Industrial Foregoing: Latex, Rubber, and Your First Machines

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Industrial Foregoing is an automation mod with a machine for nearly every task, and it starts with rubber. This guide covers the opening steps.

Latex and rubber

Your first goal is rubber, the mod's core material:

Place a Tree Fluid Extractor facing a log to collect Latex.
Feed that latex, water and power into a Latex Processing Unit to make tiny piles of rubber, which combine into Dry Rubber (plastic).

Plastic is used in almost every Industrial Foregoing machine, so a steady rubber supply is the foundation of everything else.

Power and casings

Industrial Foregoing machines run on Forge Energy (RF) — most operations cost around 1000 RF each — so bring a power source. Machines are built around plastic casings plus gears and components, and the in-game manual documents each machine's cost and behavior.

Where to go next

With rubber and power in hand, you can start automating: mob and animal farms, plant farming, and item and fluid transport. The farming and processing guides cover the machine suites that make Industrial Foregoing a full base-automation toolkit.

Check your version before following any setup guide

Crafting is 101 recipes on 1.21.1 and 18 on 1.20.1. That eighty-three recipe gap is the single most important thing to know about this mod, because it changes how you obtain almost every machine.

The processing categories themselves are nearly identical between builds, so once a machine exists it behaves the same — but the route to owning it does not.