one and only position that works. And the energy mapping is separate window which is confusing, because I can set tile to energy in both of the windows, but that does nothing… I had to set tile as Input in energy window and then it worked. Kinda weird if you ask me. It’s unclear for new players at first :| Again, thanks for the reply! P.S I’m on valhelsia modpack
@@spotLV trust me, I've spent hours banging my head against the wall wondering why something wasn't working and then it's something as simple as one config being wrong 😅 it happens to all of us 😊
The heat generator is called "resistive heater" but looks the same in your video, it requires steel ingots and infused alloy which you can only get by infusing redstone with iron which needs energy which i dont have
How do I get the power from the heat generator to my metallurgic infuser? I can't create the cable because I need steel, I've tried putting the heat generator next to it, and I've tried using redstone. Can someone please help me
It's going backwards?! 4 plain solar generators are better than the advanced one or the wind generator. I'm gonna just make the little ones from now on.
It depends on your modpack balancing, but the floorprint is lower for the advanced solar generator than 4 solar panels so per square it's more efficient
This will help a lot when I get upto needing a better mod for making more stuff or getting more items for the alter wish I could play more but that wound involve buying a PC can only play when bro is at work witch he never is 😅 Would love a guide on early game storage with the new VH having nurffed simple storage. Or on that note a refind storage guide seeing as everyone will be skipping SS for it like can create be used to power RS without power in the middle sorry for the long comment bit board was hoping to play today but bro is sick so no gaming for me
So a few things: - Make sure you're using universal cables - make sure the "config" is correct on the machine you're trying to connect (config panel in the machine) - Some generators only allow power out of them on one side. Look for a green output
@@Hellfirem4ge there could be some farms made in vanilla Minecraft (for starters) and later for end game like dark utilities and Ispawners or simply for Create mod.
Ah. Havent used this mod since voltz. One thing that i remember about the heat gen is that you can use water and lava to surround the gen itself and it will passively generate power. Think it was 5 lava to 1 water. If memory is serving me right.
Some additional points:
- Heat Generator can be made afkable by using a bucket of lava on it
bro you are a life saver, im very new to huge modpacks and more than half of these mods in VH don't have instruction manuals, Mekanism included, so your videos have truly saved me bacon
i played mekanism in 1.7.10 and this is much more complex, thank you for this vid
Quick note about hydrogen in a gas-burning generator: Mekanism is explicitly balanced so the energy production of 1 mB hydrogen is exactly the same as the energy cost to produce it. You cannot gain energy by producing hydrogen to directly burn, you can only use it to offset the energy cost of running an electrolytic separator purely for oxygen. The hydrogen can be stored for quick bursts of high energy output, a chemical battery of sorts, if you want.
The only way to get net energy production from a gas-burning generator is by combining bio fuel, hydrogen, and water to produce ethylene. This stuff is crazy OP if modpacks don't nerf it. A gas-burning generator at maximum output is 72.19 kFE/t, at least last time I had one running at maximum capacity in 1.16.5, and that's just insanely high power output. Of course, you do need a LOT of bio fuel to keep up, so I suggest automating "silk touch" type melon block autofarming if your other mods make that possible.
Thank you for the very general overview that I was looking for without getting too sidetracked. This is exactly what I needed to get an idea if this is the right mod for me.
Thank you so much for this. I'm currently doing an ATM8 series and been looking for a better indepth video on this mod. You are my savior
thanks for this guide, having visuals and someone telling me *why* I would want to do something, and how to make it easier is so helpful!
Thank you so much for this please keep the guides coming. Thermal Expansion would be very helpful to me right now.
I'll definitely look into it! I don't know as much about thermal so I'll have to do some research 🙂
I'm playing VH and just getting into this mod for the first time. This was Extremely Helpful! Thank you so much.
No problem, glad it was useful!! 😃
i was playing a pack with mekanism in it with my sibling, and i was already familiar with it but they were not, and i wanted to get them up to speed, and this guide is a great resource for that. mekanism is probably my favorite tech mod honestly. just the ability to have your machines running up to 9 processes in parallel at 10x speed is very nice for someone as impatient as me lol.
