Productive Metalworks FAQ

Mine fire clay and craft Fire Bricks, then build a Foundry Controller surrounded by a brick shell with at least one Foundry Tank, Drain and Tap. Place a Casting Basin or Casting Table below the Tap, add fuel and ore to the Controller, and pour your first molten metal.

Build a valid multiblock out of Fire Bricks with a Foundry Controller, Tank, Drain and Tap forming the walls, then insert ore and fuel through the Controller. Molten metal collects in the Tank and flows out the Tap into a Casting Basin or Casting Table below it.

The most common causes are a missing or blocked Tank, a Controller that isn't part of a complete brick shell, or a Tap with nothing beneath it to pour into. Check that every face of the multiblock is sealed with Fire Bricks and that the Drain and Tap are on the correct sides.

The Foundry Tap attaches to the Drain on your foundry and pours molten metal downward when the foundry has metal in its Tank. Place a Casting Basin or Casting Table directly underneath the Tap so the metal has somewhere to land.

Place a Casting Table under a Foundry Tap and put a Cast (such as a Gear Cast or Gem Cast) in it before pouring. The molten metal fills the cast's shape and solidifies into the finished item once it cools.

The Powered Heating Coil replaces fuel in your foundry by supplying heat from an external power source, letting the Controller smelt ore without you feeding it coal or charcoal. Wire it into your energy network and place it against the foundry where the Controller can draw heat from it.

Steel is produced by alloying iron with another material inside the foundry rather than smelting a single ore. Load the required ingredients into the Controller, let them melt together in the Tank, then pour the alloy into a Casting Basin or Cast to get steel ingots or parts.

Foundry Capacitors expand the foundry's internal molten metal storage so you can hold more before pouring, and additional Foundry Tanks increase capacity further. Adding more Tanks and Capacitors to the brick shell is the main way to scale a foundry up.

Automate by feeding ore and fuel into the Foundry Controller with hoppers or pipes, using a Powered Heating Coil instead of solid fuel, and placing a Casting Basin or Casting Table under the Tap to catch output. Extract finished items from the Basin or Table with hoppers or item pipes.

In All the Mods 10 the mod works the same as standalone: build a Fire Brick foundry with a Controller, Tank, Drain and Tap, then pour into Casting Basins or Casting Tables. Its molten metals and casts are commonly used alongside other tech mods for alloy and gear production.

It adds a foundry multiblock for smelting and casting metal items. You build a custom industrial furnace that smelts large amounts of ore at once, faster and using less fuel than a regular furnace, then pour the liquid metal into casts.

It adds a foundry multiblock with parts like the foundry controller, foundry drain, foundry tank, foundry capacitor, foundry window, and fire bricks, plus casting blocks such as the casting basin, casting table, and foundry tap. It also adds casts for ingots, gems, and gears.

The Foundry is a multi-block structure built from foundry parts such as the controller, drain, tank, capacitor, window, and fire bricks. You can change its size and shape to fit your base.

Casts are used to pour melted metal into shapes. The mod includes an ingot cast, a gem cast, and a gear cast, letting you make ingots, blocks, and other metal parts.

Yes. It registers items and blocks including fire brick, fire clay, the ingot, gem, and gear casts, casting basin, casting table, foundry tap, and the foundry parts.

The foundry blocks come in all 16 Minecraft colors, including fire bricks, foundry capacitors, controllers, drains, tanks, and windows.

The foundry controller is one of the parts of the Foundry multiblock structure. It is used to build your custom industrial furnace for smelting and casting metal.

The casting basin is a casting block added by the mod. It is used with the foundry to pour melted metal into casts and make items like ingots and blocks.

The foundry drain is a part of the Foundry multiblock. It is one of the blocks used to build the custom industrial furnace.

The casting table is a casting block added by the mod. It is used to pour melted metal into casts to make ingots, blocks, and other metal parts.