Industrial Foregoing is a tech mod for Minecraft that handles automation. If you are tired of manually chopping trees, shearing sheep, or mining ores, this mod replaces all that repetitive clicking with a clean network of specialized machines. Whether you are playing on a modern Forge or NeoForge pack, getting past the early game requires a solid understanding of how plastic production, machine frames, and power systems work together.
The primary goal when starting out is to produce plastic, which is the foundational resource required for almost every advanced machine, tool, and upgrade in the mod. Without a stable automated line for plastic, your progress will grind to a halt. This guide breaks down the exact steps to transition from your first tree tap to fully automated material factories and mob farms.
Early Game: Setting Up Your First Plastic Line
Plastic production relies on a short chain of machines that can initially be built without any electrical power at all. Before you start crafting, you will need to gather basic materials: iron, logs, redstone, and buckets.
- Craft the Manual: Always craft the Industrial Foregoing manual using a book and a piece of wood in your crafting grid. It serves as your in-game reference guide for recipes and machine mechanics.
- Build a Pity Machine Frame: Combine a redstone block, four iron ingots, and four logs in a crafting table. This frame acts as the structural base for your tier-one machinery.
- Place a Fluid Extractor: Craft a Fluid Extractor and place it directly facing any log. The machine will slowly chew away at the log, converting it into liquid latex without requiring any energy input. Placing multiple extractors around a single log speeds up the process.
- Process Latex into Dry Rubber: Pump or pipe the liquid latex into a Latex Processing Unit, which requires power, water, and latex to produce tiny dry rubber. Combine nine pieces of tiny dry rubber in a crafting grid to get dry rubber, then smelt it in a standard furnace to receive your first batch of plastic.
Once you have enough plastic for a few base components, stop hauling water buckets by hand. Craft a Water Condensator and place it next to water source blocks to supply your processing units automatically.
Mastering the Dissolution Chamber
The Dissolution Chamber is the most important crafting block in the early-to-mid game. It uses a combination of items, fluids, and power to manufacture advanced machine frames, add-ons, and utility items.
[Fluid Tank] + [Input Items] ---> [Dissolution Chamber] ---> [Advanced Crafting Output]
When you start routing items into the chamber using pipes or transport nodes, you will likely encounter inventory jams. The most common mistake players make is leaving the inventory unconstrained, which allows items to pile into the wrong slots. Always use the padlock icon inside the GUI to lock your recipes and input slots. This ensures that items only enter the specific slots they are assigned to, keeping your assembly lines running smoothly without constant manual intervention.
Automating Farming and Mob Operations
Once your plastic and power infrastructure is established, you can branch out into automated resource gathering. Industrial Foregoing divides automation into distinct categories that work together as a team.
- Plant Sower and Plant Gatherer: These two machines operate in tandem. The Sower plants seeds or saplings across a designated area, while the Gatherer harvests mature crops and trees, routing the outputs into your storage network.
- Mob Crusher: This machine kills all mobs directly in front of its block space, storing their drops and converting their life force into liquid Essence. You can insert an Adult Filter addon so it only targets adult mobs.
- Mob Slaughter Factory: Instead of keeping drops, this factory slaughters mobs to generate liquid Meat and Pink Slime, which are required for high-tier generators and advanced crafting components.
To expand the working area of any farm or mob interaction machine, craft a Range Addon and insert it into the designated add-on slot on the right side of the machine's interface. Higher tiers of range add-ons drastically increase the operating radius.
Power Generation and Logistics
Running multiple factories simultaneously demands a reliable power grid. While you can start with basic coal or biofuel generators, high-tier setups require scaling up.
- Bioreactor: This machine accepts up to nine different organic items at once (such as seeds, crops, and saplings) and converts them into Biofuel. The more diverse your input items are, the more efficiently it operates.
- Mycelial Generators: A series of specialized generators that each burn a specific type of fuel, ranging from culinary items to extreme end-game energy sources.
For moving items between machines, you don't necessarily need complex external mods. Each machine features built-in configuration tabs on the side of its GUI. By adjusting the push and pull settings and utilizing Itemstack Transfer Addons, you can easily configure a machine to pull items from an adjacent chest or push products directly into a neighboring furnace.
You can check official community discussions and mod files on the CurseForge Industrial Foregoing Page for version-specific updates and compatibility notes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is my latex processing unit not producing rubber?
The unit requires three inputs simultaneously: power, water, and liquid latex. If any of these three elements are missing or depleted, the machine will pause its work. Check your fluid pipes and energy cables to ensure a continuous supply.
How do I stop my dissolution chamber from jamming?
Inventory jams happen when unreserved items overflow into the wrong slots. Open the machine GUI and click the padlock button to lock the recipe. This restricts input items to their designated slots and stops automation pipelines from locking up.
What is the fastest way to get liquid essence?
The Mob Crusher is the primary source of liquid essence. Setting up a vanilla mob grinder using a vanilla spawner or a cursed earth setup directly in front of a powered Mob Crusher will generate a massive surplus of essence very quickly.
Can I use range add-ons on all machines?
No. Range add-ons only function in machines that interact with a physical world area, such as the Plant Sower, Plant Gatherer, Mob Crusher, and Laser Base. Machines that process items internally do not accept range add-ons.