Great Guide, I feel way less intimidated by Mekanism now.
It can be super scary, but it's so much fun when you get used to it!
Thank you! Mekanism has always felt like a super daunting mod so I've never tried it myself but this makes it seem easy to understand, at least the basics :D
a okay guide. but missing a thing or two. of extra things some of what you showed can do. like the heat geny. you dont need to put stuff in it to make it produce energy, lava on 5 of its sides will make it produce some. then filling it up with fuel of some type will make it produce more. Eks. Modular router sending in Blaze cakes. .......
True, I discovered that on stream afterwards, but it will still do the trick ☺️
You can sneak with a bucket to place lava directly into the heat generator block space ("lavalogging") in addition to doing the same with universal cables. This lets you effectively have every heat generator heated by 7 lava blocks for max heat (and thus max power). :)
Wow this is gonna be helpful cause I was thinking of unlocking this is vault hunters!
It's such a good mod and it does so much! But that's what makes it hard to start with honestly (although not as bad as immersive engineering)
Thank you very much i was very overwhelmed 😭😭
Join the club 😅 took me way too long to work some of this out when I first started
@@Hellfirem4gelmao, howd you go about figuring it all out?
@@captainclux mainly trial and error and hours of yelling "Why won't the items eject from the machine" at the screen 😅
@@Hellfirem4ge sounds about right 🤣
I figured out the basics by hitting my head againt the wall so many times that things just began working 😅
I *just* discovered Mekanism and this is the video everybody should watch who is interested in this mod.
An in-depth guide for the Configurator, different configs for machines, and the Logistical Sorter would be nice. It always feels to be in these tutorials, nobody ever covers things important to creating your own factories, not copying designs. Everyone can understand simple transport, where this mod gets complex is when you are building multi-faceted setups. I feel there are no good tutorials about sorting and advanced transport.
You should use trains from create if you have them
Didnt realize there was an auto eject button! I was wondering why my smelted stuff wasnt moving at all (upgrading from hoppers and chests to advanced machines and tubes) Thank you!
It's embarrassing how long it took me to realise that initially too 😅 That and the config menu
You forget that the heat generator work whit laba to, puting lava on top of the sides of it or bottom it will generate powere to,thr best is all sied,easy way use one bucket whit lava place it on top and make 3 holes the the front and the sides(left,right) they have to be in the ground,and your done infinity power,not thr best but the cheapest way.
nice video, looking forward to the mekanism generators one :D. also you can combine the mekanism jetpack with elytra which makes it better/more fun(well you can combine them if you have a mod installed that lets you put elytra in the curios slot)
That's amazing to know! Makes the jetpack much more useful 😃
Really nice guide! Reminds me of when I first started VH and unlocked mekanism and was searching through guides, but none of them is as concise as yours. Mekanism is a pretty complex mod and you explained the basics really well. A part 2 would be great because there is simply too much stuff to cover such as multiblock machines (reactor, turbine, boiler, antimatter, induction matrix, etc) and ore pentupling. Also any plans for more episodes of Mastermined?
Yeah, I saw the length of the video and knew I couldn't add all the nuclear stuff in 😅 Mastermined is on hold until I can find the time to be able to edit the footage, things are just too busy right now
Ik just made a creative vh worl to test some things out 😂😂😂😂😂 after I made almost 20 words and all of them so yeah I thought I’m going do mechanism instead of running vaults
Great job hell. Love the guides and though I thought I knew the beginners stuff I still learnt some things. I would love to see a guide for the more complicated things in mek.
Thanks! Tbh I also learned a lot from researching and from the comments so it's a learning day for everyone 😀
Pairing it with create for my first mod pack. Also found Irons spells and spell books. So I named my pack Creating Mekanized Mysticism. But once I get an actual not HP laptop then I can add bigger fun mods like Ars neuvou and it’s create add on.
