How to Get Started with PneumaticCraft: Your First Air Compressor and Pressure System

Building Your First Compressor

Place an Air Compressor down and give it a redstone signal or a lever to turn it on. It will begin generating compressed air, which is stored in its internal buffer. Connect an Advanced Pressure Tube (or basic Pressure Tube) to the compressor's output side — the side with the arrow. Tubes carry air pressure to whatever you connect them to.

Reading Pressure

Craft a Pressure Gauge and right-click it onto a tube or machine to see the current pressure in bar. Most basic machines run happily between 0 and 5 bar. If pressure climbs too high, tubes can burst — so always give your system somewhere for the air to go, or install a Safety Valve Tube Module to vent excess pressure.

Your First Machines

With a working compressor and tubes, you can now power:

• A Pressure Chamber for crafting advanced components
• A Refinery to turn oil into fuels and lubricants
• A Sentry Turret or Air Cannon for defense

Start small: one compressor feeding one machine. Add a Pressure Gauge so you can watch the numbers, and keep a Air Canister on hand to manually top up machines when you're away from your base. Once you understand pressure flow, expanding is just a matter of adding more compressors and more tubes.