Ender IO: Machines, Conduits, and Getting Started

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Ender IO is a full-featured tech mod covering machines, power, and its signature compact conduits. This guide covers the basics.

A complete tech mod

Ender IO bundles a whole tech progression into one mod: machines for processing, energy generation and storage, armor, tools, weapons, enchantments and decorative blocks. Rather than specializing, it aims to cover the common needs of a modded base in a single, cohesive package.

Conduits

Ender IO's standout feature is its conduits — thin transport lines that carry resources, and crucially, multiple conduit types can share the same block space. The conduit types include Item, Fluid, Energy and Redstone, plus integrations that carry Applied Energistics 2 ME, Refined Storage and Mekanism Chemicals across the same tidy network. This keeps cabling compact where other mods sprawl.

Getting started

Set up basic machines and an energy source, then run conduits to link everything — power to machines, items between inventories — bundling conduit types together to save space. Because Ender IO is being rewritten for the latest versions, some features are still being ported, but its core machines, conduits and gear give a strong all-in-one tech foundation.

The machine list, by recipe count

Ender IO registers twelve processing categories on top of an enormous 971-recipe crafting list (918 on 1.20.1). Sorted by size, they are:

Sag Milling — 86 recipes on 1.21.1, 65 on 1.20.1
Alloy Smelting — 43 and 47
Enchanting — 36 on 1.21.1, 0 on 1.20.1
Painting — 28 and 24
Soul Binding — 22 and 11
Tank — 21 on both
Vat Fermenting — 8 on 1.21.1, 0 on 1.20.1
Slicing — 5, Smelting and Blasting — 4 each, Shaped Entity Storage — 1

Two of those zeros are the headline. Enchanting and Vat Fermenting exist only on the newer build, so a 1.20.1 pack has no in-machine enchanting route and no vat at all.

Where the ore doubling lives

The Sag Mill is the mod's grinder and its 86 recipes make it the single largest machine here — nearly twice the alloy smelter. Build it first: it is what turns your ore into the resource surplus everything else runs on. The Alloy Smelter is the natural second, since it is the only route to the mod's own composite metals.