The ore duplication, triplication etc will always be a fun process
Bro I can't find heat generator what i do 😭
Im playing sky factory 4 rn and there are no universal cables, what am i supposed to do instead? please help
Oh that's really strange, I've never come across a pack that removes the energy cables. Any cable the transfers energy should work though
Old versions of mekanism could get laggy which I believe is why SF4 removed the cables. Use the cyclic cables instead. (If I remember correctly)
Please do thermal expansion next!
"-if not *THE* best mechanical mods in minecraft."
*IC2(from it's grave)* : I BEG YOUR PARDON?
I said what I said!!
Thanks for guide!
Tbh, not a fan of upgrade cards and digital miner.
I think if something run faster, it should just take much more energy, regardless of how can you upgrade it, and digital miner is just too easy for me, maybe something like quarry from BC, chugging trough energy.
This is really helpful! Thank you!
Please more mekanism videos!! The higher multipication levels for the ores please
you can just output iron put again into 2x machine
Hi! Wonderfull tutorial! Does this mod have compatibility with Create mod?
It absolutely does! I am currently doing a series on a modpack called Create: Mekanized which is all about the two working together!😀
For some reason I can't seem to use the energy cube to power any machines but I can still store energy in them.
am I doing something wrong with the energy cubes?
If you are are placing the cube beside the machine then check the side config of both the cube and the machine. If you are putting the cube in the machine in the energy slot then I don't believe the side config should matter.
May I ask what is the name of the mod that displays the block information on the top of your screen?
It's called jade ☺️
Thank you!@@Hellfirem4ge
Awesome video - I have JEI but I can't seem to figure out how to see all the things a machine can create, what do you do?
If you press u when hovering over it, it shows you all it's uses 😊
@@Hellfirem4ge Thanks a lot!
Hi, why i can't make a heat generator? Am I donwload wrong mod? Coud you help me?
What pack are you playing?
i downolad it from curse forge /minecraft/mc-mods/mekanism@@Hellfirem4ge
which of the Big mods from vaulthunters would you recommend to a beginner?
Btw: a Kumoel has already unlocked create on our server.
I would say mechanism is the easiest to learn. Thermal is the least useful but still good and botania is super strong but better mid game
Fantastic up-to-date guide thank you
You're very welcome 😃
Please do more of these videos, I need all the help I can get..lol. thank you
I absolutely plan to! 😀
I use powah as an energy source for Mekanism. Works great with my nitro generator :)
Powah is the best power mod by far. I honestly think people sleep on it way too much but it is expensive to get into (especially in vault hunters)
nice!
i understood everything but i dont know how to get all the materials and energy for the other factorys
Playing on Vault Hunters 3, and I can't for the life of me get the pipes to connect to chests and factories. Works perfectly fine with tanks and lava, just refuses to connect to other things even if I change the pipe to push or pull and mess with the side config of the block.
Check the config of the block you're trying to connect to. Chances are it's not set to input on that side
Please someone explain how to use stone generator upgrade
What's the mod that adds the GUI on the right side of the screen?
Jei
I couldn't get the pipes to actually transfer items between factories, or even connect
The pretty pipes or the logistical transporters?
why i can't craft it heat generator ?
I u pgraded my purifying station to a basic factory and now it wont accept oxygen?
Anyone have any ideas?
Double check the input configuration on the new machine 😊
Is the iron duplication still a thing?
It should be, yes
I need cables to power the infuser so I can create some steel to make infusers. How do I create it if I can't link my generator with infuser? I got 0 steel when starting on this and infuser seems to be the only way to create it
So it's very modpack dependant, however, you should be able to configure the infuser to accept power by putting it right next to a power source without needing cables 😊 check the config side is set to "energy" and the power source has it outputting correctly. From memory, the back and the bottom of the infuser can accept energy by default
@@Hellfirem4ge thanks I’m new to creating things in Minecraft so all of this is really overwhelming. I tested with positioning under and behind, nothing worked until I found the one and only position that works. And the energy mapping is separate window which is confusing, because I can set tile to energy in both of the windows, but that does nothing… I had to set tile as Input in energy window and then it worked. Kinda weird if you ask me. It’s unclear for new players at first :|
Again, thanks for the reply!
