Mekanism Wiki & Guide
The community wiki and guide for Mekanism — recipes, items, tags and mechanics, kept current for every Minecraft version the mod supports.
About this mod

Mekanism isn’t simply another add-on. Mekanism is an experience that will forever change the way you play Minecraft.
Here at Mekanism, Inc., we bring you a suite of low, mid, and high tier machinery to elevate your archaic home and inefficient resource processing to the 21st century. With our collection of high-tech tools, high-end energy generators, advanced transmission systems and intricate processing mechanisms, you’ll find yourself relieved of the tedious tasks of ‘mining’ and ‘crafting’ and quickly progressing to new levels of technological enlightenment.
You may not realize it, but every time you smelt an ore directly into its respective ingot, you’re wasting the majority of what you’ve mined. Mekanism’s team of experienced chemical and mechanical engineers have developed advanced ore processing machinery to extract resources from ores with utmost efficiency. With our purification, dissolution, chemical injection, and crystallization technologies, you can now double, triple, quadruple, even quintuple your ingot production per ore, given enough infrastructure and energy.
Our engineering team understands and embraces gradual technological progression. For whatever stage of gameplay you’ve reached, we offer a tier of machinery to suit your needs. Every Mekanism machine can be upgraded to a factory, allowing you to process, 3 (basic), 5 (advanced), 7 (elite), or even 9 (ultimate) different items at once -- in a single machine! No more are the rows, even walls of slow and ugly furnaces that once plagued your home. Condense your machinery infrastructure with Mekanism today.
Just a few of the many reasons Mekanism will be the highlight of your Minecraft experience:
- Hydrogen-powered Jetpacks, with multiple togglable flight modes
- A small, cute, and loyal robotic friend (Robit!) to follow you around
- A Digital Miner with state-of-the-art filtering technologies to automate your mining needs
- A Fusion Reactor which uses advanced internal confinement technology to harness the power of the sun to run advanced machinery (requires Mekanism Generators)
- Various transmitters for transferring items, fluids, gases, energy, and even heat!
- An effective machinery configuration system, which allows for the creation of advanced item transport networks capable of sorting and filtering (using our patented Logistical Transporters!)
Links to other Mekanism modules:
- Mekanism Additions
- Mekanism Generators
- Mekanism Tools
We HIGHLY RECOMMEND playing Mekanism with CyanideX's Unity: Dark Edition resource pack.
- Unity: Dark Edition
- Classic Unity
Compatibility
Which Minecraft versions and mod loaders the mod supports.
| Loader | MC 1.21.1 | MC 1.21 | MC 1.20.4 | MC 1.20.1 | MC 1.19.2 | MC 1.19.1 | MC 1.19 | MC 1.18.2 | MC 1.16.5 | MC 1.16.4 | MC 1.16.3 | MC 1.16.1 |
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| Forge | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Neoforge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Dependencies
Other mods required (or optional) to run this mod.
Recent updates
Latest releases with the author's changelog notes.
21ab270 - Remove incorrect increase of configured radiation range (#8551) b8cb861 - New Crowdin updates (#8484) [577
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8ffb872 - Fix transporter item box color rendering (#8521) c21a0d1 - prevent UnsupportedOperationException in chunk unload [a08892c](https://github.com/mekanism/Mekanis
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da7ac51 - remove use of Lazy to account for mods drawing non-lines in RenderHighlightEvent (#8504, #8376) d4df68d - ad
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Related mods
Mods in the same category as this one.
Developer resources
Guides
Processes
Every recipe the mod adds, grouped by how it is made.
Items
Advanced Control Circuit
Advanced Tier Installer
Anchor Upgrade
Antimatter Pellet
Atomic Alloy
Basic Control Circuit
Basic Tier Installer
Bio Fuel
Bronze Dust
Bronze Ingot
Bronze Nugget
Canteen
Charcoal Dust
Chemical Upgrade
Coal Dust
Configuration Card
Copper Clump
Copper Crystal
Copper Dust
Copper Shard
Crafting Formula
Diamond Dust
Dictionary
Dirty Copper DustShow all 138 items →Blocks
Advanced Bin
Advanced Chemical TankAdvanced Combining FactoryAdvanced Compressing FactoryAdvanced Crushing FactoryAdvanced Energy CubeAdvanced Enriching FactoryAdvanced Fluid Tank
Advanced Induction Cell
Advanced Induction ProviderAdvanced Infusing FactoryAdvanced Injecting FactoryAdvanced Logistical TransporterAdvanced Mechanical PipeAdvanced Pressurized TubeAdvanced Purifying FactoryAdvanced Sawing FactoryAdvanced Smelting FactoryAdvanced Thermodynamic ConductorAdvanced Universal CableAntiprotonic Nucleosynthesizer
Basic Bin
Basic Chemical TankBasic Combining FactoryShow all 178 blocks →Frequently asked questions
How do you start Mekanism?
Begin by smelting Mekanism's ores — Osmium, Tin and others — into ingots, then craft Infused Alloy and a Basic Control Circuit. Those two components appear in nearly every early recipe and lead into machines, energy storage and the tier system.
How do you upgrade Mekanism machines?
Machines come in Basic, Advanced, Elite and Ultimate tiers. Apply a Tier Installer to upgrade a machine in place — the Basic Tier Installer uses Basic Control Circuits and iron, and higher installers use better circuits and metals.
What are control circuits used for?
Control circuits are the core component of most machines. The Basic Control Circuit upgrades to Advanced with Infused Alloy, then to Elite and Ultimate with better alloys — the higher the circuit, the higher the machine tier it unlocks.
How do you make the MekaSuit?
Each MekaSuit piece is crafted from four HDPE Sheet, an Ultimate Control Circuit, the matching netherite armor piece, two Polonium Pellet and a Basic Induction Cell — an end-game set built on top of full netherite.
How does Mekanism move energy?
Energy is stored in Energy Tablets, Energy Cubes and Induction Cells, and moved through Universal Cables. Each transmitter type has tiers upgraded by wrapping eight of the previous tier with an Infused Alloy.
What transmitters does Mekanism have?
One per resource: Universal Cable for energy, Mechanical Pipe for fluids, Pressurized Tube for chemicals and gases, Logistical Transporter for items, and Thermodynamic Conductor for heat.
Version history
Mekanism 10.4.16.80 (MC 1.20.1) → 10.7.19.85 (MC 1.21.1): 644 recipes added · 2652 recipes removed · 1362 recipes updated.





