Mekanized
Mekanized brings Mekanism's machines to Paper and Folia servers, with no client mod: CraftEngine sends the blocks and items in a resource pack, and zMenu draws the machine menus, textured like Mekanism's windows. It is built on MachineEngine.
Mekanized is inspired by Mekanism and
uses its textures, models, recipes and names (Mekanism by Aidan C. Brady, MIT;
LICENSE-MEKANISM.txt ships with the plugin). It is not affiliated with
Mekanism.
Mekanized's crusher menu: a zMenu inventory drawn by the resource pack, with live progress and energy bars.
| Server software | Supported | Minecraft |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | ✔ | 1.20.6 – 26.3 |
| Spigot | — | — |
| Bukkit | — | — |
| Folia | ✔ | 1.20.6 – 26.3 |
What's in it
- Energy: heat, bio, solar and wind generators, energy cubes, universal cables, the induction matrix.
- Ore processing: 2× to 5× ore chains, from the Enrichment Chamber to the Chemical Crystallizer.
- Chemistry: the Electrolytic Separator, Chemical Oxidizer, Infuser, Washer, Dissolution Chamber, Rotary Condensentrator, tanks and pressurized tubes.
- Logistics: logistical transporters and sorters, factories (3 to 9 operations at once), bins, QIO storage.
- Multiblocks: dynamic tank, induction matrix, thermal evaporation plant, boiler, turbine, fission and fusion reactors, SPS.
- Gear: MekaSuit, Meka-Tool and their modules, jetpacks, the atomic disassembler, the flamethrower, free runners, hazmat suit.
- Radiation, teleporters, the Quantum Entangloporter, the Digital Miner, the Dimensional Stabilizer.
There is no ore generation: use your world's ores, or a world generator plugin.
Playing
Energy and machines
- Generators make energy, energy cubes store it, universal cables carry it.
- Powering a machine by hand: redstone in its energy slot gives 10 kJ per dust; a charged Energy Tablet works too (energy cubes charge tablets).
Generators, energy cubes and a machine joined by cables: each cable draws an arm toward what it connects to.
Ore processing
| Per ore | Chain |
|---|---|
| 2 ingots | Enrichment Chamber → smelt the dust |
| 3 ingots | Purification Chamber (oxygen) → Crusher → Enrichment Chamber |
| 4 ingots | Chemical Injection Chamber (hydrogen chloride) → Purification Chamber → … |
| 5 ingots | Chemical Dissolution Chamber (sulfuric acid) → Chemical Washer (water) → Chemical Crystallizer → … |
Chemicals travel in pressurized tubes, fluids in mechanical pipes. Water and lava buckets work in bucket slots; the Electric Pump takes source blocks from below it.
The Configurator
- Right-click a machine: its side configuration — each side input, output, both or none, for items, energy, chemicals and fluids — and auto-eject.
- Sneak + right-click a machine: turns it.
- Right-click a cable, pipe or tube (or a chest next to one): cycles how that side connects — default (machines in and out, chests only filled), pull, push, none.
- Right-click an induction port: switches it between input and output.
Logistics
- Logistical transporters carry items in batches every half second. To empty a chest, set the transporter side touching it to pull, or use a Logistical Sorter.
- Factories: a basic tier installer turns a machine into its basic factory; higher installers raise the tier. The machine keeps its contents.
Multiblocks
Hollow boxes; right-click any part to open the structure's menu. If the action bar says "Not formed", check the walls and the inside.
| Multiblock | Walls | Inside | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Tank | Dynamic Tank casings (every edge), Dynamic Valves, Structural Glass | Air | 3 to 18 a side |
| Induction Matrix | Induction Casings (every edge), Induction Ports, Structural Glass | Induction Cells and Providers, air | 3 to 18 a side |
| Thermal Evaporation Plant | Thermal Evaporation Blocks (every edge and the floor), valves, one controller | Air, no roof | 4×4, 3 to 18 high |
Formed multiblocks, seen from outside.
The lowest corner block keeps the structure's contents. /mekanized build
builds the smallest working version of each, for admins to try.
Upgrades
Right-click a machine with an upgrade (sneak: as many as fit), or click the upgrade tab in its menu. A machine has 2 upgrade slots: two kinds at once, each up to its max (8 speed, 8 energy, 8 chemical, 1 of the others).
| Upgrade | Effect | Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Faster, more energy per tick | Machines with upgrade slots |
| Energy | Less energy per operation, bigger energy buffer | Machines with upgrade slots |
| Chemical | Less chemical per tick | Osmium Compressor, Purification and Injection Chambers, their factories |
| Filter | Pumps heavy water (10 mB a block) out of water | Electric Pump |
| Anchor | Keeps the machine's chunk loaded, even after a restart | Machines with upgrade slots |
| Stone Generator | Fills each mined block with stone | Digital Miner |
Frequencies and chunk loading
- Frequencies: look at a teleporter, QIO block or Quantum Entangloporter and
run
/mekanized frequency <name>; holding a portable teleporter or portable QIO dashboard sets the item's frequency instead. - Dimensional Stabilizer: keeps its chunk, or the 3×3 or 5×5 chunks around it, loaded while it has energy (500 J/t per chunk).
- Quantum Entangloporter: every entangloporter of a frequency shares one buffer of energy, items, fluid and chemical, across the server.
Radiation
A fission reactor at 100 % damage SCRAMs and releases its waste as radiation; sources fade over minutes. Players take in the radiation around them: a high dose makes them hungry, then sick, then hurts. Each hazmat piece (or MekaSuit piece with a radiation shielding unit) stops a quarter. The Geiger counter and the dosimeter read radiation and dose; the dose resets on death.
Gear and modules
The Modification Station installs modules into a MekaSuit piece or the Meka-Tool, one level every 2 seconds with energy; its menu takes levels back out and switches modules on or off. Sneak-right-click with a module while wearing the piece it fits installs one level directly. Some modules have several levels (the energy unit doubles the capacity per level, up to 8; fortune up to 3).
The Modification Station: one action button per module row, empty rows shown faded.
Tools
| Tool | Use |
|---|---|
| Configuration Card | Sneak-right-click a machine to copy its sides and settings; right-click another to paste |
| Dictionary | Right-click a block (or the air, for the off-hand item) to list its tags |
| Gauge Dropper | Take up to 16,000 mB of a fluid or chemical from a machine; sneak-right-click to put it back |
| Crafting Formula | Record and set a Formulaic Assemblicator's pattern |
| Portable Teleporter | Go to the teleporter of its frequency |
| Portable QIO Dashboard | Open the QIO of its frequency |
| Canteen | Fill it at a Nutritional Liquifier; right-click to eat |
Where to go
| You are… | Start at |
|---|---|
| A server owner installing this | Requirements |
| Changing numbers or rules | config.yml and block numbers |
| Looking for a command | Commands |
| Stuck | Troubleshooting |