P.S I’m on valhelsia modpack
@@spotLV trust me, I've spent hours banging my head against the wall wondering why something wasn't working and then it's something as simple as one config being wrong 😅 it happens to all of us 😊
THANK YOU OH MY GOODNESS I JUST UNLOCKED THIS
the recipe for the heat generator is not the same how do i get energy to fule my meta metallurgic infuser
Check the recipe for solar panels, wind generators or other mods in the modpack for power 😊
And what if you only have mekanism without any modpacks
@@MarcelifiedAlt then you should be able to make one of the mekanism generators without too much issue. What is the heat generator requiring for you?
The heat generator is called "resistive heater" but looks the same in your video, it requires steel ingots and infused alloy which you can only get by infusing redstone with iron which needs energy which i dont have
@MarcelifiedAlt oh the resistive heater is a completely different machine, that's used to increase the temperature of thermal evaporation chambers
Do you have create
I'd like a more in depth tutorial, including crafting recipes.
Crafting recipes change depending on your modpack, you can easily check the recipes I'm jei 😊
I really missed this channel, VH is getting so big that my gaming laptop cannot work at its best
good luck
How do I get the power from the heat generator to my metallurgic infuser? I can't create the cable because I need steel, I've tried putting the heat generator next to it, and I've tried using redstone. Can someone please help me
You would need the cable honestly but the port at the back is where the energy comes out. It might work if the infuser is behind the heat generator
@@Hellfirem4ge Thank you so much it worked
I'm having this same problem, but I'll try this later
It's going backwards?! 4 plain solar generators are better than the advanced one or the wind generator. I'm gonna just make the little ones from now on.
It depends on your modpack balancing, but the floorprint is lower for the advanced solar generator than 4 solar panels so per square it's more efficient
This will help a lot when I get upto needing a better mod for making more stuff or getting more items for the alter wish I could play more but that wound involve buying a PC can only play when bro is at work witch he never is 😅
Would love a guide on early game storage with the new VH having nurffed simple storage.
Or on that note a refind storage guide seeing as everyone will be skipping SS for it like can create be used to power RS without power in the middle sorry for the long comment bit board was hoping to play today but bro is sick so no gaming for me
It seems like there's a few people struggling with storage so it may be worth making one of those soon ☺️
Bro i can’t creat a pipe
I can't for the life of me figure how to power anything cables won't connect 😢
So a few things:
- Make sure you're using universal cables
- make sure the "config" is correct on the machine you're trying to connect (config panel in the machine)
- Some generators only allow power out of them on one side. Look for a green output
Ore processing
isnt this game breaking op?
I mean no more than other mods 😊 it's just added content to give you more to do, especially when you start having fun with nuclear reactors
You kinda sound like Captain Eggcellent lmao
What about guides for farms.
You'd need to be more specific, there's hundreds of farms that can be made ☺️
@@Hellfirem4ge there could be some farms made in vanilla Minecraft (for starters) and later for end game like dark utilities and Ispawners or simply for Create mod.
@@MrWinotu oh like the one I made for 1.16. Yeah I could definitely look at remaking that
Fahey Groves
the best is Create. This is 2nd
Then you're going to love the Create Mekanized modpack I'm playing 😅
@@Hellfirem4ge i'm actually testing compabilities between these mods, btw nice tutorial :)
Quick question what if the Version you are playing on doesn’t have the heat generater
Then your best bet is to shoot for solar panels or a wind generator ☺️
create le gana
P R O M O S M 😭
No... Not the Windmills... 😭
Ah. Havent used this mod since voltz. One thing that i remember about the heat gen is that you can use water and lava to surround the gen itself and it will passively generate power. Think it was 5 lava to 1 water. If memory is serving me right.